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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25
THE CRAzED OF THa NINE.


In the Reno Journal of recent date
we find the following. las true tale
IS e'er was told''
The mining camps in different parts
of The State begin to show more or
less activity on account of the rise in
silver. It is the evil of many good
mineral producing belts that the real
ly valuable properties are in the hands
of men who are afflicted with Pc
culiar species of insanity, for by no
other term can it be designated. To
discover those who are subject of this
mental alteration and how they live,
one has only to enter an apparently
deserted mining camp, situated in any
of the once silver producing regions
of the Nevada hills and enter ipto
conversation a moment with the de-
nizens who issue forth, at p summons,
from their novels.
They are men whose long disappear
ance from human society has told
upon their contenances, leaving brut-
ish looks where there should be the
bearing of manhood.
Each Of these men is the owner of
mining claim, and has resided upon
it doing, season by season, the neces-
sary work To retain it in his POSSESS
ion, for periods varying from one to
twenty years. Nine out of every ton
have had opportunities to sell their
prospects AT a prices varying from $50
to $4,000. aud yet they never sell.
Let stranger come into the place
whom they suspect to be a buyer
instantly the fevered imagination begin
to build their Alladin air castles. aud
the claim that is worth 81 900 has as
sumed value in their eyes ten times
rs great nor can any persuasion get
1t for less. The buyer leaves in dis
gust, and the miserable victims return
to their huts aud curse themselves in
senile disappointment for their folly.
They will die after a while. Ones
bleached and CHASTITY skeleton will be
found Ia his lonely cabin where he
has persisted. far awav from human
comfort and aid. Another's bones
will be found by some brother pros
pector, when the SHOWS of winter have
melted, lying in some mountain ravine,
with flesh gnswed away by the hungry
coyotes.
They disappear at last, and their
claims, whose very richness proved
their destruction, goes to increase the
fortune of some other man. There is
certainly pathos about their un-
fortunate lives, for they are as certain
~ the victims of insanity as ever he
who died in madhouse.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

The area and capacity of the Hotel
del Coronado of San Diego, the
largest hotel in the world, is: Area of
grounds, twenty acres; area covered
by building, five acres; total fosr
area, four half acres; capacity of
reservoirs, 10000 gallons; area of
dining-rooms, 100000 square feet.
The Attorney-G General of Illinois
holds that express companies who
do carrying business for lottery
company are thus constituted Its
agents, and may be prosecuted.
A fire in the casting room of the
Union Iron Works In Portland, Ore
gon, last Saturday, destroyed property
valued at SAT 900.
The advance in the price of silver
and lead has had the effect of causing
a great revival in the mining indus
tries of New Mexico and Arizona.
The Portland Oregonian IL erecting
a fine building and getting its sand
stone from Arizona.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

George Thacher, a well-known
drummer for a San Francisco liquor
house, came from Wood River down
to Shoshone, Idaho, on Monday, in
good health and spirits. After taking
supper, he went to the drug store OF
C. X. McCrumm and took seat, and
in q few minutes It was found he was
dead. He was very large man,
well preserved, and some 60-odd
years OF age, and a resident of San
Francisco. Salt Lake Tribune, Octo-
Der 18th.
Mr.. Thacher was we'll and favor
ably known In White Pine county,
having for many years carried on the
mercantile business at Cherry Creek
in connection with the late Ed. Raum
and A. NJ. Vanderbilt. Many friends
in this section will sincerely regret to
hear OF his sudden death. He leaves
q wife but no children.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25
Nat rzia Then.

When The rivers cease to run,
And man and wife are one
When the stars forget to shine,
And twice three counts up aa nine;
When the birds forget to fly,
And the babies cease TO cry;
When the sun gives mp his light,
And the day turns into night;
When the women. one aud all,
Grow to be sixteen feet tall;
When the maidens of our town.
Nothing do but pout and frown;
When the lightning doesn't fash;
And no hairs are found In hash;
When our mines begin to work,
And the old maids cease to smirk;
When the girls, both great and small,
Never care for dance or ball;
When there's no such thing as snow,
And men have sense to answer no;
When gold nuggets strew the ground
Aud nowhere are dudlets found
Then we'll join the Floppers' crew,
And to Honor bid adieu.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

They may be Transmitted b. Man.

