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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-12-08
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Ben Miller returned to Ely last
Monday, after an absence of six or
seven months.
Read Mike Cohen's new adyer-
tisement, and then take walk down
the street and see him.
y vaudeville tent show struck
Our town Wednesday, AS they
didn't call to see us, we didn't call
on them
Graham can fill all your wants
don't send out of town.
This cold weather has driven the
ducks to the warm springs, and our
local hunters are smacking their
chops i'll anticipation of some good
bags.
Quite a number of new men were
added to the working force al the
Ruth this week. The company is
going to increase the force again
shortly.
There is new face al the post
Office window this week,
The County Commissioners were
in session the first of the week. A
full report will be published next
week.
Read the notice to redeem county
scrip in another column.
County Treasurer Miles adyer-
tises that he will redeem White
Piue county 8 per cent bonds on
January ?, 1905
Fred Clark is showing something
pretty in the line OF calendars. Neat
for Christmas gifts.
Our Cherry Creek correspondent
is on the sick list this week, SO we
are minus our usually interesting
budget from that burg.
A number Of our people are suf-
ferine with bad colds. The change
in the weather. came too sudden.
Two weddings on tapis pretty
quick along about Christmas, and
the cottages are being fixed up.
The last week of this month will
send the dances in pretty thick,
The more the merrier.
c. W. Gaby came over from Os-
ceola last Monday night.
Al Parish has just completed a
neat cabin on the southern height
of the town,
Mike Ahern was acquitted by a
trial Jury i'll the District Court on
the charge he was sent over from
Hamilton under. Mike will now
be good till the next time.
If people, instead Of worrying
over what Others say about them,
would consider the source, they
would soon forget all the gossip
they ever heard.
The hardest things TO pick up i'll
this town this week are local items
The cold weather keeps everybody
indoors, and even the dogs cam
get up warmth enongh to pick a
fight.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-12-08
JOHN NOW, JOHN THEM A GOlD-SEEKER'S TRIP.

Joe LasheI, an old timer in
Nevada, who has been through
the Death Valley for the past
three months, passed through
town this week en- route to Lara
mie, where his son resides and is
a wealthy oil man, say the Cali
ente Progress.
The old prospector says this
is his last trip, as it came near
being his last venture on this
sphere. He went north into the
bad lands 100 miles and struck a
magnificent ledge of free gold,
probably the same that has been
located on by Morton and Sykes
and Nels Fisher, of sparkling
white quartz which runs north
westerly and southeasterly across
the valley, Jagged and rejecting
the sun rays for miles distant.
He started with what he thought
was an abundant supply of water
and provisions. four burros and
a complete outfit. having been
staked by his son.
He returned minus burros,
worn to a shadow with fighting
sandstorms and thirst, his pro
visions left somewhere ON the
desert, barely able to see and
nearly deaf from exposure to
storm and the disasters which
overlook him. All through,
however, he clung to buckskin
sack of ore which il half gold.
The quartz is stuck in pieces of
gold rather than the gold in the
quartz, and he says he has locat-
ed four claims on two-vein Of
this ore. He found a cavern in
the rocks and went inside to es-
cape the torrid rays OF the sun
and found that the cave had been
cut by the hand OF man instead
of nature $ handiwork, and after
examining it for about fifty feet,
found that at some time in the
dim past two foot ledge of the
rich ore had been discovered and
ore TO this extent extracted. ;.
He found inside the cave or
tunnel two stone hammers bound
TO wooden handles with deer or
horsehide; number of arrow
heads and several stone Gala
bashes, which led him to believe
that the work had been done at
very distant date, and perhaps
before the dread Death Valley
had been entirely barren. These
he brought back with him in ad-
dition to the gold which latter
he values at about $500.
He proposes to organize a
party to go in and take up all the
ground possible, and thsn retire
on his laurels, after over fifty
wears Of battle with Dame For
tune in The unequal struggle for
wealth.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-12-08
Few DeIinquents.

