The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-05-05
MAKE TROUBLE
THE MONTANA COxEYITES STEAL
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United States Troops Intercept the
Men, Place Them Under Arrest and
Recapture the Train-A Battle
With Deputies at BOzeman.

outte, MONT, AEru IO.-lne COXey ties,
$50 strong, captured a Northern Pacific
Height engine, attached to it six fiat cars
In the yard and started east, their OBJ
jective point being Washington. The To-
connective was in charge Of a Great North
ern crew and was taken from the round
house. The run to Bozeman was made
in short order, but between that point
and Livingston the soldiers were COM
PEELED to get off and clear away a lot of
debris that had fallen on the track. An
effort is to be made to stop them at Miles
City, but it is thought that the army is
too strong. The railroad sent out a spe-
cial train bearing scventy-fve deputy
marshals, armed with Winchester rifles,
to %recapture the train. 1t is just possible
out at Fort Keogh, and if the soldiers
try to stop the train there is liable to be
serious b%loodshed. The men in the Mon
tana m of Coxey's army are all
un employed w~orkirgmcn. They aremost-
ly miners from Butte. They seem to be
an earnest. honest lot of determined men.
Gen. Hogan said to-day that the army
will stay but a few hours in st. Paul,
and will try to get around Chicago in
their march eastward without stopping
there.
Fort Keogh, Mont, April 26.-Early
this morning q troop of United States
regulars went to Forsythe, where the
Hogan army, with it's stolen train, had
stopped for the night. All of the men
were placed under arrest and the train
was recaptured. 1t is not known yet
what will be done with the prisoners,
but they will probably be taken back to
Butte.
Helena, Mont, April 26. - One man
will die as the result of the first fighting
of Coxey's army. The Montana conting-
ent on a stolen train of freight cars
reached Billings abe ut 10 o'clock this
morning, holly followed by a special car
rying seventy-fve deputy United States
marshals under command of NJ. J. Haley.
Haley n thirty men attempted to
capture James Hogan, lea1er of the
army, and Engineer Wiley. Resistance
was offered and firing began. The plat
form was crowded with hundreds of
men, women and children. Charles
Hardy a peaceful citizen of Billings, was
shot through the head and will die, and
several others were injured. The army
and citizens of Billings disarmed the
DEPUTIES and drove them out of town,
pelting them with all available missiles.
Then the army secured a slow hog engine
4 started Oh the way to Miles City,
where the troops at Fort Keogh have
orders to capture them at any cost, and
a bloody battle is expected. Gov. Rick
ards has the Montana militia under
arms ready to start to bring the pris-
orers back should they be captured by
the federal troops. Information has been
received that the troops have torn up
some track and have deployed so as to
catch the commonwealers without mucli
further trouble. The troops have taken
possession of the telegraph lines.
st. Paul, April 26.-Even if the Mon
tana CoXeyites succeed in reaching Min
Eesota on their stolen Northern Pacific
train they will probably he called to time
before they get very far within the
boundaries of the state. United States
Marshal Bede last night received in
st1rctions from Attorney General Olncy
which are called out partly by the seizure
of the train by the CoXeyites at Butte
and partly by the Great Northern strike.
The message ran as follows:
Execute any injunction or any process
placed in your hands by a United States
court for the protection of persons and
property against lawless violence by en-
ploying such number of deputies as may
be necessary. If execution is resisted
by force which cannot be overcome, let
the judge issuing the process wire the
facts to the president with a request for
military assistance =
The troops at Fort Smelling are ready
to move at a moments notice. Col.
Swaine sent orders to Col. Mason to
have his entire force ready to move at
a moments warning There was great
hustle and activity at the post, and
later Col. Mason announced that his
troops were ready and waiting any order
that might be received.