The White Pine news., 1883-09-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Calico mines are producing
$500, 900 worth of bullion per month.
They have had to close the schools
at Gilroy, Cal, on account OF dlph-
iberia.
Over 80, 900 people attended the
Irish National League at Waterford,
Ireland. last week.
Alturas county, Idaho. will pay in
to the Territorial treasury this year
$4,000 as its portion of revenue.
1t is rnmosed that John Maekay is
about to build a great hotel ut Salt
City, To cost $500 900.
De Witt Stocker. chronic Carson
City drunk, committed suicide III jail
last week by hanging.
Some ss5. 900 worth of property
was destroyed by fire at Elensburg,
w. T., last week.
Andrew Williams. aged %, play
fully pointed revolver at his sister,
aged IL, in Scranton, Pa, last week.
IL went of and killed her Instantly.
Joseph Christian. aged 80 years,
choked to d ath at Lewiston, Idaho,
one day last weak, while eating his
dinner.
A fund is being raised in Eureka
to assist In procuring able counsel To
defend O'Donuell, the slayer OF in
former Carey.
There is said 10 ic poisonous weed
in Gallatin county, Montana, which
n death To sheep. When they cat il
they become crazy. leave the band
and run headlong into the water.
A gold medal, valued at $50. will
he presented hy the citizens Of Nifei-
mia city TO the person making the
best individual score at he inter State
rifle match at Carson, this week.
The huckleherrv fields In the vicin-
ity of White sulphur Springs. Cal.
are said 10 he incxhauSiible. There
are acres and acres OF the berry in the
Castle mountains that have never
been touched.
Inyo county, California, is getting
ready for mining boom. Furnaces
are building. mines are being opened
ont, and grpat deal of general pros
pccting il being done. Inyo is rich
in minerals.
A houy made to whistle by tho nc-
tion OF the waves, the tone of which
can be heard for thirty miles. i re-
cent invention which the Government
~ trying at the Staten Island light
house depot.
The scientists have n poser i'm the
statement that enormous masses Of
ice were thrown mp in the recent tre
n,cndous commissions in Java. Where
did the ice come from
"You told me. Arthur, that your
doctor advised You To drink whisky.
Has 1t done you any good?" "Well,
l should say so. | got n barrel OF it
two weeks ago and | could hardly lift
1t; and now can carry it about the
ROOM"
In Reno are grapevines that are
loaded with fruit OF The best quality.
Out in Duckwater and in other places
fine grapes are grown. Indeed IL
seems that the day has now arrived
when the Nevada man may sit down
under his own vine and fig tree. pro-
yided his imagination is sufficiently
active to erect the latter.
A Los Angeles dentist claims TO
have invented an instrument by
which on application the gums of the
mouth at The place applied become
numb and insenSible TO pain so that
teeth can he extracted safele~sly and
harmlessiy, and without resorting to
dangerous anesthetics usually cm-
ployed by tho profession.
The Pioche Record saws that Oscar
Baker, who was maxi e the trip from
New York District, California, to III
Dorado Canon. perished for want OF
water when swithin three miles OF the
canon. This makes the third man
who has died Of thirst this season
while trying to cross the same desert,
which is eighty miles wide.