The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-07-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Denver Is meeting with great sue
cess in sinking artesian wells.
Astoria, Oregon, is to have street
railroad. \ company has been in
corporated with 10000 capital.
Lightning from clear sky killed
two cattle dealers at Bay st. Louis and
melted the gold and silver coins In
their pockets.
DIR. Holmes, the well known Nir-
ginia city dentist, died Monday at the
German Hospital, San Francisco, Of
dropsy.
The Government saves yearly S2sl,
900 salaries and $50, 900 Office expen-
ses by the consolidation Of the Inter
nal Revenue districts.
Reavis, the claimant to the fraudu-
lent Mexican grant, has sold all OF his
right, title and interest IN and 10 the
Silver KING mine, in Arizona, Tor 80.
Two miners left Ri lings, Montana,
last week, for the Big Horn Mountains,
to search for the Lost CABIN, under
which tradition says band OF rob
bers buried their booty many Years
ago.
j. y. Wallace mistook his father.in-
law, Arthur B sebee, for a Wild eat,
one night last week. at Camp p, 10
miles west OF Reno, and shot him
dead.
1t is given out rs a result Of the con-
ference ofthe manufacturers of barbed
wire with the Washburn Moen Com
pany. that the royalty will be reduced
about half. Such reduction will
please the farmers ofthe country.
The third rail on the Denver and
Rio Grande, between salt Lake aud
Ogden means that the Central Pacific
passenger trains will run through 10
Salt Lake.
At LeadVille, last week, two feet OF
copper-eolored tale, containing free
gold, was struck I'm the Nellie mine,
owned by printer named Hill, that
assays S45, 900 TO the ton.
Peter Cavanaugh, Sr., died at Car
son City on Tuesday evening last. He
was well known throughout the State,
principally OH account OF his having
built the State Capitol at Carson.
A Providence man slapped siran-
gers face for staring at his wife IN
slreet-car, and he was beginning TO
feel himself hero when the ear
stopped and little girl helped the
impudent fellow off. He Mas stone
blind.
A party of eight mounted men rode
into railroad camp at Happy Hollow,
nine miles from Clinton, Arizona,
Saturday night, and 'held up the
keepers of two saloons there. They
got away with less than SO.
A convict named Conway, under
going a life Imprisonment in the
Montana Penitentiary, feigned lnsan-
ity, and WAS removed To the insane
asylum, from which institution he es-
capped, taking with him team of val
uable horses.
An exchange says: Chemically pure
horn silver contains about IS per
cent. of silver, and at the present mar
ket price is worth about So, 500 ton.
Nevertheless we hear often of diseov-
cries where the ore runs from S2I, 900
to S27, 900 in silver To the ton, and the
mineral horn silver at that.
Dakota is put forth by some of is
officials as an Eldorado for young
women. Those who are matrimoni-
ally inclined may depend on speedily
getting mated, and those who wish to
live independent spinsters may he
come farmers, land being opened to
them on the same terms as to men.
A girl left baby on wealthy fam
ly,s doorstep in Bloomington, Ill.,,
anu leaped into the river. She was
easily rescued, aud fund OF several
hundred dollars was raised for her by
sympathetic persons. Then il was
discovered that she had borrowed the
infant, and that her attempted suicide
was pretense.