The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-03-10
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

yesterday.
Silver is quoted at 1894 in New
York and at 27d in London. Lead
in New York. $3. 10.
Each delegation to the cake walk
dance at Cherry Greek will be entl-
tied to one judge.
The bills allowed by the County
Commissioners at their last meeting
will be found in another column.
The campaign opened at Melon
aid g. Harris saloon Tuesday night
with considerable warmth.
The sixteen-year-old daughter of
Mr.. Barnard, living near Boise, Idaho,
playfully pointed rifle at nine
year-old boy and blew his head off.
Uncle John Willett, well known in
this section, died at Deseret, Utah,
last week. He was about 80 years
of age.
N. Eager, agent for the White
River Cattle and Land Company
came in from that snow bound region
Wednesday.
Charley May formerly of Aurora
has been appointed Deputy Internal
Revenue Collector for Nevada, vice
Keough of Eureka.
w. B. Graham returned from San
Francisco Monday. He took in the
Midwinter and says in some respects
it is an improvement on the Worlds
Fair at Chicago.
Abe Travis, one of White Pines
County Commissioners, now in San
Francisco, has been heard from. He
is preparing to 60 into the grocery
business in that city.
To destroy the odor of paint in a
newly painted room, says an ex-
change, put a handful of fresh hay in
a bucket of water and let it stand in
the room over night.
The Elko and White Pine Trans
portation Company has secured the
contract for carrying the mail be-
tween Ely and Eureka and Ely and
Wells via Cherry Creek, service to
commence July next.
The Phoebe Lode, is evidently bent
on getting all the plural possible out
of the word "strata by the addition
of an "s" in it's standing head: "Pi-
oche Stratas." Lop off that "s" and
it will hold as much as it did before.
At the last meeting of the Board
Commissioner Gallager, with a
"wunk" in his off eye, suggested
that it wouldn't be advisable to re-
verse the decision of the Supreme
Court, in which Commissioner Scott
concurred.
The man who swept the long and
broad trail up Featherston avenue
the morning after our last heavy fall
of snow may not have been afflicted
like the man who suddenly became
possessed of an overpowering desire
to pull sage brush, but it looked that
way.
The Cherry Greek stage comes in
on time and can be counted on with
certainty, while the others get here
enthusiastically. If the mail for
this section came by way of Wells
and Cherry Greek all would be serene
and no one would have ga kick
comm
Thos. I'll. Sillyman was down from
the once famous mining camp off
Taylor Monday last He says there
is two feet of untrodden snow in
Main street and that the residents of
that burg are wearing gold bug badges
of enormous size-"all same Cleve-
land badge"
Last Wednesday says the Sentinel
of the Sd, Andrew Iverson, while
working in the Diamond mine, fell
from a ladder distance of about 100
feet, crushing in the right side of his
head and killing him instantly. De-
ceased was native of Norway and
aged about 48 years. He had no rel
atives here.
Among the engagements recently
announced, says the San Francisco
Chronicle, is that of Miss Madeline
Carter of New York, daughter of
General I'll. M. Carter, to Eugene