Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-09

running OF passenger trains, which have
not been interfered with. Many of these
I have been discharged, the Knight inyari-
ably going when removals were made.
! In fact, instead OF no discrimination, It |
y was all discrimination. As conse-
4 quence, there was no chance for the men |
to make up their portion OF the arbltra-
ton committee provided for In
\ New York. The strikers who were
knights of Labor could not get employ |
ment when they offered, in obedience to |
the order, 70 return to work. It would /
not have been easy 10 form our side OF
the committee with men who had taken I
the strikers places and who had no
grievances TO arbitrate. With this state
| Of affairs facing them the general board |
I had no course open TO ii other than the
recall Of the order TO resume work. The
4 matter now rests with District assem-
blies l0l, % and II. ] see no
chance OF settlement. In fact,
the situation Is worse now THAI
1 1t ever was. Mr.. Gould undoubtedly is
/ responsible for the failure to keep the
agreement. The Fort Worth affair Is UNI
fortunate and the order being opposed in
every way TO such measures should not
be held responsible for It. The people
were driven TO desperation and the depu-
| " sheriff who led the posse is a we'll
! known desperate. lie has quite history
4 in that line. The dispatches sent by Mr..
! Hoxie to Mr.. Gould every day telling of
( freight trains moving freely are untrue.
There Is practically no freight traffic to
and from st. Louis and along the line eX-
cept a few empty cars or trains filed
with armed men. Mr.. Gould talks OF the
weakness OF the knights of Labor. Well,
he may think differently before the end Of
I the present troubles. He who laughs
last laughs best" concluded Mr.. Turner.
THE WABASH rARALYzED.
Sr. LOUIS, Mo, April ga committee
OF the Knights OF Labor called to-day at
the yards of the Wabash, st. Lonis 4 Pa
ci1c railroad in North st. Louis and pre-
scented to the men employed there Pc
tition, the substance Of which requested
them not to handle cars loaded with
freight from the Missouri Pacific
road. A,conference between the COM
mittee of the Knights of Labor
and delegation Of the Wabash was held
and soon afterwards the entire yard force
] Of the road, fully 100 men, left their posi-
tions and deserted the yard Erhe effect of
this new strike was to stop business in
the Wabash yards, Loaded cars are
standing all along the tracks without any
prospect for immediate movement.
WHAT GOULD THINKS ABOUT IT.
4 NEW YORK, April S,--With reference TO
the last manifesto of the Knights of
Labor Mr.. Gould's representative said
"The people seem to forget that coal was
made 20 per cent. cheaper through the
Southwest by Mr. Gould when he opened
the railway system there. The people OF
that country are in favor Of the com
pany, which. shows that the statements
made by the knights are absurd. The
knights, because the Kansas City
Journal denounced the act Of the
strikers, demanded that the Union News
company should not deliver any OF the
papers Of the journal. Mr.. Hoxie then
notified the News company that 10 other
papers should be carried II II did not de-
liver the Journal as usual. The News
company therefore decided not TO pay
any attention to the order OF the Knights
Mr.. Gould said that the manifesto of
the knights would not have much effect
on the people, especially the people OF
the Southwest, and he did not seem at all
disturbed.
A BUNGLING cANARD.
Special to the Gazette.
WACO, TEX, April UNNECESSARY eX-
element has no doubt been caused by
dispatches sent out from here last night
to the effect that body of masked men,
forty or fifty in number, were at the Mis-
sour. Pacific railroad bridge across
Casueman's creek, eight miles southwest
of Waco, and engaged in tearing up the
structure. The whole episode (as seemed
highly probable last night to
those who investigated IL care
fully is a fair counterpart of the ''meu
Ia Buckram" who were routed by dough
ty Jack Ealstaff. Briefly told, Conductor
Schwartz of train No. l58, bound south,
telegraphed here last night at O'Clock
that such mob was said to be at the
bridge above named. 1t appears that
countryman signaled the train and gave
the engineer the Information on which
Conductor Schwartz based his tel
cgram. Sheriff Harris and a
t posse went to the scene on
: special engine aud returned at 1880 this
morning. Sheriff Harris says: ave
might as web have been at home in bed.
/ OF course | went when informed of the
3 rumor, but we could not find any trace OF
mob of masked men at Castleman's
creek or anywhere else In my opinion
there wasn't anybody there. think some
/ drunken fellow, or somebody who wanted
, to play practical joke on the railroad
! men ana scare them, hailed the engineer
[ and put up job GU him. Farm
[ ers who were in town to-day from
: the Castleman creek neighborhood say
they do not believe any body OF men was
, there; that II would have been impossi-
, Bile without somebody In the neighbour
hood knowing of It. The Missouri Pa
cihc people admit that the story was no
! doubt exaggerated, but stick TO IL that
something wrong or suspicious was brew
, ing. An is as quiet rs can be at the Mis-
! s0uii Pacific yards to-day, save that
, freghtis being handled in large quaDti-
ties. Several freight trains have arrived
! to-day,
AT DALLAS.
Special to the Gazette
) DALLAS, Ten, April The strike Is
/ apparently at an end here. Trains are
: running freely on sll the roads, and busi-
+. ness seems TO have a new impetus. Dali
las has, no doubt, suffered more loss from
I the effects OF the strike than any town
' along the line. Considerable excitement
prevailed during the difficulties at Fort
} Worth, lbut this was only momentary,
! and has now all subsidized, and the busl-
e ness men seem to have begun life anew.
The attention of the citizens Is now
: drawn towards st. Louis, aud consider
| able anxiety exists regarding the sltua-
( ton there. John Terrence, A. b. Hurry,
t A. b. Walton and A. x. Whitney, who
E were arrested by United States deputy
/ marshals at Bonham, were brought up
Z before United States Commissioner Bur
: ford to-day. Their bond was fixed at
500 each, which they gave. They are to