Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-16
Showing OF the Annual Report oil tke
Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa re
Railway.
Contracts Awarded for tho TEree Hundred
and Forty six Miles OF New Road
In Kansas.
~ sANrA rE E,,rnNaloN

fornla The reason given is the impossi.
bility Of handling the present rush Of traf-
&c over the. road.
AroHIsON, TOPEKA 4 SANTA FE.
Boston, MASS, April i5.-The Bnnusl
report OF the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railroad company for 1885, issued to-
day, gives the following information:
Gross earnings, s7,363, 0s9; net surplus,
sJe4,1s4.
NOT IN a NORMAL STATE.
Sri LOUIS, Mo, April l5.--In East st.
Louis to-day the strikers are not numer-
Gus in the streets or around the railroad
premises. The quantity Of freight
handled by the nine roads centering there
is in excess OF that handled at any time
since the strike commenced, yet the busl-
ness done is short of what 1t would be
were no strike In force.
GOULD HAS NOTHING MORE TO SAY.
NEW YORK, April l5.-The following
dispatch was received to-day by Jay
Gould from General Manager Hoxle:
1.-TWO hundred and seventy-two trains
were moved yesterday, containing 4S47
loaded cars. This is an Increase Of thir-
ty-lve trains and $50 loaded cars over
the corresponding day last year" Mr.
Gould refused to see reporters, saying
that all he had to say was contained in
mis- reply TO Mr.. Powderly.
LACKED EVIDENCE.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April I5.-The cases
against j. j. McGarry, judge-adyocate Of
the knights of Labor, and others, arrest
ed on q charge of trespassing upon the
premises of the Missouri Pacific railway,
were dismissed to-day, the evidence
against the prisoners not being sufficient
to convict
AT EAST ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, April i5.--Private j
w. Walters Of Company f., Eighth regi-
ment, while pairolling the Vaudalia yards
at East st. Louis early this morning, was
fired upon by an unknown man who i'm
medlately started for Main street on a
run. Walters fred after him but he es.
capped without injury. Nearing an am
bush, the sentinel fred a second shot in
the direction from which he was fred
upon, and raised another man who also
escaped.
An order was Immediately issued to
patrol all the yards in hope OF capturing
the miscreants. The search proved a
failure.
Two rails were removed last night from
the tracks of the Cairo Short Line rail-
way near Belleville by some one as yet
unknown. The road-master while on q
tour of inspection this morning discov-
cred the fact and the rails were replaced
before the passenger train, due at that
place at $3.50 a. m, had arrived, and
serious accident was avoided.
IRONS AND PACIFIC.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, April l5.--Martin
Irons, chairman of the Joint executive
committee, arrived from the South to-day
and said that from the strikers stand
point the situation of affairs along the
lines is very encouraging.
dispatch from Pacific, Mo, states
that the Missouri Pacific shops whistle
blew this morning for the first time in
five weeks. Twenty-Five men are at work
in the shops and yards among them few
of those who struck.
WHO THE sCABs ARE.
Special to the Gazette.
PALESTINE, TEX, April l5.-All the
Knights who have resumed work in tie
shops here have been recently expelled
from the Knights Of Labor order, and be-
ing engaged in the business of laboring
to support themselves and families are,
therefore, denominated scabs.
THE KNIGHTS PROTEST WITHOUT EFFECT.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April l5.-Messrs
Bailey and Hayes of the general execu-
tive committee called upon Gen. Reese In
East st. Louis yesterday and protested
against the militia handling freight in the
railroad yards, or running trains. or pre-
venting the strikers from going into and
moving about the yards. Gen. Reese re-
piled that the freight that was handled
was simply the removal OF
some goods from the platform by the
troops, to whom it was assigned, to their
quarters; that the alleged running of
trans was the riding of some soldiers
who were off duty on the trains crossing
the river TO st. Louis, and as to keeping
the strikers out Of the yards, the troops
were under orders to keep all
persons out OF the yards not regularly
employed In them, and that If any one did
not obey the order to halt given by the
soldiers, he was liable to be shot, as all
the weapons were loaded with ball cart
ridges, and the men were under orders to
use them. AS to the militia assisting in
rescuing cars from destruction on the
night of the fires, which was also objected
to, Gen. Reese said the troops did lust
right The militia have been ordered to
prepare for three weeks stay In camp.
PowpERLY TO THE KNIGHTS.
PHILADRLpHIA, PA, April'l5, General
Master Workman Powderly, OF the
Knights of Labor, to-day addressed the
following circular to members OF the
order:
Noble Order, Knights OF Labor Of Amer
leu; You have all read Of the great strike
on the Gould lines Of railway ia the South
west. Its history is being written day BY
day. 1t makes but little difference now
whe her the men OF the Southwest acted
wisely or not; let us pass that
part of the affair over, for it, too,
has passed into history The general ex-
ecutiye board of the order attempted TO
settle the trouble and restore harmony.
Agreements were made with them by Jay
Gould, but when the board reached st.
Louis Mr. HoNie would not treat with
them; not that alone, but he positively
refused TO employ Knights OF Labor,
whether they had been active in the
strike or not. 1t now becomes the part
OF every man and woman ia the order TO
take up the fight of the men of the South
west and assist them 10 the fun
extent Of their means. They have been
Idle for nearly two months; they have
had the most tryinu ordeal tD 90 throuUh