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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-01
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For the next few years the term
"Cattle King" will be little used In
Nevada. The Storm Kings warfare
upon his brother monarchs has made
sad havock In the dominions Of the
latter. Times Review. A few weeks
since one OF our cattlemen remarked
that there might be few "Dukes"
left In the spring, but kings" would
be id scarce. Independent.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-01

The Walker Lake Bulletin chroni.
cles the discovery Of gold ore three
miles from Hawthorne Station, Fame.
ralda county. The Groupings show .
length .f sixty feet AMI width OF
three. The lessecs of the Evening
Star, in the Same district, struck =
pocket Of quartz panning out 5000 IN
gold.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-01

8. @. Deposition, convicted OF rape,
was sentenced by Judge Fitzgerald 70
TO twenty years In the State Prison.
The defendant did not AZ pear 10 be
much affected by the sentence In
consequences OF the verdict not saving
been entered on the minutes Of the
Court before the jury was discharged.
the defendant may get q new trial.
Silver State.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-01

The Elko Independent says "the
hay imported from California looks
very much to this writer like wheat
straw, such as farmers in the East
frequently burn to get rid of. Being
cut green il 10 better than ordinary
straw, but we do not think il can COM
pare with Nevada hay"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-01
eo..g to . Doctor by s.ow-she. rr.,.

Mrs. Hoffman, Of Michigan Bluff,
CAL, was seriously III with dropsy
and IL became necessary 20 take her
to Forest Hill TO . doctor. Fifty
friends of her husband took snow
shoes and placed her In box with
snow. shoe runners and dragged her
to the latter place. They started al
8 O'Clock In the morning and got 10
Forest Hill by 2 o'clock In the after
noon. Mrs. Hoffman stood the trip
very we'll.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-01

This 10 the world over one of the
wettest winters ON record. The latest
news from Australia tells of rain in
Queensland, compared with which all
our falls Of moisture are mere
sprinkle. 1t rained there four feet in
eight hours.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-01

The beef cattle men are again q lit
tie worried. There are still 1000
beef cattle here. and a few days block
AIDE would cause the hay to be ell
eaten up.--Rene Journal.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-01

The Reno Gazette confirms the re-
port that Allen G. Bragg 10 about to
resign 40 Cashier Of the Carson Mint.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-01

Eureka county taxpayers will hare
20 pay % 80 ON the 41o0 ~ taxes THE
year.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-01
Appears gastiflahls.

The shooting of MaYne at San Diego
by Miss johnson appears TO have been
justitiable. Some time ago Mayne
was tried for criminal assault on the
girl, and the lawyers who defended
the scoundrel managed to juggle so
with the facts that the jury disagreed.
On the second trial the girl felt
convinced that she could not get
justice, and shot the man In open court.
It Is said that no jury in San Diego
will ever convict her, and the District
Attorney says that he will resign his
Office and defend her If she IL indicted /.
4 woman does not shoot . man
without great provocation, and this
poor unfortunate girl seems 10 have
had good cause for her act.-Carson
Appeal.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-03-01

The Cballis Odaho) Messenger 70.
ports that on the night Of the Cd In.
slant . snowslids from Badly noun
tain crashed through the house OF
Neils johnson and killed HE three
children. Mrs. johnson was Ia bed
sick at the time and received fatal
injuries.
The average wealth Of each man.
woman and child In Colusa county
(Cal.) 10 $1,500-ranging from hi
to millions.
The morning call., 1890-08-21
PERSONATED PRINCE GEORGE.


British Midshipman Imposes Upon
Halifax Society.
Five midshipmeu OF III. NJ. S. Thrush,
which arrived here Oh August I'd, under the
command of Prince George of Wales, will
shortly be brought before court martial
for conduct unbecoming English officers
and gentlemen. says Halifax On. S. spe-
cial TO the Chicago Herald Their names
are Midshipmen Henry Pixley. George
Woodlock, w. j. Draften, n. n. j. Cargett
and the Hon. S. w. Pensonley.
When Halifax society heard of the visit of
Prince George purse was raised and a
magnificent residence fitted up for royal
entertainment. The Thrush arrived, and
within an hour launch appropriately dec
grated for the occasion was sent to deliver
to Prince George an elaborate invitation.
The Prince declined, and to Midshipman
Pixley intrusted the message declining the
invitation. When Pixley reached shore
and announced to his four companions the
message one of them suggested imperson-
atlns the Prince. To think was to act. In
less time than it takes to write Pixley con-
scented to play the part of Prince, and with
his companions decided to receive TIE
homage OF her Majesty's liege subjects.
PiXley and his companions hurried to the
brilliantly lighted and gorgeously deco
rated residence. where they were immedi-
ately surrounded by bevy of beautiful
girls, who went into perfect raptures over
the dear Princes affability." After the
banquet the five mdshipmen, in the midst
OF the many toasts which were drunk to
the Queen, the Prince of Wales and the
English navy, quite forgot their dignied
bearing and issued promiscuous invitations
to come on board the Thrush. The rest of
ne tale is soon told. One of the psuedo
PIlnces hosts visited the Thrush on the
following day and found that Halifax
society had been duped. The Prince was
informed Of the affair, and the result Of an
investigation which he caused to be made
was the arrest of the five midshipmen.
The morning call., 1890-08-21
BLOOD-THIkSTY BANDITS.
Three Monks XIII. d at the Monastery of
N.rni. Mar Knrna.

