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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-07-07
Southern Pacific Policy.

g. P. Huntington sends instructions from
New York to the San francisco manage
ment of the Southern Pacific, in which he
says: Il wish you to call the men together
as far as you can, give them our views and
after discussing a sufficient time If they do
not then accede to our reque t, but leave our
work you will get other men to take their
places if possible, and if not let the trains
stand as they are.
THE question of what cars the company
should run is one that rests with the owners
of the property, for ownership must carry
control. You know how much | desire to
protect the wage workers, but this matter
between Pullman and his employees is some
thing that I do not know anything about
and it should not be used by the men to the
injury of ourselves and our patrons, and
will say that. as l did before. if the men after
full discussion refu to work. | wish you
would discharge them and let them under
stand that they will never be employed again
by the Southern Pacific company.
Signed c. p. HUNTINGTON
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LAID OFF.
Shop Men at Topeka, Ottawa,
Horton and Elsewhere.
Injunctions Issued Under Anti Conspiracy
Act-ChicagO Strikers Will Fight; Even
Federal TroOps-A. b. Sims Closes
Till the Strike is Over.
Bullets viii be Met with Bullet

Bullets Will be Met With Bullets.
A Chicago dispatch late in the aftern DON
of July says:
The 1000 strikers at Blue Island have
overcome the 200 deputy sheriffs and mar
shals. The latter gave up the unequal bat
tie and called for state and federal aid.
kilograms were sent to United States Dis
trict Attorney Milchrist and Sheriff Gil bert
asking that the Fifteenth regiment q. S.
A., (regulars) from Fort Sheridan and the
militia be sent to clear the blockade and to
preserve order.
In answer to Marshal Arnolds request
for regular .. s. A. troops United States
District Attorney Milchrist said that he
would send additional forces of United
States deputies with the injunction order
before calling for United States troops.
The engineer and fireman deserted the
engine which was to haul the Seventh re gil
ment |. n. G. to Blue Island, and all engi-
neers and firemen who were called upon re-
fused to take the engine. 1t was then stated
that the train would be taken out by Off
cials.
A train is made up, fully manned, at Fort
Sheridan ready to carry the Fifteen regi-
ment, q. S. A. troops, to Chicago the mo-
ment marching orders are received.
Strikers boldly declared that trains would
be dumped when the soldiers appear, and
bullets be met with bullets.
Two thousand brickm kers at Blue Island
struck and armed themselves with the in
tention of aiding the strikers at that point.
Deputies at Blue Island refused to resist
the strikers. They said they were old rail-
road men and would not fight the A. R. Z.
men are having themselves sworn in as dep
mites
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U. $. Marshal TAX Charge of the Santa Fe.

u. 5. Marshal TAX Charge of the Santa Fe.
The receivers of the Santa Fe, through
General Attorney A. A. Hurd, applied to
Judge c.. G. Foster, of the United States
court, for an order authorizing the United
States marshal to protect their property and
Judge Foster signed the order.
Marshal Neely, who is at Leaveuworth, is
swearing in deputies to take charge of the
road in the eastern part of the state, and he
has authorized his regular deputies at WIch-
ita and other points IN the central and west
ern part of the state to enlist all the deputies
necessary to take charge of the railroad
property.
The railroad officials at Topeka say the
United States marshals will not enlist en-
ployes of the road as deputies for this work.
1t is the purpose of the receivers to make
application for a similar order to that signed
by Judge Foster to all the federal judges
having jurisdiction along the line of their
road, which, if granted, will place the entire
Santa Fe system in control of the United
States court.
A State Journal reporter; who is constantly
with the railroad men in Topeka, says in
the Journal OF June %: eff there is strike
here at all among the engine men it will not
be because of the Pullman trouble, but be-
cause of the discharge of the batch of men
at La Junta. TIL re has been no order to
that effect received here as yet, however.
The shop men have little to say favoring the
strike. 'Weare n OF interested - they say. s'In
this Pullman trouble. We are having a
hard enough time to take care of ourselves.
There will be no sympathetic strike. There
are very few union men of any kind in the
shops. and the non-union men would nol
obey the union order to 60 out. We had
our fingers burnt once.
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NUMBER 81.
fhe Railroad Y. NJ G. A, of Topekss
has a membership of over 200.

