Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-05

other towns in the State. Last night
eighteen men, armed with Winchester
rifles, camped near the Texas and Pa
ciiic track, a short distance east of town
II Is thought most Of the strikes force is
outside OF town, ami an attack will be
| lnade on some central points, Just as the
/ attack OF Saturday was made. Adjutant-
~ TINS KIND, but will say nothing definite.
hhe mere fact that heavy artillery is being
oFoueht here, shows thaA the authorities
| fear the worst
THE DEAD AND WSyNDED.
| The wounded officers. S.nead and 1sI.
lord are still alive. The funeral of Dick
Townsend the officer who was killed m
the night, occurred to-day, aud was largely
attended 1t is learned definitely tonight
that Frank Pierce is dead. No one is al
| lowed TO stand on the streets The officers
are IN citizens r.reSS, and nearly every man
| IN town, not known as a striker, has per-
mt To carry concealed weapons.
STATEMENT 10 THE PUBLIC FROM T.sE X. OF l..
! ST; Louis, April ith.-3ir. Hayes, the
| thlrd member of the General Executive
! Committee, K. of L.. arrived here tonight.
| giving the committee Quorum. Shortly
| after Mr. Hayes arrived the General Com
mlttee went into secret session with the To-
| cal committees, and gave the situatiora very
| iull and exhaustive discussion. weighing
all the Facts, and giving all the points care
ful consideration. The meetng tasted un-
I'll after midnight, when the following was
I gwen out IN the form of q statement to the
| public:
| It conference held in New York with Could
| ana associates and the General Executive BOARD
! the following was mutually aHeed upon: ~ hat
the oihciais were willing to meet committee of
| their employees, without discrimination who are
actually in iae employ of the road at the time
sp ssch conlnnttee is appointed, to adjust with
| The Executive Board, upon arriving in
! St. Louis, having been informed that
Mr. hoAle had refused to comply with the agree
ment as all the parties Of the conference under
stood II, waited upon him to ascertain his ipten-
tons of carrying out The same, and received
the following reply: That only fifty per cent
| OF the former force would be re-employed
| that he would consider personal app;ca-
tlons only, and use his own pleasure IN
: acting rpon them, without the dicta'ion
! OF any Society" This being in direct violation
| OF the agreement, the General Board believe
| the refusal is for the purpose Of stOck-jobbing
using the organization as a veil to further their
ENDS We therefore recall the order given the
men TO return to work, the road hav-
| ing made it impossible to fulfill the
same The matter now stands as it did
| before the order to resume work was
Issued, in the hands of those districts interest
ed, ana the General Board will render all assist
/ ance to carry out the demand of the men for
! justice.
/ I'VE anticipate no especial demonstration to-
morrow said Mr.. Turner to your reporter
"an0 no particular change in the aspect of af
ialrS. things are simply as they were before"
CONSPIRACY WHICH CAME TO NAUGHr.
ST. LOUIS, April 4th-Frank McKeighan.
telegraph operator. was arrested today,
and has made a confession Which will
create a sensation here He says that re-
Gently he entered into an arrangement with
! Thomas Furlong, chief OF the Gould sys-
| tenn secret service, whereby Martin
! Irons, A. G. Coughlan and other prominent
| leaders of the Knights of Labor were to
| be arrested. A room was engaged in the
third story of the building, % Market
street, past the window of which ran a
private telegraph wire, on which H. NJ
Hoxie, First Vice President of the Missouri
Pacific Railway was in almost con-
| slant communication with Gould. Nc
keighan engaged another operator, named
! Nichols, to assist him. and the two. men
| soon tapped the wire and had an instru-
ment ut work. The arrangement was to
have Irons, Coughlan and others
| in the room. intercepting the mes
senger between Hoxie and Gould
when the police would make a descent
on the place and capture the whole
outfit. The signal for the descent was to
be lamp placed in one of the windows.
of police were ready, and the lampappeared
in one of the windows on the second floor
a rush was made for the room, but a poor
woman engaged in running a sewing
machine was the only person found. The
raiders then learned that they had got into
! the wrong room, and at once ascended to
| the third floor, where McKeighan was
found alone. Chief Harrigan heard of the
matter and Mckeighan's arrest followed
JAY GOULD INTERVIEWED.
/. New YORK, April 5th-A M-Being in
terviewed yesterday, jay Gould said:
The strike on our -aiAro,dsss practically over
| 1t Will be thing of the past very soon. l have
| been aStonished at much of the revelation that
| has come through the recent disturbances; but
| nothing has been so surprising as the proof that
| have had of the weakness OF the Knights of
as l had supposed. Their demonstra-
tions and assertions had led me to
believe -, them not only formidable. but
| proved this idea ali false. They are not strong
| They are weak. They are not the SOFT OF organ
| izatlon that wins victories. They are not what
| they led the public to believe them to be. They
are readily overcome. So great was my appre-
henSion rs to the strength of the knights
OF Labor, and so great was my fear
made by them, that for over year we have
been carrying hundreds of men on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad pay-rolls, for whom we really
.
| because we were apprehensive of the extreme
emergency to follow n strike by the Knights
Now, we find that the money spent IN
this way was practically wasted. We had
no such things to fear as anticipated. Up to
TINS time we have taken back just twenty five
men who have been active in these strike
troubles at ST. Louis. We can get all the men
we want without having to call upon a single
one of the strikers. Labor, in fact, is over
abundant in all the strike districts.
applications on file from thousands of men
anxious to enter our service. There is no lack
anywhere OF material for train men. In New
York, for instance. the elevated railroads have
constantly on file applications from between
1900 and 1000 men, who will answer 4 call
for work If a man is discharged or the
elevated road, Colonel Hahn has only to turn
to his applicants list TO fill the vacancy
at q moments notice. The same condition Of
affairs exists in the Southwest. We
until l O'Clock Monday afternoon to return TO
work, such numbers of them, at least, as We re-
quire ii they refuse this offer, they viii get no
further chance Our minds are made up to
bring this whole business to an end right
away. The public patience is worn out. We
can't afford TO be thought guilty of triilg in so
grave Il situation.
Gould dcplored the outbreak that led to
bloodshed at Fort Worth, Saturday, and
said his advices all showed that the officers
were the victims of u massacre. They were
episode. He said Governor Ireland was
to arrive at Fort Worth at s.,
O'Clock last evening, and Gould believed
the presence there of the States chief
executive, supported by his troops would
render impossible anything like recur-
renee of Saturdays fight with bullets.