The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-02-24
| NEAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

TO bunny Olu0 AOP VI IL
loss of cattle in White River Valley
D. H. Jackson left Tuesday last
for his home in Oakland. He will
come AGAIN inside of three months.
Miss Adelia Mclaughlin returned
from protracted visit to San Fran
cisco Saturday last.
Quite delegation came in from
the valley Thursday to attend the
sheet and pillow case dance given by
the Entire Mouse Club.
It thawed Sunday, showed Mon
day and Wednesday and Friday morn
ing the mercury touched Ii degrees
below zero.
w. B. Graham took passage on
Tuesdays Cherry Greek stage headed
or San Francisco. He will be absent
about three weeks.
Frank X. Murphy arrived on the
belated stage Wednesday. The ele-
ments did their level best to keep him
away but to no purpose.
A Montana man has invented a
ranch snow pillow for scraping the
snow off the ranges so that the cattle
can get at the grass.
d. H. Hall, who has been Register
of the United States Land Office at
Eureka for many years, has been ap-
pointed to the same position in the
Land OH;oa OF Carson Citv
This thing called "joshing" has
been reduced to science in Ely.
When a lot of these " scientists 3" get
to cross-fring on victim they gener-
ally leave him in doubt as to which
one of the boys he is.
The mother of Ex-Governor Jewett
Adams of Nevada died in San Fran
cisco on the 18th inst at the advanced
age of 70 years. The Governor left
Carson the day following to attend the
funeral.
A letter was received here from
Ferguson district, Lincoln county, a
few days ago, in which the writer
said that the sale of the Monitor and
Jim Grow mines had not yet taken
place. The writer was in anything
but hopeful frame of mind.
Messrs. Stinson q Sheppard have
bonded their mine in Gold Canyon,
Granite District, to Charles G. Barnd,
of Fostoria, Ohio, and R. I'll. Frank
has bonded to the same party his
5-stamp gold mill and group of
mines in the same district.
Jimmy Curtis, one of the drivers
on the Eureka stage line, pulled in
Thursday evening twelve hours be-
hind time. He reports the prospects
for irregular mails to be quite as good
if not better than they have been for
some time past.
The chairman group of mines,
consisting of the Southern Cross,
Chairman, chairman Gore, Turkey
and "V" have been bonded to w.
B. Graham for $35O,OOO. The
chances are that sale will be the
outcome of the negotiations now in
in progress.
The sheet and pillow case dance
given under the auspices of the Entire
Nous Club at Munro's hall was large
ly attend considering the state of the
weather. At the time News re-
porter took it in fully twenty couples
of spooks were on the floor. The
supper, provided by the joint efforts
of the lady members of the club, was
particularly fine.
J. M. Wylie writes the Postmaster
of Ely from Springfield, Missouri,
for information as to the whereabouts
of John P. Taylor, who is about SO
years of age if living. Mr.. Taylor
was former resident of Virginia
City, this State, and later on is sup
posed to have lived in this section.
He is described as being about six
feet high, blue eyes, the left one de-
fective, usually wore long beard and
the fingers on the right hand are Grip
pied.