The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-03-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.


snow fell last Sunday.
Good advertising creates . de-
mand for new goods.
st. Patrick's Ball. at Munro's Hall
on the evening of the 10th,
w. J. Barney Of White River, was
doing business in Ely, Friday.
Roll of honor of the Warm Springs
school appears in this ISSUE :,
Mr.. Sol Hip departed for Carson
Monday,t to take in the prize fight.
Potatoes bring from $14 to SIG per
ton, at Dayton, Lyon county.
Treasurer Williamson is expected
home from Salt Lake City about the
Goth.
Washoe's state and county tax rate
has been fixed at 81. 80 on the 800
valuation.
The miners here are praying for
the Snow to 60 away so that they
can begin operations.
Denton's joint resolution loos ing to
the free coinage of silver at 16 to l.,
went through with a whoop.
A bill to repeal the Purity of cleo
tions law wss defeated in the Assem-
by a vote Of ID to IL.
The rate of tax. ton for State and
county purposss, as fixed by the Com
missionsrs, for the year 1897, is So
go OH each 500 valuation.
It ia said that it will cost Ormsby
county $500 in excess Of the licenses
for extra policemen to keep the peace
during the prize fight carnival.
The latest report regarding the De-
Lamar shutdown is, that Supt. Cohn
had arrived and the mine is again
in operation.
One Gilbert startled the Assembly
the other afternoon by moving to adj
. jonrn in order to meet the ex-cham-
pion J. l.. sullivan, at the train.
Strange to say the motion did not
carry.
Some of the western exchanges
seem to think that Carson will be
sadly disappointed over the crowd that
will be in attendance. The railroad
81 panies estimate hat not over
so - people will be present.
The thermometer registered IL de-
90 s below zer1 last Thursday morn
ia.. Such extremely cold weather
n. this season of the year, has set the
local weather prophets to. reviewing
the history Of the past to find a pre-
csdent.
The salary of the Judge of the
Fonrt district is increased, because,
of the great amount of travelling nee
essary. Lincoln county, is to pay
$1,000 of the salary. just what the
increase of salary is, at essnt, is
not known.
The cigarette license law provides
that every person dealing in cigar
cites or cigarette papers, shall take
out a quarterly license for which the
sum of SO must be paid in advance.
1t prohibits the sale of those articles
to any person under 81 years Of age
under penalty of not less than 500
nor more than $500 for each offsnse.
The roads between Ely and Ham
ilton which the first OF the week were
badly drifted and blocked with snow
are now open and the mails arriving
time. The White River road is still
in bad shape the mail being transfer
red on horse back. The Cherry Creek
road has been in good shape all win
tor. The Osceola roads are slow, but
the stage arrives in fairly good time.
Carson is reaping a rich reward
and acquiring q national reputation,
with astonishing rapidity. Locally it
is occasionally referred to, by the
commonplace name of Carson, but
it doesn't appear to have the proper
ring to it and consequently is fast
being retired and swallowed up by
tho moro suphoneous and suggestive
appslation OF Monte Carlo.
The employees of the De Lamar
Nevada mining company, held q
nesting March 2, and adopted rsso-
buttons declaring their entire satisfae-
tion with the treatment an wages
they have received in the past, and
have not contemplated . strike or in
jury to the company, and emphatic
ally deny that they contemplate or