The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-03-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The tax rate in Eureka county IL
81 so, and in the town s3 20.
Elko paws 81, 800 in monthly salar-
les. and Washoe only 81 ,54l IS.
The San Francisco s350,OO0 Post
Office building bill has passed the
Senate.
The Ruby Hill Miners Union Is
paying out $500 month az sick ben
efits.
The tax rate for 1884 In Ormshy
county is 81 IS, which Is 40 cents lessl
than last year.
At ths last session of the Commits
missioners of Storey county there
were about 100 applicants for relief
by INDECENT poor.
Mrs. Crocker Is going tn build
new house at Idlewild. Lake Tahoe,
this summer, large enough 10 accom-
modate thirty people.
The annual report of tho Union Pa
cinc Railroad shows the gross earn
inrs to be s2I 900, 900, n decrease Of
81 $50, 600 as compared withaast year.
The Humboldt county Board of
Commissioners suggested to the As
ses,or that sheep be taxed at 81 90 a
head, beef cattle At $50 per head, and
stock cattle SIS.
A man in Salt Lake claims to have
twice walked six DAYS and nights
without citing or sleeping, and ar
rangemeuts are being made to give
him an opportunity Of repeating the
feat soon.
A party Of ever 500 emigrants ar
ri, ed at the town of Cheney, WASH
ineton Territory, last week, and will
settle In that vicinity.
Mrs. Mackay will be sponsor with
Gonnod at tho reception OF Mile. Me-
vsda, the American prima donna, INTO
the Catholic Church.
The price OF beef Is about to take a
tumble in San Francisco. II Is said
that the Wholesale butchers are sell
Ing . good quality of beef at s cents
per pound by the carcass.
Application has been rect ivs1 at
the Postofiice Department for the ap-
peintment OF Miss Lizzie Mutt ms
Post master at Uniontown, Pa. She
IL the young woman who caused all
the trouble In the late Dukes Mutt
homieides.
VIM. Linn, who on the 23d of last
month was convicted of an indecent
assault upon an Swear old daughter
OF Martin Reddiugton. Mt Salinas Cal.
has been sentenced by Judge Alexan-
der tn 10 years imprisonment In the
State prison.
Tho Silver State says: II Is reported
that young man uamed Harry Hill,
who was here in tho early part Of the
winter and chored about saloons. has
been run out Of Humboldt Wells bv
the citizens for tampering with l2-
year old girl. Hill has colored blood
In him, though he Is nearly white.
A fiend near Kingston, Texas, re-
Gently killed his wife and stripped
the bones OF the flesh. which he pro-
ceeded I" grind into sassage meat, to
be- sold by him to meat market.
Several families of the town dincd on
the meat next day, when they we're
terrified by discovering IL 10 he hn
man flesh. The fiend Is now in Jail,
but IL he had stolen n horse he would
have been hung on tho spot.
According 10 the Helena Herald, n |
Montana man. who expected gang |
of lynchers to come for him about the |
middle Of the night, took himself 10 |
the cellar, leaving pet grizzly bear |
In his place in bed The lvnchers did |
not bring any lights, but made very |
plncky attempt 10 get the bear out |
and lynch 1t. but gave 1t up after three |
OF them had lost an eve apiece, two |
had suffered the loss OF thumbs, and |
the others were more or less deprived |
OF their skin. That man now has a
tremendous reputation as a fighter,
and the bear did not mind the work |
one bit.