The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-07-25
LOCAL AND OTHER HAPPENINGS.

Nose Morris is over from Eureka OIL
q visit to his uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. Cohen.
VIII Lloyd returned home last
Wednesday from an absence OF several
weeks in San Francisco.
Within the past week the price o.
sugar has gone down twenty cents 9
hundred in the wholesale market.
w. A. Moyle, the Misses Nellie
and Maud Moyle and Miss Carrie Hum
phrey went to Lund yesterday to aid
In the celebration OF Pioneer day.
Vim. Butson now makes regular
trips to Ely from his Snake Valley
ranch with fruits and vegetables, ar
irving here every Saturday morning.
The Ely Board OF School Trust tees
have elected A. J. Cartwright as teach
er of the Grammer Department and
Miss Belle Butler for t he Primary
room.
Miss Anna McGarry, who taught the
osceola school last year, has been en-
gagged to teach the school in Mineral
Hill district, Eureka county, for the
coming term.
A drive well is being put in betwee
the saloons of W. r. Bassett and
Kooken & Lemaster on Main street,
K. C. Davis and Jack Lemaster having
charge of the work.
Anumber OF cattle have been poisoned
Ia the vicinity Of Hamilton during the
past month by eating larkspur and
wild parsnips, which grow in profusio n
in patches along the streams. Capt.
Norman OF Illipah lost eleven head in
this way during the present season.
Mrs. a. A. Comins and daughter,
Miss Eta, returned home on Thurs
day from visit of couple of mon tbs
In Philadelphia. They enjoyed the
visit thoroughly, but are in position
to more perfectly appreciate the COOL
ing breezes and perfect climate of
Steptoe Valley after their experience
In the sweltering East.
Al Paul returned home on Sunday
from his trip to Arizona. During his
absence he traversed over a wide ex-
panse of territory, and saw many evil
dences of progress, but he is glad to be
back in Ely, which, he says, has bet
ter outlook for the future than any
other town in the west.
OF the five delegates recently ap-
pointed by the Board of County Com
missioners to attend the Inter-moun-
tain Mining Congress which met at
DOiSv, ruafIU, Uu Tuoouay or ei4is m0Of.,
James Fl. Marriott OF Osceola was the
only one to make the trip, and he is
now at Boise attending the sessions of
the Congress.
r. A. Riepe spent few days in the
Duck Creek district last week and loca-
ted four claims in a section which will
soon show marked activity. Mr.. Riepe
has also located four claims at Coco
mongo, and four others near the spring
south of town, making twelve claims in
all which he has added to his holdings
during the past fortnight.
The members of the Ladies' Card
Club were entertained last Saturday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. B.
Simpson, at which, 1t is said, some of
the ladies showed marked progress in
the mastery of the game of sixty-three.
1t Is also related that the customary
amount of ice cream and other dain-
ties was disposed of by the fair as
sembly.
DR.. e. r. Keen, who for the past
four years has been practicing his pro-
fession and operating a drug store at
Eureka, has packed up his stock and
household goods and will remove to
Tonopah. While DR.. Keen will con-
duct his drug business at the new camp
individually, the medical firm at both
Eureka and Tonopah will be under the
partnership name OF Keen & Gordon.
B. F. Miller OF Cherry Creek came
over last Monday on matters connect
ed with the change of the Wells stage
line to daily. On Tuesday morning,
the first trip made under the new
schedule, the mail reached here from
Wells at 5 o'clock, and Mr.. Miller ex-
pressed himself as being well pleased
with the showing made, and also with
the assurances of patronage which he
Is receiving.
Yesterday was Pioneer Day, the an
niversary of the arrival of the Latter
Day Saints In Utah, and the occasion
was appropriately celebrated by our
Mormon friends both at Georgetown
and Lund, number of Elyites going
out to join them in the festivities. As
the NEWS went to press before the pro-
gramme was completed we are unable
to give detailed account OF the day 3
enjoyment, but hope to give the event
due attention next week.
Mrs. W. N. McGill and Miss Mollie
campton returied home last Friday
from visit OF several months In the
East, and, although still feeling the
effects of their long journey, both are
greatly benefited by the trip. They