Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-02-04
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fuFbalent sortalist.
| NES 1oRk, Feb. 1.-Two THOUSAND
persons gathered at Socialist neetin,
tonight 10 Concordia Hall IL vas m
nored preylous to the meeting thai
trouble would bs caused hy Jast1,
schwab and Herr Most. aided hy ,
number Of their adherents, x.o intend
/ Cd to capture and control the proceed
ings- less radical eletnent of tn,
paTis. headed by editor Schtvels.h. OF
tns lafss Lsf;sag, vas deter . ined q
mold the extremists iH check A yolu
minoas circular, printed in English and
1erInan. dan01ncing violence and the
lrfsn dynamite ontFages, had been
widely circ1lSted by the SehsveIsch fac
fion. b9t 10 excited the Schvab Nos,
er'Td. who, in retusn, issued flaming
tnesndiary appeal, applAudiug the dy-
naInitefs and threatening woe to Eng
land. Police Captain Nc Cullough, o,
the Seventeenth Precinct. attended the
meeting with a posse of men. Scheve-
iseh called the assembiage 10 order in
such way that a tnmalt ensned, iu
which chairs, ciHbs and revolvers tio.
ursd. Captain Mccullough command.
ed silence, and forced his way to the
platform, followed by his men.
schVab saw him and shouted, " Ii il
the police. Kill the -
Tbs infuriatsd mob turned on the Off
GERS, and Captain Mccullough was
struck On the head with q chair aud
knocked down. He reeained his feet.
and at the points OF their revolvers the
police kept the mob away. The Social
lists then wanted to resume delibera-
Sons, and were supplemented in their
demands by tho drawing of clubs,
knives and pistols. Captain McCai-
Tough was reinforced in a little while
by 30 policemen. This enraged the
crowd still further. aud they again at
tackled the police, who responded with
their clubs, and the rioters we're badly
punished. Many heads were cracked.
With the exception of Officer Rott, who
was slightly cut IN the faoe, and a few
bruises suffered by Captain McCul-
Tough, none OF the police were injured
Peter Brown, one of the rioters, had his
leg broken. and had to be sent to the
hospital. Jastus Schwab was the only
man arrested. he skulked away before
the riot was over, but Captain McCul-
Tough found him 10 his saloon, on First
street. He submitted quietly to arrest
his bail was refused, and he WAS iock-
ed up. After the tight a pistol, q dyua-
mite bomb and several short black
clubs we're found ia the hall. W. S.
EisenberR, SECRETARY OF the Internatiou-
al Workers Association, said that
Schwab had asked O'Denovan Rosa to
send gang of his dynamiters to break
np the nesting.
ON wall street.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Iovernments
steady; railways qaiet, Stocks opened
generally a small fraction higher and
unusually steady. The advance for the
most actiy5 shares on the list kept up
throughout the forenoon. In the early
afternoon the market bee Ime dull and
declined fraction. but the upward
movement started again at the begin
ming of the last hour, which was we'll
maintained until the cioss. The market
shows net advance of i to 2. Laoka-
wanna led IN the amount of business
done rs well as In the greatest gain aud
transactions in that stock amounted to
over 30 per cent. of the total business of
the day.
Developments I'm Regard 60 Leases Of
Indian Lands.
BILLINGS, Mont, Feb. 2-The Eastler
will tomorrow publisl the following:
The committee appointed by the Bill
ling Board OF Trade at the request Of
Senator Dawes, chairman of the com
mittee investigating leases of Indian
lands, returned today and reported as
follows:
I'VE have afidavits from l4O Indians,
which verify all that has been pre-
yiously said concerning the attempt
ed lease, going further and duplicating
Indian Agent Armstrong Ia openly aid
ing the same. Heretofore Armstrong
has only been charged with giving a
taolt consent. Ii Ia nov understood
that he openly stated to the Indians
that II the lease was not signed the ra-
tions W. uld be stopped on April LIST. the
price to be one cent per acre per year.
That lease Was signed through fear of
starvation. Agent Armstrong, Clerk
barstow and Interpreter Bravo all urged
tue Indians TO sign the lease. Most of
those who signed the lease did not kaow
its contents, but signed Il because Ad-
vised to do so by Armstrong and Others;
that many names on the list were not
put there by the Indians themselves.
All want the lease now stopped. Tue
lease ives to Hank and Wilson, repre-
senting a Colorado syndicate. The
hearing vas under authority of the In.
dian Department, in presence of A. w.
Armstrong and Henry Ward, Inspector
Of Indian Agents. Armstrong; atIi-
tsde was hostile to the committee. and
throughout he acted as enc under a con.
scioasness of guiit-like one being in
vestiRated. He insisted on cross qses-
tioning the Indians and icing present
all she time the committee was with the
Indians, at first ohieoting to any inter
prefer but his own talking With them.
The indians opsuly state that IL their
friends had not taken STEPS TO stop the
lease there would have been bloodshed
between the indians who signed the
lease and thosc who did not. They no0
declare that IL the lease is vet made
they will kill the cattle and the owners
IL they come on the reservation. The
papers will be forwarded 10 Senator
Dawes at once
Blsiaend Declared.
Nav YoRK. Feb. 3.-The Board Of
Directors of the Mexican Telegraph
Company Yesterday declared a semi
annual dividend of foar per cent. pay.
able on February 1lth. The net profit
for the year ending December 3lst is
over l09S per cent. The company is
vithout bonded OF other Indebtedness.
and has an available snrpsus of Sfl0,-
90. Notwithstanding the depression
in business, the traffic for 1884 shows a
satisfactory increase over iSs3. The
present traits Of the Central and South
American telegraph Go. shoSs AZ 10
crease Of IS per cent over the CORE
spending period Of last year.
FoREIGS.