The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-23

| at DISNGI ) WHAT.
Captain Warland is an enthusiast
! fisherman and generally has a line out
This trip, however, he only caught on
albacore. As a rule he gets albacore
king fish and an occasional dolphin.
The line is fastened to stout BAN
boo rugged off the stern of the bari
at right angles a large hook wrappe,
with dolphin's hide with an end hang
ing loose is used and fish are sometimes
caught when the vessel is making clever
| knots. Fish as large as rs pounds art
taken and furnish an agreeable variet,
to the menu.
SUPPLIES FOR FLEET.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 4.-Pay
Inspector Ziba w Reynolds of tn,
United States Navy is busy getting ad
ditional supplies ready to be sent t.
meet the Atlantic fleet when it ar.
rives at Magdalena Bay. He has call
ed for bids on 10000 pounds of pota
toes, $4,000 pounds of onions and 300.-
600 pounds of flour, to be delivered "
board the Culgoa at San Diego March
| II. He has also received an inquiry
| from Washington, D. c., relating to the
prices of thousand-box lots of oranges
and apples to be shipped at the same
| time.
He called at the headquarters of the
California Promotion Committee fol
information, and was put in commu-
nication with the citrus and deciduous
fruit distributors. If the prices which
were wired to Washington are salts
factory, bids will be called for for large
quantities of these fruits. There will
be between $4,000 and 10000 men at
Magdalena Bay, and the supplies are
for the purpose of experimenting those
which We're brought around the Horn
by the auxiliary ships.
WE'LL KNOWN SKIPPER DEAD.
Captain John Edwardsen of the bark
entine Koko Head died of intermittent
fever at Mazatlan, Mexico, on Feb 8,
and his remains We're brought to Ia
coma aboard the vessel he lately COM
manded, for burial.
When he. died Captain Edwardsen
was few days less than forty-two
years of age. He was widely known
in Pacific coast shipping circles and
also in off-shore ports in the Pacific,
at nearly all Of which he had been
during the many years he had sailed
the Pacific. For, a dozen years he had
been master, having had the schoone1
Queen, bark Harvester, schooner James
Rolph and barkentine Koko Head, the
latter two belonging to the fleet of
Hind, Rolph & Co. of San Francisco.
He had been married four years. Cap
tain Edwardsen was known as first
class master in whom his employers
had the utmost confidence.
NEW SIGNAL LETTERS.
Between January IS and February %
the department of commerce and labor
has assigned signal letters to the fol-
lowing vessels of the Pacific Coast:
Steam schooner Capastrano, GAS gross
tons, * w NJ b. owned by Bead1e
Brothers, San Francisco.
Gasoline schooner Contra Costa. 1872
gross tons, * w NJ j. owned by
Standard Oil company, San Francisco.
Barge San Jacinto, 462 gross tons tx
w NJ L." owned by E. K. Wood Lum-
Der company, San Francisco.
Steam schooner Mauna Kea, 1866
gross tons. * w NJ P" owned by
Inter-Island Steam Navigation COM
pany, Honolulu.
ISLAND STEAMERS.
The Inter-Island steamers arriving
yesterday were: Mauna Kea, at $50
a. M; Maui, at a. M; Iwalani, at
3:35 a. M; Likelike, at p. M, and
w. G. Hall, at a. m. The Mauna
Kea came back from an excursion trip,
the Maui was from Hawaii ports, the
Iwalani from Maui and Molokai ports,
the Likelike from Hawaii and Molokai
and the w. G. Hall from Kauai ports. |
SHIPPING NOTES.
The surf at Waikiki yesterday was
very heavy.
The S. s. China, from San Francisco,
is due today.
The bark R. P. Rithet may sail for
San Francisco today.
The S. S. Alameda is due from San
Francisco on Friday.
The s. S. Hilonian will leave for San
Francisco tomorrow at 10 a. m.
The schooner Rob Roy sailed for
Oahu ports yesterday morning.
The barkentine Coronado sailed from
San Francisco for Honolulu on Sat
lrday.
The steamer Likelike took 81 head
If cattle and 70 sheep to Kalaupapa
from Hawaii.
There was a heavy rain squall off
he harbor about 10 a. m. yesterday
md the sea was very choppy.
The steamer Lfkelike, arriving yes
erday, reported the steamer Kauai at
'aauhau and the steamer Noeau at
1onokaa. The latter boat expected to
ret cattle at Napoopoo today.
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