The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-25
Coffee Tramps Are Back From the Lower Coast

bring the launches plying on the waters
Of the bay under control OF ms oi,liv
with the navigation laws governing
shipping, number OF gasoline craft
We're tied up yesterday by the onlceIs
of the United States revenue cutter
McCulloch Following are the Launches,
the navigation requirement being Vlo-
lated. and the name of the owners:
Charles Baker, having no fog bell;
launch ]. c. Elliott, not carrying right
full master. belonging to w. T. Edring-
ton; the launch Martinez without log
bell or whistle. belonging to B. c: Cos
tanza; the launch Mariana. without
fog bell or carrying proper lights, pc
longing to G. Flores; the launch me
Henderson: the launch Baribera, with
out fog bell. belonging to A Baribera
the launch Esporatore. without fog
bell, belonging to V. Lucfdo.
Some months ago Surveyor Wood
ward asked the department at Wash
ington, d. c. to furnish his office with
craft in which the upper waters or
the bay and rivers could be reached
so that the launches operated in those
waters could be made to comply with
partment did not have the funds to
furnish the boat asked for. but recent
~ detailed the McCulloch to do the
work few days ago the revenue
and sent out her steam launches to in
vestigate conditions. The report of
yesterday was the result Of the first
After the waters above Martinez
have been Thoroughly searched the Nc
Culloch will go to the south end of the
bay, where similar work viii be done.
craft will be tied up before the cutter
finishes.
HiIonian Reaches Port
The Matson navigation company's
from Honolulu in command of Captain
Charles Peterson, who was chief officer
on the outward voyage and was pro-
NOTED as the result of the automobile
accident in Honolulu in which Captain
Peter Johnson was seriously injured.
When the Hilonian left Honolulu Cap
tain Johnson was on the road to re-
covery and expected to be at the wharf
to meet his wife, who is a passenger
on the Lurline. The Hilonian had
rather bad luck on the voyage home.
First a breakage in the engine room
made 1t necessary to stop the engines
for 10 hours and then heavy gale i'm
peded the steamers Roadway and the
vessel arrived here a day late. The
Hilonian brought big cargo and
among the passengers were:
W. P Cathcart Mrs de la Nux
Mrs. Oathcart Miss Sophie de la Nux
A. Chambers M E. Pack
Mrs Chambers ". A. Scott
Miss E. Mccormick =. Mrs Scott
J. r. Daggett W. Fl. Smith
Jack Fennel Mrs Smith
Peter \. Kahokuoluna o. D. Tobin
F. c. Lyser Mrs A. NJ. Vincent
Mrs Lyser and two william G. walker
children William Werner
A. S. Mahaulu Mrs. c. W. Zeigler
Mrs j. Fl. Myatt and ". H Zimmerman
Moses K Nakuina
ArGOnaut TO Burn Oil
The United States quarantine tug
Argonaut will be taken to the Moore
& Scott iron works tomorrow to be
equipped with an oil burning system.
The bids for this work were opened
last February, but only this week did
Washington authorize the letting of the
contract.
Water Front Notes
The American Hawaiian companys
freighter Arizonan, one of the few
American vessels chartered by the navy
department to bring coal to this coast,
sailed June % from Norfolk for this
The Pacific Mail steamer Asia, which
is coming direct from Yokohama with
a big cargo of tea, is due here Tues
The Pacific Mail liner City of Para,
from the lower coast. sailed June %
The San Juan, Captain F. f. Frazier.
cleared yesterday and will sail today
for Panama and way ports.
Receipts of lumber yesterday by sea
amounted to 2,177,000 feet.
The French bark Marie Molinos
which made a record run from Sydney
to this port sailed yesterday for
The Pacific Coast steamship COM
panys Santa Rosa, which sailed yes
terday for southern California ports,
| carried $50 passengers.
The bark Andrew WEIGH, which ar
rived yesterday, % days from Honolulu,
brought 27,100 bags of sugar.
Eight wreckers Lose Lives
| VICTORIA, B. c., June 24.-Eight
! lives were lost in an attempt to re-
cover salvage from the wreck of the
| long lost Hill liner Dakota off Shira-
| hama at the entrance to Tokyo bay
/ J., - he
/ err Kaga Maru, according to mail adj
| vices on the Kaga. The wreck had
been sold by the underwriters to the
] Yamochina marine iron works company
| of Tokyo, and a party of wreckers was
| engaged in breaking up the remnants
of the wreck when a dynamite cartridge
he was about to go down. There were
! Is men, including three divers in the
party on board. of whom eight were
| killed, the bodies of two being recov-
cred, and several others were injured
| severely
Togo Kisen Line Escapes Fine
NEW YORK, June 24.-Remission of
the fine imposed on the Togo Kisen
steamship company on the charge of
violating the coastwise shipping laws
daughter of former Vice President
| Fairbanks, at San Francisco, is pro-
vided in q. decision endered by Assist
ant Secretary of Commerce and La
Dor McHard Mrs. Timmons recently
sailed from San Francisco for a world
cruise, but at Honolulu, cable ad-
vices that her husband had been or
dered back to shore duty, she returned
to San Francisco on the Japanese boat.
This violated the law which imposed
a fine of $500 on foreign steamship
company for each passenger carried
| from one American port to another.
The fine was RENTED because of the
unusual nature of the case.
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