The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-02-14
BLY, SCRAPS.

Latest qu0tatloAfS. Lead o4.O
copper, si5a; Silver, eoi.
II is reported that Mr.. Sol Hip will
remove to Ely, and will go into busi'
ness hero.
M. ]. Shafer has returned from Os.
eeola and has resumed work as black
smith ct the Robust.
Do not forget that V. ]. Carothers
& Co. are selling on their goods at cost
during this month.
Good rooms can be had In the Mag
nuson lod ging house, In connection with
the Riepe hotel.
The Ball advertised In this paper for
tonight, comes at an inconvenient
date for special notice. In the next is
sue the News will have report to
make.
The stove has been put in place in
the Hall, and warm fire will be kept
up this evening. Persons who wish to
attend the dance need not fear the
cold
Mrs. Benjamin Cohen was indisposed
for several days last week, and was un-
der the Doctors care. Her friends are
glad to know that she has almost en-
tirely recovered.
See Wah has bought the interests OF
his partner, I'll Yum, and will hereaf-
ter conduct the business alone. He
keeps on hand large supply OF Chi
nsse goods. and VII sell at very reas-
enable figures.
The population of Ely is increasing.
There Is an additional member In the
Cripps family. Frank says she Is a
rustler, or Is going to be, because she
cried as soon as she found herself In
possession of sufficient power to do so.
The Wadsworth Dispatch says that
Al Lothrop Is very III in San Francis
CO. His brother had been summoned
from Wadsworth. Mr.. Lothrop, 1t
will be remembered, Is the brother-in-
law of Mrs. Frank Paul.
The Reception given by Mrs. Shep-
herd to the Rev. Mr.. Darneille, last
Friday evening, was a very pleasant
enc, and very well attended. The dark
cold night. however, and the severe
snow storm, kept many away who
would otherwise have been glad TO at
tend.
There surely must be something In
tho groundhog day tradition. The an
imal comes out OF his hole on the End
Of February, In order to spy out the
land. II he sees his shadow, he goes
back again for six weeks. 1t looks
now as II he had not only gone back,
but had pulled his hole in after him.
The osceola stage lately got lost in
the snow on It's way to Ely. In the
darkness and confusion occasloned by
the storm. the stage left the right road
and wandered around for some hours.
At last tho moon showed itself, and
disclosed the fact that the stage was
within Q few feet of the spot where 1t
had first left the road.
Looking carefully over the mining
notes in the Salt Lake papers, these
little items were discovered. The Tay-
lor & Brunton sampler had received ii
cars OF ore from Tintic, o from Stock
ton, and 3 from Nevada. And what is
more to the point, 80 far as the readers
OF the NEWS are concerned, William
Hayes was on the market with another
consignment OF ore from Macon City
Mine, this District.
There was once a man who said he
could talk for two hours on the ad van
tages OF living In garrett. 1t might
be possible for some gifted person to
talk the same length OF time on the ad-
vantagos OF living one hundred miles
from railroad. People, for instance,
who live thus are not aroused In the
early morning by the thunder OF trains
and the shrill whistle of locomotives
They are not troubled much about the
time, for there IL no standard to go by,
and one can hardly say that another
mans watch Is wrong. Then one Is
not made slave to the reading OF the
daily morning paper, because there is
no daily morning spaper to read. oh,
yes, there are many advantages in liv-
ing away from railroads; nevertheless,
IL would be real pleasant to hear the
whistle OF the locomotive giving warn
ing Of its approach to fine little sta
tion In Ely.
The present value Of many things
can only be estimated by considering
the future. Their value Is less pres
snt value than future value. Whom
. child has the whooping- cough or
mumps, the mother says, "Well, the
child cannot have 1t again" And so
she IL comforted. 1t does not lessen
the present discomfort, 1t only makes
the future more bearable. 1t Is about
the same with snow storm in Nevada.
The present discomfort Is immense.
The stages are delayed, and conse-
quently, the mails. We cannot got
o,,r freipht. Wood and supplies do not