The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-04-16
FROM ALL OVER THE STATE.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS
AS GATHERED FROM OUR Bx-
CHANGES.

Work has been resumed on the Gold
Creek placers.
The population OF Wadsworth has
increased from 537 in 1890 to l,025 at
the present time, on the authority of
the Dispatch.
Mrs. John Hankins of Ruby valley,
died in California on March 3lst., OF
typhoid fever. She had started with
her husband on pleasure trip.
The Nevada University girls were
beaten in the basket ball game played
with the University of California girls
at Berkeley Saturday.
Sheepmen who are shearing sheep on
the line of the railroad are receiving II
ents per pound for the wool as it comes
off the sheep.
At Elko Saturday E. c. Snyder, edi-
tor of the Argonaut, was held to an
swer before the grand jury on charge
Of criminal libel preferred by W. w.
Booher, editor OF the Independent.
Flour has raised % cents barrel
twice in the past two weeks on the San
Francisco market. Good milling wheat
is hard to obtain and large quantities
ire being shipped from this State.
The Phoebe Record says that ton
and half of selected ore from the Char
ley Ross mine in Eagle Valley district,
marketed at Salt Lake two weeks ago.
netted over 81, $50
Another carload of machinery for
Bald Mountain arrived from the East
Monday, and was loaded for the south
by Van Drielen and Grant. Among the
lot was complete electric plant. -Elko
Independent.
Some weeks ago Ross Levers of
Washoe, sold several carloads of apples
for shipment to England and Scotland.
Yesterday he received letter from Liv-
srpool saying that some of the apples
had brought SO % box at auction.
Carson News: There are now "a
Chinaman in the State Penitentiary.
This comprises about 25 per cent of the
,ntire number of inmates. There is
)nly one woman there, Lottie Carson,
who is very old. Practically she is suf-
fering solitary continent. Her offence
rs is the case with most of the Celestial
was selling liquor to Indians.
The Carson News says that Pine Nut
gravel washed this week, some 30 tons,
Welded 81 per ton and wants to know If
it can be beaten. The Wadsworth
Dispatch says that Olinghouse placer
knocks that silly, 400 tons of Oling-
house gravel yielded S12 per ton and 81
gravel is quite common stuff for us.
Two tramps died at Winnemucca
last Thursday night from the effects of
thinking wood alcohol, which il is sup
posed they took in mistake for the
ordinary'article. They were both young
men, about 25 years old, and fairly well
dressed.
The Mountain City Times says that
three samples taken from a phonolite
like recently discovered near that
pl ice assayed, s47 so, 5000 and Ss7
respectively. These are supposed to Re
average samples which can be found
anywhere in the dixie that is more than
a hundred feet wide.
Since the trial of Sheriff Brockliss of
Douglas county for neglect of duty in
ilO - bCI NdoCf ip iidS bt1ii ulH-
covered that three Of the sheriff's bonds
men, D. B. Park, A. p. Squires and n.
II. Johnson, were members of the jury
which acquitted him.
Frank Helm, Public Administrator of
Ormsby county, was found to be $3.50
short in his accounts last week The
shortage was made good by his bonds
men, who placed his father, Alfred Helm
in the Office. with the understanding
that he should turn over Sl25 month
to the bondsmen until the amount was
paid.
AT the Culverwell sawmill last Satur-
day afternoon Mace Dixon lost his life.
He was operating on the saw carriage,
when In some way he lost his balance
and fell, or was carried, against the
saw. His body was practically cut In
two, the saw cutting diaginally from
the shoulder to the hip on the opposite
side. He lived but moment. The mat
ter was so purely an accident that no
coroner S inquest was deemed necessary
aud the body was brought TO Delamar
and interred on Sunday afternoon.
Mace was an old timer hereabouts, a
wholesouled, generous man and mum
bered friends by the score among those
who knew him,-Record.