Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-02

ness. There were q great many applicants
for positions at the Burlington Office this
morning but the strikers are active and to
any man whom they know to be a good engi-
neer out of Job they offer to pay his board
and also to pay him engineers wages. The
brotherhood is now keeping about dozen
men at q hotel here.
The Local Situation.
The heavy ram storm Of yesterday did not
tend to lessen the crowd Of strikers and their
sympathizers about the B. & M. depot. There
was no disturbance Of any kind and the
men conversed together earnestly and as far
as could be ascertained without any threats
of violence or even an intimation of such a
thing.
A special tran arrived at o'clock yesterday
morning from Denver, carrying only through
passengers to ChiEago.
No. 4 due here from the west at 9:4O, was
forty minutes late, owing to poor connections
at the branch road functions. It's arrival
was greeted without any demonstration. The
1905 dummy train brought ten engineers.
They were in charge Of man supposed to
PInkerton operative and he watched
them as closely as hen
watches over her brood. Notwith-
standing his great care BEE reporter man.
aged to talk with four of them before the de-
tective could block the game. Three of them
admitted that they were non-union men and
came here from Newark, Ohio, and other
eastern points ando that they were formerly
employees of the Baltimore Il Ohio.
In each case the detective interrupted the
conversation and Just as the fourth man was
being interviewed he came up and said to the
reporter:
all members of the brotherhood and they are
not to be interviewed"
"If they are brotherhood men what objec-
tion can they have to stating their business
herel" asked the reporter.
81 don't propose to argue the matter with
you. You just let 'em Alone" was the reply.
The reporter was persistent, however, and
the Pinkerton operative took his flock into
the ticket office and sat there until the east
bound train came in. Then they all jumped
aboard. Their destination could not be
learned, but it was the general belief that
they were taken down to the yards at Glib
son.
One of the incidents Of the morning was
the refusal of Union Pacific engineer to back
| on to the b. & Nj. track and take out Pull
| man car to the transfer depot. The strikers
| cheered him and the Pullman company were
| forced to get gang of men and push the car
over to the Union Pacific tracks.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY sCABs.
! At half past 10 o'clock last night the Bur-
| lington depot was in full possession of a
| special policeman, who was unassuming in
his authority and quite obliging in answering
| questions as far as his knowledge extended.
He told BEE reporter that the active Of
ficlals of the road had departed for their re-
| spective homes an hour before, after having
| witnessed safely the departure of all
| the trains for both the east and west for
the night. Train 3, an important link from
the east with the night western run, had
shown up about 9 o'clock and had aboard a
large number Of Pinkcrton police, who re-
tanned their seats in the coaches until prep
| arations were completed for forwarding the
train on its western journey an hour later.
They did not disclose their objective point,
| and were adverse to speaking with any one
| outside their own crowd.
S the ssspf;s p Of sScS tas ss K"pssa
abandoned since Sunday night, was made ur
and departed on schedule time, with strange
engineer and fireman in the cab. 1t was
rumored about the yards that two freight
trains had been dispatched, one to the west
and one to the east, early in the evening, but
| proofs of these stories were lacking In con
tirmation when BEE reporter extended his
investigations among people in position tt
know.
A Burlington official told reporter at {
late hour that $50 engineers and fremen from
| Pennsylvania and Ohio had left Chicago a.
5:45 last night to be distributed through Iowf
and Nebraska points, and that the train con
veying them would arrive in Omaha about
noon to-day.
| Another sensational rumor was to the eff
feet that the company had tired of the strug
gle, and were ready to concede the demands
| OF lne strikers.
Resigns In Disgust.
M. Cavanaugh, one of the special police
men appointed to defend the property of tn,
b. & M. company during the strike, came
into the chief Of policies office yesterda,
and turning over his star, said he resigned
that he could not conscientiously perform hi
duty.
At Lincoln.
| Ta1o
gram to the BEE. The situation Of the strik
remains unchanged. Not a brotherhood
man went to work under the final penalty o
dismissal issued by the company. The Off
cials report increased service to-day and tina
preparations are nearly ready to handl
freight, Three freight trains were starte
out to-day to feel the road and a number o
new men were put to work. In the near
tme however, the brotherhood had wo
over four Of the new arrivals an
as no eastern engineers have appeared yet o
the scene no great progress has been mad
to-day in overcoming the difficulty
A carload Of Pinkerton's went through tn
city westward this morning but none hav
been kept here. In fact there is no occasion
for the small army Of specials that noN
parade the platform to the inconvenience @
the public and at no time has there been
particle of necessity for it. Nothing ha
from Denver and no report wa
received to-day from the country Yves
OF Hastings. The branch lines hav
now one train day each way, but main lin
trains remain very uncertain.
AT the headquarters OF the brotherhood u
: boys were as confident as ever and state
that everything thus far was satisfactory
them. From their experience they belie'