The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-06-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The number of sheep in Montana is
estimated at 100000.
A bounty of s24 2is paid for bear
scalps in Montana.
Some 3, 500 men are now employed
on the Oregon railroad extension.
Tuscarora will celebrate the 4th.
The sum OF S400 has already been
subscribed, and more is yet TO come.
Regular daily shipments of Is and
90 tons Of ore are being made from the
Eureka Tunnel to the Eureka Con.
works.
The Record says there are ia chill
dren in Pioche School District between
and IS years OF age, aud 40 under
years Of age.
The number OF persons killed by
tornadoes In this country IN 1881 was
1877; in 1892, 800, and up TO date this
year the mum Der is esti mated at $50.
The butchers Of San Francisco hold
that the best beef is raised in the State
of Nevada, and are willing TO pay a
higher price than for any other cattle.
Nevada is both a cattle and mining
State.
Ex- -Untdd States Senator Eugene
casserly died last Friday at his home.
SIS Van Ness Avenue. lie had been
wholly unconscious for nearly week
past. lie passed away peacefully,
without the slightest struggle or pain.
The explosion OF the magazine at
Scutan. caused by lightning, killed
$50 persons and wounded Sd. Two
hundred barrels of gunpowder and
5000 cartridges were destroyed.
The bullion production OF Nye
county for the year 1882 was as fol-
lows: Gold, s25, 900; silver, $3.50, 900.
Judging from present indications the
production Of gold an silver bullion
for .sS3 will be considerably greater
than that OF 1882.
The fare for Knights Templar and
their wives to attend the triennial ses-
sion OF the Grand Commandery at
San Francisco, has been placed at one
fare for the round trip over the Cen
trail Pacific.
A Gunnison (COl.) dispatch says.
Three miners, Patrick Reed, Peter
Kinne aud John Golden, entered the
Robinson coal miEe at Crested Butte
last week with uncovered lanterns
aud an explosion Of fire damp occur
red. Reed and Kinne were sufiocated,
but Golden will recover.
The Austin Democrat says: Thomas
keough has commenced an ac-
ton in the Fifth District Court. Lam
der county, against Thomas Breen, to
recover $4,000 as his one-half share
OF the sale of the Breen mine a. Midas
Flat. Mr.. keough claims that he aud
Breen were partners i'm tie mine.
The papers were placed in the Sher-
iff's hands for service.
James II. Yestal, Of Paradise. has
made sale OF his band OF sheen.
mum bering some 1000, TO parties in
Montana, and they will be driven
there at once. Ii will take 80 or 90
days to make the trip. The price OF
sheep on the range in Paradise is said
to be from 81 80 to 81 90 per head
From private communicates re-
ceived from Kelton, Utah, says the
Ogden Pilot, we learn that the stores
OF Reinhardt Il Co., Chaplow, the
Murphy House and Gem saloon, were
destroyed by fire early Tuesday morn
ing. A portion of the stock and fur.
niture was saved. The fire is thought
to have been incendary.
The Carson Tribune says that John
Mckenna, insurance agent and Notary
Public of Hawthorne, Esmeralda
county, was drowned Wednesday
evening in Walker Lake. 1t has been
the habit OF many citizens of Haw-
thorne to go 10 the lake to hathe these
warm days, and whether McKenna's
death was Intentional on his own part
or accidental is not known. McKenna
was in Carson during the session OF
the Legislature, and got up the homo
graphic chart.