The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

foxes and 80 bears. A passenger on
the schooner. J. p. Benson, trapper,
had helped to catch many of the ami
mails whose skins made up the schoon-
er's freight
The crew of the Monterey spoke en-
thusia stically of the rich gold diggings
discovered recently in the KuskOkwlm
country They spoke, however, entirely
from hearsay- Benson, who was one
Of the prospectors who found the DO
nanZa' is not so enthusiastic. There
is gold and plenty of il, says Benson,
but there are other things. In the
summer the mosquitoes are so numer-
Gus and so savage that it is next to
impossible for q white man TO live
among them, and in the winter the cold
makes mining impossible. In spite of
these drawbacks Benson spent several
years in the country and may return.
He and his partner were running short
Of grub. There was enough left TO
last one man for quite a spell, so as
Benson was feeling homeSick anyway.
he turned over his share of the grub
to his partner and took passage on the
Monterey. He and his partner found
gold in paying quantities in many
places, and just before he left good
strike was made on the Tuliksack,
little river entering into the kuS
kokwim about IS miles from the mouth.
Probably the Bessie n
The French bark Nelly. which ar
rived here yesterday. reports passing
on July in latitude 57.04 north, longi-
tude 1850 west, a vessel bottomside
UP. The derelict was about 100 feet
long. The bottom was painted black
or brown and was very foul.
1t is believed in the local shipping
world that the derelict is the same
that has been sighted several times
Is the hull OF the power schooner Bessie
X. which capsized about three years
go while on the way from Bandon to
this port with a cargo of lumber. The
first vessel TO see and identify the dere-
lict after the disaster was the steamer
City OF Puebla on February 81, 1907.
The steamer Yosemite picked up the
overturned wreck March l. 1907, off
Point Gorda and made an attempt TO
tow the dereuct TO port. but let go
when darkness and a heavy blow came
on at the same time. AS this wandering
derelict is a menace to navigation, the
navy department may be asked TO send
a vessel out TO find and destroy it.
WIndJammers From Australia
The schooner Willis a Holden 102
da Us from Newcastle. Australia. and the
British bark British Yeoman. JOB DAYS
from sydney, arrived here yesterday,
both with tales Of oily seas and winds
that didn't blow. Captain Laur of the
Willis Holden said that although there
was no wind there was heavy swell
in which the ship rolled so that at
least 90 times during the passage all
sails had to be taken in to save them
from tapping themselves to pieces
against the spars. The Holden brought
1876 tons of coal The British Yeo-
mans cargo consisted of coke, of which
she had on board $500 tons
Salmon Fleet at Bristol BAY
The following ships Of the salmon
feet are reported safely arrived at
Bristol bay:
Star Of Iceland. Star of Italy. Star
or Peru, Star Of Chile, Star of India.
Levi q. Burgess. Bohemia CentennisI
J.. J. Morse. Prosper. Charles z. Moody
Isaac Reed, Tacoma, James Nesmfth
Nushagak. Koichak, Kodiak, Indiana
and Premier.
Encounters Heavy Gales
The American Hawaiian steamship
columbian arrived last night 1t brin gs
Z blg cargo or 1000 tons of general
merchandise. II was eight davs mat
ing the run UP from Salina Cruz. Can
tain Nichols says that during the last
Two days of the voyage a series OF