The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-08

peared. Ii will be remembered that after
Gloysiein had answered the knock at the
door he returned to his room t dress, and
his wife, asking him who the visitor was,
he replied:
why. don't know his name"
Pullman, the hotbed of Populist doe
trine and the headquarters of the federa-
ton. IS also supposed to be the town
which sent out the armed mob few weeks
sneeto lynch two men confined in the
county Jail at Coifax. At that time the
lynching party maintained the best kind
OF disci pline; the hanging was done quiz
city and systematically. after which the
men retired In such perfect order and con-
cealed their identity so completely that no
arrests have ever been made and probably
never will be.
At Pullman the first federation in the
state was organized and then il spread
north, until now every town in this part
of the state has strong club. La.ah
though a farming town of but 500 in
habitants, has club numbering over 100
members who meet twice a week These
men have maintained from the very first
that Gloystein was not murdered, but that
he ran away in order TO permit his wife to
collect s., 600 life insurance which he car
ried. The Populist newspapers have
studiously advanced the same theory, and
the federation has been as ardently de-
Tended
1t is thought possible that after Gloy-
stein was killed his body was placed in a
box and sent over the country, and il may
have found a resting place in the Snake
river, forty miles distant. The deed must
have been committed by at least six or
eight men. The whole mystery indicates
that gigantic plot existed, and IL pre-
sents such an inyuinerable surface that
the sheriff and his officers are completely
at loss TO know wnere TO make the attack.
While the sheriff Is inclined to think that
no one living near Mica was present at the
murder, he believes that some of the farm
ers in that vicinity could give valuable in
formation concerning the deed were they
willing to do so. When the news was
spread Monday that Gloystein was muir
dered by his political enemies, Populist
farmer named Davis, who knew Gloystein,
is reported to have said, with a malicious
grin:
'It won't do them any good to tell the
sheriff Gloystein - so we'll killed that Il
will take a common lifetime to get at the
bottom of it.
This remark was repeated TO Sheriff
Pugh the following day, and he went to
Davis and asked what was meant hv such
talk Davis modified the remark by say
ing that he believed il to be such deep
laid plot that the officers would experience
difficulty In ferreting out the facts in the
case.
PURPOSE OF THE FEDERATION.
A good deal of semi-oilicial information
concerning the objects and plan of work
OF the Freeman's Protective Silver Fedora
ton was obtained here today from q
farmer who has carefully observed the
growth and studied the maneuvers of the
local club liz is strictly q military organ
izatlou. and each cub or company has its
captain, ilsutenants, sergeants and COR
porais The members are drilled IN mill
tary tactics, and al attempt is made at
rigid discipline Each meeting opens
with the song. John Browns body lies
Wondering ia the grave, but his soul goes
marching ON" and the stTiciest secrecy is
observed in the details Of routine business.
There are no printed bylaws or constitu-
ton although the missionaries from PGll-
man have tabs or scrolls on which are
written the objects and aims Of the order.
Being a military organization. the Of
iieers require strict oeealence from the
naeuab bers and no one Is admitted into COM
piele confidential membership until he has
teen elected to commissioned Office:
thus the captain may map ont and carry
into execution plan Of campaign wilhont
the know!eige OF the large majority OF the
members. The priyates are supposed 20
work ON the principle thai 4 isa't Theirs
10 reason shy. rs bat 70 DO and die.
THK EEpKgArI0S rRKvESrs FORECLOSURE.
The prime object OF the federation Is -
protest against aud resist the foreclosure
OF mortgages, and is Was on th8s represen-
tatlon that = good manY impscnaso1s
farmers os this neighboraeod we're deinoed
into becoming members. The hard times
Of the past several years and iae almost
total failure OF crops last year has seFi-
ouslv embarrassed ohoss farmers whose
property q Inorsgagsd. aad many o. thea