The San Francisco call., 1910-12-20

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and passengers The Topeka will depart the
return trip Wednesday at p.
Ihe steamer San Pedro among the lum-
per carriers TO arrive TO-DAY. Inc san feuLo VI
IS loading cargo Of redwood lEmber ut the
Fields Landing wharf
The steamer Coquille River departed for San
Francisco from Samoa wharf this afternoon with
lumber.
Loaded with lumber obtained at the Arcata
wharf the steamer North Fork departed for
San Francisco this afternoon
The steamer J. j. Loggie departed for San
Francisco from the Bucksport wharf this after
Two more vessels have been added TO the
onshore heet with cargoes for this year. one
Norwegian steamer Aagot, Captain Seyald,
which cleared and sailed yesterday for Mel
bourne with 96T,216 feet of rough clear red
wood, valued at $27 .1S1.S3, making total 10
Australia for the year of q eargoes. measur-
ing 20. 9.T29.421 feet, valued at $S07, 7,92S.5l and
total tonnage Of 64.JT1. The other was the
The cargo consists of Is coo ties measuring
total to Mexico for the year to date Of 5.432,51
feet, valued at S6so5s.s7. all bnt half mil,
number shipped being 1885, .223 pieces.
It is expected that the steamer Ravalli,
which left port with the mail yesterday. VIII
bring north another large shipment of ma
terlals for the Pacific construction company
AnIl9hg aI 9thsr G egulp1ent TO come come on rne
mers and another big boiler.
PORTLAND, Dec 19.-With passengers and
freight from San Francisco and San Pedro, the
afternoon.
The British steamer Queen Alexander sailed
yts5eIedy from lctorla 70 FaIcouNer, MAeas 80. -
VIII finish discharging New York cargo. after
which it will come down here to load lumber for
China, under charter to the Pacific export COM
pany. 1t will, be due here in about 10 days.
Laden with 1866 bushels Of wheat, the Ger
man bark Schurbek. Captain Christiansen. left
down for the sea this morning in tow of the
steamer Ocki kiahOma.
All cleaned and newly painted, the lighthouse
tender Heather was foated from the Oregon dry
dock this morning. An ash ejector will be in
stalled and some boiler work remains to be DONE
With passengers and freight the steamer Sue
H. Elmorea Captain Schrader, arrived this after
noon from Tfllsmook.
James J. Richardson. agent of the Richardson
steamship line here has been appointed to take
charge of the business in San Francisco and he
will probably leave for that place Friday- The
Little-Diamonds lumber company with offices at
the foot of Oak street, will succeed Richardson
as the agents of the line here.
With new master and new chief mate
aboard. the steamer Washington arrived last
night from San Francisco having 20 passengers
and general freight Captain Kokritz, who has
succeeded Captain Gus Peterson in the command
Of the steamer. formerly master of the
steamer Fair Oaks. For chief mate the Washing
ton has George Ahlstrom, formerly master of the
steamer Daisy.
1t was announced this morning that the i'm
porting firm of Parrott & Co. has made change
IN the steamer chartered last week to bring gen
eral cargo from Antwerp. and instead or the
British steamer Falls of Orchy the British
steamer Bannockburn will bring the freight this
way. Ii will go on the berth at Antwerp about
the latter part of this month and will sail in
February for Portland by way of San Pedro and
San Francisco.
PORTLAND Dec. 19.-Arrived: steamer Sue
H. Elmore, from Tillamook; steamer Rose City,
from San Pedro and San Francisco: steamer
George w. Elder, from San Diego and way.
German ship Sehurbek, for Queenstown or Fal-
mouth.
ASTORIA Dec. 1o.-steamer Rose City ar
OH Con, Dol and Son pfz1cf
land.
British steamer strathfnan sailed today for
Hongkong with lumber
Revenue cutter Manning has returned from
short cruise along the coast.
French bark Cannebiere sailed today for the
United Kingdom with cargo OF grain.
