Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-31
OUT IN .DEADWOOD.
THE GRASPING NATURE OF THE
C4LIFORNIANS
Attempt 10 Rob the Small Miners by Organ
lied Capital-Murder Resorted to With
out Observation-Disclosures Checked and
Mining Paralyzed.

DEApwooD, D. T.. Jan. 2O.-The past month
has been prolific with exciting events, notable
thereic being the Cheyenne outbreak, of which
the GLOBE has been fully informed by tele-
graph. and the conflict at Lead City between
the California (Homestake) company, and
miners, or Us it is termed here the war between
labor and capital. This latter calamity-for
viewing it in whatsoever light we will it be-
comes great and deplorable calamity-is still
embryotic and very portentious of evil. It is
not solely the result of recent TRANSACTIONS but
the elimination of policy pursued by des-
potlc money power whose motto in all things
has been rule or ruin. Briefly told, the story
Is as follows: The great gold belt of the Hills
shows, for reason of more extensive develop
,nent, its greatest richness in the mounta n
bounded by Deadwood, Whitewood Gold Run
and Poormar sulches, and attracted the atten-
ton OF Californians at their first visit
to the hills year and a half ago. Satisfied
that the property was more valuable than the
most enthusiastic miner ever conceived, they
at once resolved to buy up the property, or
gain control of the entire hill Their first
purchase, the De Smet was easily and salts
factorily accomplished, for tho sum of $780,
COZ, which WAS then considered an enormous
price. The locators were in an impoverished
condition, had undergone all manner of hard
ships; their poorly developed mines were con-
sidered only blow outs and they jumped at
the offer. The new company Went to work
upon gigantic scale. and have already taken
OUT twice the amount paid. and scarcely an i'm
pressioni has been made upon the vast
mountsin OF gold. Then they bought
the Homestakcs, Terra and other
property, erected their immense mills, delved
into the earth disclosing millions upon millions
gold, as proven by the fact that the cleanup
from several runs" has never fallen below
$50, 900 for ten day., and demonstrated to the
establishment of former owners that they had
really given away possessions second in value
to no mineral land in the world. OF course,
prices :-dyance1. and Californiaps found their
blocked, not by the avarice of the miners. but
by dissemination upon the part of such men
To realize something commensurate with the
value OF the property. So long az Califor-
mans eouia buy for song they bought, but
when justice stepped in and declared that men
who had braved the dangers incident TO the
early days of the Hills; who had scorned the
hostility OF Indians, and defed ofiicious
military; who had explored wilderness, and
afforded escape to thousands of idle Eastern
men, and opportunities for the safe and lucra-
tive investment of millions OF capital, should
be measurably rewarded and that sharks
should not profit by the labor of Others with
out paying for it, these self-same
Californians changed their tactics, and
resorted to trickery, and the farce
led oligarchy became class of detestable
Jumpers whose motto, might makes right
has been illustrated in the courts and without;
With the shotgun and defiant demeanor; with
threats and all manner OF acts Not one of
their mines but IS upon the court docket with
one or more perniless but hard-working miner
es defendant, and when brought to issue, the
verdict, through some lnscrutabie meanss other
than a dishonest court, (for a more upright
judge d es not live than the present presiding
ind, of III ioA h1, l1c,,
plaintiffs Their latest proceeding was
the taking forcihie possession of a mill site,
upon watch to erect their contem plated 100
stamp works. This was claimed by the Pride
OF the West company-poor men, but men who
having their rights. dared maintain them. In
the dead of night these pompous capitalists
sneaked upon the ground, demolished the shaft
house there erected by the rightful owners,
and when the latter appeared next morning,
refused to vacate. The locaters, backed by
the miners union and the sympathy of the
public at large, made forcible recovery. and
were busily engaged rebuilding their house
when their cowardly opponents, concealed be-
hind an adjoining cabin, fred upon them,
seriousiy wounding Alexander Frankinburg.
That shot awoke an echo that will live fol-
years. 1t aroused every honest man in the
community. and brought upon the miscreants
guilty as principals, or accessories after or be-
fore the act, anathemas OF the bitterest kind
Four arrests have been made-arrests of men
whose poverty alone coerced them into doing
the bloody work for those whose only dis.
tlnguishing feature is that they had the m oney
to pay for crime that they were too cowardly tc
commit
Such is the situation now, save that one hun.
dred deputy sheriffs ere on the ground to pro-
tect the mills and perishable property of the
Californians from threatened destruction. The
Calfornlans will not learn wisdom. Exper-
fence is lost and of no avail. They are SC
blinded with egotism their money power
that they still defy public sentiment, and now
threaten to shut down all work; to cast 1,5Ot
men out OF employment, and to paralize az
much az possible the entire industry
OF this remarkable country until such time as
our miners. forced by sheer necessity, shall
fa"n before them, and accept the proffered
terms of peace.
They may succeed, but It's very doubtful
There is too much backbone to this community
and too much self-respect for any such denoue.
Inent. l. e W