Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-03-25
THE SOUTHWEST STRIKE.
The situation Quiet Hut the Question
still Unsettled.

St. Louis dispatch The situation about the
yards of the Gould system is practically un-
changed The Kirkland accommodation train
got out of the depot, rushed through the yards
over the street at a speed OF twenty miles an
hour and succeeded in getting by the strikers
The trip to Kirkland and return was safe.
ly accomplished, the guard and twenty detect
ives being the only passengers. The work of
hiring new men TO take the place of the strik-
ers is not progressing to any degree of success,
less than fifty new men having been employed,
and most of them are doing guard duty. The
situation in the railroad strike Is a very quiet
one. The Missouri Pacific managed to get out
what they termed an accommodation train by
coupling an engine TO few passenger coaches
standing In the extreme west end of the shop
yards, and after the liremans desertou pick.
ing up a detective" and converting him into
fireman. These trains all stop at Krkwood,
because at Pacific, Mo-, thirty miles west of
the city, there is a very determined body OF
strikers who boldly proclaim that no engineer,
no matter how willing he may be to run, shall
go beyond that place, and none OF the knights
Of the lever and footboard care to carry their
allegiance further than Kirkwood. The strik-
ers confidently say that they will win even II
the engineers do run, as the fremen will not
go out neither will the brakemen. East st.
Louis is quiet but the question there is as yet
unsettled. The conclave at Kansas City en-
crosses the attention of all The attitude of
Potter, Of the B. Nm. railway in Nebraska Is
indicative of trouble on that system, which be-
ing closely allied TO the G., b. d O., will prob
ably broil these two systems News from Texas
is OF very discouragng nature to tho com
panies, and to the contrary with the strikers.
All the men procured by the Texas & Pacific
for service in the Marshall shops refusing to
work upon their arrival, is causing much re
joicing among the men in st. Louis.
At Fort Worth the Knights of Labor have
the upper hand. The boarding houses and ho-
tells which accommodate the men who take the
strikers places are being boycotted, even but
cheers refusing to sell them meat All this Is
true, but the sentiment of the people Is against
the strikers and the business men are afraid Of
being boycotted. John Taggart, boarding
house keeper was boycotted. The waterman
from Taggart had been purchasing his water,
refused to sell any more to him, and now he
has to go two miles to secure water His land
lord, one of the richest men In Fort Worth,
has ordered him to Vacate the house On the
18th some poison was thrown into Taggart's
water barrel, and one OF the women and Two
little girls were poisoned and lie in a critical
condition. The Knights of Labor employees on
the Missouri Pacific OF Omaha are out and no
freight trains are moving on the Nebraska di-
vision.
A Shreveport, La, special says the rumor
that arms were being purchased to be used
against the strikers at Marshall, Tex, and
along the line of the Texas IL Pacific road for
protection of property created no little excite
ment Investigation developed the fact that
Marshal Reagan, OF the eastern district OF Tex.
as, had sent a request to the railroad agent at
Shreveport to purchase number Of the latest
improved Winchester rifles for his deputies.
Several were purchased and forwarded The
agent received a telegram that enough arms
had been purchased through the United States
authorities and other purchasers.