The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-02-06
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

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school appears in this issue.
The average price of lead in the
Now York exchange for 1896, was
81. SO per cwt.
Considerable snow has fallen in tho
in the last week, but it ''lasts quick,
the weather. being too warm.
1t il rumored that the merry chime
of marriage bells, will soon be heard
in Ely.
Mr.. Fox Colorado. mining
man, is examining properties in Gran
lite district, witha view OF bonding
w. N. McGill who departed for
Hamilton Tuesday, returned Thurs
day morning accompanied by Chas.
Lane, the noted California mining
man, and g. l.. Bliss of Carson.
The enactment of the law licensing
prsze-6ghting in Nevada, is the source
of much discussion among the local
lights in this vicinity. Its merits are
being aired thoroughly, and the chan
ces are, that in few days decision
will be reached and its destiny fore
told.
Ely has the handsomsst serenading
band on the Coast. Its members are
all ladies, accomplished musicians
and the most charming specimens OF
female loveliness Imaginable.
A bill is now befor the Legislature
which, if it becomes law, will limit
tho price of spectator tickets to
prize fighting to 81. 1t also provides
that Intoxicating liquors shall not be
sold or given away.
According to the California law
fifteen rounds in scientific glovs. con-
test, but Nevada don't look at the
matter in that light; in order to. be
a real c itest it must be finiahed and
Nevada has ordered that the number
of rounds be unlimited,
You retire at seasonable hour in
the evening with the expectation Of
securing much needed repose. You
have been reading during the day of
the miseries and ,tribulations inflicted
on the poor down-trodden and tax-rid
den people of Cuba; your heart swclls
with compassion and your soul revolts
a. you contemplate i..c barbarnus and
brutal policy of thu cruel aud relent-
less ,Spaniasas .-tsqia,t the oppressed
and liberty ico ~ ntans as they strug-
gls manful|y aiist almost insur-
mountabis uGIs for their indepen-
dencc. You ioye,y your wife; you love
your children; you love your home;
you love your country; yea worship
at the shrine of liberty; you view with
righteous Indignation this heartless
infringement upon the life, the liber-
ty and the sacred rights of the Cubans
by those vile fanatics whose beastly
thirst for blood is appalling, your rest
is titful and broken; you dream of
suffering Cuba, of the outrageous and
unspeakable cruelty Of those inhuman
Spaniards; a feeling of resentment
takes possession of your soul and you
breathe defiance to the whole Spanish
nation; you are suddenly trasported
from nome and 6resids to the heart |
of bleeding Cuba; you are engaged in
actual warfare; but for some unao-
countable reason you find that the war
like spirit which inspired you to es-
poused the Cuban cause has fed the |
courage and patriotism that nerved
yon while at home has vanished; an
; awful fear has taken possession Of you;
you are paralized with fright; the
rattle Of musketry, tho booming of
cannon and the clash OF arms fills you
with an indiscribable terror; Your first
impulse is to fly; you look about you
cautiously, but Infatuated dsmonds
confront you at every turn; they are
closing in upon you; you realize your
end is near and assume an attitude of
prayer; their 6endish hands are upon
you; the cruel machets is raised aloft;
you await the impending stroke
your blood freezes within you, AZ
that is to introduce you into the
"Kingdom come; "thsn--you sud
denly awake; you are sitting bolt up
right in bed; you look around for tho
foe but there isn'ta Spaniard within
four thousand miles Of you and the only
semblance Of war that exists to remind |
you Of your frightful experience in
Cuba, is a handful of msasly China
mon, who are shooting fire crackers
ACROSS the way, and raising cane gen |