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Show RACING TO SAN FRANCISCO TO SAVE SAILOR'S LIFE San Francinco, June 30. To save the life of a sick bluejacket, the United Unit-ed States cruiser South Dakota Is racing rac-ing to this port from Central America at full speed. An operation, which cannot bo performed on board the ship, is necessary If tho mau's llfo Is to be saved, and all the coal that can be fed into the furnaces of the big warship is being burned to give the sailor his one chance. The newg was conveyed in a wireless wire-less request from the warship to tho federal quarantine authorities of this port to make the inspection of the incoming in-coming warship as brief as possible, as she had a sick sailor on board whom she must rush at once to thn naval hospital for a critical operation. |