They May be transmitted By MAN.
We call the attention of our readers
and the public generally to an act of
the Legislature, approved March 9th,
1889, authorizing the transmission of
ballots, poll books and tally lists by
mail in certain cases. The Act is as
follows:
SEC. /. At every election hereafter
to be held in this State, in precincts
which are, by the usually travelled
route, more than fifty miles distant
from the county seat, and wherein
less than fifty voters shall be regis
tered for that election. the Inspectors
shall, before they adjourn, post con-
spicuously at the polling place,
bulletin signed by each of them,
stating the number of ballots cast for
each candidate and for and against
each question which has been voted
upon.
SEC. 9. They shall also, before they
adjourn, seal the ballots in q strong
envelope, writing across the back
thereof the words Ballots there give
the name) Precinct, and also sign their
names thereon. They shall then place
the envelope containing the ballots.
together with one of fhe tally Lists
aud one of the poll books in a sealed
package, the weight of which, in
Guiding tue wrapper or box, must be
less ,han the limit of weight allowed
-four pounds, Ed. TO be transmitted
by mail. They shall then address the
same to the proper officer at the coun-
ty seat, stating in writing on the out
side OF the package the contents
thereof, and deliver it to one of their
number, to be chosen by lot, who shall
Immediately, without opening it or
permitting it to be opened, deliver it
TO the nearest Postmaster and pay
the postage thereon, and have the
package registered.
SEC. 3. The Inspector who delivers
the package shall be paid the amount
expended by him in paying the post
age on the package, and fifteen cents
per mile for going to and fifteen cents
per mile for returning from the post
Office, in the same manner and out of
the same fund as other election ex-
penses are paid; provided, that no
such mileage shall be paid unless the
total distance necessarily travelled in
going and returning be greater than
two miles.
SEC. 4. In cases where this Act
shall apply, the ballots shall, after
they reach the county scat, be kept in
sealed packages by the proper officer,
instead of in the ballot boxes.
SEC. 5. In precincts where this Act
shall apply, the ballot box may re-
main in the custody of the Inspectors
until the next election, when il shall
be turned over to the Inspectors of
said election, and in such cases the
tally lists, poll books and other books
and papers may be sent in sealed
packages by registered mail to one of
the Inspectors.
This statute will save considerable
expense to White Pine county IN trans
hitting the Election Returns from
certain precincts to the county seat.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

All work has been ordered immedi-
ately suspended on the extension of
the railroad between here and Milford,
on order from the head Office at
Omaha. This order is the outcome
of the compromise of the U. p. Stan
ford and Hunting, and il is doubtful
If work will be resumed again before
next spring. Another back set to our
mining region.---Pioche Record.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25
Eureka County Democratic Ticket.

The Eureka county Democrats have
put the following excellent ticket in
the field
State Senator--M. G. Foster.
AssemDiymen--Passed
Sheriff-James Morris.
County Clerk-F. H. Harmon.
AssessoT-A. Skillman.
District Attorney-Peter Breen.
County Commissioner Owen Rice,
FOR the Long Term, and J. M. North
for the Short Term.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

The Southern Pacific Company has
issued q rate on ore, when actual
value does not exceed $50 ton, of
80 10 per ton from Elko to Ogden,
when destined to Salt Lake City.
Cars to be loaded to market capacity.
This rate also applies 10 ore shipped
from Gerald and Battle Mountain.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

Frank Mesa, while carelessly hand
ling pistol. accidentally shot and
instantly killed his stepson. William
earliest, at Healdsburg, on Monday
night.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

The explosion of the gaint powder
magazine of the Garrison mine, at
Cortez, last week resulted in the kill
ing of II. Taylor, who was in the
magazine ut the time and probably
caused the explosion, and injured
several other persons in the vicinity.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

On the 9th of October A. Ross, a
railroad employe, threw a piece of
coal from an engine while passing Blue
Canyon. The coal struck William Ii !.
Durkce and killed him. Ross was
Monday at Dutch Fiat dismissed
from custody, the killing being de-
clared accidental.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

