Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-13
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
IMMENSE FOREST AND PRAI.
RE FIRES.
Great Destruction OF Crops, Euild
ings and Live Stock.
A VOLCANIC ERUPTION NEAR
YUMA.

"A NOA-CaNAC Ell NEAt II
YUMA.
LEOMPOC, California, June IL.
About noon on the 10th instant, q
nre broke out on Don Jose Roching's
ranch, some six miles south west OF
this place, raging fearfully in an east
ern direction consuming stock and
everything in its way. At first it was
making a direct course for the Honda
region, but yesterday the wind blew
heavy. from the southwest which
turned it towards Messrs. Young
Brothers and Balls ranches, over
which it swept rapidly. After burn.
ing about $50 head Of cattle for Don J..
Roching, and completely making
away with all the grass on three
ranches, 1t come down into San Mar.
gletai canyon, where, IL not for the
citizens who turned out and fought it
III the hot sun for Is straight hours
without food, it would undoubtedly
have burned up every house in the
canyon. Young Brothers are think
ing of butchering what stock they
have left TO prevent starvation, while
Messrs. Ball and I,oching are looking
for q new ranch. 1t is impossible to
estimate the loss. All now is quiet,
and o further danger is apprehended
at present. There is fire raging in the
Santa Mona ranch, seven miles north
west, owned by Don ]. Roching, also
On which has been devoared over g..
600 acres of his best grass, which he
was saving to winter his sheep with.
The ranchers are all worked down en-.
deavoring TO ave something for their
stock, ard are almost hopeless. The
fire seems TO have been an incendiar.
ism.
Los ANGELES, June IL.
An immense fire ia raging in the
mountains between here and Santa
Monica, and has already burned over
1000 acres, destroying a number of
dwelling houses, together with barns
and other buildings. The people in
the ne%ighborhood have been fighting
it constantly since Saturday afternoon,
but the strong wind, together with the
scarcity OF water, rendered their efforts
futile. IL Is now swooping down the
plains, and by TO nigh ii not checked,
will have consumed a great deai of
valuable property. Between four and
six miles are O on fire, aud the resi-
dents OF the vicinity are exhausted and
Discouraged. No loss of human life
has as yet been reported.
A volcanic eruption occurred in the
mountains opposite Flowing Wells
Station on the Southern Pacific, about
six miles from Yuma, at 9 O'Clock yes
terday morning. 1t was preceded by
a violent vibration of the earth; about
a haif-hour after which adense volume
OF smoke and huge black and broken
bOulders were observed to issue from
the mountains. 1t continued in an ac-
tive state all day, but became nearly
passive at nightfall.
Accidental Drowning Of - Nevada
BOy-rwO Suicides and kome
Land Grnbbcrs.
SAN FRANCISCO, June IL.
Saturday afternoon, Harry Thayer,
son Of Frank Thayer, Superintendent
OF the Julia mine, at Virginia City,
was drowned near the Alameda draw.
bridge at the entrance to Sal Leandro
bay while bathing. The body has not
yet been recovered.
The existence is reported of a ring of
spectators having in view a grab OF an
immense body of valuable timber and
agricultural land on the bottom of the
Klamath river. The United States
ooh Va a. 800 = 10 ~" III AtO
making the necessary subdivisions.
The lumbernen here are greatly ex-
ercised yer the prospect of the land
going into the possession OF private
parties.
First Sergeant Bruins, of Company
l.. Fourth United States Artillery,
stationed at Preside, suicided last
night with laudanum. He had been
in the service twenty years, and was
highly respected by the officers and
men. Domestic infelicity is assigned
as the cause, combined recently with
excessive drinking.
Jno. harrington, q carpenter, resid-
ing near Brannan and Eighth streets,
CT his throat last night, infiicting a
probably fatal wound.
One Hundred and Five In the Shade
ut Vallejo.
VALLEJO. June IL.
The thermometer at $3.50 p. NJ. yes
terday reached los degrees in the
shade here; the highest on record i'm
the history of the place. Work on the
Monadnock monitor is discontinued
on account OF the heat. Yesterday the
thermometer was at 800 in her hold.
At l p. NJ. ia. day the thermometer WAS
lO2 with a light westerly breeze blow
ing. A labOrer named VIM. Vaughn,
in a lumber yard at south Vallejo, was
struck with sunstroke this afternoon.
The New Gold Fields In British
Columbia.
VICTORIA, June IL.
The Government has engaged a min
ing engineer from California to exam
inc the quartz lodes of the Province.
News from the new gold diggings at
Cherry Creek represents that there are
fifty men at work, making good wages.
The mines are situated in the heart Of