The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-04-18
TOWN AND COUNTY.


The McConkey bondsmen case
comes up at this term of Court.
F.. w. 0riswold went to Hamilton
this morning to be absent about two
weeks.
TAYLOR Odd Fellows will give a
grand ball on the 9th.
From present indications Ruby Hill
instruct prom Uses TO have little boom
this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Barry. of the
Sail Marsh, are on visit to Cherry
Greek.
Stocks are again coming to the front.
comstock shares are swayIng up and
down. something after the manner OF
the good old times of the past.
A pleasant farewell party was ten
derad Mrs. II. A. Comins and Miss
Minnie at Nevada Hall last eyeninR.
The family will leave Monday to take
ma residence on the Steptce Creek
ranch.
Mrs. S. T. Holmes and children de.
parted Wednesday morning for an
ax,ended trip TO The Eastern States.
Mr. Holmes goes To Garrettsville,
ohio. first, and from thence to Mich
igan.
To Hon. Geo. W. Cassidy we are
indebted for a copy Of the "Tenth
Census Of the United States" a very
valuable book; also for "A series of
Congressional Records.
II h. -.
said 10 be negotiating for the purchase
of the Monitor Company's mining
and milling property. The figures
set by the owners are said TO be $780,
900. Who says there no valuable
mines In White Pine7
George Thaeker. who has Just con-
cluded tour Of the northern country,
from the Pacific ocean To the Rocky
Mountains. says, thai with the excep-
ton of Portland, Oregon. he has seen
no town much better than this. A
general depression pervades the wh hole
northern country.
An anonymous correspondent
presumably LADY, sends 10 this
Office string of verses on ..How F. H.
tors Kiss" Teach your grandmother
to suck eggs" We know al about
1t, and, so far "a giving the ''informa.
tim for the benefit - olbsrS." 'tis
better not. ''Suiiicient unto the day
Is the evil thereof"
Lawrence SienSirnm WAS eleeted a
trial juror at the recent drawing.
They pulled Law. petty snon after hls
first vote. By the time he gets back
from Hamilton, after paving his ex-
penses, loaded down with county
scrip, the conclusion will BIO forced
upon the young man that the elect We
franchise has pleasant features as
we'll as onerous duties connected
with II.
Acrowd Of ''saintly" young hood
looms, lately employed on the Osce
ola ditch, invaded the quiet precincts
OF our town Wednesday morning. aud
about IL o'clock at night, having got
full OF poor whisky. started In 10
''paint her red Chinatown was
their base of operations, where they
turned loose their pistols and over
awed the few residents of that place.
One Chinaman was hit, but not hurt.
The eelestials returned the fire. but
we regret to say, with such poor aim
That the Mormon rowdies escaped un-
injured. They Int ont at day break
next morning TO escape arrest.
On receiving our mail Wednesday
evening, large official envelope, with
tne imprint VI Treasury Department
u. >. Mint, Carson NavaIa - trre..t-
ed as. We felt sure it was an appoint
ment TO some Important billet ia that
institution, and without hesitation
mentally resolved to decline any such
honor. How agreeably were We sur
? prlsed on opening the document to
learn that Supt. Garrard did not de.
nahd any such sacrifice at our hands.
~ was simply an order for the WHITE
FINE NEWS (s5 in advance). Thus
was great burden lifted from our
mind.
john Madden, whom every body
mere thought dead and buried more
.nah year ago, has turned up i'm San
francisco, from which point he writes
us. John has been immured in the
WIGS OF Mexico for the past TWO years,
ana he tells us that he zones back to
c'vliizatlon once again TO get the
"Mexican fever and ague out OF his
ola bones" TO give an idea of how
completely he Is in the dark about
matters here, we give few OF his in
qulres: he wants to know If the
marrow guage" Is completed; II we
are having mining hoo m. daairaa IN