The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-18

FRASKLIN, May i7.-Esreciaj. .I-Kverytfdne 10
quiet at midnight, although the town has
assumed the appearance OF an armed camp.
Fences have been built in all iirecttsA, estab-
fishing dead line, and the white people ara
not allowed TO go beyond them The negroes
arc as FAR as possible confined to certain limits,
so that they are brought into contact with the
whites very little The contract and scale OF
wages TO be signed by the negroes are kept
as quiet as possible. but the whites have already
been making inroads ON the ranks OF their orr
ponen.s and have secured a sigAEpf IL Fcfi1W@
ing is the scale now in use as gssen by ". ].
McAlpine, one OF the miners lasiers: FHgi-
reers $3.50, blacksmiths g. drivers ST eafper-
ters SO, timbermen So, tracklsfers 81. thesr
assistants $50, chute builders -. h'asefs
s255, top men s2.25 to $50, pHlapers = "a,
firemen, s275; stablemen, ~ p . moafh;
miners in breast, $50 yard ana Sc > car. Tbs
new contract SLOWS no yardast. driving sank-
ways 81 yard and s5c es- aetatW cfyns
tract gives only Sc yardage ard sae = cHrs
chutes, $50, and sirF4zs si.9s u n SO 2 cxr
in both cases <<tslax tirsDeks
McAipine csicaiaset tbat G fa 4. Nhiea
be has seen but haS not rtsnerk4 q2si1x
of, makes reduction of ~ rss ~
ing the situation genesaifs Is
az to the feeling in the calns, - : ~.
the people are indignant and ~ srfnsy fsss. ii..f
at the bringing In OF hired g,st 81 an ~ a.
get from them is a sneer sDss prasf otf he
dead line," said he.
The dead line has been d awn along boa
sides of the county road ~ be people sz1
not allowed to step mefs hkis eight fsef oiY ii
it, The children have teen ri red from slk3uu
the ruhlic pIayprouIs4 <zssS IL fetec hse 49,
built up to the sehooIfsass& go, and they afix
have an alley six feet ongb wlsio6 Il
pass to the schoolhouse
meeting Of citizens ID 81 eraooa or IL.
fats, called by the musie iea be brass bard.
about 200 to Us persons ssef r. sagsf, thirty 10
forty being negroes. IL b a BY those who
conducted the meetirs i tbs negroes
present stated that they lad 1nn brought Zero
under false pretenses ard iaksnasd 70 leave iii
the morning without x1ssag aid from
the white men. 1aEfs tho party
who came all To AZ hy rail
with the women and child rcp Mere said % havo
deserted at Black river 5ufx n. Resolutions
were passed denouncng the sation pf Nr. Corey
in bringing the negroes undss an artpad guard,
and appealing to Governor Ferry tokeD fofcetha
provision OF the eonsfitnticn shieh fcybids the
assembling OF bodies OF armst nep. -
sheriff woollery was appeaJed to % corts mp
aud see that the law Was cpforced ~ fsgsrd %
the employment Of guards.
Mr.. MeAlpine further said t'sst some ut tte
guards have been in the tovr ~. Nesszs watfh
ing the actions OF tks miners ~ad
trying TO learn their procceainsa. TAey ws4
recognized among the body -ien psasclisq MI
town this morning. The ss9 II - VII
waro closed bv rcaCftf a. ffc ~
zeus the minute tiis negr9es
rived some of the rtsr1cs tod
McAlpine that they vefe folf Yiy
they were hired that thers sre 0nis Or
houses In the town and that "a tninshasap'
one. but that they needed gsiss 1stanss 20
were Italians in camp and Ialsispssn nc sxeas "A
70 appeal to the cnsmbsr a easu.ossv 81
denounce the cornpany's sctir % Asg ~
rssolutions passed this afr sa,sk t'ofs lisst
body.