Three Monks XIII. d at the Monastery of
Narni, Nenr Rome.
News was received at Rome at day break
that the famous Benedictine Monastery at
Narni, forty-five miles northeast of Rome,
was attacked by bandits in broad daylight.
Later in the day the particulars received
show that the robbery was one of the most
atrOciouS and successful that has ever been
perpetrated so near the capital.
Some time toward O'Clock in the after
noon band of robbers that infest the
neghborhoOd appeared at the gates of the
monastery, and on pretext of being hungry
gained admttance to the courtyard. No
sooner had they assembled their whole
number within the inclosure than they
changed their tune, saying that food was
not what they were after, but money.
The gate-keeper broke away from the m
and gave the alarm. The monks rushed
TO the defense Of the possessions with
such implements as were at hand, but
though they fought with the courage of
desperation they could not withstand the
assault Of the ruffians, who, after killing
three and wounding number of the
brothers, gained an entrance into the
chapel. the altar of which they ransacked,
carrying off many valuables, including all
the golden vessels used in tue ceremonies.
News was slow in reaching Rome, the
roads over the hills being in wretched con-
diton.
A troop of carbineers has been sent in pur-
suit OF the robbers, but they have so great
start that little hope OF their capture is en-
tertained. The affair naturally has created
intense excitement, as sacred edifices. as
rule, have been safe against the attacks OF
these mountain robbers.-Star Sayings,
August Nth
The morning call., 1890-08-21
A MILLION LIVES.
The March of Generation of Boys and
Girls.

The March of Generation of Boys anu
Girls.
A generation ON the march from the era
die to the grave is an instructive spectacle,
and we have it carefully presented to us III
report Of DR.. Parr. Let Us trace the ply
steal fortune which any million OF US may
reasonably expect. The number, to begin
with, is made up of 511, 745 boys and 4sS, 20
girls, a disprOportiun which, by and by.
will be reversed by the undue mortality oil
the boys and will be reversed before the
close of this strange eventful history. More
than quarter OF these children VIII Ole
before they are five years 0ld-ln exact
numbers, al, 3S7 boys and 12l, 193 girls.
The two sexes are now neary on lever.
The next five years will be much less fatal.
In the succeeding five yearS-from 10 TO 10
the mortality will be still further reduced
Indeed, for both sexes, this is the most
healthy period OF lite; the death rate, how
ever, is lower for boys than girls There
will be some advance in deaths in the next
five years, and still more in the five that
follows; but 634, G45 will certainly enter on
their Goth year.
Before the next ten years are at an end
two-thirds of the women will have married.
The deaths during that period VIII be
90, 053, aud of these no fewer that u, l24 Will
be caused by consumption. Between 80
and 40 a still larger "death-toll" Will be
paid, and little more than half the original
band-in exact numbers 502, 915-will enter
on their 46th year.
Each succeeding decade up to 70 will nov
become more fatal, and the numbers will
shrink terribly. Al 70 only 16l, 124 will re-
main to be struck down, and of these 1922
$50 will have perisned by the S5th year of
the march. The g., 800 that remain will
soon lay down their burdens, but 2153 of
them will struggle OH to 50 aud 223 to be 100
years old.
Finally, in the 1OSth year the last life will
flicker out. Such is the average lot of 4
million men and wOmen.-LOndOn Wit aud
Wisdnrn
The morning call., 1890-08-21
MARRIED THE LAWYER.
He Also Adopted the Client and Escsp