fhe Railroad 7. M. Q. A, of TopekAS
has membership of over 200.
Topeka Capital: The First Congrega-
tional church is being frescoed and the
roof is receiving a general overhauling.
The ladies will purchase a new carpet
for the lecture room. A new Emerson
piano, costing $3.50, has been ordered.
The money was raised principally by
the young people of the church.
The third annual summer bible school
and missionary conference of the Kan
sas Gospel union, will be held at the
old place, Bismark Grove, Lawrence,
Kan, July 24-Aug. 2. A rate of one
and one-third fare, round trip, has been
granted by the railroads, to points with
in 200 miles of Lawrence, including
Kansas City and st. joe Mo. A num-
Der of teachers acquainted with the
scriptures have been secured. Mr. w.
II. Frost, of Toronto, in charge of the
China Island mission work of this CONT
nent, writes that he will come if possi-
BILE. Rev. I. @. Horton, of st. Paul,
Mimi, Pastor E. r. Drake, of Manhat-
tan, Chaplain Gillisple, of Fort Leaven-
worth, Nathan, the Jew, soon to be in
Morocco, E. A. Bishop, instructor at the
Abilene institute, and Geo. ST. Fisher are
fully expected, also Roy G. Codding,
lately from the Soudan and H. A. Ham
mer, bound this fall for Africa, and 9th
ers will be there
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telegram from Cincinnati says all
brotherhood engineers on the Cincinnati
Southern have been ordered to return to
work again.
General Manager Dickerson, of the Union
Pacific, after learning that the employees in
the Denver shops, the majority of whom are
Knights of Labor, had decided to remain
neutral during the strike, rescinded his
der closing the shops. The men will work
on half time.
The strike of Union Pacific switchmen
has interfered seriously with the Denver
smelters and it may become necessary for
them to shut down, owing to the lack of
fuel, throwing a large number of men out
of employment.
The Rock Island has closed their shops in
Horton, Kan, and abandoned all through
freight trains. Six hundred men were
thrown out of work. This action was vol
untary on the part of the company.
Judge Merritt, at Salt Lake. signed an
der requiring all Union Pacific employees to
decide if they desire to remain in the en-
pIoyment of the road and perform the duty
required of them, otherwise the receivers
are instructed to discharge the men and fill
their places.
A general strike among railroad employees
has taken place at Detroit.
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switchmen and Trainmen.

When the through trains from Kansas City
end on the Baltimore < Ohio road arrived at
the Grand Central Station. Chicago, the
switching crews refused to take them out of
the yards. The road crews of the trains also
refused to back their own trains out.
When the engineer of the Kansas City
train pulled into the depot he was asked to
take his train back to the yard by Superin-
tendent Kelly.
He refused, and both he and the fireman
left their cab. Superintendent Kelly then
boarded the engine and took the train down
to the yard himself.
In every instance the trainmen refused to
do any switching as long as the Pullman
cars were attached to the train.
The situation for the WISCONSIN Central,
which uses the Northern Pacific terminals,
is serious. In the fre ght yards four long
lines of cars laden with perishable freight
are standing and canno5 be moved. A num-
Der of ice trains that daily come into Chi
cago over this route are also tied up and the
ice is melting rapidly. The only cars that
were moved during the day were switched
by the officials.
Eight hundred employees of the Illinois
Central in the Burnside shops joined the
strike They walked out of the shop bodily
and took train for the city.
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Chief Sargent, of the Locomotive Fire
men. authorized the following official state
ment: The local firemen. as an organi-
cation, can take no part in this boycott. as
its laws do not permit it ald l have no au-
thority as its chief exacut " TO order a SYM
pathetic strke. In fact I cannot order
strike at all and can only give approval to
one after the order has voted a strike. We
desire it understood that we shall in no way
antagonize the A. R. G. in its present strug-
gle and have SO advised the officers of the
organ uiZatiOu -
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rher NIean ! sitter r1cnr.

In Chicago four engineers of the North
western road, who called on the officials of
the A. R. Q. and induced the order for the
STRIFE on that road, were discharged. This
is considered by the union as an important
factor in the outlook. Three members of
the subcommittee sent out by the union
officials from the yards at Western avenue
to order the strike which took place, ere
arrested on complaint of the railway offi.
cials.
They were charged with intimidation, aud
were taken to the West Chicago avenue po-
lice station and locked up. The A. R. q.
engaged attorneys to defend them.
Everything was blocked after midnight at
the Western avenue yards of the Northwest
ern. Milwaukee, and st. Paul and Panhandle
roads.
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SIXTEENTH YEAR.
& CLINCHER.
The Federal Judicial Depart
nnent Issues an Opinion.
hIails Must be Carried in the Usual Way,
and Refusal to Handle Any One
Car is Obstructing the Mails
All liable for Orc.
New Mexico Division Tied Up.

