The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1873-08-16

THERE is work for a nervy missionary at
Truekee. if the statement of the Argus is cor
rect. 1t says Mons. Delay, the gymnast,
walked across the Truckee river Sunday after
noon on a rope cable, stretched from shore to
shore. A very large crowd witnessed the per.
Torrance six times as many as usually attend
church in rruckee on the Sabbath day. Our
people would all go to Heaven, if they could
only get there by bad balancing on u tight rope.
THE Denver Times says there are many people
in Denver who are hard up-workmen who were
induced to go there by advertisements and
favorable letters" expecting to find plenty of
work. The fact is, Colorado has been greatly
overrated, and reaction is taking place. The de-
luded are discovering that they have been dnped,
outrageously duped. by land sharks and specula-
tors.
YESTERDAY, says the Truckee Republican, a
man from Sierra Valley pawned a set Of false
teeth at a saloon in town for a drink Of whisky.
The said teeth are on exhibition, and unless the
owner redeems them soon, they will be sold at
auction to the highest bidder. Liquor must be
scarce in Sierra Valley, when men are compelled
to travel to Truckee and pawn their teeth for 1t.
Bowers MANSION ESTERPRIsE Senator Thorn
son, the man that has charge Of this scheme to
give avn. Bowers Mansion, the plate and
jewelry of tine household. and the cultivated
ranch attached, tells us that he Will have the
drawing as appointed, on the first OF September,
if possible. Tickets have sold well, and the
outlook is highly avorable.-Cars appeal.
THE corn peeler in Salt Lake City has made
quite an addition TO his trophies. He is now ex-
hibiting a corn taken from the great toe Of the
belle Of the Ninth Ward. 1t measures two inches
and an eighth in diameter. and is proportionately
thick. Her admirers, many of whom have criti-
cally examined it. say they know it is hers.
SEVERAL Phoebe physicians who were going to
make a post-mortem examination of a body in
that city recently, met with an obstacle. A
friend Of the deceased meeting them at the door,
cody informed them that the first man who put
a knife in the body, would be shot on the spot.
The examination was suddenly postponed.
A MAN who was discovered asleep among a lot
of tombstones in a stone-cutters yard in Bing-
hampton, said, on being awakened, that he had
come in to buy a monument for himself, and
having picked out one, made up his mind he
would try it one night before purchasing.
ERYsIPELAs is putting heads on the citizens of
Silver City to an alarming extent, and 1t il not
an III frequent sight to see men marching abont
with heads swelled to the size of a peck measure.
MICHIGAN capitalists continue to invest in
Utah mining property. The Last Chance and
Galena mines in Bingham, were sold recently TO
some of them for 1875 600.
LAST week the miners in the vicinity of Gold
Hill, Nevada, received $500, 900, the amount due
them for one months work.
THE Legal Tender Mine, Clancy District, Mon
tana, has Just been bonded in London for one
million dollars.
TRUoKEE is shipping - 900 feet of lumber
daily. The greater por ioh of it finds sale in
Salt Lake City.
THE frail ones of Salt Lake City will be made
to suffer to the tune of 500 each.