The Labor enquirer., 1886-02-13

streets, an immense crowd had c0ngre.
gated. and as the procession approached
/ yells and boots were heard on all sides.
Finally few in the crowd made q
rush for the Cinnamon, attempting to
break through the line of the Home
Guards. There was general impres.
sion that the guards would not fire. and
the crowd had little fear of them. At
first the guards attempted to beat back
their assailants with the butts of their
muskets, but the latter attempted to
wrest the weapons from them. At last
the order was given, and the question az
to whether the guards would fire was
settled. All at once volley rung out
and five men fell. The crowd recoiled
several PAGES, horror-struck. At once
the Seattle Rifles, who were just leaving
the lock, came up on the double-quick
and formed in line to support the Home
Guards. In another minute Company
d came from the court house ON dead
run and fell IN to support their COM.
rades.
Soon the crowd was dispersed and
comparative quiet relgned.
The president has been telegraphed to
several times for regular troops, and
they are expected to arrive tomorrow,
1 @.
1.-THE president has issued the usual pro-
clamatlon, which shows thorough ig-
norance of the question, and an utter
disregard of the life and welfare of the
"free American laborer."
PoKr TOWNSEND. W. T., Feb. 9-Re
ports that Port Townsend is in charge Of
mob are untrue. No violence to the
Chinese is anticipated here. The en-
ployers are discharging the Chinese and
hiring white help generally, and the
Chinese are settling up and leaving town
by every steamer.
SEATTLE, W. T., Feb. 10.-The CITY has
become military camp, and every cor
ner is guarded by sentry. and military
rule is supreme. There has been no eff
fort on the part of the rioters to inter
fere, nor even to hold meeting. They
are without recognized leaders, and are
utterly powerless to do anything solong
as the military are under arms. There
is, however, an intense feeling of bitter
ness against the miIitiamen who did the
shooting on Monday, and it is openly
threatened that they will be hung as
soon as military rule is relaxed.
Eight companies of the Fourteenth in
fantry, under command of Colonel De
Russey, arrived this afternoon from
Vancouver barracks, and at O'Clock
the city was turned over to the regular
troops, martial law continuing. Gene
raj Gibbon is expected tonight, and he
and Governor Squire will determine e
their future course.
The trouble is practically over, and
through the efforts of the citizen SOL
diery the people have proved their abil-
ity under the most trying circumstances
to govern themselves. They have done
this, not as friends of the Chinese but as
| friends of the law. They wish the Chi
nese away, but they will not permit
them to be driven away 30 long as they
are here the under national authority
There has been threats of trouble at
Olympia; but we are assured bv the tel
egraph that "the law abiding citizens
have the city under control; and the
leaders of, the anti-C Chinese forces are
under arrest"
PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 11.-There
are fears of trouble here next Saturday
or Sunday similar to that at Seattle this
week, and if it comes at all 1t will be on
much larger scale.
A congress. will convene here on Sat-
urday morning. Ordinarily there would
be very little in such a convention to
excite alarm, but last Tuesday evening
Burnett G. Haskell, organ zer of the In
ternational Workmen's association, and
delegate from the confederated trades
and labor organizations of California,
Arizona and Nevada, arrived here, and
by common consent has been placed at
the head of the movement to expel the
Chinese by force. In an interview that
was published yesterday Haskell, in an
swer to a question by reporter, said:
1--WE don't intend to commit any vio-
lence or precipitafe any strife, but we do
intend to have the Chinese leave
Portland. The way we intend to e.
move the Chinese is to remove their
goods and chattels and themselves co
the wharf, put them on board steamer
sailing for San Francisco. and say to
them: God bless you. You are not
wanted here. Depart in peace" Z
SEATTLE, W. T., Feb. 1.-THE city is
quiet, to-day. The troops are patroling
the streets, but there has been no COLI
sion. The mob has dispersed, but it IL
thought that it would reassemble IN an
hour, if the troops were withdrawn.
Martial law consinues, and half dozeI
prominent agitators have been arrested
and are confined in Jail. Among these
prisoners is the chief officer of tht
Knights of Labor ih this city.
The Coke Strikers.
PfTTsBURG, Feb. S-The trouble in the
coke regions is believed to be just com
mencinp