The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-01-03

rain.
Short courses in agriculture and
dairying will be given the people OF the
State at the University. The term be-
gins February LIST and continues until
March 10Th.
Theodore Storf was caught by cave
in the Dexter mine at Tuscarora last
Friday morning and was considerably
bruised about the LIMBS and lower por-
tion of the body.
Not fifth OF the mining locations
made in Lincoln county during the last
two years are legal, says an exchange,
Trouble is now being experienced In
obtaining patents.
Ex.Sheriff W. II. Sweeney, of Eure-
ka, was horribly burned in cabin in
Antelope valley, last week. Sweeney
and another man had retired, and du-
ring the night the cabin took fire, and
Mr. Sweeney was so seriously burned,
that he is in danger of losing one eye.
The Elko Independent says: 1.-The
report is going the rounds of the State
Press that the smallpox has broken out
in Elko How the report originated,
we do not know, but the fact is there
has been no smallpox in Elko since last
winter. Brothers of the quill, please
make note OF this
At Palisade the Humboldt river is
not yet frozen over, while at Carlin the
ice is four inches in the same stream
and at Elko it measures six inches. At
. h. att al IL fifsr inn ftlnr
in on Christmas day and young man
named Bonnie Mcbride was severely in
iured by fall on the ice.-Sentinel.
President Oscar J. Smith of the Re-
no Smelling a. Milling Company in.
forms the journal that all the stock OF
the reorganlzed company has been sub
seribed and nearly all has been pad in.
The work is almost in readinss for Ope-
ration. Cash will be paid for all ore
delivered in ten days.
While Judge Talbot was away from
his house yesterday. some OF his neigh
bors turned one of the evergreens in his
yard into Christmas tree. Packages
Of candy and nuts and other things were
left dangl ng from the limbs. The
packages are still hanging to the limbs, |
but they would not be there long if we
were kid .-Elko Independent.
VIM. Wheatley, who owns valuable |
group of mines at Silver King, left for
that place on Monday to do his work |
ON the claims. w hen it comes to per-
forming annual labor, William is holy |
terror. He can perform the annual
labor on ten claims in Il week and never
lose drop of moisture Lincoln Coun-
ty Record.
II. j. Tibbets is in from Pyramid
He reports two strikes as having been
made there within the past week.
The shaft in the Bird 8 Eye claim,
owned by Dragovich & Tibbets, has
broken into formation of decomposed
quartz, sample of which assayed S35
In gold and 81 in silver. The load is
about eight fee wide.
Hon. William H. Parker, Assembly
man-elect from Lander county, is out
in a card in the Austin Reveille, calling
upon his constituents to tell him how to
vote on the lottery amendment A
member Of the legislature who does not
know that the State is opposed to a
lottery is indeed in a bad way. The
Gazette will respectfully refer the hon.
orable gentleman to the vote taken a
few years ago when the proposition was
before the people.
A recent ruling of the Secretary of
the Interior is to the effect that an APP
plcant for "a patent to a mining claim,
who has been adversed in the Courts,
is not obliged, after the commencement
of adverse proceedings, to keep up the
annual expenditure or assess ment dur
ing the tendency of the proceedings.
This is most remarkable ruling and is
in direct opposition to all previous rul-
Ings OF the Land Office.
Josiah Gilbert; who left the Com
stock twenty-six years ago, visited the
Did lode recently, and met a number Of
Did friends. among them Jack Craze,
his former companion Mr.. Gilbert is
in the interest of English
capitalists, who are seeking invest
ments in mining property. He left for
Salt Lake last evening, and may re-
tura in the near future and make an
Investigation of the properties in this
State.
Major Fred B Spriggs informs the
Reno Gazette that the press dispatch
the Pyramid Indian reser
walton was misleading. Last July the
Pyramid reservation was put in charge
Of Major Spriggs as superintendent.
acting agent, and his salary comes out
Of the Government school fund. The
money to pay for the maintenance of
the reservation is provided in another
way. The reservation will continue on
the same lines that it has been for so
many years.
The Eureka & Palisade Railroad Co.
has put in new stockyard at Palisade
this week and others will be built at
once both at Eureka and at the Hay
Ranch, says the Sentinel. This is being |
done for the convenience of the stock
men OF this locality who may desire to |
make shipments in either direction over
the line Of the Central Pacific. When |
these yards are completed, cattle may |
be shipped either from Eureka or the
Hay Ranch and transferred at Palisade
to the cars on the main line.
Gordon Freeman. who was Second |
Lieutenant of Troop A. Nevada Caval-
ry, during the latter part of its service |
in the Philippines, committed suicide
at Reno on the 9th OF December. by
shooting himself in the head. He left
a note giving directions for the burial
of his body. He was a native of Mis-.
souri,, 30 years Of age, and had lived in
Reno half his lifetime. He has a mo-
Their and sister living in Canyon City,
Colorado The journal says the sui
eide was partly due to impaired health
but mainly to hereditary suicidal ma