The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1882-01-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The sales OF the public lands for
the fiscal year ending in June were
lO.093, 900 arres. realiz ng So, 40s 900.
Five thousand men are said 10 be
now AT work on the y. Il. Railroad
aud only 100 mi es 10 be completed.
Mr.. Cassidy ha> been placed on
two regular Mining and
the District Of Columbia.
Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia,
wa. 20 years old before he learned 10
read. Al 33 he was elected 10 a
Judgeship, and ut 81 he became Gov
ernor. IL is nov, at 6s, n United
States Senator.
The first train through TO Butte,
Montana Territory, on the Utah and
Northern Railway, left Oglen on
Tuesday evening last, and made the
run IN n hours.
New Orleans has realized over ST.
O0O, 900 from the sale OF street railway
franchises in Two years, aud the
money IS being used 10 extingui>h
the ely debt.
The steamer West Point, plying
between the port OF that name, and
Ballimore, exploded on Tuesday,
tearing the : de and firing the vessel
which burned to the water line anu
sank. Nineteen persons perished.
Fourteen thousand tickets have
been takan for n>poriation by Ncs-
sels al = Bremen. Germany, Tor
America -. a. Spring. An almo
equsl nuVbcr Of emigrants 20 from
Hamburg.
The San Francisco Grand Jury is
making the proprietors of public
halls. thealors, and churches enlarge
the means OF exil from their buildings
40 hat In case OF ire the audience
can efiecl their escape. The terrible
affair at Vienna has walked the whole
world.
In saloon quarrel at Butte City,
Montana. last week, Joe CampDe l
shot and morially waunded Joe
Rowell Of Boiae, California, common
ly known a, .IIodie Joe. Canpbell
was himself woe nded in five places.
The announcements is made from
the new Attorney Gener i an 1 Post
master Howe that the star Route
cases are to he prosecuted both 10y
civil and criminal actions. 30 h de-
partments believe that large sun
can be recovered and the criminal
cases vi be successful.
In the Lander County tax suits
against the Central Pacific Rallroat,
the question OF the liability OF the
Company Tor taxes on lands granted
TO them by at OF Congress to whirh
patents have not been issuc'i, com :
up Tor the first time in this stHe
ThFro Is difference OF opinion
among lawyers.
A peculiarly formed nugget,
we gh ng eight ounces, WIS found at
the Bald Mountain mine, sierra
county, lately. The formation Of the
gol consists OF a perfect lnlage of a
human being. TIE legs aud fe4t are
nlmosi perfection, while th left hand,
which possesses four fingers, Les on
the breast, the right arm hanging
down by the side.
senator Fair, SAYS the Virginia
Chronicle, gave 5000 to the Nevada
ol phan 4 ylun of this city, conduct
Ell by tire SISTERS OF Charity, and sent
10 Inc Orphans Home, at Carson,
ffN t'oun Il Of assorted candies, II
turkeys, aud boxes OF apples. lie
also sent three barrels of white sugar,
lVe boxes OF apples. Two boxes Of to-
soaeco ann one box of clay pipes to
'State Prison for the benefit Of the con-
victs.
Mr.. l.. II. Bowers is i'm from Lewis
lie has verit lble coal mine three
and half m. os from the town, wit
.wo veins, one three and the other
iour feel thick. The coal Is anthra-
cite and burns To fine ash. This
Knocks Frank Stewards theory that
coal cannot be found where sage
nrnsh grows, and will prove better
Lnan a silver mine To MIR. Bowers
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