Show WAITING NEWS FROM WHALING SHIPS san francisco july 7 news of the whaling fleet which spent the winter in the ice is being anxiously awaited in this city heretofore the result ot the winters work and the condition of the men and vessels have always been known here during the month of june for many seasons the mall was brought out by captain hoffman who now commands the schooner penelope and it may be that whoever undertook to succeed him as a mail carrier has succumbed to the hardships in crossing the ice the revenue cutter bear Is now on its way to the cruising grounds of the chalers whalers wh alers |