The Marion

DE HAVEN, District Judge.

This is a libel by seamen to enforce against a cargo of salmon a claim of lien for their wages. .The cargo, consisting of 850 barrels of salmon, was brought by the barkentine Marion from Alaska to the port of San Francisco, upon the voyage described in the amended libel. The Marion has been sold, and, the proceeds arising from such sale not being sufficient to pay the wages of the seamen, it is sought by this proceeding to enforce the balance of their claim for wages against the cargo in question. It was admitted upon the trial that prior to the departure of the…