The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-11-13
FROM ALL OVER THE STATE.
UMMARYOFTHENEW
AS GATHERED FROM OUR BX-
CHANGES.

The October payrolls on the Com
stock amounted to S57,175 Is. an in
crease of 1000 over last month.
General Manager p. T. Fransworth
has closed down the coal mine at Crum
Canyon for the winter and all the men
have been discharged. Operations will
be resumed in the mine next Spring
Austin Reveille.
r. Lee, of st. Clair, Churchill Co.,
was in town Monday with a wagon load
of honey, weighing 2200 pounds, which
he disposed of in several hours. Ne
vada honey is considered to be the best
in the world.-Austin Reveille.
Chas. G.. Steiner of Austin and a
member of the Normal Glass of '9S at
the State University, died last week at
the age of Il years. He was a partic-
ularly bright boy and stood at the head
of his class.
A long distance telephone line is to
be built across the Sierras next spring
by the Bell Telephone Co., and will
connect Reno, Carson and Virginia with
San Francisco and other California
points.
George Humphreys has been appoint
ed temporary United States Marshal for
Nevada. His term expired Monday
and Attorney General McKenna re-
tanned him in Office until his successor
is appointed. The new Marshal will be
named some time this month.
J. w. Brown met with IL painful acct
dent last week. While loading some
hay at Duck water Il foxtail lodged in
his left eve and worked under the lower
but after poulticing the eye the bari
finally worked its way out. No serious
results are now expected.
Al. Smith, Ii photographer. return
ed last Wednesday after an absence OF
three months in the northern part Of
the State. Mr.. Smith visited his ole
stamping ground, Eureka, and report,
that place as one of the deserted min.
ing camps of the State.-DeLamal
Lode.
Claudius Clark, who attempted tC
wreck a passenger train on the Contra
Pacific during the Christian Endeavol
excursions last July, pleaded guilty last
week and was sentenced to five years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary by
Judge Cheney. The crime was com
mitted in Churchill county and Clark i!
its first representative in the pen foi
twenty-five years.-Independent.
Postmaster appointments for variou.
Nevada points have been made as fol
lows: Cherry Creek, White Pine cou
ty, Daniel r. Collins. vice Peter H. Can,
non, resigned; Humboldt House, r. f,
Standinger, vice James Clark, resign.
ed: Duckwater, Nye county, Joseph
Mendes, vice Louisa Irwin. resigned.
Reveille, Nye county, G. r. Clark, vice
j. B. Gilbert, resigned.
Charley Born was in from Bald Noun.
tain this week laying in supplies for the
winter, and left a specimen of ore from
his new strike, at the Free Press office.
The ore is from a ledge running IA tc
10 inches in width, and carrying Il high
percentage of silver, gold and lead.
Mr.. Born is not shipping at the present
time, but is pillng up ore on the dumps
and has between 200 and 300 ions ready
for the smelter. He has one of the best
properties on the Pacific coast.-Fre
Press.
The Grand Jury in Lincoln county
found three indictments against Thos
Ryan of Delamar, two for forgery ant
one for jail breaking. 1t will be re
membered that he was the mar who
was arrested some weeks ago for pass
ing checks of the April Fool Co. and
afterwards attempted to escape from
the Delamar jail.
The last Lode states that Ryan wa:
convicted of forgery in the District
Court and was sentenced to three yrs,
in the Penitentiary.
At Silver Peak in Esmerelda county,
the sand hills at the foot of the Red
Mountains has been discovered to carry
81 in gold. A surveyor has been run.
ming lines there for a week, cutting
them up into 20 acre tracts for such 10.
Gators as John W. Mackey, Clarence
Mackey and others. 1t is estimated
that this sand can be worked at a cost
OF 5Ocents per ton, and there are mil
lions of tons in sight.