The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1882-02-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The SUR of $50, 900 has been raised
in California to establish u home for
veteran soldiers in that State.
The thermometer stood at 2So below
zero last Wednesday morning at
Elko.
At Tuscarora, one right recently,
some burglars entered the store of
Urton Il Brown aud carried Off goods
valued between $500 and $500.
The importation Of potatoes from
Ireland Is just now very large, and
Chicago grocers ars advertising them
for sale as novelties.
George Meigs has just been APP
pointet postmaster at Wells, vice r.
p. Hamill, resigned.
MI. Shallenberger of Pennsylvania
has o bill which he will push provi-
ding that no polygamlst shall hold
ans office OF trust or profit under the
Government.
The Silver State is informed that the
anlim my ore shipped by Enmrns
d Young, of Lovelocks, from their
mine Q "a It OF that place, contained $500
In silver TO the ton.
10 h Billings d sposes Of Colonel
Bob Ingersoll in the following quaint
IL wouidi II give five cents
to hear Bob Ingersoll OF the mistakes
of Moses but would give S5u0 TO
hear, Moses OH the mistakes oi Bob
Inger>oil.'
Bodie Free Press: San Francisco is
losing some OF its best elergymen.
TIE Lord and higher salarie are call
ing them TO other fields. Providen e
never did go much on San Francisco.
A son Of General Sam Houston lad
a quarrel with a boiel keeper at Me-
Kinney. Texas, the other day, and
was woundet 1, fatally, il is thought,
by a bullet that It. uck his forehead.
Rarely does fate show a crueler
irnny than in the death OF Senator
Wagner, of New York. who persisted
in a al of his oan invention, and
whi,h wa. supposed 10 combine the
highest requisites of comfort and
safe.y y.
A new kind of grecnback has made
its appearance III Phoebe n the shape
of advertising bills. THESE b lis are
III size, color aud character like IA gen
nine g%rcenbacN, bat are simply AN
advertisement. The poker players
won a couple OF them, aud they are
not happy.
II is nov announced, on authority
of an eminent physician, that it l.
not healthy to RI Is before . O'Clock in
the morning. This applies only to
men. Wives, il is SAID, can rise as
early as Z, and start the tire as here
tofore.
At Butte. Montana, William Busch,
crazed by drink ami jealousy, muir
dered his son, ii ell tue hoariing-
house which he kept, AMI killed him
self. A number OF men were sleep
ing in the house at the time, and
barely escaped with their lives.
The Carson Appeal says the Mint
price OF silver has been advanced to
81 l3H cents per ounce. This is five
or six cents more than silver bullion
sold Tor some time ago. The Mint is
now steadily receiving larger quanti-
ties of bullion than at any time during
the past two years, and the outlook
is that the deposits will continue 10
come in.
Near Monroe, N. c., a few days
ago, a man named Ferrill was en-
closing the graveyard in which his
little child had just been buried, and
was carrying two poles, one on each
shoulder, when he tripped and fell
l~ifelcss across the little grave, his neck
having caught against one OF the
poles and been bi oxen.
One night last week a fire broke
out in the farm house III Julius Wis
sick, five miles from Walla Walla,
Mrs. Eliza Medler, aged AZ and hel
daughte, Emma lsadore Medly II, aged
10, and her son Arthur, aged O., were
burned TO death. The other inmates
escaped.