Daily Alta California, Volume 37, Number 12578, 20 September 1884 — THE PACIFIC SLOPE. [ARTICLE]

THE PACIFIC SLOPE.

■ * Burning of the Fresno /Hot i Springs Hotel.

YANKEE' PRIDE STIRRED.

Merchants in Trouble— A Signal Station on the Top of Mount Hood— The Dirigas at Sacramento.

Fbesno. Cal., September 19th.— The hotel at Freeno Hot Springs, in this county, situated about eighty miles southwest of this place, in the Coast range, ■was destroyed by firo yesterday morning. Loss, about $10,000. It was owned by E. Kreyenhagen, and was uninsured. The fire is suppose d to be the work of an incendiary. A Mexican boy named Manuel Parades was burned to death while trying to save $60 belonging to himself from the burning building. Yankee Pride Stirred. Poet Costa, Cal., September 19th.— The ship Thos. F. Oakes, the second iron ship of American manufacture, left here this afternoon laden with 8,000 tons of wheat, bound for Cork for orders. As ehe was leaving the dock a sailor on a British j ship said, "That is the ugliest-looking craft that ever entered Frisco harbor," to which an American immediately answered that it wasn't the first thing of American manufacture that had made an Englishman sick. Signal Service Station on Mount Hood. Vancocteb, W. T., September 19th.— By order of General Miles, there has been temporarily established on Mount Hood a signal station, the instrument need for ommunication being the heliograph. 1 Communication was successfully established between the mountain and Vancouver BarrackB on Tuesday at ISO p. M. This demonstrates the fact that when the sun shines this instrument can be used successfully within the vision of the naked eye. During the Summer of 1878, Major Baldwin successfully operated the heliograph between Forts Custer and Keogh, in Montana, and this officer is now testing the power of the instrument between Mount Hood and Vancouver Barracks. Military Aulnunent. Vancouveb, W. T., September 19th.— Col H. Clay Wood, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Columbia, is soon to take charge of his office at headquarters. He was Assistant Adjutant-General under General Howard during the Nez Perce campaign, and is an officer of executive ability. Merchants in Trouble. Pobtland, September 19th.— W. H. Herren & Co., merchants of Castle Rock, W. T., were attached to-day by Elfelt & Co., of San Francisco, for $1,200. Their total indebtedness is $6,000. Murphy, Grant & Co. are among their creditors. Arizona Affairs. Tucson, September 19th.— The report of trouble over the boundary line between the United States and Mexico originates from a visit of a couple of attorneys from Mexico to examine the old monuments and the Nogales grant, claiming that the trouble was partly on the Mexican side. There is a surveying party en route for that point. The Coroner's inquest on the body of the unknown tramp killed on the Southern Pacific Railroad on Monday morning was concluded to-day. The evidence goes to show that he attempted to swing from the car to the brakebeam, and slipped, resulting in his death. There was nothing on his person to tell his name. On his left arm was a cross and an anchor in red and blue ink. Kev. C. B. Sumner, pastor of the Congregational Church of this city, has been appointed Missionary Bishop ( ?) of theCongregational Church for Arizona and New Mexico. Mr. Sumner will continue to reside for the present in Tucson. Assaulting a Chinaman. Stockton, September 19th.— A man named Bangs was arrested at Locke ford to-day for assaulting a Chinaman with an axe. The latter was brought to this city and taken to the County Hospital, where he now lies in a critical condition. His assailant says the Chinaman attacked him with a knife, and he struck him in self defence. ... The Dlrigot at Sacramento. Sacbamento, September 19th.— The Dirigo Club arrived here to-night at 8:45 with seventy men in line, commanded by Col. W. U. Chamberlain as Captain, E. S. Danf orth, First Lieutenant, and George B. Knowles, Jr., Second Lieutenant. They were received at the depot by the Plumed Knights, 120 strong, and headed by the First Artillery Band of Sacramento. The Dirigos had with them the Presidio Band, and their own drum corps. The 6Dperior marching and drill of the Dirigoe, as the torchlight procession went through the chiefibusiness Btreets, attracted universal attention and drew out the warmest praise, notably so from military men. After the parade the two clubs and the leading Republicans of the city were entertained at his residence by ex-Senator Newton Booth. The whole house was thrown open and the floors canvased. A sumptuous banquet was spread, at which over two hundred and fifty guests were assembled. The hospitality was of the broadest and most generous character. After the reception the Dirigo's serenaded prominent citizens and "painted the town slightly red," and then were escorted to their quarters in the Pullman cars in which they came up. To-morrow the Dirigos visit the Fair, and at 5 p. M. leave for Stockton, where they will be received. They will reach San Francisco early on Sunday morning.