We publish in the News to-day the
official registry list of every pre-
cinct 10 the county, except Aurum,
which has not come to hand. The
different precincts show as follows:
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

The Central Pacific Company has
decided to contribute 5000 monthly
for the support of the Nevada State
Board of Trade.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

Miss Ella Edwards of Carson is re-
ported very low with typhoid fever
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

We make the following extracts
from letter just received from Lieu
tenant George E. Stockle
SAN BERNARDINo RANCH,
SONORA, MEXICO.
October 0, 1890.
MY DEAR DAVIS. | have an oppor-
tunity 10 send my mail to Fort Bowie
by Government wagon that brought
us supplies. and will send you few
lines. We have been scouting the
southeast of Arizona and southwest
of New Mexico for about three months.
Just now we are watching some In
dams in the Mexican Sierra Madres.
have not time to tell you much for
only learned of the wagons being
here an hour ago and il leave at once
but will try to send You dsecrip-
ton of the country and some items If
find them very soon.
do not get my letter mail oftener
than once month, and no paper mail
at all. As l expect to be out all win
ter, think it might be as well to
stop my NEWS until | can get back to
civilization.
These Mexicans are the most courte-
Gus people / have ever met and the
biggest scoundrels. There lie much
bitter feeling between the people on
opposite sides of the line, and just
now 1t looks like trouble because of
cattle complications.
GEo. e. STocKLE.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

We estimate Aurum at 30, which
would give the total registered vote
10 the county at 533.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-10-25

We make the following extracts
from letter just received from Lieu
tenant George Z. Stockle
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26
PERSONAL And PECULIAR,

Finger nails are said to grow at an average
tate OF half an inch in four months.
The Boston Transcript says: Philadelphia
ans call it Borr HORROR, Chicagoans say
Bahrr Harburr, and true Yankees sneak
fondly of the present diplomatic headauar
tors as Bah Hahbah. A few of US still call
1t Mount Desert.
Now farmer can go into the field in thu
morning with "biled" shirt at sever
s'elock, and he gets 80 tired riding the ma
chineTy and doing nothing that he has to gel
off and walk around occasionally to keep his
joints limbered up. There will soon have to
be calisthenics taught to the farmers to afford
them exercise. -Fairfeld Journal
On Friday afternoon, says the Washington
Post, while the Western Union connection
between this city and New York was broken,
the Washington correspondent of the Brook
Ign utilized the long-distance telephone for
the transmission of his matter. Over one
column of news matter was sent In this man.
ner, and 1t was remarkably free from errors.
A Hartford paper says; A Main street
druggist adyertises in his window egg
phosphate, made from fresh laid eggs" and
to prove his assertion he exhibits a hen in
the same show window. The fact that the
hen devotes her entire time TO caring for a
numerous brood of small chicks, which form
part of the exhibit, doesn't seem to affect the
supply of eggs at all.
The famous forest of Ebersberg, Bavaria,
is infested with worms, which have denuded
the trees of their verdure and stripped the
more tender Of tie branches of bark, and
1900 men of the Munich garrison have been
sent to fell the entire forest and burn the
timber. In this way it is hoped to get rid of
the worms, and prevent their spread to the
other and larger forests.
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26

much as may be. 1t would not be SO If. as
MI Allen declares, there is no true temper
ance sentiment in this State Neither
would there be any hypocrisy If no true
temperance sentiment existed. Men would
not take the trouble to dissemble in regard
10 their drinking habits; they would
not take the trouble to cover them up
II there were no temperance sentiment.
Hypocrisy has been aptly defined as the
tribute which vice pays to virtue. The ex-
istence of hypocrisy in community is con-
elusive proof of the existence of virtue there
too, and in larger measure. If there are
many hypocritical temperance men in this
State 1t is proof positive that there are
great many more temperance men who are
consistent and sincere.
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26
TUESDAY, the 18th day Of August, A. D. 1880
All oycI0ck in the Forenoon,

to nominate candidates for the following officers:
Four senator's county attorney; clerk OF courts
sheriff; county treasurer; register of deeds; one
county commissioner; and also TO choose county
committee for two years, and to transact any
other business that may properly come before the
convention.
nThe basis for representation will be one dele
gate for each city and town, and one additional
delegate for each seventy-hve Republican votes
cast for Governor at the last State election, anc
enc delegate for each fraction Of forty votes.
The delegates have been apportioned upon thu
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26
In letter to the Argus Mr.. Charles T.

