Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-04-16

heart would harm Q hair Of your head. but
the system which reaches out on all sides
gathering in millions Of dollars OF treasure
and keeping them out of legitimate chan
nels OF commerce must die. l have taken
counsel from the best legal minds of the
United States. We are prepared to face
Won before the courts, and now await your
action in the matter. This is no threat.
I speak for SOC, 900 organized men, who are
ready to pay out their last fsrthing in
order that justice may prevail. You have
il in your power to make friends Of these
men by acting the part Of a man, by taking
this matter into your own hands. Will
YOU do so and end this strike in the inter-
est Of humanity and our common
co%untry?"
Powderly's letter was sent to Gould
through W. o. Mcdowell with the instruc-
lions that il Gould did not consent 10 an
honorable settlement of the difficulty be-
fore S O'Clock of the day on which the let
ters we're delivered, or at that hour he still
preserved silence, to allow the letters to be
published.
At the opening of his reply TO Powderly,
Gould quotes this letter OF instructions 10
Mcdowell, and acknowledges the receipt Of
Powderly's letter, the substance of which
il given above. Gould then proceeds 10
construe Powderly's letter as an official
declaration that the Knights OF Labor had
determined to pursue him personally IN.
less the Missouri Pacific Company should
yield to its demands in what they called q
"strike" on that road. In answer TO these
personal threats he would say shat he was
still o free American citizen. Gould then
refers TO his lowly beginning in life and to
his success through habits Of temperance
and industry, and that il as Powderly says
he is to be destroyed by the Knights of
Labor it is fortunate he has retained his
early habits of industry. Gould then says
he is quite content to leave his personal
record in the hands Of his neighbors and
business associates. II they have aught to
complain OF he would be glad to submit to
any arbitration. Gould then recounts the
facts that when the strike commenced he
was far away from the scene Of trouble,
and he quotes the kilograms from his sub
ordinates, describing the difficulty, and
other messages heretofore published dur
ing the early part of the trouble. The last
dispatch issued is one from A. l.. Hopkins
to Powderly. earnestly urging that the
strike il unjust to both sides, as the road
is in the hands OF a receiver. "This dis
patch" says Gould, you never answered.
AhAo OAAOcPoDAOASO paws -
ance of this strike on your shoulders. You
sat still and was silent after Mr.. Hopkins
urgent appeal. and allowed the strike to go
on, and allowed the company's property to
be forcibly seized, and the citizens of four
States and one Territory to be deprived Of
their rightful railway facilities. This
forced the Board Of Directors before my
return to place the matter in Mr.. Hoxie's
hands by a formal resolution, and that dis
position Of il has never been changed"
Gould then enters in q long review VI the
features Of the difficulty already published
and republished, maintaining that the
company's offer to take back the strikers
who had not destroyed property be strictly
lived up to. and that the company will
stand ready to live up to its agreement in
that regard. In conclusion. Gould says:
In the face of all this you notify me that
unless by 5 o'clock I personally conclude
to do something. precisely what / do not
see, then the personal consequences of a
sort of vaguely expressed but not hard to
understand will at the hands Of your order
be visited upon me. Let me again re-
mind you that il is an American citizen to
whom you and your order propose to de-
stroy. The contest 10 not between your
order and me. but between your order and
the laws OF the land. Your order has
already defed those laws in preventing.
by violence, this company from operating
its roads. You hold, then. that this COM
pany should not operate its roads under
the conditions prescribed by law, but only
under conditions prescribed by you.
You now declare 10 effect that / hold my
individual property and rights not as
other men hold theirs, but only at the
peril OF your letting loose i~rrevocably after
5 O'Clock your order upon me. II this is
true of this company, and me, il true OF
other men and companies the law and the
American citizen ia such only in name.
Already for weeks our order has in your
attack upon this company moi hesitated to
disable it by violence from rendering its
duty to the public and from doing its
work and paying wages to men at least
three times your own number, who, work
ing as they were, by your sides, were at
least deserving OF your sympathy. Hsv-
ing pushed this violence beyond even the
great forbearance of the public. and found
ia this direction q cause to hesitate, you
now turn upon me and propose the wrongs
you have inflicted on the public shall now
eliminate in an attack upon an individ.
nal. In this. as / have said. the real issue
is between You and the laws Of the land.
IL may be before you are through these
laws will efficiently advise you that even l.
as an individual citizen. am not beyond
their care. Very respectfully.
JAY.GoULD."
A Terrific Northwest Cyclone.
M~INNEApoLIs. Mimi, April 15.-Reporss
have just been received of a terrible cy-
clone at st. Cloud this afternoon. in which
40 persons were killed and rs injured.
Half the town is laid in waste. 1t is ru-
mored that Sank Rapids, near st. Cloud,
also suffered. DR.. Ames. Mayor Of the
city, and 9 staff OF a dozen physicians are
just leaving on a special train for ST.
Cloud in answer to messages for assistance.
Information 10 very meager. and sensa-
tional reports are current. 1t is reported
that 100 people were killed at 81. Cloud.
1t is believed at least 40 persons have been
killed and about rs wounded. 1t is impos.
sible to get much information at this hour.
All Is excitement. and the streets are filled
with excited men and frightened, weeping
women aud children. The disaster ia GER
tainly very appalling. Scores of hnuses