The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-05-05

| officers OF the company were at once
| called into a conference with fresldeh'
| Hill and the letter of inquiry from the
| governor was promptly considered. IN
| fifteen minutes fron the time OF its re-
cent Mr.. Hill was debating the ans xer
| of the Great Northern, which was at
| cnce forwarded to the executive office.
| He aerees entirely with the governors
| 81 question.
President Debs was writing a letter
to the governor when a reporter called
upon him to ascertain what answer he
We uld give to the proposition for arbitra-
| ton. He said:
"As soon as the full co nmittee can ar
rive in St. Paul it will call on Mr.. Hill
| and endeavor to come to a satisfactory
srd complete settlement Of the dispute.
I have every confidence that they will
b. able to accomplish this, but should 1t
| not be successful it will doubtless agree
to any other method that may result in
q settlement. The men will be just as
| fair as the company in the whole mat
tel This is the tenor of my reply to the
| governor which l am now writing"
! Commissioner Spencer this morning
! continued the hearing in the Foster and
| H. E. Egberu cases to Saturday next,
| they having previously been set for to-
day. Lloyd B. Egbert and Charles l..
| Cowley gave bail this morning in the
| total sum of $500, 500 for retarding the
mails and $500 for conspiracy to delay
| the mails. The ~sureties were James
Quinlcvan and Charles J. Miller, both
| of St. Cloud. Paul Beaudreau also gave
bail in the same sun with Frank A.
Beaudreau and Isaac Solomon rs his
| sureties. The case of Olson was contin-
ued until Wednesday,. He has not sue
| ceeded in raising bail and has little pros
pect of securing s%preties.
st. Paul, April 3.-The Great Northern
employees in st. Paul and Minneapolis
| and representatives of the strikers from
| various points along the line held a meet
ing in st. Paul last night and decided to
attempt to arhitrate the trouble. Accord
ingly q committee was appointed to rep
| resent the men, and this committee is to-
day holding a conference with Mr.. Hill
and his asso .;atrs. It is thought that no
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three days. If The conference comes to
naught the men will agree to place the af-
fair in the hands of arbitrators, as pro-
posed By Gov. Nelson. Reports received
from all along the line say everything is
quiet.
Breckenridge, Mimi, April 25.-Con-
trary to expectations, graveyard silence
rcigns at Breckenridge. The men are
awaiting developments in the line of arbi-
tration at St. Paul. Until then here will
b. no interference with trains and no
trouble here Trains are arriving and
departing as usull and on time. The
people here are orderly, bnt are impatient
for something to break to break the mo-
nctony. They are suspicious of everybody
entering the place and are very r%eticent.
There are about fifty railroad men here
and quite a number of freight cars. Ac-
cording to reports Breckenridge was u
veritable hotbed, but as a matter Of fact
there is nothing in the line of news here.
Chief Deputy Marshal Ed Brown and a
posse of deputies have reached here to
look over the ground. They returned to
Willmar an hour later, there being no
need of their services. No property has
been destroyed here, and failure of srbi'
tration alone will cause trouble.
st. Paul, April 26.-The conference be-
tween President Hill and the representa-
tives of the employees of the road is still
in progress. If the committee, however,
is of the same opinion as Vice President
Howard, of the American Railway union,
the conference is likely to be fruitless.
But it is expected that the wiser and
Z ere temperate counsel of President
Debs will prevail. President Debs, Vice
President Howard and a subcommittee
of seven waited on Mr.. Hill and PRESENT
ed the schedule which the men desire
shall go into force. This schedule is in
the main similar to that which was in
effect prior to August, 1898. Adjourning
to Room 10, Mr.. Hill, accompanied by
Col. Clough, General Counsel Glover and
General Manager Case, held a confer
ence with the officers of the union and
the men who were with them, in which
the discussion took a general range as
to what might be accomplished and re-
suited in an appointment to meet the
committee of thrirty-three, representing
the men. Just as the meeting was break
ing up Mr.. Hill remarked to President
Debs: Il cannot sign that schedule"
MIR. Howard answered emphatically:
WELL, that settles 1t. If you can't
sign that, there is no use for the COM
mittee to come down."
"Oh, yes" said Mr.. Debs, ''let us
come down and talk the thing over. 1t
will be better to do So"
Its no use, I say" repeated Howard,
1.-The men want that schedule, and if they
can't get that a conference will be a
mere waste of time"
1t was agreed, however, that the COM
mittee should go down and have the
conference. when the conference be-
gan Mr.. Hill demanded to know whether
the men were employees or proper repre-
sentatives. Some of them were not en-
ployes and could not produce credentials.
After a general talk the conference was
adjourned in order to give the men
time to secure proper credentials. An
other conference is being held to-day.
Aberdeen, S. D., April 26.-The strike
on the Great Northern road as far as it
applies to the branch running into Alb
erdeen is effectual and fully stops all
traffic on that line. To-day the train
crew steamed up the engine and got the
mail and passenger coaches ready to
move as per orders, but emphatically de-
clined to handle freight. The Great
Northern run out of and into this city
a mixed train of passenger and freight
cars, hence the difficulty. The train was
abandoned. There is no probability that
trains on the Great Northern will run
into or out of Aberdeen this week, as
the men are determined they will not