The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-09-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Round trip tickets between Elko
and San Francisco are permanently
nxed at $50 40.
The Eureka ladies are wearing hop
buds for ornaments. It's a shameful
waste of raw material, of which there
II not more raised than Is needed for
the growing demand for beer.
A Florence special says: A cloud
burst nearly destroyed the town OF
Silver King, Arizona. Bowlders
weighing twenty tons were ripped out
and washed down the mountain side.
Among the rumors used to break
the stock of the Denver & Rio Grande
was that receiver had been asked
for, and another, that fresh issue of
stock was contemplated.
She sang, al want to be an angel"
and he swore that she was one already.
To this she blnshingly demurred.
Then he married her. Demurrer sus-
tained.
A man named Patrick Muldoon was
found dead near Edon creek on the
winnemucca and Cornucopia road, a
few days ago. lie was of unsonnd
mind and is supposed to have died
from exposure and thirst.
Robert Mckay was killed in the
Navajo mine last week. He WAS on
the car coming up the shaft. When
the car arrived al the top he was found
with his neck dislocated and both legs
broken.
II was Paddy Ryan's mother in.law
who declared that she could whip Sui
Ivan, and now Captain Webb's widow
expresses contempt for the rapids OF
Niagara and declares that she herself
can successfully swim them. Who
says that women are timid creatures.
Several accidents are reported in the
Conclave procession at San Francisco,
last week. Three standard bearers
tainted from exhaustion, and Sir Al
exapder Weed, aid to the Grand Com
mander of California, was thrown
from his horse and had both legs bro
ken.
The Salt Lake Tribune publishes
the will In full of the late Brigham
Young. which disposes of the sum OF
$4,000, 900 to be distributed among his
numerous heirs. Each woman and
her progeny are made a separate class.
The instrument is dated February s,
1875.
Il Is estimated that the operators
strike cost the Western Union in loss
OF business, depreciation OF stock and
repairing damages done enough TO
pay the operators the demanded
wages for ten years, to say nothing of
the opposition telegraph lines which
are the direct result OF the strike.
The Reno papers say that ex- Speak,
or Varian had close call for his life
on Sunday, while bathing in the
Truckee river. He became entangled
In tho undercurrent below tho apron
of Lakes dam, and with tho greatest
difficulty saved himself from drown
ing.
Ralph dollhouse tried to kindle n
fire in Virginia city last Saturday
night with coal oil. 1t set him on fire,
burning him in frightful manner.
Later In the evening he called for
brandy and neighbor grabbed up n
bottle containing what she supposed
20 be whisky, but which was IN reali-
ty carbolic acid and olive oil. lie
drank H.. This added to his torture.
He became unconscious at midnight
and remained so until he died Sun
day noon.
A ridiculous and shallow sensation
was photographed from HALEY, Idaho,
last week, in regard to an alleged ex
pedition OF cowboys, starting from
that region and bound for Yellow
stone Park. to kidnap the President
and hold him for a ransom Of "half a
million dollars, or more" The story
bore upon its face the impress OF be-
ing the product OF an imaginative re-
porter, who had built his narrative
upon a dime novel foundation.