Taxes came in pretty live y up
to Monday last, and our County
Treasurer was all smiles. There
will be a decidedly small delin-
quent list this year, which shows
that our taxpayers keep their
eyes on the proper dates.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-12-08
KILLED A BEAR
WITH ROCKS
Two Indians Have a TusSle With
A. a Black Bear.

A black bear is not usually a
formidable opponent, and though
he will sometimes charge home,
he is much more apt to bluster
and bully than actually to come
TO close quarters.
But the one stirred up by a
couple of Indians on Berry Creek
one day last week. showed that
that there was no bluster or bluff
in him, and that he was out for
business. Unfortunately for the
IndiaHs, neither were armed at
Tie tiIi,e of the attack, and the
thought of a bear was far distant
from their minds at that time.
They had come on the beast in
tbe thick willow and cottonwood
that line the banks of the creek,
and the animal closed in on them
with Il rush. 1t charged them
on all fours, and reaching up
caught one of the Indians a tre-
mendous blowQon the side of his
head with its paw, knocking the
Door fellow unconscious.
It then raised itself on it's hind
legs and caught the other Indian
across the shoulders with its
foro-paws. Apparently it had
no intention of hugging, but
merely sought to draw him with
in reach of his jaws. The In
dian fought desperately against
this, and for some time showed
almost superhuman strength in
his fight with the bear.
lis was on the point of giving
up the unequal battle, when the
one who hal heen knocked out
by the bear, came to his senses,
and seeing the predicament of
his comrade, seized a large rock,
and with all the strength he
could muster, hurled the rock at
the bear, striking him at the base
ef the skull and laying the ami
NAL prostrate at their feet. With
out waiting for bruin to recover,
they Immediately seized large
rock apiece and hammered away
at the head of their unconscious
foe till life was extinct.
The Indians do not belong in
this vicinity. and the story comes
to US from a slleepherder, who
at the time of telling it was about
seven sheets in the wind with
load OF "sheepherder's delight. y
However, in an attempt to verify
thertruth of his story, he showed
us bears ear, which he said he
had cut off of the dead, but upon
being questioned as to whether
it was the right or left ear. he
said he didn't know.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-12-08
Thank the Public.

The ladies of the Sunday
School Association desire to
thank their friends and the pub
lie general for their kindness
and aid in the luncheon which
they recently gave. The hrist-
mas tree service will be held in
the hall on the evening before
Christmas, at half past six
o'clock.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-12-08
Advertised Letters.

The following letters remain
uncalled for in the postotfice at
Ely, December l, 1904: Jessie
Bennett, J. H. Call, Joe FIRE.
mont, L. Piccinini, Almatinas
Stenborn, j. l.. Walker. For
eign- Angelina Palagi.
w. b. GRAHAM, Z. NJ
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-12-08
WITH HIS EAR
TO THE Gn09s 10
The Fiining Nan Wears a Sa. ed
L0ok These Days.

LOOK !9eSe Hays.
The experienced mining NAN,
/ the successful mining operator,
and the wide-aWake business
man. who has had his ear to 4he
ground, listening ena waiting faf
the mysterious MESSAGE which
foretells what-is Ia store fol he
immediate future, is Waarl4z d
most satisfied look .these d5Vs.
for the wireless telegraph las
told him that an era Of wonder
full prosperity is daWnine fer
this intermountain region and
that a great wave Of progress ON
is sweeping this way, which. IN
its magnitude, in the wonderful
promise of industrial and com
mercial activity which crowns It's
crest, bids fair to eclipse any
thing of like character that tins
entire country has ever before
experienced.
The signs Of the country are
most propitious and indications
Of increased confidence are 10 be
seen on every hand. The bust
ness man who haa his baud ON
the pulse of the trade has now
no hesitancy in stocking up
heavily for the winter trade, for
he anticipates a volume Of busi-
ness during the next few months
that will relegate all other re
cords of heavy selling to the
shade. He has had his ear to
the ground, and what he has
heard was sweet music to him.
The mining man, too, has been
taking his dispatches from the
same line, the consequence being
that he looks for a great revival
in mining affairs during the next
twelve months, for he has heard
that the man of means in the
East now has greater confidence
In the legitimacy of the mining
industry than ever before thaJ
millions are seeking safe and
profitable investment along Din-
ing lines, and that capital is only
awaiting opportunity in oder
that it may share in the ever-in-
creasing stream Of mineral
wealth that is flowing from Hhe
mining camps Of the West ato
the channels Of trade and a5n-
meoce.
Present conditions look good
to the merchant, the banker and
the mining man They all have
experienced the electriGying asu-
sation of good times coming,
They have all had their ears to
the ground. and they have al re-
ceivcd the message Announcing
the fact that the whole country
is on the verge Of period Of
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-12-08

