The San Francisco call., 1910-07-08

trouble with the
ice that was drifting back and forth
along the beach. One day the Porter
and the steamers Corwin and Edith
had TO up anchor and steam off shore
four times TO get away from the ice
one of these rushes the ice, driven by
a strong wind, game in at a five knot
gait and the Porter had to use all its
power to keep from being carried on
to the beach
Captain Holmes reports the loss of
the power schooner Joe Matthews,
bay with 26 passengers. Passengers
and crew reached the shore after un-
dergoing many haedships.
The revenue cutter Bear rendered
bound for Nome. by keeping them
posted by, wireless as to the con-
dition of the ice. The Bear also gave
the Umatilla and Victoria a boost
through the icejam.
The little steamer Corwin, which has
been the first ship at Nome for several
as the summer mail contract which the
Corwin has had since 1889 has been
awarded to the power schooner Dux-
Captain Holmes reports that there
has been a big stampede TO the new
diggings al Iditarod. Those who re-
turned TO Nome report that there is
plenty Of gold in the new district, but
that ii win be expensive to work as
the land is low and marshy All the
freight for Iditarod is now taken up
the river by barges towed by horses a
a cost of 5 cents pound Three
small steamers for this service are
being built at Nome.
Times were not very flush at Nome
when the Porter left there. owing TO
the lateness of the season. The beach
from Nome TO Golovin bay is choked
with ice and the working of beach
claims is hard work and requires con-
tinuous blasting.
and encountered thick fog nearly all
the way home.
Must Stop OiIinS Bay or Get Out
The harbor commissioners passed
resolution yesterday to the effect that
the Standard oil company must either
cease pouring into the bay the surplus
oil from Its supply pipe at Meiggs
wharf or must give up its assignment
there. The commissioners also took
notice OF the fact that the Sausalito
ferryboats had been hagrantly violat-
ing the law which forbids steam yes
sells bound along the water front ap
preaching close to the state wharves.
The boats from Sausalito are in the
habit of avoiding the tide by passing
Meiggs wharf inside the pilot boat
anchorage. The wash of the passing
wrecking most of the tender piles along
the seawall by throwing the vessels
berthed there against the wharf
French Steamer Arrives
Inc fTenchr steamer Amlral Duperre,
captain Martin, arrived yesterday, lab.
days from Avonmouth and II days
from Yokohama. The steamer brought
q large cargo and one passenger r.
Waine a young Canadian, who has
been engaged in rubber planting at
Brunei, BOrneo. Waine says that the
Dyaks, scared into good behavior by
the British government, have ceased
have been no wholesale raids for many
months There is still some individual
activity along this line, and no self
respecting Dyak maiden would think of
marrying a man who had not at least
one human head to show his homicidal
prowess. Waine says that the rubber
lands in Borneo offer rare opportunity
for the right kind of exploitation.
Nicarfa Is Released
The Kosmos liner Nicaria. Captain
KnOblauch. which arrived Wednesday
from Hamburg and was ordered into
quarantine on account of Irregularities
terday and docked at Union street
wharf The liner brought three pas
Sengers. They were ID. Philippi, the
German consul al Mazatlan. who is on
his way to Germany; Leo Bremen an
Austrian scientist. who is making
tour of the worlds observatories, and
D Tifaine. French consular agent at
Taltal who is on his way to Europe
via Yokohama and the trans siberian
railroad.
Pilot Boat Rams Freighter
The pilot boat America collided with
the freighter Isthmian early yesterday
morning in the vicinity of the light
shin The Isthmian was not DANA ped
but the American will need a new how
spirit. A thick fog hid the vessels from
each other and when the accident oc-
Isthmian for the purpose of putting
Pilot Mathieson on board the freighter
The America came in for repairs and
its place on the bar was taken by the
Lady Mine.
Isthmian Arrives From SaIina Cruz
The American Hawaiian cornpany's
steamer lsthmian, Captain Hall, which
arrived yesterday from Salina Cruz
brought about 300 tons of cargo. The
Isthmian's cargo was from New York
ani Europe via the Tehuantepec rail-
road. It was delivered at Puerto Mex
leo by the steamer Kentuckian from
New York, the Furst Bismark from
Hamburg. the Conway from Antwerp
and London, the Musician from Glas-
gov, the La Plata from Antwerp and
Cadiz and the Californian from Liver
pool.
ChfyO Maru VIII BE in EARLY
The japanese liner Chiyo Maru was
500 miles from port at O'Clock
Wednesday night and, according to a
wireless message received yesterday
from Captain Greene. will be in port at
6 O'clock this morning. If there are no
quarantine complications the Chiyo
should be at the Pacific Mail wharf
ABOUT 3 o CLOCK. i he t0lYO mas a large
cargo AMI 1873 cabin passengers, all
from the far east.
Investigate Collision
Evidence to nix blame in the collision
on May 81 between the 1reboat David
Scannell and the Southern Pacific ferry
boat Piedmont was taken yesterday by
Inspectors Bolles and Bulger. William
Spohn, master of the Piedmont and
Captain A. G. Thompson of the Scan
nell were the principal witnesses. The
case was then submitted. Neither yes
sci received more than trifling damage.
Body Taken From Bay
The body of a longshoreman. who
was known as Jonas" along the grain
docks, was picked up in the bay off the
body had been in the water for several
hours. William Ellis discovered the
body and later identified it.
Water Front Notes
A mud barge being towed out of Oak
land creek by the tug Hercules yester-
day struck the lighthouse, damaging
that structure and sustaining injuries
which later caused the barge to sink
The barge Jotty, loaded with brick.
settled down on submerged pile in
the channel yesterday and received a
puncture, which later sent barge and
bricks to the bottom
Receipts of lumber yesterday by sea
amounted to 100000 feet
The freighter J. L. Luckenbaeh, Cap
tain Kay which arrived yesterday from
snow storms in the straits of Magellan
BY United Wireless