The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-04-18

from the Ursins office at Eagle Val
ley, and all mail for State Line Dis
trict, including the town of Lima,
should now be directed via NewlandS.
The Hawthorne "Bulletin" says
two carloads of copper ore from the
Dunlap mine, near Soda, were ship
ped to Empire Sunday for u test.
If the ore works up to expectations a
sale of the mine will be made.
The House has passed bill to
adopt The metric system of weights
and measures in all departments of
the Government after July 1st, 1897,
and to make it the only legal SYSTEM
after January 1, 1897.
Mr.. J. p. McOmie returned from
Eureka, Thursday afternoon, accom-
panied by Mrs. McOmis and daught-
err Jean, who for the past two months
have been stopping in California. for
the benefit of Miss ] cans heal h. We
are pleased to note, however, that the
young lady is now quite well again.
DENTISTRY NOTICE:-Dr. A.
HUDGENs Dentist, of DeLamar New,
will visit Ely on or about the Goth of
May, and will remain TEN DAYS.
Those in need of dental work will
please call early. PRICES REASONABLE
end q ArTcD crToNr oIr ID A NrrUD Off 90
at Riepe's hotel.
Three "tsnderfoot" brothers named
Ashford, accidentally stumbled on to
ledge in the Mohave desert, that
carries ore that assays $4,000 to the
ton. The ledge is in the midst of the
desert sixteen miles from water.
B. F. Miller, General Manager of
the Elko & White Pine Transporta-
ton company, will run branch line
into Lima. The new town gives good
promise for the future or Ben would
not tap it with a branch stage line.
The Hon. A. G. Clevslaan and S.
A. D. Glasscock, are the probable
selections that will be made in May,
to represent White Pine, in the n at
ional Republican Convention, to be
hsld in St. Louis, June 10th. Such
able men cannot fail to do honor to
the people they represent.
Forty thousand acres of Virgin for
est in Southern Idaho, will soon be
turned over to the axmen of a big
syndicate. 1t is expected that this
area vii yiold more than 400, O00,-
900 feet of white aud We low pine, red
and white fir and tAlnaracs.
The choir at thu burial services Of
the dead Governor was drawn from
all the churches. Tha State officers
marched in the funeral procession, as
mourners, Immediately following the
family. the pail bearers We're two State
officers, two ex-Governors, two citi-
zens, two Masons, two from the miti-
tia and two from other societies.
The Carson "News' says that the
following candidates for delegates to
the Republican National Convention
to be held in st. Louis have been an
nounced A. G. Bragg. Reno; Hon.
A. G. Cleveland, of Cleveland, White
Pine County; Hon. John Tore, Eu-
reka. j. E. McKinnon Virginia City !;
w. D. Philips, Reno; Enoch Stroth-
ers, Virginia City; S. A. D. Glass
cock, Osceola; w. S. Bonni6eld, Win
nemucca and Fl. B. Maxon, Reno.
Senator Tillman is reputed to be
uncompromisingly in favor of free sill
vsr. Suppose he is? Is it necessary
for him to como out here, in these
Western states, right here in the heal t
of the silver country, whore every
body that can think, from the school
boy to the gray-haired sire is heart
and soul in the good cause, and shout
himself hoarse or the silver question?
Why don't he exercise ordinary horse
sense and hammer little wholesome
silver doctrine into the heads of the
millions of befuddled and groveling
bigots that infest the boss-riddsn gold
bug region he has left behind? Go
back friend Tillman, go back to your
"nativs heath, back to the land from
whence you came and teach those ia
natics and blind idiots whose impov-
erishei minds are starving for just
that kind of financial diet. you are