Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-28
NEARING THE END.
More Freight Moving Each Dayou the
Gould System Llnes--The
Question Solving Itself.
A Conference Between Receiver Brown
!. and the Executive Committee
Of Assembly as
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Ter OF Arbitration from the
sights Refused by the Mis-
souri Pacific.

rownERIv AND THE ioNAHs.
MIR. Powderly's letter was the chief
topic Of conversation in all circles yester-
day Business men were treasured by its
tone, and were moro hopeful OF speedy
termination of the troubles, than at any
time since the commencement. Ii was
the common opinion among people not
connected with the order that the let.
ter was one Of the strongest, most states
manlike and conservative documents that
has ever assumed to deal with the ques-
ton of organized labor The knights
were nouplussed by the publication OF
the letter, which, while denying such a
construction, was generally accepted
among them as a tacit rebuke of the
strike and OF the management which pre-
ceded It. A few OF the most rabid mem.
bers declared that Powderly had sold out
but the most intelligent class heartily ap
proved OF the bold stand he has taken
One Of them said
"Mr. Powderly struck the keynote O
the trouble when he warned us agains
the politicians aud agitators They arr
responsible for our mistakes, and the or
der Is beginning TO find them out. 1t Il
To their interest to keep up disturbance
as long as possible, because the.
are iattenlng on our mis'ortunes
! They are the authors Of the boycott rage
which did the order more damage tina
ANYTHING else. II is the first iime the
were invested with little brief authority
and they assumed TO use II as a czal
The time has come to pitch Jonah ovel
board and Jonah must go,h
RRsUNIING TRAFFIC..
A crowd OF some three or four hundre
people, a large proportion OF whom wei
strikers and Knights, gathered In the Mi
souri, Pacific yards yesterday aiternoo
when IL was learned that an atteml
would be made TO move cut freigl
train. The train, which consisted {
twenty-seven empty coal cars and OF
loaded box-car, was made up with u
Texas & Pacific switch engine Thr'
officers were stationed on 1t
prevent the men from uneoupling u
cars, while several officers went after u
LOCOMOTIVES which was TO pull II out,
was supposed that an attempt would
made to XIII the engine when II reach
the yard, but, as II was covered with o.
, GERS, no demonstration OF any sort W
made The men stood sullenly al
silently by until the engine backed
a to the train and stopped, when they ma
break for the front. They surround
the cab and the leader uttered sol
naughty words. A deputy marsl
: warned the crowd to keep OFF the engir
the throttle was thrown open and in
r. instant the long train OF Ct
was moving, 1t started off caution
TO determine whether there had been q
=, ''monkeying'' with the coupling-pins,
then IL ratified away at the usual g
- Eight or ten officers, among whom W
~ ~ Sheriff Maddox and Marshal Rea, acct
panied the train TO Watauga, where :
\ met an incoming Missouri Pacihc frei
j and brought 1t in. Two he
freight trains came IN over
road yesterday, being the first run
tween Denison aud Fort Worth since
strike on the 9Th inst. Several more
on the road from Denison, and are
peoted here to-day. Seventeen cars
2H coal formed part Of the cargo oil
terday's two trains, Orders were
ceiyed at this point late
- terday afternoon to put
- order the four remaining Missouri Pa
locomotives 10 the round-house here,
thew will 90 north with freight trains
day. 1t Is understood that within a
or two traffic will be resumed soui
---- Fort Worth.
AS TO Employers,
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