Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-06-22
QUIET AT BUCKEYE.
A Miner Gives More Information
Regarding the Trouble.

Peace and quiet reigns at Buckeye
once more, although the flag waves
from the cabin as if seeking to dispsl
the air of solitude and DISSOLUTION.
This flag played an important part in
the noted Buckeye affair of the Both
ult., it being noisted-not on the
day of battle, but the next day, upon
the advent of the Sheriff into the
camp.
1t appears that after the svacua-
ton by the Raycraft forces, it was
deemed necessary to prepare for
regular seige, in case of return of
the combatants who had threatened
to come back fully reinforced.
The prominent peaks were being
patrolled by sentries, when instead
of an advancing army, the burly form
of the Sheriff of Douglas county
came into view. Then it was, after
a short parley, that the notable red
flag was run up, and although so
suggestive generally of anarchy and
riot, in this case meant peace. 1t
heralded to the sentries on the hills,
the fact that no one was coming, but
instead, the arm of the law before
mentioned.
1t told the boys, that although
parties had promised the Raycrafts
/ twenty fighters in times of peace,
that they had changed their tactics
in time of war
1t told the miners working in the
gulches, that the shot gun line of ar
guments would be abandoned and |
that of legal nature commenced,
but it did not tell the fact that
criminal prosecutions were being
pushed rather than the proper civil
suits to quiet titles.
But it made no difference to the
victorious army just what the result
would be, it simply said Boys come
into camp, and they came.
The genial Sheriff took in the stu
alton besides all the Raycraft guns,
then he started for Genoa followed
By the army victors the day before
defeated the next, by the simple
futtsrins of piece of paper.
But the red flag still waves and
will continue until the Summers sun
makes the west window of the cabin
too hot forcomfort. Then down comes
flag and up goes the curtain, the ,,
only luxury of the sort in the camp
The cessation of all work in Buci :
eye is due to the fact of a blanket
having been issued out of
District Court Of Ormsby county
which shuts down every sluice box
within Six miles of the property in
dispute. Parties are enjoined from
using any of the water of the Buck j.,
eye creek, and as not. one tenth of
these waters pass through the dis
puted ground or bitches, miners :.
away below are thus debarred from
an attempt to support their families,
but must stand helpiessly by and see .
the water going to waste and through
no fault of theirs is this state of II
affairs.
There will be no attempt to dis "
obey the mandate of his Honor, the
District Judge, nor will there prob :
ably be any effort to ask a modiica
ton of the restraining order, for
these men are largely without means s
and it takes lawyers to reach the ju- q
dicial ear. The suits will drag along G
and some day be decided satisfactory 4
perhaps, but in the meantime, the =
waters, although enjoined from n
mans use, are fast going to waste, r.
along with the rapidly disappearing
SHOWS, SO that by the time
he waters may be used by the
needy, there will be none for use. v
Hard as this may seem, it is only &
n keeping with the hog law that has b.
been in force in Buckeys from the al
1ery start, only just now having been III
broken down by the uprising Of the - u
miners, on the Both. lP
The whole country cannot be held
oy few men, as has been attempted
provided miners assert their rights, ~
md the scope of mining ground ly- =
ng between the Winters mine on Al
he South and the Como District on Il
he North, is susceptible of supports {
ng a thousand men when developed,
kbar than lo0ap