The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-09-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Track-laying on the Oregon Short
Line reached Boise river last week.
1t cost Seattle, Washington Terri
tory, SIC, 900 for the Willard celebra-
lion.
Fare is likely to be cheap between
New York and Chicago. 1t is down
10 Sl5 and likely 10 go to $5.
The Superintendent sent out from
the East to take charge of a mine in
Sye county, brought along Il grind
stone To sharpen tho picks.
Nelson says Sharon offered "Miss
Apgie'' 800, 900 down, and $500 IA
month 10 release the noble Senator
from his matrimonial alliances. Two
fools. Tie for offering. she for refus-
ing such favorable terms.
An important gold discovery IL re-
ported across the Yellowstone river
from Livingston and only six miles
from that town. II IL claimed the as
says run STA in gold and $50 ounces
in silver.
The now town opposite Boise City.
-on the Oregon Short Line Railroad.
has been named "kuna.o The States
man saws Kuna II Piute word Of
vulgar derivation, and objects To 1t rs
~ name for tho railroad station, while
others adhere To it. Tho opposing
factions will probably compromise on
"Keno" "a tho name of the new sta
ton. that being n word that all Ida aho-
ans understand.
Charles II. Walden, who was book.
keeper of the Grangers' Union OF Lodi,
decampod during conclave week. 1t
was found that he had emhezzled S3,-
$40, and telegram to Chicago Sc
,cured his arrest in that city.
The Mexican dollar il worth only
ninety cents In Canada, but our nine
ty-ce 1t dollar passes nj par. Our
money II worth moro because Of the
picture OF The Philadelphia girl which
goes with II to every subscriber.
The Montana Herald, Helena. says:
There IL little noise about the Helena
aad Jefferson County branch of the
Northern Pacific. but 1t is being push
ed ahead with the utmost rapidity,
nevertheless. Contracts have been
let for the entire work, aud nearly
one-thrd OF the roadbed is already
completed.
The Now York Herald estimates
that there arc no less than 5000 un-
employed men seeking employment
as bookkeepers In that city nj present.
and unable TO secure work even at
riddiculonsly low prices. The men
have spent their lives In office work
and know nothing else. They can
find no occupation.
A New Orleans Grand Jury has
made report which is causing n SEN :
sation In the Crescent City. Tho doc
unent sets forth that office holders
are corrupt, that vice adverlises itself
with electric lights, that sluggers
abound, that the food of the city II
contaminated through the filthiness
OF the markets, and that the capital
lists evade their taxes.
Minister Daggett will be married TO
ayoung lady Of Seattle mt Oakland,
on the morning of the 30th instant,
aud will take the steamer which sails
that day and return to his post at
Honolulu. The young lady first vls-
tied the Sandwich Islands last year,
accompanied by her parents, frem Sc
attic, Washington Territory. There
the Minister and maid met, and the
couple will be made one on the day
previously stated.
An old settler In California says the
impression that the cost of living is
higher there than in the Eastern States
Is erroneous. "You can get meal
heFe, and good one too,n he says,
,for 10 cents. Meat is high and sells
for 10 to 25 cents pound, but people
don't need much I'm this climate.
Everybody lives on fruit. Ourgrapes
that you pay 40 cents pound for In
the East we get for two cents a pound
here. The best hotels in the large
towns only charge 50 u day"