A good sized check passed into
the hands Of one of our citizens
last week, as the final chapter i'll a
mining deal.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-12-08

Something going TO happen soon.
No news received for three days,
which is good omen that the long
expected will inaterialize in the
close future.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-12-08

Much of the assessment work III
the hills in this vicinity will be hn-
ished by the last of next week.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
BIG STRIKE ENDS.
Packers and Union Have Agreed to
Settle Trouble by Arbitration.

Packers and Union Have Agreed to
Settle Trouble by Arbitration.
Chicago, July 22.-The strike of the
packing employees begun nine
days ago, and which has dem6ralized
the packing industry through the coun-
try, was settled here tonight at con-
ference between representatives of the
packers, officials of the Meatcutters'
union and representatives of all the
allied trades employed iat the stock
yards. The whole controversy will be
submitted to a board of arbitration,
both sides agreeing to abide by what
ever decision this board may raech.
Pending the decision of the arbitra-
tion board, the men will be taken
back to WORK as rapidly as possible by
the packers, and it is agreed by the
packers that all the old employees. are
to be reinstated within As days from
the date work is resumed. If any of
the former employees are still unim.
ployed at the expiration of that time,
such persons ale to have the privilege
of submitting their cases to the arbi-
tration board for settlement.
The strikers will return to work as
soon as they can be notified of the
peaceable adjustment of the trouble,
and it is expected that by tomol row
morning everything will be in normal
shape at all the plants in the different
cities where the employees we're on
strike.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
JAP VICTORY
Russian Army Driven From
kidO Tung.
RESISTANCE WAS STUBBORN
f1uSCOViteS are Believed to Have
Lost 1000 Men, While ViCfors
Lose Ealf as Many.

Toxic, July 25.-General Kuroki
after severe fight, occupied Kiao funf
on July 10. The place had been forti
fed by the Russians, who defended il
stoutly. In the fighting General Kuro.
ki's troops drove the Russians from
their strongly fortified position on the
Chi river, which is northwest of Nc
Ten Pass and east of An Pin, inficting
upon the enemy more serious losses
than they sustained themselves. The
fight began on the 18th and ended on
the 10Th. The Japanese lost 424 men
killed and wounded. The Russian
losses are estimated at 1000.
General Kuroki began his advance
early in the morning of the 18th.
The fighting continued until dark,
when the Japanese forces bivouacked.
The Russians made two counter at
tacks, but were repulsed in each case.
The Japanese renewed the attack at
midnight, posting their artillery in
the valley below and on the high
ground to the south of the Russian po-
sition. The main Japanese body was
assigned to attack the Russian center :,
a small detachment sent toward the
right flank and another to watch the
.enemy's left flank.
After these positions had been taken
the fighting ceased for time, but it
was resumed at dawn. The Russians
had 80 guns in action, and they vigor-
ously shelled the japanese. To this
fire the Japanese replied, and the bonn
bardment lasted for four hours. Dur
ing this time the Japanese infantry
moved forward and the hankers had
succeeded in scaling the heights on the
Russian right by 3 o'clock in the after
noon, at which hour the main force
was ordered to storm the Russian CEN
ter The Japanese artillery protected
lis movement splendidly, but the in
fantry met with severe fire and lost
heavily in gaining the heights.
The final successful charge was deliv-
cred at $50 in the afternoon. The
Japanese succeeded in partially cutting
off the Russian retreat, and this soon
beanie rout. The enemy retired in
two directions, to the northward and
to the eastward. The Russian forces
engaged included, in addition to the
artillery: seven battalions of infantry
and regiment of Cossacks.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
NO MORE RAIDS.
Russia Will Release MalaCCa and
Put End to Red Sea Incident.

