Butte semi-weekly miner., 1888-07-18

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Begun-The Developments.
CHICAGO, July 16.--The sensational de
. velopments in the trial OF the dvnamitert
and the hope OF more startling disclosures
brought large crowd to-day to Judge
Gresham's courtroom, where Commis
sioner Hoyne is hearing the evidence.
Alex. Smith, OF Aurora, the Brotherhood
engineer who
TURNED INFoRMER
was the first witness called, He unhesi-
tatingly confirmed the outline of the case
as given the first day of the trial by Dis.
trict Attorney Winn for the prosecution.
Smith was retired before the beginning of
the afternoon session after having been
subjected to a cross-examination Of great
| length by the defendants counsel. They
! Jailed to get him to contradict himself, but
| did establish the fact that he knew nothing
about the dynamite fund in the train when
Roderick, Bowles and Wilson were arrested
The cross-examination of Smith was
hnlshed this afternoon and an adjourn
ment taken until tomorrow.
CONFERENCE WAS HELD
this afternoon at the office of the Burling
ton road at which the road was repre-
sented by President Perkins, Vice Presi.
dent Deasley, General Manager Stone
Writ Dexter and j. w. bly,. The other
side wits represented by CHIEF Arthur of the |
Locomotive Engineers, Chief Sargent of the /
Locomotive Firemen and Alexander SulIi- |
van, their counsel. The arrival OF Arthur /
and Sargent in Chicago had been kept |
secret until the conference was over Chair
man Hoge and Murphy are also present.
The officials OF the two Brotherhoods
assured the railroad men that they had
NO SYMPATHY WITH DYNAM1TERs.
AT the conference the strike and the situ-
alton as 1t affected the public and parties
to this struggle was discussed. All agreed
that it would be well if the strike could be
ended.
President Perkins was seen after the con.
IssTenee ns. and SAID that nothing was def
terence. r
Touching the meeting Chairman Hoge
said to an Associated Press representative,
that
PROPOSITIONS WE'RE SUBMITTED
by both sides to the controversy, looking
toward settlement OF the strike. What
these propositions were, am not at liberty
to state. They have not taken tangible
orm, and will not until another conference
is held, which will be ia few days.
Mr.. Hoge then showed the reporter tele- l
gram, which was sent from Davenport to
f. W. Gould, and which reads as follows:
Owing to certain events, the men at this
point decide that we had better adopt ex-
treme measures" This is only one out of
many kilograms of similar nature, said the
chairman, which have reached here to-day. e
iS aII To boir &
Of the Rock Island Grievance Committee, {
and shows which way the wind is blowing.
He also said that a general meeting of
5he chairmen of the grievance committees
)f nearly every line running out OF Chicago
you'd be held here this week, at which ac-
ion will be taken to
RESENT THE WHOLESALE ARRESTS .
ind prosecutions which haveA occurred in
Chicago during the past ten days"
What does the writer OF the dispatch
mean when he speaks OF extreme meas :
lres?'" was then asked. G
THAT remains to be seen 1t may mean ]
strike on the road Represented; it may
mean q boycott on the Burlington, which
would eventually terminated in strike. '
The meeting will decide that question" q
DO you think there will be strike?"
"Weil, the men on the Grand Trunk, |
Rock Island & Northwestern, among
,thers are
VERY SORE OVER THESE ARRESTS, !
md certainly will speak in no undertone r
Vhen the time comes. They do not believe s
n dynamite, neither do they believe in per- j
ecutions."
"WilI this meeting have the power to de-
lare strike without the sanction of Chief ,
Arthur?"
"Yes, sir; and they will do it if necessary.
'he support of Arthur is only for it's moral A
nd financial effect. Ii any OF the systems
onclude to strike, and Arthur refuses TO
anction the move, they receive no support
rom the Brotherhood. But. at the same
ime, the chairman of any system can de-
lare strike on that system"