Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1853-06-02
California Items.

from San Francisco in % days and 5 hours,
including stoppages.
Fires az San Francisco On Monday
afternoon. April %, about 3 o'clock, the
alarm bells sent forth their warning peals,
| and the volume Of smoke arising from the
eastern part of the city, showed that con
! fagration of no ordinary character was
under way. The fremep were a. once on
/ the alert, and great crowd moved toward
/ the locality Of the fire The buildings
DESTROYED were of so infammabie a char
acter. that when once in flames they were
inevitably doomed before the engines could
reach the spot
The ever vigiIant Fire Department had
only put the last finish on their pet hose
carriages and engines. after the fire Of
( Monday, when, at 4 o'clock on Tuesday
morning, they were again called up by the
/ quick warning notes of the various alarm
bells In an instant everybody was astir,
and as livid glare of light toward North
Beach betokened the whereabouts Of the
confagration, the engines were promptly
/ on the spot The situation Of the build
! ing where the fire originated was among
nest of infammable wooden houses and in
the line of tunnel or gorge from the hills
! back of the city, which served as con
duotor Of the smart breeze blowing at the
time
The fire originated in a small wooden
building on Union St, near the corner of
Stockton st, and, burning to the corner.
passed up Stockton st half way to Green,
and burned back as far as a small alley,
known as Union place, aud taking in its
course Monroe's grocery store, two small
wooden tenements owned BIZ Messrs. Thorn
as & Ellis, Dunham's bakery, the building
owned and occupied by the San Francisco
| Bible Society. and three small buildings
pulled down by the Hook and Ladder Com
I panies to prevent the spread of the fire
1t was less than an hour from the com
mencement of the confagration till the fire
was extinguished
The number of buildings burnt in this
/ fire were five, and three were pulled down
by the Hook and Ladder Ccmpanies.-
! According to the report of the Chief En-
gincer, the total loss by the fire was 5lI,
/ 500.
/ On Wednesday another FIRE occurred,
/ (making the third within three days. but
was more promptly checked by the Fire
Department than either of the others
| Execution -Three men named Acker-
man, Thompson and Stewart, were hung
at Sacramento, April %, for the murder
/ of Jack Carroll
FIRE IN San Jose at 81 o'clock on
Friday morning the goth ult, the Court
! House, formerly the State House in San
Jose, was discovered to be on fire, and in
very short time the building was entire
/ ly destroyed. The loss is about 5000
/ The fire was undoubtedly the work of an
incendiarY. When it was first discovered,
box of Goals was seen under the floor,
and the supposed object was to rescue sew
eral prisoners who are now in the jail
which adjoins the Court House The pur-
pose, however. was not attained the thick
adobes of the old jail were 6re-proof The
county records were all saved
In Greenwood Valley, the Miners Ad-
vocate states business is brisk. A large
amount Of dust has been taken out, and
miners are generally doing we'll
At Manhattan Creek there has been
plenty of rain. Miners have been engag-
ed sluicing top dirt which pays from s.
to IS per day The bottom dirt pays
much better
Messrs. John c. Barnett s Co, discov-
cred rich diggings on Tuesday. 10Th inst,
on the fiat near Rattlesnake Bar, Placer
County The first pan, after washing
down, paid SIS. Other claims in the
neighborbood are paying we'll
The stockholders of the South Fork Ca
nal are enjoying partial realization of
their long INDUCED hopes. Water is now
being conveyed in acqueducts over the
most stupendous canons.
At Kingsville miners are prospecting.
A good deal Of sickness exists among
the various bands of Indians in the coun-
try surrounding Placerville.
At Winters Bay considerable excite
ment has been created by the discovery of
rich deep diggings. Water Is convenient
and everybody seemed anxious to get
chance at them.
Good wages are obtained at Butte City.
A mania for building exists, and each
house is occupied as soon as erected.
At Columbia Springfield, Gold Springs
Shaw's Flat, Yankee Hill. Santiago, Sum
NIT Pass, Experimental Gulch, Martinas
and Browns Flat, and every other placer
in this vicinity, they are doing as well as
in any other section of the mining region
Three miners at Jackass Gulch lately
struck quartz vein, from which, for
week past, they have taken out from three
to five pounds of pure gold per day.
\ company of four men, working at the
head of Woods Greek, have claim from
which they have been averaging $50 to
the hand per day since the lst Of March
ult
At French Gulch Messrs. Coty & Co
took out of their claim lump of quartz
gold which weighed six pounds--two-thirds
of it pure gold \ company of Frenchmen
in the same gulch, took out of their claim
in one day Sl,7O0 Mr. John Randall
! was killed in his claim in the gulch on
Wednesday, by the falling of the bank
He was formerly of St Louis, and was
about thirty years of age,
I From Hlfeestiug-T weeks later
ra.z-c baav, reraived from, ibar;.