The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-10-02

conducting It's exhibition at Carson this
week.
VIM. smith. an old resident OF Eure-
ka and White Pine counties, died in
Salt Lake city on v edne5day of last
week, Of Bright's disease. He was
postmaster of Eureka under the Gar
fed and Harrison administrations.
Z. l.. Flanagan of Reno has just
marketed 5000 lambs at Kansas City
for ~ So per head, netting in Reno
s. 80. He writes that Kansas City Ia
by far the best market now open to
Nevada sheepmen.
Capt. De La Mar has purchased the
Reeves interest in the April Fool mine
at Delamar, and it q not unlikely that
he will follow it up with the purchase
of the Wilson and Dooley interests,
which will give him entire control OF
the property.-Delamar Lode.
The Silver State says that +. Rein
hart < Co. have received advice by wire
from Fenno Bros. * Childs, wool COM
mission merchants oi Boston, that they
had sold G.. St. Martins wool, some 26,
UUO pounds AT 49, cents, which nets MIR.
st. Martin about l3s cents here.
Thos. Ryan has COTTON himself into
trouble in DeLamar. He passed Two
forged checks on tle April Fool Co.,
for s5l and $54 respectively, but the
forgery was quickly detected and now
Mir. Ryan is in the Jug awaiting the
action of the Grand Jury.
John sparks herd of thoroughbred
Herefords captured all the premiums ut
the California state lair. specially con-
structed trucks wee used to convey
them IRON the raIltn To the rallroud,
in order To avoid tile possibility OF any
harm which might nave resulted from
driving them.
A certain count, district of Elko
county is inquiring for IA lady teacher
who is middle aged and reasonab bly,
homely, stating lis Il cause that the
young men of the district fall in love
with and distract the attention of every
nice looking Young who comes
here to teach. For further information
apply 30 the County Superintendent Of
Schools. Eek.
Photographer Al Smith, who has
been away from Eureka for the past
three years, returned Tuesday of this
week and has opened Il gallery one door
north of the San Francisco Brewery.
Mr.. Smith will fill a long felt want in
u community, and as he conducted a
photograph gallery in Eureka for six
years, it would be useless to mention his
ability in that ne.-Eureka Sentinel.
The Nevada militia men, who held
the record for rifle shooting since 1888,
when they defeated the crack Califor-
MIA team by an average score of 81 AS
points, must yield the palm to a Geor-
gia team. In an interstate contest re-
Gently held in the east, the latter team
o by the remarkable score of 1,107
points out of 1900, an average of92t
points per man.
A Reno stockman received a telegram
yesterday from Kansas asking him if he
had sold his cattle. He replied that he
had sold them for six cents, and that
feeders were exceedingly scarce. This
morning he received another telegram
from the same party asking him If 300
head could not be picked up if this VIC
inty. That don't look much like the
market east was over-stocked. Reno
Gazette.
Sunday night J. Nelson was placed
under arrest on a charge of stealing
ore from the April Fool mine and about
forty pounds of the ore was found in
his cabin. His hearing was set for
Friday. 1t has been a custom for some
time past for employees at the April
Fool to get away with quantities of rich
gold ore and have it melted out, and it
is stated that many thousands have
been taken in this wa~y.-Pioche Re-
cord.
A test is to be made of the low grade
ores now lying in the filled drifts OF the
Curry mine in Virginia. II IS piospOsed
to Il 1000 tons Of this ore through the
Kinkead mill at that place and if the
test is satisfactory all the old drifts will
be cleaned out and worked. Assays
show an average value Of about $12 a
ton in gold and silver. The Con. G.. &
", recently Melted $500 on a run of
382 o n of ore assaying $12.63, concen-
trated at the Kinkead mill and shipped
to the Selby Smelling Works.
Chas. Holly, a teamster on the De-
Lamar road, had n very narrow escape
last Thursday from a lightning trip
heavenward. When about five miles
from Desert Springs, he looked around
and found his rear wagon, which was
loaded with nitric acid, in flames. The
front wagon was loaded with giant
powder and was in imminent danger of
blown to atoms. Holly succeeded
in nncnnnlinr the Mnrnns and stnrtinr