The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-12-14

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A case of small pox Is reported at the
Carson Indian school.
A strike Of high grade ore has been
made In the Yubs mine Phoebe.
A band OF 81 mules was purchased in
Eureka county last week .or shipment
to South Africa.
A total OF fOrty-thrss marriage H..
censes were issued at Reno last month,
nearly all to Califori Ia people.
The largest individual taxpayer in
Washoe county, and perhaps in the
State, is Senator Flanagan, the sheep
man.
Negotiations for the sale of mine
near Yerington. Lyon county, are in
progress. The vein is a low grade gold
proposition.
John |. Blair, the New Jersey non
ogenarian and owner of the Silver Peak
mines, died in New York last week.
The employees of the Delamar mill
have presented a petition to Superin.
tendent demanding eight hours work.
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]. b. MCGEE has bonded the Copper
King mine on Blind mountain belong
ing to Jochimson and Price, for $4,000,
says the Phoebe correspondent of the
Messenger
1t is said that there are a thousand
carloads of freight in and around Og-
den awaiting transportation over the
5. +. Four hundred of them are coal.
The Elko Independent says: Mr..
Ford, a Salt Lake contractor, and a
working force arrived this week, en-
route to Tuscarora 30 build q mill for
the Young America East company.
As the result OF quarrel between
two drunken Indians at Elko this week.
one Is lying dead and the other IL fu-
gitive from justice.
Murder in the first degree was the
verdict OF the Austin jury in the trial
of Indian Frank for the murder OF Mrs.
Del Gross, little over month ago in
Lander county. The Indian was sem
fenced to be hanged.
Several more men have been put on
to do development work on the Pyra-
mid group Of mines. Work is progress
sing satisfactorily and by spring the
old camp will be booming, says the Ca
zette.
Capt w. F. Mills has brought suit
against the Reno journal to recover
$40, 900 damages for alleged libelous art
icles recently published in that paper.
Wednesday of last week G. d. Van
Duzer, editor of the Nevada Magazine,
purchased the interest of J. F. Haley.
Mr.. Van Duzer is now sole proprietor
of that publication. The consideration
is stated to be 1900.
The United States Grand Jury which
met at Carson this week acted on about
twenty cases in which the defendants
were charged with selling whiskey to
Indians and found true bills in all but
one case.
Mr.. Joseph Nay and Miss Ellie CHI.
ford were married in Belmont on the
It'll. Both parties are well known in
Nye county. The brides parents ex-
tended general invitation to the peo-
pie of Nye county tn he present at the
wedding. '--.
California teachers imported for the
Eureka county high school decline TO
submit to the annual examination and
the trustees will be compelled to en-
ploy others. This will result In closing
the schools in that county In January,
says the Silver State. -
Owing to a scarcity of funds in the
State Treasury the Controller will not
be able to draw the warrants necessary
to pay the State until after the taxes
come In about the 18th OF this month.
BY that time the State safe will again
be in plethoric condition. Appeal.
The Delamar Messenger says: The
Johnny mill 10 hammering away on ore
from the mine, and from the express
sions OF the owners, we are inclined to
believe the results are very fiattering.
The company have purchased the Vic
tor claim which adjoins the Johnny on
the west, but we were not able to learn
the consideration.