Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-11
GENERAL TOPICS.
Probable Strike Oh the
Santa Fe To-day.
AGITATION IN KANSAS CITY.
Meade and His Posse Arrested in
MeXic0-COmplaint Made
to Washing ton

KANSAS CRY, March 10.--Last nigh
the engineers and fremen of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, al
Topeka, Kansas, through their gener
al grievance committee, notified the
Manager at that point that if the road
persisted in violating It's pledge oI
non-intercour5e with the Burlington
road, in refusing to handle freight
consigned to or from the latter com.
pany, that al IL 05 on Sunday they
would leave their engines in body.
swITcIDIEN SCARED.
The members of the Switchmen's Is
Union, 60 in number, employed in
| the yards of the Kansas City, St.
Joseph and Council Bluffs railroad
and the Hannibal and st. Joe, both of
which are part of the Burlington sys-
tenn, are on the eve of strike. This
morning they expressed determination
not to work with the engineers now
employed by the Burlington. Their
reasons are, that the danger is SO
great because of the incompetency of
thenew men that they fear they are
liable to be crippled, or killed at any
moment.
A GRAVE SITUATION.
At meeting of the General Griev-
ance Committee of the Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Gulf Railway held this
evening it was decided that if the
company persists in handling freight
consigned to the Burlington road the
engineers and firemen will leave their
engines on Monday morning. The
situation at this point is becom-
ing more interesting every hour.
Members of the Grievance Com
nittees are arriving by each
train and the brotherhood men
openly say that the crisis will come
OH Monday morning. At headquarters
men are responding hourly and dis
patches and letters come thick and
fast, the substance of these dis
patches being Immediately transmit
ted to Chief Arthur at Chicago.
Brotherhood men are worked up to a
degree of enthusiasm which if not con-
trolled by cooler heads would lead to
tie-up Of all the roads at this point.
DECLARATION FROM DENVER.
DENVER, Colo, March 1O.-The
striking engineers held a secret ses-
sion in their hall this afternoon at the
conclusion of which a notice was is
sued to the officials Of the Denver,
Utah & Pacific, that all their engineers
and firemea-would go out at noon to-
morrow. This ROAD is.a narrow-gauge
running from Denver to Lyons, and ia
controlled by the Burlington by lease,
and is used by the latter as feeder
to one of the richest coal districts in
the state. Quite a number Of Burling-
ton cars are standing in the Rio
Grandei yards billed for California
points, and all the roads centering
here refuse to handle them. The sit
uation on the main line Of the Bur-
| lington is unchanged.
DEVELOPMENTS AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, March 1O.-Roswell Mil
Ter, general manager of the Mil
waukee & St. Paul road when asked to-
day to give his views as to the position
OF the outside roads towards Burling-
ton said: I" 1t seems to me to be
ridiculous for a Court to order road
to handle Burlington freight when ii
| is not in q condition to order it. How
can st. Paul haul the Burlington cars
when our engineers refuse to work
Discharge them and get men that
will? That's all very we'll but
suppose we did discharge some ol
our engineers, would we be in a bet
ter position or the public be in bet,
ter position to stop our road alto
gether? l could stop the st. Pau
to-day but l don't propose to do it.
because it would only result in injury
to the public. The St. Paul is not
responsible for the present situation
of affairs"
Both sides in the Burlington strike
were apparently resting ON their arms
to-day. Railroad officials think thai
the strike is weakening while its mer
say that the Brotherhood is undaunted
and will fight all summer if necessary
| There were no new features devel
oped to-day. The Burlington officials
say that the Union Pacific, Atchison
Missouri Pacific and Fort Scott &
Gulf continue to take freight from
them. The road brought Sc cars o.
grain into this city to-day.
SENSIBLE SUGGESTIONS,
| DEs MONIES, Iowa, March 10.-Tht
Board of Railway Commissioners has
been investigating for several days the
charges of incompetency made agains
the engineers of the Burlington roat
who have taken the places of tht
strikers. They summed up the testi
mony and submitted it to the Gov
ernor to-day. After reciting the
testimony the commissioners
says: "Mr. Brown, superintendent O
the Iowa lines, admits that under the
conditions of all the engineers leaving
on II hours notice, he was compelled
to run passenger trains with new ant
inexperienced men. 1t may be re.
garded as proven beyond ques
ton and admitted that the
men above designated were mex
perienced under the general rules
laid down by railroad companies fol
running trains and tried by their own
statements.
The commissioners do not hesitate
to say that they are incompetent
After discussing the employment o.
incompetent engineers, the commits
sioners say:
"We think that we are safe in as
Stunning that in these particulars the
new men running these trains can
not be equal to those who had beer
previously selected from the oldest
and most competent engineers.
The commissioners believe tha,
the examinations that have
been made and the tests that have
been applied to determine whether
the engineers are competent to run
locomotives are dictated by prudence
and to neglect them is unwise. They
would advise the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy to allow no engineer tc