The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-04-10
ITEMS IN. BRIEF.

In the aquarium at Chase's drug store. Aurora,
ILL.,, are four fish and a turtle-one large gold
fish, two minnows, and one ordinary sized sun
fish. Recently the sundsh swallowed the lar
gest minnow. This circumstance was nothing
strange of itself, but the minnow was half an
inch longer than the sunfsh On Saturday
morning the sunfish got tired of his ledger, and.
opening his jaws, out swami Mr-Jonah, the min
I now, alive and all right The minnow shows
some effects Of it's incarceration of f~Orty-one
hours in the stomach of the Sunfsh, its tail,
about an inch from the tip, seemed broken.
Otherwise it was unhurt.
A curious suit will come up in the May ses-
sion of the County Court at Milford, Pa. 1t is a
twenty-year old affair, and grew out of an cleo
ton bet. During the Fremont Presi-
Dental campaign, Maj. Colvin L. Seymour bet
with Abraham Westfall several hundred acres
of land that Fremont would be elected. Title
deeds to both pieces OF property were placed in
the hands Of Daniel Van Auken, district attorney
of the county. Several famous stoncsquarries
have been in operation there, and Mr.. Seymour
repents his bet. He brings suit against West
fall, on the ground that the whole transaction
was illegal.
A man named Hickey gave superintendent
Hardy, OF the Brunswick mill, near Carson, a
terrible beating a few days ago. Hickey was
working at the mill and was discharged for at
tending the funeral of his brothers child. The
father OF the child was also discharged for the
same reason, the Superintendent adding to his
notice of discharge some insulting remarks con-
corning Irish funerals, which he said were
pretty much Fourth of July affairs any way"
Such, at least. were the facts as reported to the
Carson Appeal, and if true, Hardy got no more
than he deserved.
Last evening, about 80 O'Clock, says the En-
terprise of the 4th instant, while the stars were
shining brightly overhead, with not a cloud Wis
ible in any direction, little pellets of snow be-
gan to fall. They were very small at first, but
later in the evening became as large as goose
shot. BY 10 O'Clock the ground was completely
whitened, and the pellets were still coming
down in the same slow, scattering way as they
had. been earlier in the night. 1t was snow from
a perfectly cloudless sky.
G. n. Shepherd, of Elko county, has a force
OF men at work overhauling and repairing the
Elko, White Pine and Eureka road, from which
he collects toll, and over which he exercises
control. The road is rapidly settling. which. to-
gether with the Judicious work which he is ex-
pending on 1t, will, in the course of a few DAYS
more, render the hauling of heavy loads from
Elko SOUTH, comparatively an easy matter.
The Boston Post makes the rather alarming
assertion that -four babies at a birth are get
ting common. The press should be careful about
publishing this kind OF news. An epidemic can
never be checked by talking about it, and we
ought to beware how we brighten the already
overburdened communities of this country into
q~uadrupling their population with little immi-
grants who bring no money with them.
A newly appointed policeman in Gold Hill.
Says Inc virginia enterprise, to make himself
proficient in the use of handouts by exneri-
menting. clapped them on his wife's wrists. In
attempting to take them off again he broke the
key, and had to work very industrious for four
hours before he succeeded in liberating her. We
are not informed as to whether he had to take
her to a blacksmith shop.
The Silcer State says that q man named Rob-
erts, formerly an employe of the Contract and
Finance Company, was run over by the cars and
instantly killed between the Wells and Toano.
He leaves a wife and child, who reside at Ogden.
Lieut.. Grant, of Camp Halleck, in Elko eoun-
ty, committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head with a pistol. Deceased, at
the time OF his death, was under arrest pending
the action of q court-martial
There were shipped over the Virginia and
Truckee Railroad to mills on the Carson River.
during the "a hours ending at 10 O'Clock last
$50 tons.
N. NJ. Taylor, popularity known as .Muggins
Taylor" who resided in Austin in its early days.
had his feet so badly frozen, while hunting in
Montana, recently, as to necessitate their ampu-
tation.
Matilda O'Brien, who had recently arrived
from Ohio, while in q state Of intoxication, fell
out OF the Dayton stage. at Silver City, dislocat-
ing her ankle and bruising herself severely.
On the 18th Of March a snow slide in Ruby's
Gulch, Idaho, covered the cabin Of William
Bates, e blacksmith. 1t is supposed that Bates
was in the cabin at the time.
Robert Logan has developed a valuable copper
mine in Inskip Canyon, in the East Range. and
is about to dispose of it at q good round sum to
a San Francisco company.
Harry George. Of the San Francisco Post, has
been arrested on q charge of libeling Chief of
San Francisco Police, Cockerill.
The Richmond Company. at Eureka, shipped
by Wells, Fargo & Co., on the 4th inst. five bars
of silver, valued at SO, 1899.