The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AUSTIN Is soon TO nave electflC llBHIo,
the work of construction being about
completed.
The Hawaiian Senate, in extra ses-
sion on the Sth inst, ratified the pro-
posed treaty.
The State Fair has been conducting
its annual exhibition at Reno this week.
A fine program was offered.
Greece and Turkey have concluded
the terms of peace, and all the Turkish
military and naval commanders have
! been notified to that effect.
Theo. Figel who has been undergo
ing examination in Judge Campben's
Court in San Francisco for the murder
of Isaac Hoffman, has been held for
trial in the Superior Court without
bail.
The city of Reno is to hold a special
election on the It'll of October to deter
mine the will of the people of Reno
whether bonds to the extent of $780,
600 shall be issued for the establish
ment of a municipal water and electric
light works.
The Delamar townsite case has been
decidedin favor of the occupants of the
townsite. The case has been in litiga-
tion in the United States Court at Car
son since last May, and the decision is
received with great rejoicing by the res
idents of the town, who have on the
land improvements worth over 800, 600.
A murder and suicide are reported
from Butte, Mont. Thos. Lane, a min
er until recently employed in the Ana
conda mines, while in In intoxicated
condition shot and killed James Shea,
a shift boss in the same mine, and then
turned the pistol upon himself.
The Washoe Club is a thing of the
past. Formed in the bonanza days of
Virginia, it numbered among its char
ter members many of Nevada's richest
and smartest men. Now they have
many of them died, and the rest are so
scattered that it has been deemed ad-
visable to close the doors.
Open war has begun between the
Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line
as the result of disputes of long stand
ing. The U. P, has served notice that
it will sever all traffic relations with the
Short Line after Oct. 1st. This will
give all the through business of the
latter line to the Rio Grande Western.
The members of the old Board of
Supervisors, of San Francisco, who
were recently ousted from Office, we're
elected from the assembly room of the
city building by the police, last
Monday. They have now taken
rooms in a lodging house, and continue
to issue edicts and p~roclamations. Both
the new and the old Board have made
tax levies and the latest complication is
the refusal of Auditor Broderick to re-
cognize either, pending the action OF
the Supreme Court.
At a recent meeting of the Cabinet
it was decided to send a small detach-
ment of troops to St. Michaels, Alas
ka. in accordance with the report OF
Capt. Ray, the army officer who was
sent to Alaska to investigate the situa-
ton. Twenty-Five infantrymen with a
surgeon and three members of the hos
pital corps have been ordered to GO at
once. They will spend the winter in
/, camp at ST. Michaels and will proceed
up the river to the diggings as early
in the spring as the weather will per-
NIT.
A dispatch from the city OF Mexico
states that Anulfo Arroyo who at
tempted to assasinate President Diaz,
as the latter was passing through
public park on Sept. 18th, was set up
on in jail by an Infatuated mob, and
stabbed to death. The Officials wert
entirely unable to cope with the fury
! of the mob that assailed the Jail with
cries of Long live Diaz; long live
Mexico and death to anarchists" Aftel
the deed had been committed, TIL
crowd escaped to the street wher'
some twenty arrests were made by tn
= police.
! The latest dispatches from the yellow
, fever district report q new cases a
, New Orleans, during the preceding 4
| hours. The fever seems to be of a mil,
type, but few deaths resulting. A de
9 tention camp was opened at the Oaklan'
; Driving Park in the center of the cit
and many Italian families have bee
i removed thither.
+ At Edwardds, Miss, there have bee
A SO cases reported up to date, 81 in tn
preceding two days. There have bee
three deaths in all. The strictest quar-
. antine measures are being enforced an,
: the doctors in charge are hopeful of 500
having the spread of the disease unde
g control.
s STICK TO LIVE STOCK.
. The Kansas City Packer says tina
the wheat grower who points with sat
? iofa otion 10 tho advapcino prioa m fhi