Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-03-09
A CALL On TnF COURTS.
MOVE BY THE BURLINGTON THAT
WILL MAKE OR BREAK.

Judge Gresham Asked Ia Put His Foot on
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'he h'"th'r"""d '"lit" o" t" show Cause
Il General Tie-tp "a the West Inn
mineni Right tnnN.
'hitA"o' Mai'h "-lhe - LOOK stop
thursday that Will probably result IN inn
p"rlaAt developments IN the strike IN very
snort ulhc ana either mNulNra general tie
up g." u'I"ht OF the strikers, ana AT inns
NlI'hR Tue lle-up serihs 10 be the inevitable
'h'h-- thursday morning inc burlington
people appeared before Judge HreShanl' ana
"Pln"" ior an injunction aS"iust inc slllNinS
'h-l'leerS' T. NJ Aftlur ana the otiler ieal
'rS L" ltstrai'l uh'h' lF"h preventing oth'T
i"iNaN from refusing 10 take lrrlBht from
'ne " "hrh ""rieh' aiHo lor an orn'i re
luiilh5 the wabash l"hich IS III control OF
'ur hten STATES courts hhdef n rtoelNcrI
10 taNe Such lre'Eht ana Forward II ~ US
,'''tiilaIi"h "h"h "her". Judge "rt'oa'l
ISSUED an order f'Inllln% the parties 10 the
complaint l" appear be- re nm FRIDAY at
p ~ ana answer why Ine DESIRED injunction
s'ai' up' lHSu"'
"uoulu Judge NIeSli'lh ue'Iue that the va
'',,H" i",u mus, n'''l'ii' "'aueHeI business ~
"heied II tWo.thlrds oil the r"aas Leading INTO
tlle cltS are hhely tn DE teh up WITHIN Twelve
hours thereafter, ms lhlicH can DE stated
uP", alaolute authority Inc acton ui the
burlington III thllil'5 10 ilS ana Tue ieoei'n
power was III tlle nature Oh " 'phi'shel 10 'he
camp oil thr strikers, but unlike the actual
missiles OF war IL WIN require several hours 10
hflHS ahout devastation. Inc grievance com
mItteea oil lle 'ilcaSo n northwestern Mil
Nauhee ~ 81 aul' W n'sSh' 'uit"S" "
Alt"h' NicA'' rlaIe' ana otuer roads were
Ia aeaN!"h 1t. uiliere'u l'a,PS "ueh tile
announcement -"'!a--il'i'ne mat the ieu-
cIal authority hau leeh iiN"h-f NHNll an
hhuf thereafter the various meetings "ertau-
Joufned ana Joiht meeting OF representa-
tireS OF all the roads concerned had been
called at an out of the way hall on Mlwau-
Rec avenue in the northern outskirts OF the
ritN, Here III" meeting was long ana am
mated one ana II was lluallS decided that III
thc event OF th" dt'iNl"l OF the court beng
adverse /" tho NhblHh foah the employees Oh
an inc systems represented III the conference
should present their designations TO take
effect Immediately. In other words, IL"
roads should lie tied up
The conference Of course, was held in Sc
cret, but the report of It's final action comes
from an anthoriHed committee. In the legal
fray the Wabash VIII be represented by Nob-
ert Todd Lincoln and q. w. smith, while
Alexander Sullivan Will watch the proceed
ings in a general sense in behalf of the Broth.
erhood of Engineers. Unless change of
base is decided upon in Chief Arthur's inter
est before noon Friday he VIII he unrepre-
sented by counsel Ills name appeared IN the
original bill aS filed by Writ Dexter III behalf
of the burlington as conSpring with Others
to injure and cripple the business OF the 20,
but in the order as issued his name is stricken
out, apparently by the court. The attorneys
Wabash
carrying and delivering Burlington freight
ever since the strike was inaugurated.
Correspondence between General Manager
Stone, of the C., Is. x q, and General Mana
ger st. john of the Rock Island, is made
public, in which Stone asks, in view of the
fact that the Rock Island refuses to handle
SO" freight, what the latter road has done to
justify such an attitude of non-interconrse
st. John replies that his road has not as
sumed an attitude of non intercourse at all,
lint dnas NOT nronnse in order to arronuno-
1t az, ..,,, 70 ,,.,,l,,,,, . sto+a IF affairs that
III -. II f,,,,, l,i,,,r b,,gi,,ass fo,. Ito
wiz P'V ~ 80, :. -, -,
many otnei rn'uS "i'n W"ivh IL mas ''''noo
IONS. Inc ROCK laRhu, 81 J"hh says Is
willing to perform all It's legal duties, but It's
engineers and tiremcn positively refuse to
handle soy freight. and he can not see how
matters will he hettpred by n course Of pro
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=,
'he west
Inc sIrlkeIs profess 10 ne pei let'4, n'ViNiie"
with the developments OF thC DAY. IhcS say
that should the decision of the court be III
their favor the Burlington would be speedily
rOinnpllpd to come to terms while should il
Ia, ,,irainst then, and a ,rnucro1 tie-u,, nusua
H. ,a,s,It, ,,.,,,Il I, ,,r,.,.isaIy tho Same
'iit io1'''' W. l',N'7iS w
~ ti'e ''i''9 VI unI ''''l"iy ~ wa" ''"'e"
that uhe carrying Oh nNe STOCK hiH Dech re-