The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-10-23
NEWS NOTES.

The Bank Of Rico, Colo, has closed
its doors, going into voluntary liqui-
dation. Depositors are to be paid in
full.
CHIEF of Police Ripley of Chicago
has ordered the policemen not to re-
ceiye presents from citizens in the
future.
Authentic information is at hand
that there is a great discovery of free
milling gold ore in the Chocolate
mountains Of Yuma county, A. T.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, /. O.
o. F., is in session in Springfield, Ill.
Delegates from every State and from
Europe, Canada and Australia are
present.
The Fruit Importers Union of New
York city has disrupted. and several of
the most prominent receivers have
severed their connection with that
organization.
The revenue from customs for the
month of August under the Dingley
bill was Sc, 528 $50 less than it was
for the same month last year under
the Wilson bill.
A small detachment of United States
troops will be dispatched to st.
Michael, Alaska, shortly owing to the
reports of pending violence among the
starving Adventures in that vicinity.
The Dismal swamp of Virginia and
North Carolina. covering an area OF
perhaps 400 square miles, caught fire
from one end to the other, the result
of an unprecedented drought and ex-
cessively hot weather. No one inhab-
its the swamp but wild animals. there
fore no attempt was made to check the
flames.
Money continues to be ordered from
the banks at New York and the Sub
Treasury to pay the wheat-growers of
the South and West. The Sub-Treas-
ury received orders to ship S275,0) 20
in currency to the South and the
northwest. The money will be sent
from Washington. The banks sent
about 81, 900, 900.
A special to the New York Herald
from Panama says: Advices from
Nicaragua, received by way Of Tegu.
cigalpa, Honduras, states that a revolu.
ton has broken ont simultaneously in
the city of Granada and the town
Jinotepec. No details of the outbreak
have been received. According TO the
anne advices Honduras is now quiet.
The Hooley Jameson syndicate of
London has concluded negotiations by
which..it will take up ZIG, O0O, 900 of
the 5-per-cept bonds which the Chi
nese Government will issue at "a. A
Brussels newspaper claims that the
arrangement is a victory over the
Americans, and says a Belgian syndi-
cate has obtained a contract which Sc
cures exclusively the construction of
the Peking- Hankow line.
Seymour Brothers. stock and grain
brokers at 80 Broad street, New York.
have assigned. The firm had offices
in various parts Of the country. The
firms standing was good and it is said
to have done a large business. The
assignees said it would be impossible
to give an estimate of the assets and
until an inventory had been
taken. 1t is reported, however. that
the liabilities may reach nearly ST.
000. 900. 1t is said that the firms
failure was caused by heavy dealings
in wheat.
Pensions have been granted the fol-
named Pacific Coast residents:
Acknowledgment George Ramsay,
San Francisco; James La Niece, San
Arthur McGurk, Ven-
turs; Elihu ]. Kelly, Woodfords; Asa
.imDall, Fort Bragg. Original
widows, etc., Ellen Kershner, mother,
Pasa de Robes. Oregon-Original,
Frederick. Winchester, Rainier; Peter
7. Meeks, Sherwood. Washington {
Alexander Tilley, Kent; .
louis Hastings, Vancouver.