He Also Adopted the Client and Escaped
Big Verdict.
e "How did you come to marry ?" The
question was asked by an acquaintance of
aprOsperous-looking man of about 40 years
of age, who sat near window in the Sit
tng-room at the Girard, says the Philadel-
phia Press.
WELL" he replied, after little hesta-
ton, "Pll tell you. At the age of % my
father died. Being his sole heir. my
mother having died previously, found
upon my hands rollng-mill in the center
of the State. | took full charge of the
works, but hadn't run them six months when
a little orphan boy employed there was seri-
ously injured. in fact crippled for life He
was under the legal age, and besides the
accident was the result of gross piece of
negligence on the part of my superin-
tendent.
The child soon obtained friends to help
him. They brought suit and obtained
$4,000 damages. | had retained the best
counsel that could find, bnt it awaited moth
ing. OF course we appealed, but the Su-
preme Court put their seal of approval upon
the finding of the lower tribunal. One of
the particularly curious things about the
matter was that the child was represented
by a female lawyer, comparatively young
and very attractive and entertaining
Now the entire plant, mortgaged as it
was, was worth only about $4,000; so when
the judgment has been satisfied and other
costs and charges had been paid, found
myself in very frightened circumstances.
Now comes the curious part of the story
The female lawyer shortly after the case
had been finally settled adopted the boy.
Sharp trick, Ell? Well, mine was sharper.
Six months after | met the lady at recep-
ton. l must confess that her charms COM
pletely captured me, and l was not long in
discovering that | was in love. Certain
circumstances. which l need not mention,
led me to Mt least hope that my feelings
were reclprocated. lost no time in pro-
posing, and to my infinite delight was ac-
cepted. We were married about eighteen
months after the trial. and you can rest as
sured that from the very first was very
much attached to our little adopted son."
And he looked into the faces of his auditors
and smiled knowingly.
The morning call., 1890-08-21
WATER RESERVOIRS.
The COndemning of Lands for
Such Purposes.

The case of the Spring Valley Water
Company vs.. Drinkhouse ct al, on an appeal
from judgment in favor of the water conf
pany, rendered in lower court. was up LOT
hearing in the Supreme Court, sitting IN
bank. yesterday. The primary suit was
brought by the company to condemn GER
tain lands in San Mateo County, forming a
portion of the Crystal Springs Reservoir.
The appeal was ON the separate points that
there was no provision to condemn the land,
and that even if the land was designated
for public use, still the condemnation was
not legal. The appellants claimed that the
statutes do not provide for condemnlng
land for water reservoirs by right of eminent
domain; that it was not public use, aud
that the condemnation was unnecessary,
as San Francisco had other resources from
which to be supplied with water. To con,
firm the Judgment would establish a Daq
precedent, and only the Legislature should
have the right to condemn. BY the ~ OIL
the Legislature of 1885, certain rights
awarded the water company had been can,
celed concerning the cOndemning OF lana
for public reservoirs on the ground thaI
they were for public use.
Appellants claimed that the condemnation
was unnecessary i'll view of the fact that
the water company had ample faculties
Merced, PeScader0. Upper Crystal Springs,
San Andreas, Plarctos and Alameda
creeks. Lake MERGED was ineXhaustiblc;
In appraising the condemned land IL had
been much undervalued. The land in ques-
tion Was valued at $50 per acre Tor four
teen acres by the company when con-
demned, yet over SIS, 900 had been expended
on it in converting 1t into pretty ana
profitable little ranch. Further argument
will be heard to-day,
The morning call., 1890-08-21
EVA MAGEB'S DEATH.
Perjury Alone Is Developed at
the Inquest.

Coroner Eaton concluded the inquest in
the case of Eva Magee the young woman
who died fro n the effects of a criminal
operation OH the Goth of July.
Mrs. Magee. the dead girls moth er, testi-
fed that she had been told by Mrs. J. II.
Essen of 7l5h Tehama street that Eva had
given birth to a child in her Mrs Eisen's)
house, and that the infant had been buried
in the back yard by her husband.
Mr5. EiSen StOutly denied having ever
told such a story to Mrs. Magee about the
child. The young woman had not given
birth to a child in her house on Tehama
street, nor did her husband bury child's
body in the back yard, for there was none
to bury. The witness was at first highly
indignant over the testimony CT Mrs.
Magee and became hysterlcal on the stand
Charles King, alias Keith. the young
wuod-engrayer who disappeared when the
girl died and is held responsible for her
ruin and her death, could not be found by
the detectives, nor could any witness say
where he now is. Neither could the doctor
be found, who, it is said, caused EYa's
death.
a verdict of death from the effects of an
operation performed by some one unknown
to the Jury WAS found
The morning call., 1890-08-21
TO WE'D AN AMERICAN SINGER.

