The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
FIVE MEN ARRESTED.
Charges Made of Assault With
Intent to Murder.
A "Rocky" GAME OF BASEBALL.
sunday Passes on Quietly at the Mines
Mo Disturbance Follows the
Miners Arrest.

authorities managed to give Newcastle a
more thorough shaking up today than
either of the explosions. A special train
came in at o'clock this morning with
Deputy Sheriff Wells. The camp hadn t
quite awakened from its late Sunday
morning rest before dozen deputy
sheriffs had been put to work locating
their men.
Wells had his inside pocket lined with
warrants. which he served as the men
were pointed out TO him. ]. p. Boylan,
John Raddigan, Martin Wall, Jim Nc
Cullough and Ed Purcells. all leaders
among the strikers, were gathered in after
this fashion, and the train was away again
before the majority of the residents knew
that anything out of the ordinary was on
foot.
The camp was unusually quiet today,
owing to the absence of so many leading
spirits. The men who were arrested are
all charged with the crime of assault with
intent to kill. A part were implicated in
the attempt to blow August Sanders out
of his little cabin, and the rest, it is
claimed, were parties to an assault on
j. r. Jones, private Waterman In the
employ of the Oregon improvement Com
pany, on May 81 last The story OF the
placing of the giant powder at Sanders
cabin is too fresh to need REPETITION. The
other crime was committed at IL O'Clock
on the night in question. Jones at that
time had charge Of the old tunnel between
Newcastle and Coal creek. He went into
the tunnel in the afternoon, going through
to Coal creek, and as he was coming home
along the railroad track he was halted
suddenly by a band of a dozen strikers,
all of whom were by the side of the track,
extended at full length on the ground.
"Yot don't want me-" Jones said.
.'Yes. we do" the spokesman answered.
1--WE know just what you are"
There was sound of the clicking of
triggers. Jones himself afterward in tell
ing his experience said, ''then they began
to shoot and so did l. / went around
them and they fired as 1 went" How it
came about that no one was killed, people
who know the facts have never ceased to
wonder. The men with Winehesters fired
good many shots and Jones' body was a
good mark. On the other hand, their
target was very cool and had record as a
Texas ranger and as bad man" to back
himself up. But he did not bring any one
down, although he escaped unscathed.
One of the assailants was betrayed by his
voice, but there was no proof against him.
Some pretty fine detective work got the
secret from the rest. The authorities
claim to have convincing proof against
their men.
The few strikers who came out in time
to see the leaders carried away in the
strong grasp of the law were left in doubt
as to the charge. Some of them thought
or said that 1t was only a ruse to have the
men out of the way when the evictions of
today came off, They were very indig-
nant and the officers came in for q good
part of abuse.
Affairs are even quieter today than they
have ever been since the beginning of the
trouble between the company and its old
employees.
Two negro mines played baseball today on
the old grounds, and a striker acted as
umpire. There was no disturbance of any
kind. and about as rocky game as dia-
mond ever saw was received with round
after round of boisterous applause. The
negroes showed a disposition to be peace
able. The players who were the least bit
fractions were greeted by cries of "no
kicking" or ''shut up, and play ball"
and the like, and shamed back into their
corners. When victory was decided in
favor of the second nine, the whole outfit
went back to the creek without trying to
modest any one.
Deputy Sheriffs Van Wycoff and Wells
returned from Newcastle yesterday with
hye prisoners-James Mccullough. Ed
win Purcell, ]. p. Raglan, Martin Wall
and John Raddigan-charged with assault
with intent to kill. The deputy sheriffs.
armed with the warrants, left Seattle
on special train for Newcastle yesterday
morning, and at $50 o'clock they had re-
turned to Seattle with their prisoners.
The complainant against the men. who
are strikers, is John r. Jones, of New
castle, who alleges that he was murder
ously assaulted May 81.