The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-09-02
GEM ERAL NEW 8.

through Ute Pass
Cowboys in the town of Three Riv-
ers, Mich. have discarded horses for
bicycles in herding cattle.
A general meeting of wool growers
Of Colorado is to be held soon to dis
cuss the condition e the industry.
Eight Cinnamon last week were ar
rested at San Antonio, Texas, for nom
compliance with the Geary law.
Work is almost at standstill in
mines at Coal Creek, Tenn, owing to
a strike against reduction in wages.
Music has been costing the Worlds
fair 81, 800 day. Now the cost is
much less, the spirit of economy pre-
vailing.
The salaries of Pacific mail employees
have been reduced and are to be paid
after September 1st in silver instead
of gold
The Commercial hotel at Northport
Wash, has been burned, and George
Shields and Frank Ingle were burned
to death.
Of the l, 400 prisoners in the Illinois
State Prison at Joliet one third are
reported to be suffering from consump-
| ton.
James R. Catten died at Fresno
from the effects of eating large guam
tity of grapes and swallowing the seeds
ten days ago.
A number of white girls employed
pasting labels on salmon cans in AS
toria at very moderate wages were re-
Gently discharged and Cinnamon hired
to do the work at half price.
The latest proposed ship canal is to
run from Toledo to Cincinnati, max
ing Cincinnati rival to Chicogo for
lake traffic. The government is to be
asked to assist.
BY decision of United States Dis
trict Judge Bellinger of Oregon 2OO,-
900 acres of railroad land have been de-
clared forfeited and restored to the
people.
A tribe of Central Africa has adopt
ed rule that speakers shall only speak
as long as they are able to stand on
one leg. The Boston Transcript COM
mends this rule to congress.
Eastern Washingtons grain harvest
this season promises to be the best
ever known. The average yield from
British Columbia to the Oregon line
will be thirty bushels to the acre.
Hoke Smith is to be burned in efigy
by the indignant people of Parkers-
burg, w. Va, because he has cut Oft
the pensions, the only means of sub
sistence of many poor and helpless old
soldiers of the vicinity.
A white man in Montana married
a colored woman, and the match was
not approved by society. A delega-
ton of neighbors called, tarred the
groom black, kalsomined the bride
alabaster and departed satisfied.
Only one woman in the country oc-
cupies the position of president of a
national bank. This is Mrs Annie
Moore of Pleasant, Texas. She is
described as bright, attractive in man
ner and highly educated.
Kansas women justices deal with
the tramp question in their own way
One tramp was sentenced to two baths
day for 10 days and hard labor on
the stone pile, with the order that he
was to be fed if he worked and starved
if he shirked.
Near Middleton, Idaho, day before
yesterday the house of family named
Brookshire, late from Missouri, was
burned. Two children, aged four and
two years, perished. The mother left
the house for short time and when
she returned she found the children
suffocated ON bed.
In waltzing contest just concluded
in San Jose, Ed Perry and Robert
Mcclellan danced draw. They each
waltzed nineteen hours This, it is
claimed, beats the worlds record for
a continuous dance, which is fifteen
hours. Several of the contestants are
in a precarious condition from exhaus-
ton. Each dancer had three girls
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