Show MORE E CASES OF PEONAGE Laborers Said to Be e Imprisoned in a Stockade Near Chicago Gov Government erent Takes Matter Mater Up Tip Chicago Dec De 16 A peonage case in involving involving it is I alleged a stock stockade stockade stockade ade for the Imprisonment of laborers un under under Under der a system s stem calculated to keep them In debt to the th owners of or the stockade armed aed guards gards and escapes by b tunnelling will il be presented to the federal feder grand gd jury jur here tomorrow This story which if substantiated substantiated will wl take te rank with any charged against the turpentine camps of oC the south became public today toda when were Issued to c copel the attendance of oC thirty witnesses who are said to have lived within the stockade to the grand jury ju Indictments for peonage and violation of the tile federal law will be asked by District Attorney Simms The stockade is alleged to be situated near Summit Summit a town thirty miles mile from Chicago Here Here It Is said sald a manufacturing ing company ompa is spending many man millions of dollars in the erection of or a manufacturing town Witnesses who have been interviewed by federal feder authorities are said to have stated that they the were were not permitted to leave leae the stockade while in debt to their employers and getting out of oC debt was a very difficult diff difficult cult matter owing to the tariffs at which everything had to be purchased within the stockade This high fence was guard guarded gard ed by b armed arm sentries A number of oC labor laborers laborer laborers ers er under are arc it said to have escaped by b tunneling |