St. Petersburg, July 25.-The steam
-er Malacca is at Suda Bay, Island of
Crete, where, under an agreement
reached by Great Britain and Russia,
she will be perfunctorily inspected joint
ly by the Consuls of the two countries
and released unless palpable contra
band of war intended for the Japanese
shall be found, in which case the contra
band only will be held. British gov
eminent stores aboard the vessel will
not he examind.
The Russian reply to the British
protest was handed to Ambassador
Hardinge in the afternoon. Russia
agrees that the Malacca shall not be
brought before a prize court, and un-
-dertakes that no incident similar to
this will occur in the future.
A claim for damages as a result of
delaying the steamer viii, be presented
in due course of time through the Brit
ish embassy.
Ths captain of the st. Petersburg, in
his report, gives as his reason for sum-
marily making prize of the Malacca
the fact that the British master of the
Malacca declined to produce the mani
tests of his cargo.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
FLEET ON RAID.
VIadivOStOk Ships Enter Pacific. and
Take japanese Steamer.

VladivOSfOk Ships Enter Pacific. and
Take japanese Steamer.
Toxic, July 21.-The Vladivostok
squadron has overhauled a japanese
steamer eastward of Tsugar straits.
The name of the vessel captured and
her fate has not yet been learned.
The Vladivostok squadron, unac-
companied by torpedo boats, entered
the Pacific ocean today at o'clock.
Its destination is unknown, but it is
suggested it possibly plans to raid the
east coast of Japan and then either re-
turn to Vladivostok, escaping to the
southwark, or attempting to form a
junction with the Port Arthur feet.
The squadron was discovered in the
straits OF Tsugar at 8 o'clock this NOM
ing, steaming rapidly eastward.
At $50 A. M. it was reported off
Tappicape, and at A. M. observers at
Hakkodate discovered and reported to
Toxic that it was then steaming east.
Warnings have gone out to shipping
along the eastern coast of Japan and
merchantmen are hurriedly seeking
cover. It is expected that most of the
shipping will be warned before the
Russian ships can inf1ict serious dam
age, if a raid is intended.
Ordinarily, lack of coal would pre-
vent an extended cruise, but it is possi-
BILE that the Russians possess collier
at rendezvous in the Pacific ocean.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
.FAVORS FORCE
Russian Acts In Red Sea Arouse
Ire of British People.
FOREIGN MINISTER IN DILEMMA
Realizes That the Policy FOSfered
by fhe Hing will Be Repudiafed
press Is with fhe public.

London, July 22.-The Associated
Press tonight interviewed many promi-
nent persons connected and in close
touch with the government relative to
the seizure OF British vessels by
steamers of the Russian volunteer feet
in the Red sea. As result of these
inquiries, there is shown to be hos
tile feeling against Russia, of a strength
and bitterness almost without piece
dent. The most conservative men,
who have been in the service of the
government for many years, and who
openly deplored the haste with which
they thought Great Britain bad plunged
into the Transvaal war. tonight frank
ly declared for policy of reprisal
against what is regarded as Russia's vi
oIations of treaty and her piratical at
tack on British commerce.
The warlike tone of such papers
like the Times, the Standard, the
Morning Post, and the Daily Tele-
graph, which in national crises hither-
to almost invariably have advised eau
tion, has had it's inevitable effect.
There has been stirred up a storm of
indignation among all classes in the
United Kingdom, the strength of which
the government itself can scarcely
gauge. Those who deplored the out
break of the war between Japan and
Russia and insisted publicly and pri-
vately that Great Britain, crippled f.
nancially, after her South African ex-
periences, must not, at all costs, be
drawn into the Far Eastern struggle,
are among the most outspoken cham
pions of physical force that will pre-
vent the repetition of the Malacca in
cident in the Red sea.
Those few officials at the foreign
Office who are in full possession of all
details of Great Britain's desire to ar
rive at an entente with Russia are in
despair. They realize that the policy
so carefully fostered by King Edward
and Fol reign Minister Landsdowne will
now be Indignantly repudiated by all
parties in the house of commons, and
involve with the public the downfall of
any ministry advocating it..
Every nerve will be strained, how
ever, by the foreign Office to secure
from Russia an explanation that will
pacify the aggrieved feelings of the
British public, and no step will be
taken officially that will tend to preju-
dice subsequent diplomatic negotiations
looking to the settlement of all i'm
portant questions now outstanding be-
tween Russia and Great Britain.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
TRY TO DRAW TOGO AWAY.
VIadivosfok Fleet Hopes to Weaker
Squadron at Port Arthur.

