The Oregon

The amended libel in this case alleged that on the 21st day of October, 1900, the appellee shipped by the steamship Oregon from the port of Nome, Alaska, to the port of Teller, in that territory, 5 Yz tons of merchandise, consisting of groceries, provisions, furniture, hardware, and wearing apparel, the property of the appellee, on which he paid freight amounting to $159.25, and for which the steamship company, through its agent, issued to the appellee a bill of lading; that the Oregon sailed from Nome for the port of Teller on or about October 28, 1900, with the appellee’s goods on board, which were not delivered, “owing to the want of proper care on the part of said master (the master of the ship), his officers and crew, and persons employed by him or them, and by reason of the careless, negligent, and improper manner in which said merchandise was handled, to wit, carelessness and negligence in unloading the same upon a light boat, by reason of the careless and negligent handling of which said light boat the said light boat shipped water, so that the said merchandise was wholly lost; and, owing to the failure qf the said master to deliver the said merchandise in good order and…