MIR. Petre First Saw Miss Williams on the
Stage of a London Music Hall.
Jennie Williams, an American soubrette,
who is now singing at the Alhambra, Pa
vilion and Tiv0li music halls in London, is
to be married in September to Laurence
Joseph Petre of Coptfold Hall, Islington,
in Essex. Miss Williams is pretty blonde
girl, p years old. She went on the stage in
San Francisco at the age OF 10. She has
been seen in the East with Barry and Fay
and Mile. Aimee and few seasons ago she
starred in Aimee'S play "Mamzclle." Last
fall Miss Williams, finding things dull in
her usual paths, went to Tony Pastors and
filled an engagement in the clio.
She executed skirt dance that caught
the fancy of a London manager and he in
duced her o cross the water. Her mother
accompanied her One night several months
ago bouquet was thrown to Miss Williams
over the footlights at tine Alhambra.
Among the flowers was a diamond necklace
with pendant star. 1t did not take the
singer long to find out that it was Mr. Petre
who had tossed the bouquet and when they
met he told her it was a case of love at first
sight.
The couple were quickly engaged, and
news of the approaching marriage has
reached Miss Williams relatives in New
York. Her sister, Minnie Williams, also
soubrette, lives at 242 West Fourteenth
street. Her brother, whose stage name is
Z. A. Stevens, is manager of the Pearl of
Pekin" Company. Minnie Williams will
sail on the Germanic tomorrow TO meet her
prospective brother-in-law. Minnie says
that Jennie has received many presents
from her future husband, among them a
pony and dOg-cart. Mr.. Petre is a near
relative of the present Baron Petre. The
wedding will be followed by = tour on the
Continent and Mrs. Petre will retire from
the stage. Miss NJ. Z. Braddon, the novel
ist, wrote one Of her stories at CoptfOld
Hall while guest of Mr., Petre'S parents.
n. Y. sun, Aug. 18th.
The morning call., 1890-08-21
STABBED HIS FATHER.
A Worthless Son Makes Two Attempts t
XIII His Sire.

A Worthless Son Makes Two Attempts to
XIII His Sire.
John COyne is a young man who has
given the police considerable trouble and
they now regard him as dangerous char
acter. He served term in prison for rob-
berry and is said TO be an habitual drunkard.
His father. who lives on Eleventh street,
between Harrison and BRYANT, at last for
babe him to come under the paternal roof.
Tuesday evening, however, COyne c0ldly
entered the house and defed his father
when ordered of the premises. The atti-
tude of his father enraged him. He knocked
the old man down and slashed him three
times across the head and face with a carv-
ing-knife which he took from the table.
After thus giving vent to his fiendsh rage
he left the place for his old haunts among
Channel-street saloons, where the police ar
rested him early yesterday morning on a
charge of assault with a deadly weapon.
On previous occasion, the police say, he
attempted to kill his father by shooting
him
The morning call., 1890-08-21
JACOBSON BURIED.
Arrest Of Men Suspected of Kill
ing Him-TheOries.

The funeral of Samuel NJ. Jacobson, who
was shot at or in his own house Sunday
morning, took place from his late residence.
1890 California street, yesterday morning.
Rabbi NJ. S. Levy of Oakland conducted
the services at the house and delivered a
brief address, eulogizing the deceased.
A large number of prominent men,
friends of deceased. we're present at the
obsequies. Among them were Joseph
Friedlander, NJ WE'LL, Isidor Cohen, S.
Fenehtwanger, P. NJ. Lilienthal. David
Klein, S. W. Rosensladt, c. H. Meyer
Henry Morgenthau, Sigmund Greenbaum,
l.. Aronstein, David Bachman. Isaac
Frank, Emmanuel Walter. Henry Good
kind, T.. V. Merle Sylvan WE'LL. l.. +.
Rowel, w. A. Steele, Henry WE'LL.
Messrs. j. Zedermau, l.. i. koesel, NJ. 5.
Eisner, Theodore Steiner, David Oiiyer Jr..
George Walcom, Bert Hecht and S. NJ. Bett-
man acted as pall-bearers
Beautiful floral designs from friends,
clubs and the employees of Greenebaum q
Co. filed the parors where the remains
rested in a handsome metallic casket, and
were removed with the body when the
funeral procession moved away to the
Home Of Peace Cemetery, San Mateo
County.
Nothing but surmises and theories are adj
yanced in connection with Jacobson'S
persiStently TO statements to the effect that
he was killed by foOtpadS, the belief that
there is woman in the case is growing
stronger.
Three suspicious charac tiers. whose names
arg withheld are locked up in the tanks"
at the City Prison, but no proof against
them is known So far. Chief of Police
Crowley admits that his best men are baf-
fed. In such case the theory of f0Otpads
is the easiest one for them. A total reward
of $3.50 is offered for any information lead
ing to the arrest of the murderers.
Anonymous letters from residents in the
immediate vicinity of Jacobson's house
have been received by Chief Crowley. They
state that the deceased shot himself in his
own room, and offer reasonable theories in
support OF this belief. Had the shot been
fired in the street it would have been heard
by many persons who were near the place
at the time of the shooting. Only muf-
fled sound, rs a door closing with a bang,
was carried on the still midnight air.
jacobson made no cutlery, and this fact,
coupled with the supposed quiet walk up
the front steps and then to his own room
with his yitalS rent by a bullet, the writers
of the letters claim, should be carefully con-
sideTed by the detectives.
The morning call., 1890-08-21

