Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-03-14
EXCITING IInE. ar PoKrL.VD.
a Rersrd Of the Dastardiy Events Of
single Sizht in the oregon
Metropolis.
fOrsgouian. March IB.h.7


At o'clock yesterday morning. not
long after the light from she flames Of
Joe Iavlor's huruing house, fred by an
iucendiary. had faded on the eastern
1orIzon, and while al CregJ1.t.4s reporter
va suQuirlnR into tue robbery and
-ho0ting u Col j. X Phillips, at Eas'
Portland. be sax the iIgki Of burning
building north Of the sity, Ia she vicin
~ Of Guilds lake. which 10 proved was
The house of one Of tue ChIuese garden
srs Their, several Of whom we're las.
ulght driven sSsy from their homes.
Here vas attempt murder. robbery
and arson. outrage and pillaQe of unof-
tending aud helpless psopie. BY = band
II armed and masked rutiians, all in
tight at ihs same ,Iue, as Il we're, and
10 this bgIlilrni last 50 hour or Two later
Eas added 40 attempt 10 blow up house
Nth dynamite. Verify the seed sown
Dy the apostles Of lavlessuess and vIo
fence ia bearing harvest.
Down along the county road at the
base If the mountain, north of Guilds
Lake. are a Bumber Of Chinese vsgeta-
Ole gardens and bog ranches, which, by
1nceasing and patient toll, have been
made productive, and where some 40 or
80 hiBamen make an honest living and
interfere With no one. l. lst evening 4
band Of about 30 white men," the most
81 them vita faces blackened or wear
,n9 masks, armed with guns. pistols and
knives, and carrying lanterns, raided
tnIs little settlement. They first visited
Lai Louis vegetable garden, five miles
below the city, broke into the houses.
reused the i've inaates, searched them
Asd forced them TO take their blankets
aud start for this city, the ruffisns help
ing themselves 10 whatever they took a
fancy TO. They then came on this way
! about quarter OF mile to where On
Loag has beg ransh, where ten men
we're reused out, robbed Of what money
hey had, and ordered TO join their
cOuntrymen and start for town.
They then came on about half a mile
to another ranch, where they turned
1ut five more men. Here they found
| ons man Who had a pistol, 50 they tied
dis hands before sc srching him and
tired some thirty or forty pistol shsts to
tsrrify their victims. They next reached
| Chun Wsh YuI's vegetable garden
where they drove out eight men, not for
| getting to rob them. They next came
10 Hoo Povey's vegetable garden, wher,
they drove ont niae Cainamen and sci
ire to the house, snlv five Of the mer
succeeding IN saving their blankets
| while everything else in the house wa.
consumed. They then came on to La
| Lovely = ranch and began to drive th,
men out Rhen the light from the burn
| ug house became SO bright that tine rat
Ians we're afraid IL would bring the au
| th1rities Down on them, 80 they aban
doued the job in hand and scutilsa of
INTO the brush like the eOwardly, sneak
lnR cars they were, and skunk back 6,
gheir LARS in the puElleus OF slabiogr
and Albina.
About o'clock yesterday morning ;
loud explosion WIS beard In the NORTH
rnd of the city which reused Thousand
Of people, aud hundreds hurried In th,
direction OF the report. Ii Was at
China washhOuss on the corner of fhifC
aGd I streets, keIt by Gee Sing. TB,
house is a story -aDd-s-half dwelling
set on piles and has shed attached
here were $40 EXPLOSIONS In quick sue
cessioB. judging by the results, on,
stick of the giant posder must hav,
| been placed IN a barrel OF coke stand
Ing near by, and the other in the roo
Of the shed. Any one passing by c0ule
have placed" the sticks without at
tracing attention, and IN a very shor
time. The shed was half demolished
and every window IN the house wa
smashed, but none of the inmates wer,
injured There is no clue To the DIV
uamiters. lhe dastAtdly deed has ore
ated profound sensation thrsughou
the city.