Fox reminds the PRESS that it
declared last fall thatmere presence Of mem
beers Of the House was not sufficient to con-
stitute quorum-that a majority must vote
as well as be present That was undoubtedly
the opinion generally held, up to the time that
Speaker Reeds ruling led,to an examination
Of the subject. 1t was case where custom
had assumed the force Of law. But when
the matter was examined it was demon
strated that nothing but a change of rules
was needed to cure what was thought to be
cnnst'--ional infrmity. The change was
-pssp e aSyil was cured. The Demo-
peMoqs eouo AZ, w Admitted that the
sney would long ago
Ire TO the Supreme court
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26

Hon. G. E. Allen OF Dresden in the county
of Lincoln has written a remarkable letter to
the Augusta New Age. In the course of
which these sentences occur:
1.-THE truth is that we are not State with true
temperance principles but we are, many of us
hypocrites The socalled Prohibitory Amend
hypocrites as ever disgraced State. An amend.
ment TO the Constitution is one thing prOhibitory
statute laws Is quite another. And the adoption
OF that amendment was farce anyhow"
For State that does not believe in true tenn
peranc, Maine has succeeded in assembling
its opinions to remarkable degree. As a
matter OF fact, as Mr.. Allen very well knows
or should know, there are thousands of peo-
pie In this State who believe in true temper
ance as well as some fewer thousands who
do not. The latter thousands are mostly
grouped about the city of Bangor and the
neighboring towns. The former are scattered
all over the hills and valleys of the State.
They may not have been so conspicuous of
late years as the free rum PARTY, because the
minority is generally the noisiest, but still
they are there and If the Democracy pre-
sented an unbroken front on this resuhmis-
sion scheme put forward by the Bangor fac
uon, Mr. G. E. Allen would observe an up.
rising that would perhaps not astonish him !;
put would show him that the "rascally gang
VI hypocrltes" have the courage of their by
pocIlsy and propose to fight 1t out. The fact
snas az tne hrst and really representative
Democratic convention no county delegation
Mao unit OF anything near a unit on the
Tree rum size, together with the fact that
not single dissenting voice was raised in
the Republican convention when the lIquor
plank OF the platform was read oueht To con-
vince Mr.. Allen that he erred in stating that
there is no temperance sentiment in the
State. Perhaps Mr.. Allen reasons that con-
Ventions occur only once in two wears. md
that what men do on the other 100 DAVIS
SHOWS their true sentiments better than
their actions in convention do. AS our as.
teemed contemporary, the Argus, is fond q,
saying there are men who will have loro,
at any cost. laws or no laws; but to mt tho
whole State into that category as Mr.. Auar
does Is absurd. In every town there orr
certain habitual drunkards Mr.. Aller
knows very well that they are Lot held up n
the gaze Of the world by their admirin,
townsmen as model citizens. On the con
trary they are kept in the background an,
their failings are excused and palliated q
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26

Tristram Goldthwaite told the Democratic
caucus in Biddeford Wednesday night that
they were enthusiastic although there were
not many of them left. 1t viii be noticed
that the delegates they chose to the county
convention were nearly all city officials Of
various kinds. This explains the enthusi.
asm
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26
IUIoBUIHB UHSIS q


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The committee VIII be in session at the Han at
ten O'Clock in the forenoon on the day Of the con-
vention to receive the credentials Of the delegates
and attend TO such other business as may be nee
essary.
E. DUDLEY FREEMAN, Chairman
CHARLES A. TRUE, Secretary.
Portland, July 10, 1890.
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26

By an oversight yesterday morning the
PRESS announced that the House of Repre-
sentatives adjourned out of respect to the
late Congressman Walker of Massachusetts.
Congressman Walker of Missouri is the man
who has died
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26

OF what the ''incendiary speech" which
led to the assassination of T. Cook, of Mis-
sissippi consisted the dispatches do not say.
Probably it will appear later that he had
urged the negroes to VOTE
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26
CURRENT COMMENT.
SHE MAY SELL THIS ONE.

