The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1896-09-26

Willingness TO close up AZ 1:0O IN
the evening and it now only remains
for some one to take around a list
Carson News.
A chemical dyeing- school for In
struction and research has been built
at Crefeld under the auspices of the
German government at cost of about
100000.
Foreign exchange continues weak.
and the indications are that the in
ward movement of gold will contin-
lie for time, though it is not posi-
BILE to predict its approximate amount.
The Silver party, Democratic and
Populist conventions of Washoe coun-
ty, met at Reno on the 21st. The
Democrats and Silver men fused, the
former getting six and the latter eight
places on the ticket.
An exchange says that the free
lunch system which has been mar
ked feature of San Francisco life for
over fifty years, is doomed. The
proprietors of fine saloons have been
pinched by dull times and failing
trade, and they have decided that the
free lunch must 60.
John A. Drager, an old time min.
er and smelling man of Eureka, was
a passenger on Wednesday mornings
.east-bound passenger train on his
way to Johannesburg, and South
Africa, where he has a good position.
Hank Miller has discovered rich
mine four miles south of the old Pyr-
amid mining district, says the Reno
Gazette. lie has uncovered twelve
inch vein for distance of about one
thousand feet and he has had two as
says made of that which 60 rs, 1920 and
$1O,23 per ton.
Fhe Deputy County Assessor-of
Story county reports 262 widows rep
resented on the assessment roll of
1896, 181 in Virginia and 81 in Gold
Hill, all property owners. Three
fourths of them, or even more, are
the widows of deceosed miners.
At San Francisco, on the afternoon
of the 21st., Oliver Winfield Winthrop
was sentenced to life Imprisonment,
for robbery in correction with his alb
duction of James Campbell, the Ha-
waiian millionaire, whom he kept a
prisoner two days in cottage at West
End, California street, in the hope of
securing ransom of twenty thousand
d liars.
A game of baseball at Virgins city
on the GOTH, between tho Nevada
Stars and picked nine resulted in
victory for TIL. first named club by a
score of 8 to 7. The Stars, who won
the Nevada championship in the Ex-
aminer tournament, will leave for
California Sunday, where they will
play in the contest to decide the coast
championship.
The Minas Prietas mines, of Seno
ra, Mexico, have been purchased by
an English company which has a
capital of $3.50, 900 in So shares.
The stock is already at 30 per cent
premium. The mine was examined
and reported on for the Exploration
Company by the well-known mining
engineers. Mr.. Henry Janin, of
London, and Mr.. John B. Parish,
of Denver, Colorado.
Engineering and Mining Journal:
Load last week reached the lowest
quotations on record in this market,
selling here in New York for 2.6O
cents per pound; and though there
has been slight reaction since, the
price is still extremely low. At these
figures the small profit which there
has been in producing lead must have
nearly, if not quiet, disappeared, and
the closing down of number of mines
may follow, unless demand and prices
should increase, which does not seem
Immediately probable.
The Democratic fusion primaries in
DeLamar on Thursday of last week,
says the Phoebe Record, was gener-
al surprise, two tickets were in the
field. It was the general belief that
it would be tame affair, but the in
PRODUCTION of the second ticket caus-
ed friendly rivalry, and great Skin
mishing was done to bring voters to
the polls. Everybody seemed to take
interest on one side or the other, and