The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-07-26
NATURES ANTICS.
Remarkable Phenomena in South
ern California.
Unfathomable Fissures In tho Earth Gre
ated by Internal Convuisions
"A Very Mysterious
Region.

prospectors left San Diego for that lit |
tie known country lying below the |
Mexican boundary, just west Of the !
Colorado river This region is supposed |
to be full Of valuable mineral deposits
and prolific IN natural phenomena.
They spent q couple Of weeks on what
is known as the Santa Ysabel ranch,
some miles northwest of the Cocopah
mountains. While there they heard
chat frequently during several days q |
| heavy rumblirg hed been heard in the
direction of the Cccopuhe. Proceeding
TO Las Junta5, . Little settlement made
up OF few Indians and u white man or
two, they spent several days there in
prospecting
Here they were told by a man named
| Elliott that FROM q high hill he had seen
what seemed to be q cloud over the
Cocopah mountains and had also heard
heavy rumblings, and once at night had
seen dull light apparently on the very
sop of the mountain. lie believed il to
be volcano. Indians had also brought
reports that unusual disturbances had
been observed in the Cocopah region,
and they were greatly frightened.
They recrossed the line into the
United States, and at Indian Wells, on
the Colorado desert, not only heard more
about the rumbl.ngs and smoke, but Tor
the first time SOW the smoke themselves,
q cloud-lilze shape th26 seemed to rest
almost on The earth. The parcy came
westward, az on The night when the
earthquake shock was felt in San Diego
were campod on IN ELEVATION 5c:ac 5000
feet above the sea level.
That NIGHT they not only felt the Sc
verest earthquake shook, but plainly
saw q great light shoot upward in the
heavens directly over what was believed
, to be the main Cocopah mountain, The
n light continued with greater or less
, brilliancy late into the night, while the
q rumbling was almost incessant and the
tremors frequent
The next morning murky cloud of
I the color made by burning sulphur
& hung Hike vast umbrella low on the
q horizon all day and there were frequent
ly recurring shocks Of earthquake. The
, party remained in camp that night and
saw the light in the same place, but
much fainter. George Nicllle, who has
a ranch on the eastern slope of the
y mountains, said that on the night of the
= great shake he saw an illumination of
the heavens directly over the Cocopah
mountains. The light changed re-
peatedly, being sometimes very bright,
/, sometimes dull and almost impercep-
! tible. The next morning he saw an UNI
brella-shaped cloud where he had seen
the light the night before There is no
doubt in the minds of all who saw the
light that it was an active volcano.
ia PERSONAL MENTION.
y BROTHER JOSEPH, who is voluntaril,
spending his life at Molokai and devot
X ing it TO the lepers in that settlement
l. is Ira ?. Dutton, native of Vermont
4 who adiudioated war claims in the Dor
J, der states after the civil war for tn
y federal government He began hi
} services in Molol1ai under the heroi
= Damien.
GEN. HENRY 3, CLEAvEs, who ha
been renominoted for another term a
governor Of Maine, entered the arm
i as private when he was twenty-tw
/, years old, and worked for some Time i
4 sash and blind factory after the wa
rs before taking up the study Of law, i
} which he has accumulated 4 larg
practice.
F. A. W. TERRELL, United States minis
II ter to Turkey, is having two silver On
Fcld-mouuted saddles made ut San Ar
! tonic, Tex. lie win present them t
" the sultan OF Turkey ard ta ruler
=, faycrte son. The saddles al- the hand
= soonest and costlicst ever made in th
b United States, They are Of the Texa
IN cowboy pattern.
Is TIE additions to be made to the ia,
0 ulty o. STANFORD university, CaHforni;
e Tor the next college year viii includ
y Nathan Abt0tt, who is TO be the pcl1n;
neut head Of the law department; Wi
liam Stucrt Symingtor, assistant pr,
fesror OF Roman language; Frederic
a. L. 0. RoehIig, lecture OF oriental philo
d ogy, and Vernon L, Kellogg, Gssociat
Il professor of entomology.
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