Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-21
Time for Alarm /!
The Committee Of Safety
meet to purify the city.
Thieves and Blackiegs
must leave or swing.

For SONS weeks past, - has been
mentioned repeatedly in the Pos1
rKtIrorscea, very Objectionable ciass
Of persons has been fochna into BEAT
tie. They wsrs seldom sssn IN the day
time, bat a. night approached they sp-
pea,sd On the streets or wers sean
loungin2 abou: the dives On Washing
ton street.. They live in various WAYS,
soms by s!ealin2, sorus BY roobin2
drunken men, some By gambling with
marked cards. some By Steering smokers
no against brace games, and others Oh
the earnings Of prostitutes. The Chief
Of Police and his little corps of aids
have done all they could to keep this
class within bounds, and GET nd Of them
"a rapidly as possible. When arrested,
they always had money 10 fes some
SINISTER LAWYER, who would help them
out and post them how To egads the laH
in future. The police discovered, q day
or two since, that programme had been
arranged TO hurn the town, AID that
piles of cornbusti5les had been secretly
| conveyed under houses in various parts
1 of town. ready to be lighted at any min-
ute. One of these piles WAS found I'M
der the house of !. lsaacs on Third
| s,reet, and another under Robert
Abrams's static on Washington street
The enc at lstacs's place was lighted,
but fortunately discovered by neighbors
and extingrished before harm resulted
The people were made aware OF thess
facts by the police, and last night, when
one of the persons who ha0 been no
tilted to leave openly published card
in an evening paper saving: II take
this means II stating that i will not
leave Seattle merely to suit the pleasure
Of a certain individual f0rbearance
ceased 10 be n virtue. The City Coun-
Gil authorized the Chief of Police TO ap
point twenty specials for a week, and
the Committee of Safety also came to
| gether and resolved 70 sustain the Chiei
OF Police in whatever he Undertook
; The Comuittes consists Of over t@d
h n red and fifty determined men. who
!. On.y act for the good OF the city, and
W. -, will carry ont to the letter anything
lev undertake. Ii was resolved, before
narsher means were adopted, TO serve 4
notice upon all suspicious or objection
able @ iaracters 70 leave town IN or be
fofc this evening, with caution not to
rstuz,. In oasa all persons receiving
shis notice comply, no haraher meas
ures will be used; bat anyone falling to
comply does 50 at his peril,
1t has been rumored that brother OF
Payne, WHO was hung by the Commit
tee on the 18th OF January last, is here
and has been making threats against
the city and its people. 10 him We say:
Leave this place az soon as possible.
for il you attemp. to avenye the hang
ing of your brother (who murdered n
respectable citizen and faithful officer
in the di ,cdsyge of his duty by burn-
ing the town, or otherwise, the same
rope that launched him into eternity is
ready to do the same for you; and never
let that fact escape your memory for one
moment"
The CHIEF Of Police. with ten deputy
city marsbals. tool. Il walk through tbs
street. last night, aud notified IA many
Of the above mentioned characters as
they could find to quit the town without
delay. The Chief has n list of those
whose presence is no. desired longer by
this community, IA d befors noon today
| Ley will all resolve u ,tice to leave; and
well will it be for those who stand not
upon the order Of their Roi ~, bat go at
once.