The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-09
CALIF0RNIA'sBANE
McUowsIl's Military Movements.
San Francisco Excited Over the Prscau.
tluns Taken by the Government TO Pro.
tect tho Chinese In Case Of an0ut-
break Of fthe DlsOrderly Classes
Present Precautions TO
be Maintained Until
the Trouble ls
Settled.

San Francisco, March S.-Placards are
being posted in prominent places about
the city warning employers Of Chinese to
desist from that practice, and vaguely hint
ing at the terrible consequences in the
event Of refusal. Pointed reference Is
also made to the condition Of the unem-
ployed. Signed, Council OF Thirteen.
One company Of the First Regular Cav
airy and q portion Of Company G, Eighth
Infantry, arrived this morning from Camp
Halleck, Nevada.
The Cal publishes the result Of the In
quiries regarding the centmilitary move
ments, from whichit appears that all the
arms OF the Second Regiment OF National
Guards have been removed for the various
company armories and deposited in the
old City Hall, or Central Police Station,
where a guard Of q Lieutenant and ten
men iskept over them. Companies B and
@, Of the First Regiment, have been con-
centrated at the armory Of the latter COM
pany, and the arms Of Company G, ofthe
Second Regiment, have been placed in
their charge. An officers guard isnow
mounted nightly at the armory, Of the
Third Regiment. Arms at the armory OF
the First Regiment, are closely guarded,
and no one is allowed To enter. The arms
OF the three cavalry companies have been
removed from their armory, to what
laaattt., ts pnl, "a aut hnf neahah1t, tn tha
old City Hall. Camp regulations have
been established, and the grand rounds
visit the various posts nightly. The arms
OF the Second Regiment have been re-
moved from the armories, and guards are
detailed every night to watch over other
company property. The Third Regiment
have been concentrated at the Olympic
Club building, and those companies OF the
First not accommodated at the armery Of
company O are at regimental headquar-
ters, corner Howard and new Montgomery
streets.
General Mcdowell, commanding the
division Of the Pacific, was telegraphed
yesterday from Washington to bring the
available troops in his command TO San
francisco, and companies, amounting in
all to five hundred, are already en- route
with more to follow, probably fifteen hun
dred altogether. It is impossible to dis
cover by whose orders these movements
were made, as the officers refuse to give
any information, but Il is coniectured that
the movements are under the direction OF
General Mcdowell and due To the repre-
sentations made to Washington authors
ties by Colonel Bee, vice Consul to China,
regarding the supposed danger in which
the Chinese stand. We understand that
the present precautions will be main
tanned until the settlement OF the
existing agitation Is had, at least un-
til the question OF the Constitutionality
Of the law forbidding corporations to en-
ploy Chinese has been decided by the
United States courts, and the question OF
the condemnation Of Chinatown settled.
The Second Regiment Is disposed to view
the removal Of its arms with indignation.
Manyof the members assert that 1t Is an
insult to the regiments, whose loyalty Is
unquestionable. The reason assigned by
the officers for the act is that the arms OF
the regiment being scattered around at q
number OF the company armories, and are
liable TO seizure In the event OF an ex-
pected movement by the disorderty classes,
and their removal 10 old City Hall, Is
merely precautionary. The Workingmen
are considerably excited over these move
ments, and many assert that the authors
ties are trying to force quarrel; others
say the movement is designed to bluff the
Board OF Health in the matter OF the con-
demnation Of Chinatown, while still others
hold that the whole thing Is due to the
unfounded fears Of the authorities.