The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-05-16
STATE AND COAST NEWS.


Winnemucca has q prosperous Good
Templar Lodge.
Southern Oregon expects q quartz
mining boom this season.
Some 400 prospectors have gone into
the Mineral City mines in Oregon, re-
Gently.
There are 26 miners at work In the
Richmond mine NJ Eureka on days
pay.
The flow OF water through the Sutross
tunnel amounts to $500, 900 gallons
per day.
There are in the neighborhood of
800 miners at work about George
town, New Mexico.
The Parrot mine at Butte, Montana,
which has been shut down for the
past three months, hns resumed oper~
atoms. Between $50 and 400 men are
employed.
The Union Pacific is prom ising
Portland, Oregon, merchants lower
rates to enable them to compete with
Omaha aud Chicago for the Idaho
trade.
A school lot was recently sold In
Los Angeles for ST. 900 which The city
had bought in 1872 for S2O0--an in
crease of 5000 per cent. in real estate
value in Ii years.
In Plumas county, CAL, there are
plenty of rich lodges, but capital has
been slow to come in there, partly
owing 10 the location of the country.
which is almost inaccessible In Winter.
A crazy Italian named Jiobato Isota
was found in almost nude condition
near Reno, aud taken to the county
Jail. where he cut his throat with a
piece Of glass bottle, infiicting fatal
wound, from which he died In an hour.
The white citizens OF Idaho arc OPP
posed 10 the return OF the Neg Perees
from Indian Territory. Fears Of
trouble are entertained unless the In
dams are accompanied by strong
military force.
A Chinese lad attends public school
in Eureka and is said to be very dill.
gent and apt in his studies. In fact
bis progress is moro rapid than the
average scholar.
A Montana paper thinks the In.
crease of California lions and wolves
in that country is due to the increase
Of cattle and sheep upon which those
animals mainly subsist.
The northern counties Of California
are still attracting large number OF
miners and prospeciors. and the indi-
cations are that The regions tbereabouts
Will be pretty well prokpeeted during
the summer.
The third class or emigrant far"
from Council Bluffs to San francisco
is now only $50. q cut OF SIS. It's
Beloved that emitting will soon extend
to tirst-class tickets. The rates now
made are lower than have ever been
reached for full-fare tickets.
A we'll husbanded lady Is now resid-
ing the State of Arkansas. She Is IS
years of age. and is living with cour-
ageous man who has assumed the
position OF being her fourtee nth hus-
band. 1t is said that Ia the ball of her
house there are thirteen pegs. upon
each (Which hangs a hat dnly labeled
as the property of one of the defunct
husbands.
AT Bonito, New Mexico, Wednes-
nav, Martln NelSO0 an insane man.
shot aud killed DIR. Flynn, late of
Boston. who was sleeping in the same
room with him. Nelson was not shot
dead before he had killed seven others,
he making the ninth dead man of the
affray. Before becoming insane Nell
son was good citizen.
Dave Bailey OF Eureka, and Parson
Hammond of Carson, are busily en-
gagged on the compilation of the State
laws. The work will be ready for
publication about the first of July.
When issued it will prove of great
convenience 10 lawyers and others
having occasion to inform themselves
in regard to existing laws.
General Sedgwick, Land Commits
sioner of the Atlantic and Pacific, on
his trip to Prescott, Arizona, secured
patents for l35, 800 acres ofland. This
is part of the million acre recently
made by the Atlantic and Pacific to
the Aztec Land and Cattle Company
composed of Seligman Bros. and other
New York gentlemen, who have ship
ped $4,000 head of cattle from Pan
Handle, Texas, to Holbrook, Arizona.
Hydraulic mining aud ground sluic-
ing in Tuscarora district Is about over
for the season an account of the falling
of the water supply. The Cinnamon
who have been engaged Ut placer min
ing have done better this season than
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