The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-12-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The cholera epidemic in Paris is
declared At an end.
Three Mormons have been elected
to the Idaho Legislature.
The country along the Oregon Short
Line il settling up fast.
John HALEY, the Mormon Delegate
TO Congress from Idaho, is elected.
The sale of intoxicating liquors is
prohibited in ten counties in Missis-
sippi.
Victoria, British Columbia. Is hav-
ing trouble with filthy Chinese and
opium dens.
Carrots. tnrnips and cabbages are
the only vegetables that can be raised
IN Greeuland.
A ranchman at Maginnis, Montana,
adveftises twenty-five horses cap
Iured from thieves.
A loud peal OF thunder restored the
hearing o. an lndiana man who had
been deaf for long time.
The celebrated "alienlst" Moreau
de Tours used to declare that genius
WAS nervous disease.
An Ohio'ex- Governor, once man
OF large wealth, IN npw selling cigars
by sample To retail dealers.
Round trip tickets In New Orleans
from Salt Lake and Ogden. good for
so day, rau I've had for Sa2 -.
The total dsbt of the subSiiized Pa
citic Railroads 10 the Uniied States on
June 30. 1884. was sl27, ,s23, 0l5.
Helena, Montana, Is growing rap
idly, and i- building "A large hotel to
accommodate the travelling public.
San Bernardlno viii have completed
three new bridges across the Santa
Ana river 10y the middle of Decem ber
Vallejo police officers are making
IL warm for awall. flowers" who con
gregate about the entrance ofthe thea
ter doors.
He. Street, we'll know Nevada
newspaper man. was counted ont as
Probate Judge OF Alturas county,
Idaho.
French woman is making money
by pulling teeth at Newark, \. j.
Men flock to her to have their worries
pried out, a. they did To female bar
bers when they were a novelty.
Lef.handed peninanship Is now
taught I'm a number of American
schools. The method Of instruction is
to make the pupil write his name in
pencil and then 90 over IL with pen
held in his left hand.
A sheep dressing contest WAS held
in Helena the other day for the
butcher championship and S975. The
victorious butcher dressed fifteen
sheep In one hour, and his opponent
was just half sheep behind.
The case of the United States VS.. the
Union Pacific, in which the Govern
Inent claims n certain percentage of
the net earnings OF the road, Is on
trial in the Court OF Claims In WASH
ington. The amount claimed Is ST.
zoo, 900, and the Company claims to
have an offset of 81, 500 900 for trans
portation.
The sum OF $3.50 900, which Is re-
quired to make the final payment on
the Minnie Moore purchase, has been
deposited i'm New York, to be paid as
oon as the necessary papers can be
prepared, and final examination of
title made. This mine Is at Wood
River, aud has lately passed into the
hands of English capitalists.
A German paper estimates that
France at present owns 900 miles on
the West African Coast. England $50
miles, or after the annexation of the
whole Niger delta, 200 miles; Port
ugal, 800 miles; the Republic of Lii
IBERIA. $50 miles; and Germany $50
miles. The remaining 500 miles i
owned by the natives. hut will doubt
less be seized by the European Pow
-ers in u short time. The coast IL
chiefly valuable as opening way to
.4he fertile interior.