st. Petersburg, July 23.-The news
of the first appearance of the Vladivo-
stok squadron in the Pacific since the
outbreak of the war, telegraphed from
Toxic, causes no surprise at the adml-
ralty here, although it is said Vice Ad-
miral Skrydioff purposely has not noti-
fed them of the squadron's departure
in order to prevent the possibility OF
the information leaking ont.
Vice A imiral Bezobrazoff's g action in
giving the slip to Vice Admiral Kami.
mura and passing rs gar straits is re-
garded as evidence of the insufficiency
of the Japanese naval forces. It is
probably the purpose of Admiral Bezo-
pan, capture merchantmen, make a
naval demonstration off Yokohama,
and generally create panic among the
population, in order to compel Rear
Admiral Togo to reinforce Adm ral
Kamimura, and thus weaken the fleet
off Port Arthur.
The idea that Admiral Bezobrazoff
would sci iously attack large ports of
Japan is, however, rejected, owing to
the danger from submarine boats,
mines, torpedo boats and shore batter
les.
The report is current that the Vladi-
vostok squadron is homeward bound
under orders to effect a juncture with
the first division of Vice Admiral Ro-
jestvensky's Baltic squadron, which is
ready to go out on trial trip in the
Baltic.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29

western America vs.. Eastern Asia.
That great changes are taking
place in the currents of Pacific ocean
commerce, to be followed fast by still
greater, is rapidly becoming manifest.
Increasing production in our own Pa
ciic States requires Oriental markets,
and Is finding them. Railroad develop
ment both in America and Asia, and
increasing use of steam on the ocean,
are e1fecting great changes in the
courses Of the trade of all countries
in touch with the Pacific. More than
fifty steamships now sail regularly
from the ports of California, Oregon
and Washington to ports in Asia or
in the great Pacific islands, and of
tramp" steamers and sail vessels
continually growing feet. Between
ports of British Columbia and ports
Of Asia, Australia and New Zealand
there Is similar movement. 1t in
cludes not only the local commerce
between countries that border on the
greatest Of oceans, but carries also a
heavy trade from the Orient by rail-
way across America to our Eastern
States, and even to Europe, from West
to East over the Atlantic.
Everything favors the growth of
this commerce to very large proper
tons. There is promise of develop
ment of an international commerce
on the Pacific which, within the next
half century, may rival that on the
Atlantic. For the active theater of
the worlds new effort is now eastern
Asia and western America. The two
hemispheres, heretofore scarcely at all
in communication except across the
Atlantic, are now rapidly developing
an intercourse over the Pacific, which
is to effect large transformation or at
least to become a great additional
factor in the commerce Of the world.
Century.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-29
TorDedOed by Accident.

Tientsin, July 25.-A letter was
received here today from Niu Chang
saving that the commander of Rus
sian torpedo-boat had reported that
while in the gulf of Pc Chi Ii he had
accidently torpedoed a British steamer.
1t is surmised here that the vessel 1e-
ferred to is the Hipsang, now five days
overdue from NJ Chang. The Hipsang
belongs to the Indo-China company.
1t is reported here that heavy bonn
bardment of Port Arthur occurred yes
terday and heavy gun-fire was heard at
Niu Chuang the same day.