The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-27

ti-Railrcad Resolutions Consolidation of Beaver-
head County 0foes-Mining in the Bannack Dis
triot-Ihe Immigrants-A Diagnosis Of the Quartz
Disease" Buck Board" Buokers.
Editor Butte MINER:
A new, embryo silver district has just been
discovered, and two claim locations have been
therein. This new district IS located
on Scudder Creek, u tributary of Grasshopper
Creek, and is Oh the souti, side Of the Bald
mountain spur of the Bannack range, distant
about Y miles west of B~aHnack-or, more
easily described, as being situate about mid
way between the Bannack and Elkhorn
mining districts.
The new district is named Chase district,
and its discovery created a small-sized SIAM
pede. The float and top quartz tested, assays
high up, and if the veins develop bodies of
ore in quantity the discovery is fortunate one
for the interested parties. There is too much
snow in the district to do much prospecting
yet, still several locations have been made
that will be prospected as soon as the snow
vanisnes. The district Is in a grant G and
limestone formation with granite predomlna-
ting. The amount of developing work per-
formed Oh the discovery claims, as yet, con
sists only of small prospect shafts, which look
promising. Nine assays Of ore from the dis
covery have been made by,Prof. Tate Taylor.
The assays resulted-139 o., 179 o., 2G5 o.,
1,O40 o., Ga o., 125 o., 2G1 o., So on. and
10 OF. per ton of ore, leaving off the fractional
parts ~ofounces. The discovering ~locators are
John Chase, W. Tate Taylor, JAS. Forster,
Chas. Chase, Peter Campbell and John w.
Williams. They claim 5000 feet east and
west.
The manner in which the prisoners in the
county jail effected their escape is now
known. Their modus 0pernnM Was easy and
simple. John Williams, alias "Black Jack,'
is the fellow who did the business for his
tellow-prisoners, Pierce and Adamson. II is
reported that " Black Jack y is the same in
hiyidual that broke Jail in Denver and Salt
Lake City, in both Of which places he wAs
incarcerate1 Charged with horse stealing.
Williams is a locksmith by trade and a llandy
expert at the manufacture Of false keys, and
the opening of locks. When he was captured
d set OF four false keys, made of wire, was
found on his person. 1t wa the custom of
the TAILOR to feed his birds " twice q day
with square meals and gave them a cold lunch
for supper. Their dinner was served them
between 3 and 4 p. M, after which they were
locked III the Jail, the heavy iron-plated out
side door being left open, with the skeleton
inside iron door securely fastened with a pad
lock This was to afford free ventila-
ton to the Jail during the day time. Just be-
fore dark Oh the Sunday evening they broke
out " Black Jack " slipped his arm through
one of the squares in the skeleton door and
with one of his false keys unlocked the pad
lock and stepped out, locking the door on his
confederates, and secreting himself in the old
county calaboose adjoining the Jail, he await
ed nightfall. About dark, or q little after,
on that night, the jailor, as usual, locked the
main door and put up the outside iron cross
bar and locked it with the heavy paddock be-
longing thereto, and then locking the en-
trance to the Jail yard he left the place tenn
porarily, and went up town. As soon as the
footsteps Of the jailor had died away "Black
Jack " emerged from his place of conceal,
ment and commenced operations Using his
false keys, by u few dexterous twists of tho
wrist, he opened all the locks and flung the
doors wide open. His prison comrades, Pierce
and Adanson, thus released, followed vii.
J;nn,s a,l tl,n,, oil fl,.,a Ela1 t1,n,ul, tI,n ;.;I
kitchen and made their exit at the back doc
of the store-room. AS they passed through
the kitchen Black Jack secured the re,
volver and cartridges belonging to Sheriff
Murray. He thought the revolver would be
Il useful instrument in his business and tool
it along for luck and self-protection. After
they had reached a point some yards from
the Jail Black Jack :" stopped down and
with Il little piece of crooked wire unlocked
the patent shackles on Pierce, the murderer
The trio were now limb-free and they broke
in a south direction toward the land of the
free and the " crooked, (which the same
means Idaho Territory. They were out eigh'
days-living five of the eight OH the carca IS O
a dead calf. They were captured in a culver
on the u railroad, about six miles thi
side of the old terminus. As all three are
without doubt, guilty Of the crimes of wheel
they are charged, they are heavily shackle,
and well guarded now.
Last year the Madison county people as
sembled in solemn mass convention all,
through a series of bitter resolutions de
nounced railroads or the granting of needle
encouragement to corporations. As the raj
road will skip the settled portion of the
county, Madisonites are filled iththe railroa