Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-08
Military Precautions Against Threatened
Danger.
PASSENGERS FROM THE EAST BY RAIL.
Kaarnsy Advises His Followers to Beware
of Bad Advisers.
OREGON AND WASHINGTON TERRITORY
A Freight Train Wrecked Near Seattle
Washington Territory.
CALIFORNIA.
The sand Lot = Kearney Weakening
Rumor> Regarding Troops-Ihc Ward

Inc Sluu
Rumor> Regarding TrOops-Ihe Ward
Presidents.
SAN FRANcIsco, March 7th.-There was
good attendance at the sand lot to-day
Kearney warned his hearers that these men
who would incite them to deeds OF violence
are their enemies, and must be avoided: that
the Workingmen have nothing to gain by
violent measures, etc. He then went on to
announce that a grand plot was a1oat on the
part OF the alleged enemies of the Working
men to precipitate a riot, in preparation for
which Federal troops had been ordered to this
city, the guns of eating battery removed
to the Central police station, and a vigilance
committee put in shape for active duty.
Aside from the moves imputed by Kearney
to the authorities, there Is some Truth in his
statement. The Cuttings have been removed
to the police station, and there are rumors
that some additions to the United States
forces In the vicinity of the city are being
made. Guards have also been placed in
some instances over the armories of the Ma
tional Guards. Measurements havefailed
to excite any particular newspaper notice or
comment, and no explanations have been ac-
corded from authoritive sources, but this
action is probably referable to desire to be
prepared for any contingency liable to occur
at or before the expiration of the thirty days
notice given in the matter of the condemna-
ton of Chinatown.
The Board of Ward Presidents to-day
adopted a resolution calling County Con-
vention for the 10th inst, to nominate fifteen
freeholders to frame city charter. They
also resolved to request their representatives
in the Legislature to endeavor to have the
election for joint Senator, vice Desty, set for
the same date, as measure of economy.
The Military situation at San Francisco.
SAN FRANoIsoo, March 7th.-The Call to-
morrow will publish the result of inquiries
regarding the recent movements In military
circles in this city, from which it appears
that all the arms of the Second Regiment,
National Guard, have been removed from the
various armories and deposited in the old
City Hall, or Central Police Station, where
a guard of Lieutenant and ten men of
Company 4, Second Regiment, is kept over
them. Companies B and G, of the FRS
Regiment, have been concentrated at the
armory of the latter company, and the arms
of Company G, of the Second Regiment
have been placed in their charge. An officers
guard is now mounted nightly at the armory
of the Third Regiment which is allowed to
retain its arms. The armory of the First
Regiment is closely guarded, and no one is
allowed to enter. The arms of the three cav
airy companies have been removed from their
armory, to what localityis ur known, butprob-
ably to the old City Hail. Camp regulations
have been established, and s'grandrounds" visit
the various posts nightly. The arms only of
the Second Regiment have been removed
from the armories, and guards are detailed
every night to watch over the other company
property. The Third Regiment has been
concentrated at the old Oily mpic Club build
ing and those companies OF the First not &C.
commodated st the armory of Company G are
at regimental headquarters, corner OF How
ard and New Montgomery streets. General
Mcdowell, Commanding the Division OF the
Pacific, was telegraphed yesterday from
Washington to bring all the available troops
in his Division to San Francisco, and cum
panies amounting in all to 500 men are al
ready en- route, with more to follow-probably
], 500 altogether. 1t is impossible to find out
by whose orders these movements of the Ma
tional Guard are made, as the officers refuse
to give any information but it is conjectured
that the movements are under the direction
of General Mcdowell, and are due to repre-
sensations made to the Washington authori.
ties by Colonel Bee, Vice-Consul Of China,
regarding the supposed danger in which the
Chinese stand. 1t is understood that the
present precautions will be maintained until
such time as some settlement OF the existing
agitation is arrived at and at least until the
question Of the consttutionality of the law
torbidding corporations to employ Chinese
has been decided by the United States Courts,
and the question OF the condemnation of Chi
natown settled. The Second Regiment is
disposed to view the removal of their arms
with INDIGNATION, and many of the members
assert that it is an insult to the regiment,
whose loyalty to the State and to the cause of
law and order is unquestionable. The reason
assigned by the officers for their act is that
the arms of the regiment, being scattered
around at a number of company armories,
are liable to seizure in the event of an I'M
expected movement by the disorderly
classes, and that their removal to the
old City Hall is merely precautionary,
and not intended as any reflection upon the
character of the regiment. The Working
men are considerably excited over these
movements, and many of them assert that
the authorities are trying to force quarrel
on them. The others say that the movement
is designed to bluff the Board of Health in
the matter of the condemnation of China.
town, while still others hold that the whole
thing is due to the nnfounded fears of the au
thorities.