President Debs, of the American Railway
union, has issued an order for q strike on
the entire Santa Fe system. The men are
ordered to remain out until the discharged
employees are reinstated Not a wheel is
moving on the entire New Mexico division.
Several arrests will be made if the United
states marshals succeed in getting here from
Santa Fe. The passengers are making the
best of the situation. Judge Leeds, of Santa
te, has issued an injun ction restraining the
strikers from interfering with the property
of the company in New Mexico. This comes
from Ration.
From Las Vegas the wires bring this {:
Railroad men here are quiet, but their de-
termination not to move Pullman is very
apparent The presence of a United States
marshal and mum Der of deputies loaded
down with guns had no effect upon them.
Engineer Jerry DeLong and Fireman Reed
Oldham were in the cab of the noon train
from the south ready to start out at a mo-
Inents notice snould the Pullmans be re-
moved, but refused TO bulge otherwise. A
telegram came from Manager Frey discharg-
ing these men, and it has just been an
nounced that a general strike has been or
dered on the whole Santa Fe system until
these men shall be restored.
And from La Junta this: The through
on account of the boycott on the Pullman
cars Some forty fremen have been dis
charged for refusing to go out on these trains
and one engineer from the south end. The
company IS feeding about 100 passengers.
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An interview vy.th a Judge.

TOPEKA. KAN, June 3O.-Judge G. G.
Foster, of the United States district court,
said in conversation:
These men who are assisting in this boy
colt are doing more damage to their en-
ployers than they are to the Pullman CON-
pany. The railroad company has a con-
tr ct with Mr.. Pullman to haul his cars and
he can hold the company responsible if
they are not run and collect damages.
Il hope and believe" continued Judge
Foster, that when these men understand
that they are making themselves liable for
contempt of the United States court. they
will desist and no more trouble Will result.
If they do not desist there will be force
of deputies. summoned large enough to ar
rest them and bring them before the court
for contempt.
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All Liable for the Act of One.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 29.-Acting
United States Attorney General Maxwell
has written decision at the request of the
postmaster general bearing on the stopping
of mail trains by the A. r. L.
1t has been a mCoted question whether
the removal of Pullman cars by strikers
coulu be regarded as interfering with mail
train.
Mr.. Maxwell's opinion includes this:
The statute also makes it an offense for
any person to knowingly aad wi,lfuly OBJ
struct or retaTd the passage of the mails,
it has been decided by the courts, and in
my opinion is clearly the law, that under
these provisions of the statute it is an Of
tense for any person knowingly and will
fully to Obstruct or retard the passage of
train carrying the mails and that it is o
excuse that such person is willing that the
mail car may be detached and run separately.
He IS bound to permit the mail to be carried
in the usual ordinary way. Such Is contem-
plated by the act of congress and directed
by the postmaster general. 1t would seem
entered into the com binatIou to which you
refer brought themselves within the further
provisions OF the statutes of the United
States, which declare that if two or more
persons conSpire to commit an Offense
against the United States and one or more
such parties do any act to effect the object
of the conspiracy all parties to the conspir-
acy shall be liable to penalty of not less
than $1,000 and not more than $4,000 and to
imprisonment not more than two years.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-07-07

P1TTsBURG, KAN. July 3.-The effects of
the Pullman boycott are felt here. Agent
L. W. Price, of the Mem phis route, received
instructions to receive no stock or perisha-
BILE freight for Kansas City or points north
or east. making another line now in the tie
up. All the tracks in this vicinity are now
filled with loaded coal cars which cannot be
transported on account of the trouble with
the switchmen.
The large coal works operated by the Santa
Fe company at Chicopee are shut down on
account of scarcity of cars caused by tbs
railro@d troubles preventing their being
brought in
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Trouble at Las Vegas.

TOPEKA, July 2.-Some of the striking A.
r. {. men at Ration are said to have called
upon one of the operators there and told him
that he would be killed if he worked. There
was no report as to the outcome. At Las
Vegas also the men are threatening to run
Superintendent Hurley and his train IN =
ters and dispatchers, and tr yelling enS,i-
neer out of the town and the country be
cause they have attempted to keep the trains
running.
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Tourists Delayed.

LIVINGSTON, NIoNT.. June 29.-AI men
employed in the Northern Pacific yards are
out on strike, and all the shop hands are
out. Not a single employe of the switch de-
partment is at work. All A. r. [. men re-
fuse to work not train is now moving In
either direction. The A. r. L. has decided
that one OF the conditions of the strike would
be a restoration of the wage scale in force
prior to January l. A number of tourists
are detained here.
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Not Discharged. But Laid on.

Attorney A. A. Hurd, of the Santa Fe, in
Topeka, said that the men at the shops were
not discharged, and were simply laid of,
and would be paid at he regular time and
in the regular way. He said if they were
discharged it would be necessary for the
company to pay them at once. but they are
not discharged. simply being laid of for
lack of work and lack of money to keep the
shops running.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-07-07

Everything on the Santa Fe road at EN-
poria is tied up, the employees quitting work
about dark June %. on receipt of a tele-
gram from the officials of the American
Railway union nstructing them to that eff
feet. The employees make no secret that
no more trains will be allowed to start IN
til the Pullman matter is settled.
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Not 10000 santn Fe Men.