Steamer Bear sailed today for San Francisco
and san Pedro with freight and passengers.
French bark Bayard arrived Sunday evening,
800 days from Glasgow with general cargo,
after narrowly escaping being wrecked while in
sailed from Glasgow on April I. Fairly good
weather was encountered until June H. when IN
| latitude II south mad longitude SO west It ran
into terrific gale and its rudder was carried
away. The vessel was then practically help
! less. aud was stossed about by the high seas.
Several attempts were to rig a jury rudder.
and each time the lines were broken A few
days later Swedish steamer put a hawser on
board and started to tow the disabled craft to
/ port but after going a short distance the
hawser parted and the bark left to It's fate.
] It was then fight to keep the vessel from
although there were intermittent gales and at
! times the bark swept fore and aft by the
huge seas. The craft was battered about for
more than month, until on July it was in
/ latitude "a south, having drifted distance Of
I II degrees, when 1t picked up about 160
miles OFF shore by two tugs and towed into
Alontevdeo. where IL arrived that afternoon.
/ The company operating the tugs is a salvage
company. and while Captain Bernard IS reticent
! concerning the amount charged. it is understood
the cost of the tow was about 100000 and that
! the vessel was Charged In the neighborhood of
| $40 for new rudder Repairs made,
and the Bayard sailed from Montevideo Sep
tember 2, the balance of the passage to the
Columbia river being without special incident
! SEATTLE. Dec 19.-Arrived: Steamer TaIIac
| from San Francisco; steamer Mexican from
Salina Cruz; steamer Umatflla, from San Fran
cisco; steamer Bertha, from Tacoma.
Sailed: Steamer Minnesota. for Yokohama
and fIongkong; steamer Buchanan for San
! Francisco; steamer Humboldt, for Skagway
! Tallac. for Bremerton; United States steamship
/ Columbia. for Astoria; schooner j. w. elise,
for Eagle Harbor.
| ABERDEEN, Dec. 19.-The SIade lumber com
pany has brought suit for $4,000 against the
| Grays Harbor tugboat company by reason of al
! legged damages to the barkentine Jane L. Stan
ford, which the Slade company owns. The Stan
| ford was taken over the bar by the tug Cudahy
! and while going over struck on the bar, damag-
/ ing the Stanford and compelling Its skipper to
go into Astoria and afterward TO Portland for
repairs. This made necessary the unloading Of
most of the cargo.
The Slade company further alleges that the
captain of the Cudahy gave positive information
that the bar was all right. The Stanford IS now
on Its way to Australia.
Steamer Raymond departed and steamer Santa
Monica arrived.
SAN PEDRO, Dec. 19.-The North Pacific com
panys steamer Roanoke arrived from Portland
via San Francisco. with a large passenger and
freight list 1t cleared tonight for San Diego.
After discharging part cargo of lumber at
San Diego the steamer Centrala touched here
today for passengers and freight bound for Grays
Harbor via San Francisco
The steamer Francis II. Leggett completed the
discharge of 1,500 600 feet of lumber for the Ma
tional lumber company and cleared today for Eu-
reka to reload.
The passenger and freight steamer Beaver ar
rived this morning on its regular schedule from
Portland, via San Francisco, and is scheduled to
clear on return voyage Tuesday
Arrivals at Redondo Beach include the British
steamer North Umbria, with a cargo of 80 600
railroad ties for the Santa Fe system from Mo-
roran, Japan and the coastwise schooner Com
merce, from Wnslow, with 100, coo feet of lum-
Der for various consignees.
The British steamer NJ. S. Dollar, now dis
charging a cargo of oak logs and lumber from
Japan and coal from China at this port, is sched-
uled to sail Thursday for San Francisco and
Puget sound ports.
The Banning company's passenger steamer Her
mosa returned today from San Francisco. where
it cleaned and overhauled. The steamer will
re-enter the passenger service to Catalina island
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