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Show PILOT COMMISSIONERS INVESTIGATE STRANDING. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. li-The Stat Board of Pilot Commissioners. Capt. H. Z. Howard. M. C. Krskine and E. M. Freeman, held a session yesterday and heard the testimony of numerous wit- nesses in investigation of the stranding of the steamship Almeda at Fort Point on September Sit. When the facts of the disaster were officially of-ficially reported to the board by Capt. T. H. Barber, port agent, the license of Charles B. Johnson, the pilot in charge of the Alameda, was suspended, landing the .inquiry. The investigation will be resumed re-sumed today. |