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The Publication Committee was in racted to proceed with the publication of the amended prayer book. committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions on the basis of one dollar each to extinguish the the Cam mins' memorial church and erect tablet to his memory. PACIFIC COAST. The Pilot Explosion SAN FRANCISCO. May Graves, who was seriously but not fatally injured. SAYS: the Haystack 6:50. the time of the explosion, which near 7:20 as can tell. I was just getting up from the breakfast table, the engineer having gone ahead of me. Suddenly the deck rose and the stove fell. and knocked with something don't know what. Assoon came on deck saw body around and thought everybody killed. then heard screams. and found several of the injured and some the crew, most of whem were unin jured. tried to save whom I could and succeeded in saving four Palmer Mathers, his baby, and fireman, John Shedden. The last named, however. died about 15 minutes after I landed him on shore. Palmer I found in a horrible condition, having large splinters of wood in his neck and several broken Mrs. McNear and Hea. gon we found about a mile below the wreck. the former dying and the latter dead We searched all day for bodies but could not find any. count for the explosion. in the engine room on the way to breakfast Had light pressure of steam and erything looked right. We had to contend against greatobstacles The bank could not be reached except through six feet of mud. and all the boats The cept one were blown to pieces first help came from passing train. which went for more help to Donahne landing, The captain attributes the explosion to the fault of the engineer in not having water enough in his boil ers. The Pilot Survivors. The steamer Belle brought the wound ed persons from the wrecked Pilot Petaluma where the best of attention was given them Last evening nothing visible of the wreck except a few sticks. At low tide the stern and part of the forward deck are out of the water. The boiler burst out through the and carried everything with Steamboat Inspectors at Petaluma to make an examination, and will nothing until the examination is com pleted. The Belle was at the scene the disaster to save parts of the wreck and recover bodies of vietin The est victims J. Hagen of San Francisco, killed; Mrs. Geo. P. McNear of Petaluma, died from wounds four sons of W F Mathers drowned Shattuck, fireman of the Pilot, killed S. Graves, Captain of the Pilot knocked with out forehead McAlley, broken arm; W Math ers, body and braised infant child of Mrs. W. Mathers body scalded and can't Geo. o Palmer of the Pilot. wound in the neck and four ribs broken, the case is re garded as almost hopeless by surgeons: Wru. Sullivan, slight wound in the right side of the nose. The following ported missing: Horace Bell, mate of the Pilot; A J. Blackwel Thos ford, engineer of the Pilot: G. W Grogal, A. Hawes, steward of the Pilot Mrs. Mathers and daughter W Mathers, Peter McCabe, deck hand the Pilot: Richmond, dock hand on the Pilot; N. Silva, cabin boy on the Pilot, and an unknown man, deck hand. Falled. SAN FRANCISCO, May .L-inforth Rice & Co., dealers in agricultural im plements, have failed. A meeting of oreditors has been called to consider the condition of their affairs. San Francisco Notes. SAN FRANCISCO, May 6.-Leland Stan ford leaves today for Europe on the steamer Germania. Temperature here yesterday was 81 degrees in the sbade. Vigo Bay Treasure Company has been incorporated, and its purposes are to profit by the right conceded by the King of Spain to explore the bottom of bay at Vigo Spain, and extract there from the treasures they may find. Cap stock $800,000. Grain. Sugar and Peaches. SAN FRANCISCO, May 26. The wheat market coutinges weak. Good judges state that within sixty days wheat will go down to $1.30, with increased freights. Sugar is in good demand in anticipation of cannery demands Peaches made their first appearance, re tailing at 50 cents a pound. Penalties. The Produce Exchange Call Board has instituted a penalty of $25 for every proven fictitions sale also that the marginal deposits on contracts must be ten cents a cental, excepting bran and mill feed, hen the rate shall be five cents cental. Bank of Cheney Suspended. [Special to POST INTELLIGENCES PORTLAND, May 26.-A private dis patch from Cheney announces the suspension of the Bank of Cheney. Further particulars could not be learned Bank is owned principally by John C. Davenport a prominent merchant, who is estimated to be worth about $100,000. The failure is supposed to be caused too much branching out. Bankers here think Davenport's are such that he will be able to pay in full. The Results of Feelishing Around other Man's Wife. 6 VISALIA, Cal. May 23 About o'clock this evening. as J. W. Harlan, of the Western Union Telegraph Company was returning from a buggy ride with the wife and and daughter, the lat ter aged four and six years, of Levi Elliott, Elliott met the party the and trance of caught "You opened fire with revolver Harlan shielded himself with the body of who received a ballet in the breast and died in wounded Harlan in the minutes. right band, and hip. After was thring, shot shot by Harlan through the heart, exmoments. in to determine which was the but from Harlan's manner and the finding of two pistols the scene of the affray, it believed Harlan shot Elliott. a rian, after the shooting. went to drug store, where his wounds were dressed. He then taken by the Sheriff to jail, where he confined. The affair has caused quite an and threats synching
