Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-16

Old Time Items Of Interest TO Base
Range Pioneers.

From the SENTINEL of September 10. 1911
Thirty dollar silver ore 10 being thrown
oyer the waste dumps in New York can
yon, for lack Of cheap means Of reducing
the same 70 bullion. Who says we do not
need more furnaces In this locality
The Roslin Smelling Works are being
constantly run on the ores from the vari-
Gus mines belonging 70 the company, and
although not producing as much bullion
as some other furnaces In the district, IL is
Of q higher grade, which makes up the
difference in quantity. The superintend-
ent informs us that Of the bullion now
being worked at his furnace the majority
Of IL will average from 5000 10 81 100 per
ton. which, placed against $3.50 or $500
bullion, will maks Q great difference in
monthly returns against the quantity pro-
duced by other furnaces.
A Phoebe Record extra Of September 10,
1871, gives an account Of 0 disastrous fire
at thai place. Three hundred kegs of
powder, stored in . supposed fre-proof
warehouse, exploded, killing six and
wounding thirty.one persons. The loss Of
property was estimated at from $500, 900
TO $500. 900. The office Of the Phoebe
Record was destroyed, but the material
saved in q somewhat damaged condition.
Nearly the entire tow was destroyed and
the people we're in urgent need Of drugs,
medicines and supplies Of all kinds.
CARSON CRY, September IS. 1S71.-At
six O'Clock last evening a desperate break
was made by the convicts In the State
Prison, resulting in the death Of Matt
Pixley. of Warm Springs Hotel. and the
wounding Of nearly all the officers and
several prisoners, and the escape Of twenty
nine Of the oonviots. All the prisoners
being in the cell-room, V. E. Robbins,
captain OF the guard, entered the room for
the purpose of locking the oonvicts in
their cells for the night, and as he stepped
inside Of the door, q prisoner struck him
on the top OF the head with 9 bottle and
another struck him with q slung shot. He
fell bleeding. and as he sank half a dozen
convic.s rushed at him to deal the death
blow, when Pat Hurley gathered Robbins
up aud threw him into a cell and closed
the door, thus saving his life. The pris.
oners then climbed to the top OF the upper
tier of cells and proceeded to cut q
hole into the room occupied by Mrs. Den
yer, her mother and daughter. The break
Of the prisoners was discovered and an
alarm given instantly. They were met by
menced firing at them. Denver had been
followed up stairs by Robert Deadman, q
man in for life, who was acting as . Jail
servant. Denver shot Clifford near the
navel and stunned him. The tide poured
on, and soon Denver was struck In the
forehead and on the head by Q slung shot
which felled him, when the convicts rush.
ed upon him and seized his pistol and
fred at him and the officers who fell. Bob
Deadman seized q chair and fought like q
tiger. knocking down five prisoners. His
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Lieutenant Governor. Clifford made his
way down stairs, followed by all of the
crowd, who seized the armory Of the
prison. Matt Pixley. hearing the firing,
seized a six shooter. and, in company with
a man named Perasioh, rushed into the
prison yard to assist the officers. The
~convicts were still inside the guard room,
firing through the door Of the building at
Isaacs' new house, and Perasich and Pix
ley rushed up 70 the window and com
menced firing at the prisoners inside,
when Charles Jones fred at them. The
ball struck Pixley below the eye, passing
entirely through his head, and he fell. he
also received a shot in his right hip. which
passed up his back and lodged near the
spine. DR.. Lee extracted the ball. Here
follow the names Of the 80 prisoners who
escaped, which we omit