The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-02

was efectual In keeping back the strikers, q
dozen OF whom came TO the barrier and entered
into q conversation with Deputy Mcdonald.
They begged that three OF them should be al
lowed TO visit the new arrivals. Mcdonald said
that they might II Superintendent Parker was
willing. A courier was dispatched TO Parker,
who returned almost Immediately with an I'M
favorable reply. az viii communicate with
Wesley Wilson. You can have four months to
Sss the men. You can't see them now" was the
message. The strikers were very angry. They
roundly abused the HPinkerten thugs as they
called them. Then they turned loose on the
new men. "a white Niger Is lot worse than
black one" one OF the men said. sThose men
up there are white niggers, every one of them.
They will find out that their job Is not picnic
before they get through with IL.
The deputation. among whom were John
Dryiie, Frank Hailstone and other members OF
the miners committee, finally left and returned
quietly TO town. At the mine there was the
confusion that might have been expected. but
IL YVES reduced to q minimum before shutdown.
The men focked 70 the commissary and got
their blankets and mattresses, and moved into
the houses They proved to be q miscellaneous
assortment of all nations Some OF them are
coal miners and mine blacksmiths They come
from all parts Of the country. One man is
from the province of Alberta several are from
Tennessee and Pennsylvania, and there are
few farmers, one sailor and some common
laborers. Most OF them express their intention
OF staying through thick and thin. Several
have chums whom they expect tomorrow, who
did not get of on the train they came on. The
agreement under which the men came to work
is not yet definitely settled. They have been
told that they could do well and make more
than they have been making in the past. Among
them there are those who seem TO be honestly
anxious to work and earn money. Others do
not seem to realize where they are:
Work win be begun in the morning. There
are some repairs 70 be made on the tracks and
in the slopes, which viii take at least day.
The management expects to begin 10 run coal
out Thursday and Friday, and in the meantime
% get new men In larger numbers These win
90 the best they can, and, as Mr. Parker says,
ut least make . beginning. Until affairs have
settled and the new men have gone to work, tho
militia win remain where they are, as will also
Euiliyan's men, now between forty and fifty
u number.
The disposition OF the miners 70 10 fight with
time a. weapon. They do not think the new
men will satisfy the owners nor stay close to the
mine all the time. They say that they are going
TO talk at the first opportunity they have, If 1t is
year from now; and then. too, they have a
faint idea that they can do some good for them
selves on election day. They say that they
wouldn't vote for Colonel Haines to save his life,
to which the colonel replies that he Is out of
politics.
Complaints against the Sullivan guards are
becoming more frequent, and their presence
among the people 10 causing more Ill feeling
than ever. Stories are told OF taunts thrown at
the miners by these guards. Peter Weisecker,
who lives within the dead line, tells the follow
ing story:
This morning after the train with the soldiers
came In, while was in bed. the Sullivan guards
came to the corner OF the house and haiiooed to
me TO get up and get my gun. They threw
stones when they had gone little distance and
yelled In taunting way, telling me to 60 and
Join the home guard and calling out: "Where
are your brave men now? Look at what's com
ing now. Get up and go to drilling" and like
expressions l told them to move on. and they
nnaliy did. am an old man and live alone
men to annoy sleeping citizens
Other miners tell of petty annoyances, chiefly
consisting OF slurring remarks passed In their
hearing, TO which they say they are being sub
3ected. They are extremely sensitive over their
position and they are beginning TO agitate the
question Of how to lawfully compel the disarm-
ing OF the men under Sullivan.
While the train was passing the dead line,
Dr. +. w. Harrell, the Seattle Coal & Iron Com
pany's physician, who has been here since the
arrival Of the troops. attempted to get in from
IN old platform. He missed his footing and
fell from the platform, sustaining fracture OF
the knee cap and fracture OF the tibia, which il
very painful and will incapactate him for
number Of weeks. He win be taken TO Seattle
BY the first train IL his condition win allow.