Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-09-16
PACIFIC COAST ADvICES.
A Destructive Fire at the Foot OF
Tamalpafs-Wm. Pixley Burned
to Death-The Murder of All Eo h
The Brush Fire still Raging.
Especial to the SENTINEL

iSpoSAoA W shc oANAANEAt
SAN Francisco. Sept. ia San Rafae,
dispatch says that a brush fire started yes
terday in Baltimore Gulch, ct the foot Of
Mount Tamalais. and swept over q tract Of
country three miles wide by seven miles
long. The farm houses and country resi-.
dences Of San Franciscans In the vicinity
are s~ourrounded by flames, but thus far
have escaped destruction, though the fire
is still raging. The depot Of the railroad
company ct Corte Madra was burned. The
railroad company sent up a fire train and
q gang Of men to aid In checking the
spread Of the confiagration. VIM. Pixley,
brother OF Frank Pixley of this city, who
started the fire while clearing his land, il
missing. aud 1t is feared he has persisted.
Alb Fook was murdered 10 q Chinese
brothel last night by two Of his country
men, who were jealous OF his attentions 10
his badly. soiled dove.
A San Rafael dispatch says that the BODY
OF VIM. Pixley. who started yesterdays
brush fire. was found by his SON this
morning in Baltimore Gulch. He died
while fighting the flames, his hand still
grasping the shovel when found. The FIRE
Ia still raging. Cushing's country board
ing-house il burning and the boarders are
fleeing, leaving all their effects behind them,
VIRGINIA, September 1.-THE excite.
ment In regard to the strike In the Sierra
Nevada is still unabated. In an interview
this evening Senator Fair said to an Enter.
prise reporter. when asked what was being
lone at the bottom of the Joint Union and
say what ! am doing at that point. I will
say, however, that I am opening up the
development as fast as I possibly can"
Being asked If all looked as we'll az yester.
day, be answered in the Affirmative, and in.
timated that before long there would be
something more to be said. Mrs. Fair Wis.
tied the mine to day. She descended to the
bottom of the winze and brought up q spec.
linen which Mr.. Fair says weighs thirty or
forty pounds. She says that the bottom Of
the winze looks 'lovely," (which answer il
worthy of Slippery Jim hfmself.1 The best
o~btainable unofficial information is that
last night, after o set Of holes had been
drilled, ready to be charged and fred, an
order came to set up the drill, and drill
downward 10 the bottom, which was done,
The superstition IL thatths drill was run.
ming all day to-day. Specimens Of the ore
show 1t to be black ~snlphnret, and rich,
but ~ yet no assays have been made public,
One OF our oldest mining superintendents
who to day saw piece OF the ore weigh.
ing four or Eve pounds, says II 10 genuine
black ~sulphursf and fine, but did not feel
Of liberty to say Just how much he thought
would asssy. The drift from the Union
on the 2700 level q tapping consider.
able hot water to-day, but has not yet
reached the ore channel.
SAY FRANoIRco, September IA forest
and brush fire Il raging IN Marin county,
near the foot Of Mount Tamalpais. It is
that houses, out buildings, fences,
ETC., are being swept away. The FIRE Il
visible from the city. A dense cloud Of
smoke 10 hanging over the city, driven
across the bay By the north wind.