Spain will probably not sell Cuba, but one
leaf in its system of colonial government. it
is likely to lose Cuba by revolution in the
same way which 1t lost its other provinces In
ha Wacfarn pamiophoro
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26
A DEFICIENCY OF WOMEN
rEaStnort Sentinel.

Under the laws of Maine, census of two
classes of the population of the several
towns In the State is taken every year, viz /:
the inhabitants between the ages of four and
committee, and of the number of polls, by
the assessors of taxes In 1880, when the
United States rensus showed population of
400e in Eastport, the school committee found
here 1897 between four and twenty-one, and
classes together making 20l8, or slightly
more than half the entire number of inabi.
tants. The present year the school census
shows 2011 persons and the polls number
1000, a total of BOIL and an increase of 993 on
ulstion of the town, and people are naturally
surprised that the United States census for
the present year shows an increase of only
955 in the entire population of PASSPORT.
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.

The Republicans Of Cumberland County are
hereby requested to send delegates to County
Convention to be held at
Reception Hall, City Building, Portland,
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 2e.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu-
nications. The name and address Of the writer
are in all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as guarantee OF good faith,
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26

The Bath Times is trying very hard to
convict the PRESS of wishing to prejudice
the officers of the fleet against the Kennebec.
The PRESS 1t says has reiterated the false
hood that the fleet anchored at the mouth of
the river, etc. If the PRESS has reiterated
falsehood who is to blame for it? The de-
spatch On which it was based came from
Bath. Ii the Times is engaged in sending
out false information for the sake of mis-
leading people at a distance it should not
eyade the responsibility If the Times
would only interview some of those people
who told bugaboo stories to the officers them
selves to learn If any such stories were told
1t would doubtless learn that they were not
Portland men at all, but residents of other
sections Of the State. Again we say that the
PRESS never by word or deed has attempted
to throw discredit on the Kennebec or on
Bath. Whatever stories to that effect the
Times has read or heard are nothing more
than creatures Of Its disordered fancy. If
any errors Of fact occurred in Geographic
dispatches the Times should discipline the
man who sent them, not the paper which re-
eefved them.
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26
Florida Times Union,1

The North Atlantic squadron, which win
tered at Key West. is now in the harbor at
Guido Flor dams in distinguished attentions.
Where patriotism and the worship of brass
buttons are concerned, there is really very
little difference between the Southerner and
the NOrtherner
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26
....se to the Supreme court.

The Maine Democratic convention does not ap
pear to have created much enthusiasm in the
State by pI onouncing In favor OF license. With
election only a little more than a month ahead,
politics down there are "deader" tEan ever before
IN State campaign. 1t begins to look as
though the Democratic party had killed itself and
the people were not concerned enough to give it
proper burial.-Lowell Morning Mail.
Killing was just what the Democrats asked
for, friend, in Convention No. 2. The con-
tract said nothing about burial after death.
And, speaking of enthusiasm, it must be re-
membered that the law of physics that ac-
tion and reaction are equal and in opposite
direction holds good In politics. The Demo-
Gratis before Convention No. were not en-
thusiastic; that body stirred them up to a
mild degree for prohibition. Then they held
another convention and became stirred up
In exactly the opposite direction, SO that
now they are where they were in the FIRST
place, sour. disgruntled, and disorganized.
The Portland daily press., 1890-07-26
RINGS AND OTHER CIRCLES.

1t Is q common enough expression that So
and-So Is we'll known in social circles, polit-
ical circles, sporting circles, etc. we also
hear of base ball circles, lawn tennis circles.
croquet circles, and we may expect to hear
of lager beer circles. soda water circles and
chewing gum circles. Everybody seems to
be In a merry-go-round of some sort.