The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-08-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Five hundred catfish were caught
out of Washoe lake last Sunday week.
The weather gets so hot in Owen
River valley that ii twists the railroad
track a foot out of line.
Some 1900 acres of borax land have
been surveyed on the borax marsh,
near Colombus, during the past W
weeks.
It Is claimed that the consolidation
OF Montana, Idaho and Utah ven
districts will cause a saving OF $780,
900 annually.
During a thunder shower in New
York last Saturday, twelve inmate of
the Bellevue hospital, who were seat
ed on u balcony. were Frustrated by
lightning and all more or less injured.
A party of gentlemen left HALEY,
Wood River, last week, for Shoshone
Falls. They intend to locate the falls
and the approaches to them, with the
intention of improving them and
making them a place of general re-
resort.
A committee of thirty knights
Templar, ten each from the Califor-
MIA, Golden Gate ami Oakland, will
come to Reno i'm a special train on the
l4th, to meet and receive st. Bernard
Commandry, of Chicago.
A shooting affray took place at
Bullion, idaho, last Wednesday, be-
tween two miners named Burke and
Scadden, neither of whom are seri-
At.oix1 hut To tho - InHs. -
shots, Pete Hynes Was shot in the
mouth.
A fire at Colusa, CAL, on the 9th
ult., destroyed property valued at
over 500 900. 1t broke out in a hay
loft in the Dexter stables, and twenty
horse persisted in the flames.
Luke Gilboa, a Bodie miner, who
was badly injured by a horse falling
on him on the 9Th, committed suicide
last week. He had been gradually
growing worse ever since the accident,
and took the fatal potion, as he ex-
pressed it, 'to get out of this"
The Capitol and State Printing or
flee employees at Sacramento have
subscribed $3.50 per month, while the
strike lasts, for the striking telegraph
ers at that place, and subscription
papers of the same kind are out in
The city and are being largely signed.
John Davis struck an So, 900 pocket
at TuttletowE, Tuolumne county, Cal,
and in four days he was trying to cure
up his bead preparatory TO going to
work to earn a weeks board. The
Mountain Echo says that John was a
cyclone while he lasted, and thought,
for the time being, that ''COal Oil
johnny was a miserable miser in
comparison to himself. When he
strikes another pocket he will do 1t
over again.
The Plumas (Cal.) National says: A
Butte county rancher, busting into
n neighboring charming widows
house one morning, broke out: s'I'm
a man Of business. I'm worth about
$40, 900, and l want you for a wife. l
give you three minutes in which to
answer" IL don't want ten seconds,
old man." she replied, as she shook
out the dish cloth; stI'm a woman of
business. worth $4,000, and l
wouldn't marry you il you were the
last man oil earth. l give you a min
ute and a half to git!" He got.
A dispatch from Visalia, dated July
"a, says: Col. Finnegas, u S. detect
i've, leaves for San Francisco in the
morning with Giuseppe Diulio, the
Italian counterfeiter, and a sack OF
counterfeit half dollars. He has Sc
cured evidence that Diulio has flood
ed this section of the State with his
counterfeits. He is the manufacturer
as we'll as the .shover." The passen-
gers on the emigrant trains stopping
at Tulare, where niulio keeps a res
taurant, are numbered among those
he swindled.