The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-03
SHIPPING NEWS OF COAST
Items of Interest to Mariners
of the Pacific
1 ShccinI Disnntch 10 The Call
cciol Dispatch 10 The Call

EUREKA, May North Pacific steamer F.
A. Kilburn arrived from San Francisco today
with freight mail and passengers On account
of the prevailing head wind the Kilburn was
several hours late in arriving here. 1t is loading
at the street wharf and will sail on the re-
turn trip tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
American schooner Minnie A. Cane. loading
shifted today from Fields Landing to Samoa,
where it will complete its cargo. The Game was
shifted by the tug Ranger.
Steam schooner PrentiSS of the Pacific lumber
company arrived from San Francisco this morn
ing and is loading redwood lumber at Fields
Landing for the return trip.
British tramp steamer Epson will clear at the
custom house this evening with rough clear red
wood lumber for Australia. After leaving port
tomorrow the EPSON will proceed TO British Co
lumbis before starting across the Pacific. The
Epson will carry from Humboldt bay about
1.20o 900 feet of lumber, valued at $4,000.
Pacific Coast company S steamer City of To-
peka is due from San Francisco tomorrow with
freight mail and passengers.
Schooner Azalia of the Dolbeer Carson lumber
company was towed to sea today by the tug
Ranger. The Azalia loaded cargo of 100000
feet OF redwood lumber at the Carson MILL the
L. J. Dodge & Co.'S steam schooner Vanguard
arrived from San Francisco today with mail 1t
is loading n cargo of 400. 900 feet of redwood
lumber at the Fields Landing wharves for the
fe Los ANGELES. May arrived: steamers
George W. Elder, from Seattle; Francis H. Leg
gett from Eureka; Helen p. Drew, from Green
wood; Hanale from San Francisco: Hornet, from
Everett; San Gabriel. from Umpqua river.
Sailed: Steamers James S. Higgins for Fort
Bragg: Hanalei. for San Francisco; Hornet. for
San Diego; Aleatraz for Greenwood; Helen P.
Drew, for san Diego; power schooner May, for
Guadalupe island; schooners Melrose. for Port
Townsend: W. II. Talbot, for Tacoma.
PORTLAND, May 2.-Since the recent report
from Los Angeles to the effect that the San
Francisco and Portland steamship company
would probably extend the run of the new
steamers Beaver and Portland from Portland
TO that port by way of San Francisco the con
sensus of opinion In steamship circles here is
that in case it should be done the Pacific Coast
steamship company would retaliate and run its
steamers into this port
Strife among the stevedoring firms of this
longshoremen the Portland and Asiatic steam
ers Selja and Rygja unless the San Francisco
and Portland steamship company and their long
shoremen come to some agreement in regard to
the loading of the steamers of that company.
IT announced few days ago that the
contract for the working of the steamers the
Portland and Asiatic line has been given to the
firm of Brown s. McCabe, while the dischargiug
of the steamer Beaver will he done by the
McCabe company. Inc. W. J.. McCabe head of
the latter firm, who has just returned from
business trip to San Francisco. says that he was
told by r. p. Schwerin, head of the Southern
Pacific steamship lines. that he understood that
it his company that had received the con-
tract when It was given just after the strike
on the two orientY liners
Laden with a snll cargo of lumber for Cali
fornia ports the schooner Ethel Zane will leave
Prescott at 4 o'clock this afternoon In tow of
the Ocklahama, with passengers and freight
The steamship Rose City, Captain Mason, ar
rived from San Francisco this afternoon, coming
PORTLAND, May 2-Arrived: Steamers
Klamath, Falcon and Rose City, from San Fran
nook: steamer st. Helens for San francisco
ASTORIA, May Steam schooner Thomas L.
Wand cleared today for San Francisco with a
cargo of 100000 feet Of lumber loaded at Rainier
and 500, 600 feet loaded at Knappton.
Steam schooner Daisy Mitchell cleared at the
custom house today with $4,000 feet of lumber
loaded at Knappton. II will finish its cargo at
South Bend and will then proceed to California.
Steamer Rose City arrived today from San