The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-29

The two-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur of Sparks drank a
vial of chloroform but was saved by
prompt measures.
The attorney general of Nevada
has rendered an opinion that county
recorders are entitled, in filing and
recording affidavits of labor, to charge
fee of one dollar for each claim.
The Goldfield Elks have sent a
solid silver loving cup to Judge Hen
ry Melvin, of Oakland, past grand ex-
allied ruler of the Elks of the United
| States.
Friday, in the district court al
Winnemucca, the case of the state
against Judge Fits of Lovelock on {
charge of misconduct in office, came
up for trial and was shortly disposed
of by Judge Pike in a decision which
threw the case out of court because
it had no merit.
The Reno Journal tells of Piute
on Pyramid lake Indian reservation
who has reached the age of 1913 years
| The Piutes have no records of ages OF
members of their tribe and one OF
them asked the age of a grizzled vet
eran replied: Maybe UNI 700 OF
500 years old. Maybe yes; maybe
no. | dunno
The Rawhde Rustler is the name
! of a new paper published at Raw
| hide, the new mining camp that is
attracting attention the last few
| weeks. J. Holman Buck is editor and
proprietor. Rawhide now has a post
Office and a lot of boosters. Mr.
Buck has been prominent figure in
the newspaper world of new mining
camps in this state for the past few
years.
II. l.. Brooks, the man who shot
Constable Evans at Palisade, who
was attempting to arrest him, and
who later blew his own brains out
was formerly a resident of Paradise
valley and had been in trouble there
at one time. 1t was he who shot and
killed Frank Darrah, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. II. Darrah, formerly of Will
low Point, Humboldt County, and
now of Sacramento Brooks, at that
time, through technicalties of the
law, was acquitted for the killing of
this young man.
There is stupendous job before
the engineering department of the
Southern Pacific railway in riprap-
ping the Lucin cutoff across the
Cnlf oh 4
two mammoth steam shovels at work
scooping up about six tons of rock
at one stroke, and a new one is on
the way from the factory and is ex-
pected soon. Thousands of cars have
been loaded and dumped and not
much of visible impression has been
made. About 800 men are now en-
ployed at this undertaking.
The stringency in the money mar
kct and the curtailment of the eX-
penditures of other roads, because of
this fact, will not in any way affect
the work on the Western Pacific
from Salt Lake to San Francisco, ac-
cording to an interview in Denver
with Joel f. Vale, general counsel
for the Denver e Rio Grande system,
VINO has Just returned to the west
after trip to New York He said
that every cent of money necessary
to finance the enterprise had been
raised three years ago, so that the
construction of the Western Pacific
will progress irrespective of the con-
dition of the money market.
Notices have been mailed to the
directors of Goldfeld Consolidated
which called meeting for yester-
day in Goldfield," said Senator Nixon,
land at that meeting the second div
idend of 10 cents per share will be
declared. The mine is looking bet
ter than ever before. The produc-
ton for October will probably be
heavier than any other month since
the merger was formed. Many rea-
sons explain the present low price
of the stock, but no one need worry
about the mine. We have prop