of gas in the soil more or less affects the
growing crops. The great question may
yet be as to the advisability of sinking gas
wells. or, if sunk at all. whether other
methods should not be used to case and con-
fine the explosive. Pockets of gas are no
doubt forming beneath the limestone above
the region of the gas belt, and it is only a
question of time when it will break forth
in terrific force. 1t is yet question as TO
which is the most hazardous, the accumu-
lation of gas in pockets followed by erup-
tons similar to the Waldron blowout OF
permitting it to permeate the soil as II Is
now doing in Van Buren, and Noble town
ships, poisoning the water and diseasing
the air. 1t is reported by good citizens that
to-day boys were roasting corn by gas letsS
produced by sticking canes down in the SOIL
a few feet in the vicinity of the volcano.
Such being the case, the citizens VIII soon
have to abandon home and fireside.
The assures of the ground blown to atoms
Monday are now filling with water, through
which gas occasionally forces its way
Shelbyville Qnd.) special to the st. Louis
Ranuhlic
The morning call., 1890-08-21
AN INDIANA INFERNO.
The People Driven From Their 10


The People Driven From Their BONES
by Natural Gas.
Much excitement prevails over the recent
gas explosion. Ii is now discovered that
the whole neighborhood in the vicinity of
the young volcano is saturated with natural
gas and the soil is full of it. One can run a
crowbar down in the ground any place
and light the gas, which proceeds from
the soil in various quantities. This would
Indicate that the gas has found Its way
through the limestone, and in many places
fractures in the stone permit it to escape
into the sand and gravel Immediately below
the surface soil, which partially prevents
its escape into the air. This bears out the
theory that gas has for some time been es-
Gaping from the sides of the gas wells and
diffusing itself in the sand and gravel be-
low the limestone.
In Van Buren, Township, twenty-four
miles north of the late eruption, the water
wells which have been sunk twenty to
thirty feet, few feet below the super
structure of stone, have been broken into
by gas three miles away, and the people
have abandoned the use of the water, cased
the wells and are now using the gas for
fuel. The whole township seems to be filled
with the cOmbustible, and tine inhabitants
are threatened with disaster. No telling
but the lighting of a match may yet blow
TWO or three townships into smithereens.
1t is altogether probable that the diffusion
The morning call., 1890-08-21
THE DEADLY OlL-CAN.


A Polish Woman and Her Husband thu
Victim This Time.
About 80 o'clock yesterday afternoon
Mrs. Michael Petriz, a Polish woman. living
at 124 Enon alley, Southside, attempted to
light fire by pouring kerosene oil from a
can upon burning wood, with the usual re-
suit The can exploded, and the woman's
clothing became ignited from the burning
oil which scattered over the room. The
poor woman was Immediately enveloped In
flames, and rushed from the house scream-
ing. Her husband ran to her assistance,
and was badly burned about the face and
arms while trying to tear the burning gar
ments from her.
The woman fell insensble upon the
ground on reaching the street, and was only
resuscitated after considerable work by a
physician who was passing at the time and
went TO her assistance. She was horribly
burned, the flesh on her hands and arms
stripping off like a glove. She was removed
to the Southside Hospital, as was also her
husband. The hospital physicians state
that it was one of the worst cases they ever
met with, and that her death is only oues-
ton of few hours.-Pittsburg Dispatch,
Aug. 10th.