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on Monday evening the keeper a, the
c'"n'y jail heard noises which excited hi,
so.pe'on' that al ~as not nigh. in tn. ian,
- I" well known t" our citizens sha. s,me of
'"e prisoners are most desperate character,
"Ho nave been ens'-~i IN the horse stealing
business. AID ths'e d st o,.y Sa.nie;;,,n. .b,,
1-ey are evea wass~. Pa. ,u,n n, qu.,,,
'hs lailer Immediately hu. It'd a. Sheriff
thompson who proceeded at once 10 tn ;,J
Inc PRISONERS were having a jolly time at
singing and otherSi,e making all the Noise
they Possibly could, which confirmed tn.
,aea thaf they we're mp to some mischief.
Aooking through the keyhole Mr.. Thompson
"A" men standing in the hall and he SOON d..
'ecfed rasping noise. Having everything
prepared he then unlocked and threw oprn
Inc iron doom when they we're 20
TAKEN EY SURPRISE
That they slank of to their cell, ike 90
many rats. An examination showed tha,
'ne nravy iron latch had been sawed cam.
P'ete'y through In one instance and partly
through IN another, aud that a hole had been
dug through the rotten board. and s,Ils nearly
large enough To admit Of a mans passage 10
daylight. The Jail is 80 crowded tba, 81,
the prisoners cannot be provided with cells
ana IN Consequence an Indian prisoner Is
allowed TO sie-p III The hal. 1t is supposed
win great deal of probability, that some os
the prisoners friends who had been to yisi,
them had passed them insrrumeut, with
which to DO the work but fu,ii-p no npmr.
tunlty had detailed the I..,lian 10 d., the
w"re tor them which he did under cover OF
TIE no'se they male. Had it hot Ieeu for
the energy of the she i'll In acting NO promptly
there Is but little !oubt but that by mid.
night the whole Crowd would lave e,c,red
After surprising the prisoners Sheriff T.,omp-
son ORGANIZED posse and kept guard over
the premises all night This morning a tile
and carpenters ch,sel was fonnd concealed
neath some 1t the rotten timber which had
been pryed of and renaiied and it is supp ,sed
that there is Yet \ small steel saw buried in
the building. There are fourteen prisoners
confined IN the JAIL for various oienses. The
following ate the names and crimes charc, d
Conrad Lnoms. assault With intent 10 com.
init rape; A. J. and Mamie Thomas, mur-
der: Samuel Wheaton, horse stealing; Pas.
sas. horse stealing: Fogartv. assault with
deadly weapon; Spud Murphy, petit lar
ceny Geo: Van BiSek. horse stealing; Ieu-
nett, assault with adeadly weapon Charles
Hall, petit larceny Foster, horse stealing
Moody, horse s'esling; VIM. Rogers, petit
larceny; Geo. Johnson. petit larceny. There
We're no attempt At escape made by Thomas
and wife who were confined in seperate cells
This morning they talked pleasantly about
The matter joking about it apparently much
pleased At anything that would break the
mono'ony of confinement.
Sheriff Thompson has requested permis-
sion Of Judge Wingard to appoint a guaro
for he prison to keep constant watch until
the grand jury meets. To Mr. Williamson,
the cook and janitor of the Jail. great cred.
rs due for his vigilance. He probably averted
what would have been . serious czlamity TO
the country at large, for the escaping Of such
a dangerous and desperat. crowd would GER
tainly have been a calamity. The question
is in police circles '1s Hank Vaughn the mis-
sing link! - Vaughn is known n he on init
mate terms with Moody and Foster the horse
thieves, and it is suspected that he was in
strumental in furnishing the tools for the
prisoners. 1t il An easy matter for any one
to scale the walls ef the jail yard and pass
tools, with which to work. into the prison.
Some time ago Vaughn came to Sherid Thomp-
son and requested permission to visit his
friends. but vas denied the privilege. Vaughn
in'imated that a. it was near election time
he tThompsonl would loose nothing By it.
but Mr. Thompson was imp.rvious to bribe
and fatty refused to gran, the request. 1t
is more than suspected that this same Vaughn
was connected with the Jail delivery at S2o-
kane some time ago. when snme horse thieves
also his pals, made their escape. As matters
are coming to climax it would be well for
this friakey person to make himself a. scarce
in thesa marta an ,,osSihle