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Show I Hearing the Bonanza San Francisco, 25. A Virginia city duoatchot u day says a plot to dentroy" the hoisting works in the ; G. t C. nhuft was discovered on Mon-day Mon-day moruiuK just as the engineers had changed shifts. The mau who tiad just come on tried the water 1 cocks and aktoaished to find no I water in the lower one. He turned !on the pumps at once, but w.is still i umible to fill the boilers. It was then discovered that tho blow-ofi cocks of ' the shaft boilers had all hoen turned open, so that the water was blown I out ad fast as the pumps forced the 'sleam, and the water from the blow-wfl blow-wfl pipes was carried along distance idowu the hill from the works, so the engineer could not tell at first what the trouble was. A few minutes later and there would have been a terrible explosion resulting in the destruction j ot the works and great loss of life. l,aat triday night an attempt wh made tu fire the hoisting works of the Consolidated Virginia mine, which was discovered and frustrated by a J watchman. The incendiary escaped. , The force of watchmen around all the works of the bonanza mines has been increased, and all are supplied with shot-guns. The belief here is that both of these attempts have been made by scoundrels in the employ em-ploy of bear operators in San Francisco. |