The record-union., 1897-04-26

| No answer was returned directly, and
the Sheriff repeated his question.
/ An understood, smooth-shaven man,
with enormous cheek bones and sunken
eyes, stepped out and said:
4 guess I'm the man you want to
see
| Are you the leader?" queried Sheriff
Johnson.
| We'll" returned the man addressed.
| I'm LeffingWell."
| How many men have you here?'
asked the Sheriff.
| I've got eight here" returned Lef-
fngweu, land we are going to the city
to get grub for the rest of the men"
| How many is there, all told?" was
the next question.
| About 1S0," returned Leffingwell.
LEFFINGWELL'S PLANS.
| Sheriff Johnson and Captain Fisher
conferred apart, and Record Union
reporter took Leffingwell in hand The
latter wore a Scotch cap, and had his
throat heavily muff1ed. He was inclined
to talk to Leffingwell, and did so at
every opportunity.
What are your intentions?" was
asked
Our intentions" replied the leader of
the army, ARE to get East. Most of the
men came from the East, being led to
| believe from advertisements that there
was plenty of work for them. When they
got here they found nothing to do. or
very little, and came to the conclusion
that they could never earn enough to
get back home, so they have started out
for that purpose.
Now as for me- continued Letting
well, Il was born on the Pacific Coast,
and have always lived here, but there is
no work to do, and SO / am with the
army and intend to see it through
! When asked how the men composing
the party expected to get back East,
Leffingwell said they proposed to get
back in any way possible, so long as they
got back
The Sheriff and the Captain of Police
arranged to allow LefiingWell and his
eight lieutenants to proceed to the city
for the purpose of purchasing food, with
the understanding that did either or any
of them beg they should be arrested and
lodged in the city prison. Leffingwell
| had given orders for the army to remain
in camp until his return, and the officers,
| accompanied by a Record Union" re-
porter and several other citizens, pro-
ceeded down the tracks to the camp.
! Several fires were blazing east of the
levee in the Brannan addition, and it
was found that the camp had been
pitched on a piece of land belonging to
Thomas Hague. The army had evil
IDENTIFY been apprised of the approach of
10
the Lieutenant who had been left in
charge, yelled out:
mo breaking up fences therei Kan
garo the man who smashes a board!'
The officers gathered above the impro-
vised camp and looked down upon the
1S0 men and the several fires which had
been kindIed with boards ripped from a
fence. The Sheriff stepped out into the
light and said:
Men, I'm the Sheriff of Sacramento
County, and l want to say that if you
destroy any property you will be dealt
with according to law
"Got any objections to our sleeping in
those box-cars?" called out a voice.
IF you sleep in box-car the law says
you are vagrants," returned the Sheriff,
and you'll be treated accordingly"
| The schooner was dark as a pocket,
and the army all gathered around its
! fires. The men were busy boiling cof-
! fee, which they said was all they had.
Many of them were young and strong
and had fairly good faces, but the ma
jority We're as hard as flint or as careless
as those of professional vagrants. Sew
eral burly negroes and a great many
foreign born persons We're around the
fires, and several faces were there which
the officers recollected as having seen in
the rogues' gallery.
For a full hour Sheriff Johnson and his
officers patrolled the camp, and later
on guards were set to keep stragglers
from getting into the city. After the
coffee had been disposed of. the members
of the army rolled themselves in their
blankets and by midnight many of them
had forgotten everything in sleep.
LEADERS ARRESTED.
In the meantime Captain Fisher and