The San Francisco call., 1909-08-12

hundred sacks OF mail.
On board the Supply also are 1S women pas
sengers, relatives Of navy officers The Supply
came down from Mare Island shortly after
noon and sailed few hours later On the way
out the navy steamer will call at Honolulu. re-
naming there four days.
The Supply viii remain at Guam as station
ship, relieving the Concord. Part Of the Sun
PHYS crew and four of her officers will be
transferred 10 the Concord. which will be brought
to Mare Island 10 go out Of commission The
officers now on the Supply. who will come home
on the Concord, are Ensigns j. C. Thute, F. r.
King P H. McCreary and s. B. Mckinney.
WILL TRY TO SAVE THE ENSIGN
On the strength of his successful landing Of
me me Norwegian sloop GJoa in Golden Gate park
baptain hlitgard has been sent south by the
Underwriters oI,ott1 to try 10 get the stranded
went ashore Santa Barbara last January
and now lies far up the beach. half buried in
sand. The hull is in good shape and if the
vessel could be hoated the loss to the under
writer's would be materially reduced.
The landing Of the Gjoa through the surf and
the subsequent moving Of the stranded sloop
through the sand to its pedestal in the park
was not an easy task. There were many in the
shipping world who doubted Klltgards ability
70 carry out his contract. and the operation was
watched with great interest
1t was successful, and Klitgard in conse-
ouence is 10 have chance to distinguish him
self in more difficult task.
PLEIADEs SAILS FOR HONOLULU
The steamer Pleiades. which is under charter
70 The American Hawaiisn line, will sail today
for Honolulu and other Hawaiian ports with
l,sO0 tons of general cargo and 300 hogs.
SOUTH DAKOTA ON DRYDoCK
The armored cruiser West Virginia came OF
Hunters Point drydock yesterday afternoon and
the South Dakota was placed in the big basin
10 be scraped and painted and otherwise made
ready for the long cruise on which the war
ships will start in September.
LURLINE ARRIVES FROM HONOLULU
The Matson navigation eompauy's steamer
Lurline arrived yesterday from Honolulu with
- passengers and cargo which included heavy
I shipments of sugar and canned pineapples.
SUE STEAMER FOR 5000
Suit for $4,000 was instituted by c. A. Cooper
Co. against the steamship Wellesley yester-
day in the United States district court. The
suit is over part of cargo of redwood
shingles lost from the steamship between Eureka
snd southern California and which were con
signed TO the Cooper firm.
WATER FRONT NOTES
Receipts Of lumber yesterday by sea amounted
The Pacific Mail liner Korea. Captain Sand
berg, which left here last Thursday for the
orient. arrived yesterday at Honolulu
The French steamer Amiral Fourichon. bound
HiOgo.
The tanker W. S. Porter left Honolulu yester-
day for this port.
The schooner .. NJ. Kellogg cleared yesterday
for Tahiti via Eureka.
TIE bark British Yeoman left yesterday for
NOyo in tow Of the tug Dauntless.
Needle rock reports that the tug Hercules.
with log raft IN tow, passed five miles south
west Of Point GOrda August 10. $3.50 a. m. The
Hercules and raft are bound from Astoria for
San Diego. The steamer Asuncion spoke the
Hercules at 2:15 O'Clock yesterday morning of
Fort Bragg.
SCHOONER ADA GIVEN UP as lost
HONOLULU. Aug. 3.-The little schooner
Ada. which left Hilo for Honolulu is days ago
with a cargo OF scrap iron, has failed 70 arrive
here. or to be reported from any way port, and
! it is believed that she has been lost. The
voyage from Hilo should not have consumed
more than two or three days. 1t is believed
that she has either gone to the bottom or has
! been driven far out to sea by a storm. She
was not proEisoned for a lengthy voyage.
! CAPTAIN JoBSoE RELIEVED OF COMMAND
/ HONOLULU, Aug. 3.-Captain Jobson Of the
/ United States Lighthouse tender Kukui was last
/ Saturday relieved of his command of the vessel
1 and Captain Nelson. of the Inter-Island
steamship company masters, was given the posi-
tion of captain Of the vessel. Captain Jobson,
being under civil service rnes. ne viii not be
/ let out Of the government service. but will be
| given some other position in the treasury
| department.
Captain Jobson came TO Hawaii in command
Of the Kukui last year without any knowledge
/ OF the many and dangerous reefS mat surround
the islands OF the group. Twice his vessel ran
/ aground at Pearl Hsrbor, once at kaunakakai
and several times at other places. MS Fessei
was however never seriously damaged.
The nature Of the work of the kukui makes
4 il necessary for her TO approach close TO the
rocky shores Of the islands and to run IN and
out Of narrow passages in the reefs. Work OF
this kind requires a man of considerable ex'
! perience in these waters. On this account The
I command has been given TO Captain Nelson
who has been familiar with the shores OF all
the islands for years.
BIG DREDGER ARRIVED
| Especial Correspondence Of The Call
HONOLULU, Aug. 3.-The Standard Ameri
can company's big sea going dredger South
Bav. which sailed from San Francisco July 20
arrived here last Saturday, and yesterday was
taken over to Pearl harbor to begin the work
or dredging out the outer channels of the har-
bor Her work will be TO clear out the bar,
which at present prevents the passage OF vessels
! The work of STRENGTHENING the channel has beer
going forward rapidly, and is now approaching
completion.
SHIPPING NEWS OF COAST