Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-04-21
TaE CAVE DYyElLE.s.
The People who went Back
to the Prehistoric Times.


q The parties who lived in the cav
all Winter were Bodie Jack, Anton
!, Martinas and Agnes Miller.
Bodie Jack was for many years
resident of Bodie, and piled lucra
tive trade as footpad. His wea
: pom was the sandbag. and for wear
men were mysteriously laid on
with this implement, until one nigh
man named Cummings was pass
ing near saloon light, when Jacl
slipped behind him and lifted thu
sand club. The shadow Of the up
lifted arm warned Cummings OF his
danger, and wheeling he covered
Jack with six-shooter. Jack
begged for his life, and the next
! day jumped the town.
Marines is: an old convict, and
diifted up this way from Mexico,
where he had several ARRAYS.
Agnes Miller, who consented to
spend the Winter with the two men,
was born on Prussian man-of-war
IN New York Harbor, and at the
time it was claimed that she was
the daughter of Prussian diplo-
mat and General. She claims to
have been the daughter OF man
high in State affairs of Prussia, but
would never reveal his name. saw
ing that her life would only bring
shame and disgrace to him. She
figured in a Washington scandal
nearly twenty years ago, being i'm
plicated in a divorce suit, but it
never came to trial, and the neces-
sity of reviving the case after all
these years is not apparent.
A curious feature of the present |
episode is that while she was living /
in i cave with these two characters
her former husband was occupying
4 cell in the State Prison not over a
of mile away. He is
known all over the Coast as "Sacrs-
mento Bill"
The trio went into tie cave late
last Fall, supplied with cooking uten-
sis, blankets and provisions, and
decided to spend the Winter there.
In about a month their provisions
gave out aud they had recourse to
sheep stealing in order to replenisb
he larder. The terrible blizzard OF
ast Winter caused them great suf
ering, but not so much from the life !
Il the cave as the work of fora.inn {
or wood and food. The two men S
ook turns in getting provisions and {
rood, and remnant of chivalry
ieryed them to the work of seeing c
hat the woman did not die. They 4
canned about in the night in the II
ace of the bitterest storms that 1
yer sv ept owe: the State, and when U
prlng came they were able to saw |
nat they pulled the woman
trough.
The cave was not much more h
IAN hole in the lee side of a curl -
US mound OF rocks that rises along
lie ROAD between the State Prison f.
nd Empire. 1t is an isolated CO
ound of rocks, which at first II
ance looks as if it might have d
cen placed there by human agency. 90
At the time OF the first excitement al
'er the prehistoric tracks it was
'ticed that the tracks of the masto- re
IN, the cave bear and the giant all D.
ok the direction of the curious TO
ound.
Some claimed that the mound a
d been built thousands of wears re
0 by the early cave dwellers and
,und builders of Nevada, and that
3 soil had gradually accumulated -
err the ruins. III
Some parties tried to induce John 'ee
,ckay to furnish the money to y
Ike excavations and thoroughly o's
plore the ruins, which a good Ve'
ny people insist will furnish an i"'
eresting find for the archeoloeists LUZ
the shape of relics of the pre- oy'
toric age. Mackay thought ia io'
ably OF the matter at one tine.
on examining the rocks thought