The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-07-28
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

dent OF IuScarOra, GIllS OOdUo1 ulou III
Salt Lake City on the 10th inst.
w. G. Noteware has been appoint
ed Chief Clerk of the Carson Mint
vice T. R. Hofer resigned.
The meeting of the Democratic
State Central Committee called for
July 25th has been postponed to
Wednesday, August 10Th.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Gillian, wife
of Thomas Gillian, died in Phoebe on
the 10th inst. after long and painful
illness.
Two hundred and sixty-fve head of
cattle belonging to Adams q Heating
passed north Monday. They will be
taken to the railroad
VIM. Hayes, one of Ely's promi-
nent merchants, left for his annual
trip East Tuesday to purchase goods.
Patrick Hayes accompanied him. The
latter goes to Ireland.
The merchants of Ely have con-
cluded to give the Southern Pacific,
better known as the G. P, the go-by
and will in future have all freight
shipped to Deseret on the u. P.
The Lode says the Mcmahon boys
are forced to work almost night and
day to fill their orders for water at
the mines and for town use.
The Mohawk comes about as near
being free gold mine as any in this
district. It's ores always pan out
something. Late washings make
.showings estimated at $13 to the ton.
Clayton Belknap of Virginia City
has been nominated by the President
for United States Surveyor General
of Nevada. Mr.. Belknap is a brother
of Justice Belknap of the Supreme
Court and an old resident of Nevada.
The fruit crop of Pahranagat Val
ley, says the Phoebe Record, will be
practically nothing this year, on &C
count of late frosts, while at points
further south the crop is exceptionally
large.
Mrs. G. Carothers, Miss Alice Ca
rothers, Miss Mamie Burke, Miss
Jennie Carothers, Jos. Newman and
VIM. Carothers returned Saturday
last from an outing of two weeks
to Lehman's cave and the mountain
hemmed wales of Snake valley.
Hon. John S. Mayhue of Elko ar
rived in Ely Thursday, and has been
looking at some of our mines. But
few have lived longer or more con-
tinuously in the State, and his name
is one of the most familiar in Ne
vada's early history.
J. B. Parish and w. Ell. Higin-
botham, the Denver mining men who
have been examining the Chairman
mine the past week, left for home
Wednesday morning. They took
with them large lot of samples from
the mine.
Messrs. Foley, Bartine and Grey,
says the Elko Free Press of the 21st,
who we're delegates to the Republi-
can League Convention at Denver
last month, were passengers on Mon
day mornings west bound train.
They were tied-up in Salt Lake City
for two weeks.
A singular accident happened near
Boulder, Montana, on the 10th inst.
A rock weighing ton was loosened
by the heavy rains and, crashing
down the mountain, struck square
over the mouth of the shaft of the
Katie mine and fell to the bottom,
mangling two miners working there.
The shaft was hundred feet deep.
Mrs. Geo. E. Spencer of Kings
ton, Nevada, has sold all her mining
property in Osceola, consisting of a
one-fourth interest in the Eagle and
Crescent mines, one-sixth of the
Woodman, and all of the Morning
Star, Ohio and Durango, to Mary
Catharine Rayston of Chicago, the
consideration being ST. 500.
During his late visit to Denver D.
III. jackson says he met Frank Ham
ilton, after whom the town of Hamil-
ton in this county was named. 1t
will be remembered that three or four
years ago it was reported that Ham
ilton, while being closely pursued by