The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-06-10
MINING WAR.
Buckeye District I'm Douglas County
Ii being Worked with Winchester
1IMoa

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Is being Worked with Winchester
Rifles.
For three or four days our Carson
exchanges have been publishing bulle-
tins from mining war in Buckeye
District. 1t appears that party
headed by Pete Millick, Ed and Lou
Stevenson, sons of the late Governor
Stevenson, armed with rifles, took
forcible possession of the Blackhorse
placer mine, driving off the Raycraft-
Millich faction. Many shots were
fired by both parties, but no one was
seriously injured. The Appeal of the
I'd throws additional light on the ''war"
and it's causes in the following:
Night before last the Sheriff reached
Genoa with nine prisoners of war,
whom he arrested in the Buckeye dis
trict. They were as follows: Peter
Millich, Louis Stevenson, Ed Steven
son, the Trimmer Bros, Ed Wyott,
Farley Parker, and Charles Dudley.
The Sheriff left ten men at work on
the claim.
1t appears that ever since the claims
were discovered there has been trouble
over them, and as result all interest
ed in the ownership, met in Abe
COINS store and drew up an agree
ment relative to the working of the
claims and deposited it in the Bullion
bank. The agreement stipulated that
they should hire an outside party to
work the claims, who was in no way
related to any of the owners.
They hired a Dutch Flat placer
miner named Doolittle and he worked
there five weeks with a gang of men,
but the result was not satisfactory and
he was discharged.
Messrs. Morrison and Jaqua were
put on and they struck into the rich
part of the claim, and were getting
out about $3.50 week when the Mil
ich-Stevenson faction swooped down
and drove them off.
The parties interested in the Black
Horse are Dick, Joe and Ed. Ray
craft, Lou and Ed. Stevenson, Henry
Morrison, A. Cohn, Jim Lohr, George
Givevich and D. w. Virgin. Frank
Golden owns the cabin that was badly
shot up and had several rifles and six
shooters there. He says that he will
spend thousand dollars to bring the
parties to time who so wantonly de-
stroyed his property.
Some weeks ago Judge Cheney
granted an injunction against the
claim, but no one appears to have paid
much attention to it. There was no
trouble while the mine ran behind,
but as soon as it began to run ahead
and show considerable free gold gilt
tering in the sluice boxes, everybody
appeared to have oiled up his Win
chester and got his six shooter in
working order.
The party attacked had plenty of
arms and ammunition to have made
hot fight, but were caught mapping
and some distance from their weap-
ons when the attacking party came
in.
It is claimed that Pete Millich told
a man several days ago that he was
going up there to fight and might be
packed out dead.
Later-Since the above was in
type it is learned from VIM. Wood
burn, who was called to Genoa as the
attorney for the Stevenson crowd,
that the men were not arrested, but
came to Genoa in four-horse wagon,
gave themselves up, and are now in
custody of the Sheriff, under $500
bonds.
The Stevensons claim that Raycraft
fired the first shot.
Tin Discovered at LovelOcl<s.
Lovelock is all excitement over the