The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-11-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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of the Elko Independent died in San
Francisco last Monday week.
J.. l. Hogle, Nevada pioneer, died
at Tuscarora last week. Mr.. Hogle
was well and favorably known in
Eastern Nevada.
James McClatchy, publisher of the
Sacramento Bee, died at Paradise
Springs, Monterey county, California,
last week, OF paralysis.
The residence of Charles Hammer
at Carlln. was destroyed by fire last
week. The fire was caused by lamp
which was accidentally upset. The
loss WAS over $1,000.
Nine million postal cards, which
will weigh about thirty tons, have
just been ordered from the factory in
Caslletown, New York.
The adjustment OF the salaries Of
Presidential Postmasters for the fiscal
year ending June 50, 1885, will save
in round numbers not less than
S4,00O,0OO.
Butte CITY, Montana, is said to he
a paradise for lawyers, litigation Is on
Tho rampage and there is more busi
ness there than can be handled.
The New York Board OF Aldermen
ask for $40 900 for the celebration Of
the centennial departure Of the Brit
ish troops from New York, as the
Mayor proclainls general boil ay.
big Frenchy.n while attempting
io "ran" the town of Junction, on the
Yellowstone. came IN contact with n
stone propelled by an Old musician.
"Frenchy," il is thought, will climb
the golden stair.
There are now in the Protestant
Episcopal Church OF the United States
As dioceses ami ~ missionary jnrisdic-
tions. 81 bishops, 1900 other clergy,
5000 organized parishes and more
than $50. 900 communicates.
At Eagle Rock, Idaho, last week,
brute named Walter Mcdonald, at
the muzzle OF his pistol, forced a re-
spectacle girl. lie was arrested in
Utah and should receive swift and
summary justice without any expense
to the Territory.
II cost Willard $3.50, 900 to entertain
his American and European guests
upon the occasion of the Northern
Pacific Railroad festivities. 1t is
scarcely ten years ago since Willard
received 800 n month for writing
Western le ters 10 New York paper.
A miner who has just returned to
Wood River from Butte, says there
are two miners looking for work to
every miner employed; that the best
wages Is only s3 so per day, and that
living Is so high that this barely sup
ports a man and small family.
On a farm in Kansas, once occupied
by the murderous Bender family, j.
c. Murphy plowed up a sealed tin can
containing $50, 900 in greenbaeks and
coin. Other parties are digging up
tho ground in the hope OF similar
discoveries.
Chihuahua alone for the calender
year will yield nearly $50. 900, 900 in
bullton-more by $1,000, 900 than the
whole Mexican Republic has averaged
during the last sixty years. The yield
far Mexico for the year approximates
$s0, 100000. So much for American
enterprise.
Threshing is about through with at
Iovelock. aud farmers are busy haul
ing and shipping their grain. Wheat
sells. loaded oh the ears, at from S27
to $50 per ton: barley at from S22 so
to S25; alfalfa hay. baled Sl2 per ton;
loose, SO so, with no prospect OF a
surplus.
Last Monday week, at 6 O'Clock in
the morning, on the south side of the
Merced river, below Merced Falls, an
earthquake shock threw section OF
the bluff about 200 feet i'm length,
sixty feet wide and over eighty feet
high, into the river, turning the whole
into slough. On the north side
hundreds OF fish were collected from
the dry river bed.