Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-29

w hAuuy VIII Dodsto huu u6V6E HllOW8u W
go out ON any pretext whatever. In this
pen they all ate, slept aud did everything
else that nature requires. They all used a
common bucket, which the Sheriff would
not allow to be emptied oftener thar once
in "a hours. The prisoners say, which can
readily be imagined, that the place was a
loathsome den, in which men could scarce
ly breathe. They say they were innocent
and that they were eager to have their
trial, but that there was 40 prospect that
they would be soon tried. They would
have made no attempt TO break Jail, they
say, for they were confident OF being ac-
quilted, but that the horrors of the place in
which they we're confined drove them to
make a break for liberty and pure air
They got ont, seven of them, the others,
for various reasons, preferring to stay, and
they started southeast through Idaho.
The narrative of their adventures and
hardships is thrilling, and reads like q ro-
nance. A day or so after they he'd left
Baker City they were caught in a binding
snowstorm, and we're not able to move for
eight days. They started with fat horses,
which had nothing to eat during this time
but the tops of tough sagebrush that the
men dug out of the snow for them. The
animals were nearly starved and reduced
almost to skeletons, and when q start was
made they could barely put one foot before
the other. The men spent all their time
trying to keep warm by q fire Of snow
soaked sagebrush. They started with a
pack mule, which missed its footing and
disappeared in a snow bank, pack and all,
and had to be left behind.
h CHASE.
The seven fugitives separated on Snake
river into several parties, two men going
north and another. nobody knows whittier.
Lew Willard, q little over five weeks ago,
went to visit his father-in-law, on Silver
creek, 40 miles north Of Cornucopia, and
as he entered the house be saw two men
warming themselves by the stove, one of
whom he recognized as Alec Steel. The
other was Burt Prescott. He spoke to
Steel, saying: "Why, how is this ? / read
in the papers that you we're in jail at
Baker City," Steel said he didn't know
how that could be. He hadn't been in
Jail. Willard was satisfied and never
thought anything more about it, until
nearly q week later, when, coming home to
Tuscarora, he heard that the officers were
after the men he had met at his father-in-
laws house. He told them that he had
seen them and could recognize them. 1t
appears that the foreman on AL. Mescham's
ranch, Independence Valley, had allowed
the two men, Prescott and Steel, to stay
on the ranch until their horses had got re-
cruited up; but that when they had been
there for six days and had become unsus-
picious, he slipped off to Tuscarors and
gave them away to the officers.
The details OF the chase of the dashing
vacqueros down Maggie creek to Carlin,
their leaving their horses there and their
disappearance in the willows at that point,
have been published in the SENTINEL
already. II is now known that when they
found themselves closely pressed they hid
during the day in the snow and willows
and came out on the track of the O. p.
Railroad at night. So as not to make
boot-marks in the mud, they took care to
bandage their feet with canvas. They
must have suffered intensely, for they had
neither blankets nor overcoats. The clue
to the fugitives was picked up again at
Beowawe. some As miles of, and Willard
and Triplett started again in pursuit on a
fresh scent. They learned that Steel and
Burt Prescott had been joined at Beowawe
by Nit. Prescott, who had come there by
rail by the way of Ogden, and that the
three had started out again, we'll fixed
with clothes and money. They took al
almost circuitous route, leaving Beowawe
on the night of the 9Th inst, making
William Wilson's ranch, in Cortez Valley,
for breakfast the next morning. Thence
they struck out into the hills towards
Grass Valley, Lander county, and crossed
over the head Of Smokey Valley into Mont
tor Valley, stopping Q part of q day at l. j
Wilson's place, known as the Wallace
ranch, so miles from Eureka. Joe Trip,
lett left Austin in pursuit, and reached
Pine creek four days ahead Of them. Re-
turning TO Austin he was Joined by Will
lard, whom he had telegrsphed for. They
started out together, and went in q two
horse cart to Belmont, thence to Quinn
Canyon, and thence on the track of the
fugitives TO Duckwater, some so miles,
nearly south from Eureka.
THE cAPTURE
AT 10 O'Clock last Friday morning the
officers reached the Duckwater settle
ment and saw their men at a distance in
advance Of them ON horseback. Willard,
who was afraid of being recognized,
stopped ct Sells ranch, while Triplett rode
on and overlook them. He identified the
men and their horses by description, and,
coming back, reported to Willard that the
three were their men and no mistake. The
trio were totally unsuspicious. They said
to our reporter that they managed all
through the country to get the SENTINEL
and the Elko papers, and seeing no fur
Their notice made of them lately, they
thought the pursuit Of them had been
given up. Therefore, not knowing Trip
lett and suspecting no danger, they rode
on down the road, Burt Prescott stopping
at Simpsons ranch, and Nit Prescott and
Steel going on to Straight's. Burt Pres
colt was just sitting down to dinner when
the officers arrived. He had q Winchester
rifle, but had left it attached to his saddle
and his horse in the stable. He started
out the back door for his horse, but find
ing himself covered by Willard, who was
also armed with a Winchester, he gave
himself up. The other two escapes were
taken in at Straight's house. Steel recog-
nized Willard and, running out of the
back door, showed signs Of taking to the
hills, but gave up the idea when he saw
that the officers had the drop on them, as
he and Prescott were armed with nothing
but pistols.
LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION.
The capture OF the three men charged