The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-17
Plot to ASsasSinate Prominent
Men Of San Francisco.
ARCK-FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE.
A Batch OF miscellaneous kilograms
from Various Quarters OF
the Globe
Depraved Dxnami,srs

for the wholesale assassination of the
most prominent men of this city, came
to light here to night. Some time ago
the police obtained information of the
existence of an organization called the
"Socialistic Revolutionary Associa-
ton" which it was asserted was COM
posed of ultra-socIalistic members.
Close watch was kept OH their move
nentS, and the police finally succeeded
in obtaining the minutes OF one OF their
meetings, held on November 23d. From
these facts it was discovered that it was
the intention of the association to "put
out Of the way" about twenty Ihen, in
Gliding w. I. Coleman, Congressman
w. w. Morrow, General w. II. b.
Barnes, MaSor Bartlett. I'm ted States
Judge Lorenzo Sawyer, Leland Stanford,
Charles Cr0cker, Governor Stoneman
the principal police officials and several
others. These names were placed on
the ''prOscriptive lIst'' and placed IN
the hands of the executive committee
TO carry out the orders OF the associa-
ton. The committee were to devise the
best mode of accomplishing the ends
of the base plot and were thus engaged
when their work was brought to
sudden termination tonight by the
discovery of the associatiOn'S head
quarters at 900 Montgomery Avenue by
the police and the arrest of four men
found therein, julius c. Koosher,
Henry Weiseman, Chas. Nuttlstadt
and Oscar Eagers. In the room was
/ also found q complete laboratory for
manufacturing internal machines. The
! men were taken TO the city prison
where they boldly asserted they were
/ dynamiters and purpOsed TO get rid of
! the citizens named aud then rae
! Chinatown The prisoners also belong
/ TO The German branch OF the antiCoOlie
! league. No charge has yet been entered
against the prisoners. Further devel-
opments are expected.
SAN FRANCIsCO, December 16.-The
leade- of the band of dynamiters ar
rested last night is Henry Weiseman.
He is a BaVarIan by birth and the
oretical chemist by profession. He was
induced TO Join Coroner 0'Donnell's
Anti-Coolie Leaugue. and finally be-
came president Of the German Anti
Cooiie League. my intention" he
said. was merely TO aid in enforcing
what O'Donnell told US was the law
against the Chinese. He told us that
the State constitution prohibited the
Chinese from living within the limits of
any incOrUorated town or city in the
State. He showed me the law, and /
read il for myself. He never told me
that the Supreme Court had declared
that the law was unconstitutional,
and ! believed that that was the Law al
though 1 have since been told that
| it was not. Well, We had meeting on
the sand lot on Thanksgiving day and
resolved that We would call on the mum
I Lar
1 resign their offices. O'DOnnell told rs
/ that we had right 70 do this, and IS
/ he always boosted that he was the sec
Ond highest officer IN this city. l sup
! posed ne knew and believed the mum
/ icipal authorities would be compelled 70
order them 20 leave the city. The only
| thing that troubled me was that O'Don-
ell was always letting on that the Chi
nese were supplied with Winchester
rifles supplied to snem By Colonel Bee,
/ the Chinese CONSUL Most OF our people
were working men and had no arms.
II was afraid that when the Chinese
! were ordered to go they would resist ana
attack our people. We must have some
thing to meet them with, and | resolved
| TO experiment and see if could not IN
vent a superior weapon. l commenced
nv experiments about twelve 0avs ago,
and bought some dynamite. Ny idea
was to make something that could be
thrown like hand grenade. we e1-
per;mented at different times under the
rocks near the Cliff House, but the re.
suits were not satisfactory. O'D0nneI
knew we we're experimenting: He NAG
often talked of dynamite, and ne CARED
/ his newspaper The Artt- CooIie Dynan'stoes
| The man who gave the name vi
1 Koo,ber when arrested is also known
as KOwsIski. He is a Russian, ana
speaks six languages. According 70 MS
story he was ruined by the frequent as
| sauits made on Inc Jews, OF which race
\ he Is a member. HIS customers were so
| abused by Russians that he was unable
N maintain his business. and he lett MS
I native place TO go 70 Paris. Alter re
maining there a short time he came 10
/ the United States and settled down IN
! New York City. He was APP
noipted an agent of the JEWISH
| Relief Society, and visited oregon
and Washington Territories 20 take
uD land for his people. he was 10
receive $500 fer every family LOT whom
he procured a government setuenenI.
He claims that Henry Willard, the ran
road magnate, assisted MIN IlAte e.
/ in his IabOrs, but that ne ala not re-
caiVe nayment for his services, % the
/ fnnds Of the society were exhausted.
He recently came to this city and iden-
tined himself with the Anu-coohe
league. The house in which ne dyna-
mite was found was occupied oy him.
| He maid a monthly rental OF $40.
Charles NittIestadt is president of the
third Ward Anti-coolie club, and Vice
I P-e.ident of the German branch
Of the same organization. In his
room the detectives found about 800
badges bearing the letters u. a. Q. L.
Oscar EggerS IS pedoler ~ occupsa--
ton. 2 native OF Germany. ana about 50
wears of age. He speaks very little
The prisoners have been charged with
,,is5emeanor for unlswfully storing
giant powder. The highest penalty Is
six months imprisonment or S1,UOo
SAN FRAsclscO, December l6.-Many