The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-08-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Several Renoites are feeling jubil.
ant over their mining prospects In
Cotton wood district, about 80 miles
from Reno.
Robert Laird Collier says that an
American is distinguished in London
by the fact that his trousers bag at
the knee.
A chicken killed in Sacramento re
Gently had a nugget OF gold of The val
ne OF 81 so In its craw.
Two creeks. named "Froze 10
Death" aud .sStarved to Death" are
on the new map of Custer connty,
Montana.
Twenty-one thousand widows Of
soldiers of the war of 1872 are stated
to be still drawing pensions from the
Government.
silks 10 the value OF $1,000 900 is
produced annually bv the 90, 900 peo-
pie employed In that industry in
Switzerland.
A San Francisco Company is about
to erect "A sInelter near Golconda.
Some valuable mines in that vicinity
have been secured by the company.
An Indian several days ago found a
"pockel' on the mountain on the
west side OF Fiat Greek, Shasta conn-
~, and in short time panued out
over $1,000.
Tho total expense of the Greedy re-
lief expedition is estimated by officials
OF The Navv Department at about
500, 900. The original estimate WAS
$500, 900.
1t is proposed To open buttermilk
saloons IN Iowa To take the place OF
tho - closed mp by the prohibition bill
against malt and spiritu"us liquors.
A negro woman in Clark county. S.
c., gave birth to three children Sa,
dav. She is s5 wears old, ani is the
monther OF twenty-six children.
A Josephte, named Parks, aged Is
years. hung himself in Carson Valley
beca Sc of dejee. .on caused by the
death Of a child IL Washing Territory
supposed to be a second Christ.
The BArtholIi statue, with it, ped
estal. will he 220 fec, high. SURPRISING
the far-fa,ned Colossus of Rhodes,
who stood only about 40 feet with
out his stockings.
Reno has $ hool Trustee who has
established an intelligence Office In
Illinois for the purpose OF Employing
tsac ,ers for Washos county schools.
He has probably been snubbed by
Valley schoolma
The Caldwell Tribune saws: The
Snake river and Boise Valley gold
placers ara rich aud promising. Mr..
Bowman pauned out $40 in single
day last week just bel W Caldwell.
The Sucker creek placer~, fifteen miles
wet, are just as rich AMI of greater
extent.
Valuable gold digRings are reported
to have been discovered on Long
creek, tributary to the Ske-na river,
British Columbia. Six hundred dol
lars Is said To have been taken out by
one man IN two days. rwo others
claim 10 have found 81 700 in three
hours. Men are deSerting the Gamer
les and docking 10 the digsings.
A severe thunder storm visited
Kansas and Nebraska on the lst. The
lightning struck the farm house of
Nathan Miller, near Maryville, Kan
sas, killing his four daughters while
asleep. Their ages were seventeen,
thirteen, nine and seven respectively
A boy of five wears WIS hadly hurt.
The mother is In a critical condition.
from her bereavement.
Thomas Haskell, aged IS years, and
n son of ]. A. Haskell, farmer liv-
ing near Goldenburg, w. T.. commits
ted suicide Sunday night by shooting
himself through the head with a re-
volver. He wanted TO go to a circus,
which showed at the Dalles next day,
but failing TO raise monev enough to
rnake the trip, he became despondent.
went into the woods and shot himself.