The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-04-15
JUDGE RICKS,

servative among laboring men, adds that
equally binding on both parties and re-
quiring notice with sufficient time. II is
evident that new and very grave ques-
tion is raised, and probable that it must
go to the United States supreme court
for final settlement.
Of the solutions offered, that Of the So
cialists, se1nisocialists and paternalists
generally is this: Let the government
take charge of the railroads and run
them as it did in wartime Let the enl-
ployees be taken as enlisted men, and
then they can be punished for desertion.
And this idea so far commends itself to
the vice president and manager Of the
road in controversy, James N. Ashley,
that he has embodied the principle in his
new set Of rules. Hereafter employees
are to be taken for definite time and
sign a contract accordingly. They are
to be examined under civil service rules
and give some guarantees for strict per
formance Of contract and are to be dis
charged or promoted by rule. It is un-
necessary to add that the world will
watch his experiment with intense inter-
est.
All the parties to the controversy are
in dead earnest and realize that it is Or
ganized labor's big fight. His honor
Augustus J. Ricks, scarcely heard of out
side of his district before March II, is
now man Of national, possibly inter
national, note. His official residence is
at Cleveland; he is United States district
judge for the northern district of Ohio,
and his salary is SIS 900.
United States Circuit Judge William
H. Taft is a man of far more note, and
his career has been phenomenal. A son
of Judge Alphonso Taft, who was in turn
secretary of war, attorney-ge and
minister to Austria and Russia, the young
judge was born in Cincinnati Sept 10,
1857 He was graduated from Yale in
1878 and admitted to the bar in 1880,
and his progress in his profession was so
rapid that after holding minor offices he
was in 1887 made judge of the Cincinnati
superior court. Not quite three years
later President Harrison appointed him
solicitor general at Washington, and two
years later, at the early age Of 80, he was
named for the high dignity Of United
States circuit judge in the new circuit
court Of appeals then created as an aid
to the supreme court. Rare indeed are
the instances in judicial history Of such
rapid advancement.
His restraining order, denounced by
the strikers as arbitrary, peremptorily
forbids P. M. Arthur and F. P. Sargent
from issuing or continuing any rule or
order directing any railroad man to re-
fuse to handle any goods in transit from
one state to another, or doing anything
else to hinder transportation. It names
them and their brotherhoods specifically,
and fatty forbids men or orders to do
as they have been doing. In short, it
brings the whole force Of the federal
government squarely down on brother
hood methods, and, as Chief Arthur very
forcibly says, if it is sustained there is
simply nothing for the brotherhoods to
do but disband.
Peter M. Arthur, chief of the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers, is ma
tive Of Scotland, but came to this coun-
try very young, began life as a helper
in the blacksmith shops of the New York
Central, worked up to the position of en-
gineer and was elected chief in 1874.
During his 10 years as it's head the order
has attained membership of 10000,
and he, by judicious investments in real
estate and otherwise, has acquired $780,
900. He lives in q handsome brick house
on Euclid avenue, Cleveland, is q mem
Der Of the Methodist church and has a
wife and three grown and married chill
dren. Frank P. Sargent, chief of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive .Firemen, is
a native of Vermont, Al years old and
lives in Terre Haute, Ind.
Three Men Fatally Scalded.
CoNNELLsv1LLE, Pa, April 4.-The
boiler of shifting engine exploded
near this place on the Baltimore and
Ohio railway Three brakemen were
fatally scalded and otherwise injured.
Jersey Forest Fires Still Burning.
PHILADELPHIA, April "A special to
The Evening Telegraph from Mays
Landing, N. j., says high winds have
kept the forest fires that are burning in
South Jersey burning fercely and there
is NO hone of stopping the destruction.