The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-06-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Barley is now selling in Churchill
county at a cents per pound.
The town of Helena, Montana, COM
prises nine square miles.
Silver City, New Mexico, pays its
public school teachers $3.50 a month.
Six divorces were granted in Boze-
man, Montana, last week.
A man In Glendive, Montana, is
trying to domesticate eight young
buffalo.
Woodland and Dixon. Cal, arc en-
gagged IN n crusade against lewd
women and their lovers.
There is fear among the settlers of
Harney Valley, Oregon, that the In
dians intend to make an outbreak.
The Union Pacific has put on
second daily train between Omaha
and Ogden.
Lordsburg, New Mexico, has pop
nlation OF 300, and boasts OF 81 sa-
looms. There has never been reli-
gious meeting in the town.
Minneapolis has more than doubled
its inhabitants in little over Two
years. and is now city OF 100000
people.
The cost of Transporting Larrel of
flour from Minnesota To Boston Il 81.
The freight on "A sack Of flour holding
barrel from Minnea polls To Glasgow,
Scotland, is 81 70.
"Worth her weight IN gold" Is hot
the most complimentary thing that
can be said about "A woman, as she
would have To weigh 500 pounds 10
bring her value up To 100000,
II. Britton, of Sequel, Cal, one day
last week caught four miles from
land, entangled in his net, blue ma
nilla shark fourteen feet long. having
hixteen rows ofteeth, sharp as needles.
Hank Knight who has returned
to Reno from Bodie, says the latter Is
the best town he has visited for a
long time. 1t is, IN fact, "A reliable
camp, where business men seem TO
be doing we'll.
The Helena (Montana) Herald says:
Rich pay dirt Is being taken from the
cite OF the Montana National Bank at
the foot OF Broadway. Part OF the
gravel prospects rich, and as much as
$40 To tho wagon load will probably
be washed out.
A cloudbust occurred one mile
north Of Cheyenne, at two o'clock Sat
urday afternoon, and within an hour
the streets were Hooded from six in
ches to two feet. Toe damage is es-
timated at from $50, 900 to S40, 900.
A model young man of Eureka is
"stuck" after beer jerker, and a
frail one at that, and Base Range So
cisty is horror stricken on account OF
the young fellow. II they should
marry, our sympathies would be all
with the girl who tied herself to an
idiot.
A petrified arm, presumably that of
woman, was found at Chico last
week by George Boyd, who was dig
ging ditch. 1t was known to be the
arm ~ woman for the reason that
the hand still firmly grasped the re-
mains of broomstick.
A Kentucky man, when dying re-
Gently, told the watchers at his bed
side that he saw heaven. He proba.
bly, had vision OF "A big spring of
living bourbon whisky, flowing be-
teen banks OF sugar and lemon, with
high-toned gentlemen standing on
either shore shooting at each other
with gold-plated revolvers.
Pediculus capitis, the scientific
name for "Jerusalem crickets," are
said by the Sentinel to inhabit the
heads OF most of the school children
in Eureka. They race them on the
desks during school hours and bet on
the result. One little chap who has a
perfect Maud 5. Of Il stopper, has
nearly all the marbles in the insfitu-
ton. Fine tooth combs must be
scarce among Base Range mammas.