The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-03-17
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
James Stevens, of Ruby Hill, was
.urno1r

Johnny Doyle passed through Ely
the fore part of the week from Phoebe
on his way to Hamilton.
Grass is reported to be two inches
high up the creek, and the further up
you go the worse it gets.
At the next term of the District
Court in Lander county, which COM
mences on the Sd of April next, there
will be six murder cases to be tried.
John Daily left on Fridays Cherry
Creek stage for the Midwinter Fair,
but will take in the cake walk dance
en- route.
Mrs. Geo. Merger had severe
spell of sickness last week but is now
convalescent. DR.. M. J. Davis has
been attending her.
Weather, running counter to Fos-
ter's predictions, set in a week or
more ago and now looks like it has
come to stay.
VIM. K. House, nephew of A. G.
House, left Thursday last for his old
home in Weston, near Memphis, Ten
nessee.
An enormous spot, visible to the
naked eye, now darkens the surface
of the sun. 1t is nearly six times
the diameter of the earth.
The Vaughan Bros, and Nick Ra st
charged with the killing of the Ulster
boys in Lander county December last
have been indicted by the Grand Jury.
The Silver State announces the
death of E. J. Lucas at Stone House,
Humboldt county, on the 9th inst.
Mr.. Lucas was well known to all
early residents of Phoebe.
Jim Cross, the man who killed
Robert Wilson and Sam Baker at
Kagerman, Idaho, recently, was cap
tured in the mountains near Oakley
by sheriff's posse.
The duly appointed representative
of the News at the Midwinter Fair is
G. j. Bosko. He left on Tuesdays
Cherry Greek stage with his creden
tials in his pocket.
J. B. Hastings, a mining expert,
arrived on Thursdays Cherry Creek
stage. He will examine the Chain
man and do preliminary work, which
leaves us to infer that others are to
follow.
Ex-Governor Jewett w. Adams
came up from San Francisco on the
9th inst. and is now waiting for the
snow to go before he ventures out to
see how many cattle the late severe
weather left him.
A large flock of sand-hill cranes
passed north Tuesday at a dizzy
hight. When these birds get a move
on them. toward the north it is said to
be an infallible sign that old Winter
has thrown up the sponge.
G. J. Bosko, the well known drum
mer, arrived on Sundays Eureka
stage and put in Monday making
business calls, chaperoned by Fred
Clark. AS they passed along Main
street we heard some one remark:
CLOCKS like an exaggerated case 'of
before and after taking.
A. J. Millick, Superintendent of
the Cumberland & Osceola Gold Min
ing Company, was in town Monday.
He came for the purpose of purchas-
ing mill and mining supplies and ma
chinery from the Eberhardt for his
company, but found that VIM. Read,
Agent for the Eberhardt Co., Linn
tied, had gone to San Francisco.
Some of the boys were shaking
dice Thursday, few of them with a
view to winning the expenses of the
trip to Cherry, and when an average
throw was made all would sing out
in chorus: Heusser's !" It took
some little time ito each on" but
the discovery was finally made that
it meant that that kind of throwing
would only take you to Heusser's
ranch.
The cake walk dance at Cherry
Creek had quite pull on the people
Of Ely as the appended list of those
who left here to take it in goes to
show: Misses Josie Jackson, Agnes
Timson, Bertha Stewart, Ida Parkin-
son. Gail jackson. Mollie Stewart.