The morning call., 1893-11-14
HANDY WITH GUNS
Tramps Resist and Fire
Upon an Officer.
Some of the Unemployed Who Re-
Gently Left This City Are Now
on the Return Trip.

The tramps who are enjoying free rid q
in large bodies along the lines of the South
ern Pacific road are fast reaching that
point where concerted action upon the part
of the civil authorities will be necessary to
suppress them. Yesterday telegram as
| follows was received from Los Angeles:
! Los ANGELES Nov II.
! Conductor S. a. Hollis of train 81 wired from
Beaumont yesterday that be had about 100
! tramps on his train. Three Of them broke open
car 6753. loaded with borax. The deputy con-
| stable at Beaumont tried 10 arrest one OF them,
| who pulled gun and fired al him and sue
ceeded in making his escape.
Many reports reach the general Offices
of the railroad here of cars being broken
into and goods extracted. The work is
nearly always done at night and at small
points along the road where apprehension
is not to be feared.
| Another dispatch tells of the movem emf
of a body of these men toward this city,
who have, many of them, but just left
| here. II is as follows:
BEAUMONT Nov. 10.
Two big gangs OF tramps were 10 town yes
terday. One OF the crowds. comprising about
8 ixty persons, were bound for san francisco.
: ONE of them said they had only been away
from that city short time, but that san Fran
cisco was good enough for Them.
These men are thoroughly organized and
many of them are armed. A detail is made OF
| the best takers every day TO do the begging.
| The others follow after and take care OF the
prOyender. a house TO house canvass is made.
/ Chickens have doubled in price here Within the
| past few days. An effort 20 hire ten OF the men
| at 81 25 per day was unsuccessful. They said
| hey all bad work on the Midwinter Fair and
must hurry back TO San francisco.
The movement of "the unemployed" in
and out Of the city varies as regards the
direction the majority of the men travel. a
| few days ago it appeared that large pro-
ton of the floating element was bound
East, while now 1t seems that more men
are coming into the city than are leav-
| ing it.
The Canadian Pacific has Withdrawn its
second-cIass rates to the Atlantic seaboard.
| This was probably owing to the fact that
! the Montreal lines refused 20 join it in
carrying the travel at the figures named.
Seven carloads of blooded horses from
Palo Alto were shipped out of this city
yesterday bound for New York, where
they are to be sold.
Three cars of silk for the Eastern
markets comprised portion of the cargo
| of the China. and will be shipped over the
| Southern Pacific.
Tracklaying on the new Broadway cleo
trio line has already reached beyond Mont
gomery street toward the bay.
James A. Wright Jr:. vice-president.
national Navigation Company. which
comprises the American and Red Star
| lines, are in the city. The American line
claims great advantage over its competi-
tors in the matter of facilities for landing
passengers at Southampton, which enables
them to reach London much quicker than
| by the Liverpool route. The steamship
Paris of this line, which sailed from
Southa M tou on the same day as the
Cunarder Lucania from Liverpool, on the
| last trip over of these two vessels, landed
her passengers at New York one hour and
thirty minutes ahead of the Lucania.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company
| has received the highest award at the
| Worlds Fair for their standard passenger
| train and locomotive. 1t reads as follows
For excellence of design and construction OF
| a handsome transcontinental passenger train,
having special features of merit in its colonists'
| sleeping cars.
| Locomotive-for general excellence OF work.
manship and design, specially of the ste ell cab
! lined with wood, aud manner in which main
! frames over cylinder saddle are braced.
They have also received an award on the
model Of their Japan and China steamers.