Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-12-16

seventeen tons OF the Sputherr
Pacific company's coal. The,
took the coal from car
left there to supply engines on tha
division. piled it in the form of the sem
| oankmenJ of II circus ring, fired it arc
ensconced themselves within the ring
They doubtless pass very comfort
| able night.
THEY CAPTURE CAR.
One train crew found themselve:
under coufiicting orders this week, al
| Benson. A car of straw left E Paso
with forty-fve tramps making them
selve, comfortable within. The car
was destined for the New Mexico &
Arizona road. Benson was reached and
tie tralbmen started to uncouple the
car. There they met contrary orders
The wicked gleam of arms met the
brakemen. The tramps would not get
out. They weie not even passive; they
were aggressive.
They demanded that the car continue
10 Yuma with them, aud tlere was
nothing for IL but TO comply.
THE TRAMP MIGRATION.
-OOO nave pdsScu
through Tucson in the past sixty days.
The CITIZEN for month or more kept
rather comprehensive record. Then
the subject became wearisome, and
Tramp chronology was dropped.
The season opened Oct. 6, with the
then astounding news that twenty-three
of them had held up tram west of
here.
The city fathers were notified and
humane feelings and desire TO be lid
of them prevailed and they were fed
corned beef, coffee, cheese and the like,
including tobacco from admirers. In
Tucson at that time twenty-three was
good many tramps. The same gang at
FL Paso marched in body and in an
orderly manuer from the depot to tue
city hall, where Mayor Solomon had
the police take charge of them and
furnish them with supper" At San
AatonIO the city lhreaten ned to sue the
rail road for bringing them 10.
Oct. III fifty-three of them came in.
BY this time bread was good enough for
tramps and so they got bread only.
On the 18th, thirty-two arrived, were
considered fs becoming a nuisance, got
their bread and departed.
About the same time one of them,
named Haley, went through Sue KEGS
till He will abId in Arizona for the
next three years.
On the 18th a hundred more went
through. To this time 800 had
migrated past Tucson. The tramps
were then Lecoming nuisance.
1t was with part of this hundred the
test was made a. Ell Paso which has
been published the union over. Sixty
In a gang were asked to furnish six
men to work as section hands. Only
three would work.
Ga the 10Th twelve went through.
Twelve was no longer many tramfs.
BY the Goth they had become tramps
turned "workingmen" rather than the
workingmen turned tramps. They
played the Colorado unfortunate game.
Their earmarks were too professional,
though. Fifty got in that day.
BY this time Ell Paso thought she was
burdened with them and ordained
against them, or rather against train
men. The tramps soon evaded this,
though, by walking into the city.
On the 23d thirty-toree arrived, were
fed and departed, and on the Goth fifty
more. On the 2Ssh another fifty came
They swarmed over the city and almost
held up housewives for something to
eat. The tramps by then had become
unbearable. Many kind-hearted people
had fed them but were compelled to
cease. 1t had became q question Of
feeding tramps or themselves.
On the 30th sixty more arrived
and on the 3lst a gang camped at the
harrow gauge depot.
Another gang Of forty the lst OF Novem-
Der were rounded up 6y the police and
put ID the city Jail ;Ill the next tram
went out.
On the 3rd forty with clean faces, west
bound, passed on. They got no bread.
Thirty-five others the same day, east
bound, were fed.
The problem now assumed big pro-
portions. Two hundred and se'eut en- ar
rived the 9th, aud cam ped al the stock
pens. By that time tramps were a
plague. So, too, the company had come
to regard than. They broke seals IN
however, were handed over by other
tramps.
Next day l49 more made a One-night
only stop in Tucson. The big gangs got
to FL Paso in one body OF 800. The
question had assumed serious proper
tlons.
Since then they have come IN scores
and hundreds, so numerous there is no
counting them.
Forty hobos got in last night from the
west. They say $50 more are between
Tucson and Los Angeles.
THE TRAMPS CAN RIDE.
Col. Noble, division superintendent
here, this afternoon said the report that
tie company had refused to carry
tramps on freights is unfounded. The
report started in an Associated Press
dispatch from San Francisco several
days ago.