Mr.. Frey's estimate differs entirely from
the figures given out in Chicago. "We have
not over 5000 men out at this time" he
suid ''and / consider that a very large esti-
mate. If one fireman holds an entire train
il 10 not fact the entire train crew of six OF
eight is striking, there are considera BILE
number of men not working, but not nearly
all of them are striking.
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STOCK AND FARM.
Kansas Wheat Crop.

In compliance with the request Of tn
Kansas State Millers' association in con.
vention at Topeka June 4th and 5th, in
quiries were sent by Secretary Topping,
of Enterprise, to millers in each county
In the state and where there were no
mills, to the county clerks and gram
men. From returns mailed on and
after the the 18th inst, the secretary
makes the following report
"Wheat is very uneven in yield, rum
ming from five to forty bushels per AGRA
in some counties. The grain is plump
and well matured, making an excellent
milling wheat. Harvest is in full blast.
From all reports up to date, Kansas
will harvest a crop of 28.000,000 bush
els of wheat.
Oats are almost failure. Corn pros
poets are excellent-never better at this
time of the year"
Glen Elder Sentinel: Cal mickey
brought sample of Turkey wheat to
town that would average two feet high
all over the field. 1t was well-filled, and
Mr.. MuckeY is confident that it will
yield from 20 to 25 bushels per acre.
Judge Wellhouse, of Fairmount. who
controls the largest apple orchard in
Kansas, mas received reports from near
ly every section of the state regarding
the fruit crop. He SAYS the apple crop
will be above average, yet it will not be
as large as it was four years ago. The
Ben Davis, pippin and jennatin trees and
most of the summer varieties are loaded
down with fruit, while the winesap and
other less hardy varieties are failing on
account of blight.
Pittsburg Headlight: Wheat harvest
is almost over, and very fattering re-
ports come in regarding the excelIency
of the crop. The corn is also reported
in an excellent condition and the pros
poets in this direction are said to be
better than for years. The oats is about
the only crop that is of an inferior sort
and will be about half crop. It is es-
timated that wheat will average from
twenty to twenty-five bushels per acre,
the largest yield for years.
Fort Scott Tribune: Miiliard Hart
man, farmer living just west of the
Missouri Pacific shops. reports having
lost one entire field of corn by It's hav-
ing been eaten by chinch bugs. The in
sects are now devouring his oats and he
is cutting the green oats for grass The
farmers surrounding his place are ''ditch-
ing their fields to protect them They
have also sent number OF bugs to Prof.
Snow to be infected and they viii re-
lease them in their fields.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-07-07

The management of the Atchison, To7cka
d Santa Fe Railroad company, after feeding
passeng gers who were delayed by the Pull
man boycott for a day or two, concluded
that the company was not bound to continue
the practice under the enforced eircuIn-
stances, and issued orders to that effect,
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santa Fe Tra.n> stannsd.

Denver dispatch says that owing to the
Pullman boycott no through trains are run
ming on the Santa Fe railroad. Five trains
are held at Ration, \. NJ. and one at La
Junta, Col. The officers of the company
are determined not to move trains without
the Pullmans I'D ca iud 10 trainmen who
Will handle thoss ear.
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Mr.. Egan said: Il anticipate before the
close of The strike serious trouble A large
number of the men have struck without un-
derstanding what they have struck for and
when they find their places being taken by
new men. they are bound to grow desperate.
do not look for auy easy termination of
the strike. but we will certainly be pre-
pared to secure all the new men we wish
and to bring about as early termination
of the strike as possible. We are in the
fight TO stay and there Will be no compro-
mise nor give up.
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More Than Half Are Santa Fe Men.

John NJ. Egan, of Chicago, representing
the General Managers association. furnished
an estimate of the number of men who had
struck on the Chicago lines within the term
inal lines and also an estimate Of the num-
Der who were striking on all the systems
involved. Mr.. Egan was in telegra phic
communication with all the general mana
gers as to the situation and was fairly well
posted. Mr.. Egan gave the following to
show the extent of the strike at the present
time and the number of men who have
struck far in the whole country, on the
hest in lfnrrnafinra he nn11ld Oh
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Topeka Brotherhood L. E.
The following dispatch was sent to thirty
Topeka. June %

addresses.
TOPEKA, June 90.
To All Members of the B. of L. E. Divisions
on the A. T. & S. f. r. r. System.
In the present difficulty on the Santa Fe
system, relative to the order to boycott
Pullman cars, issued by the officers of the
American Railway union, in reply to sew
eral kilograms received by me for advice on
this question, l will say to all, the B. of L.
E., as an organization. is not taking any
part whatever in this boycott on Pullman
cars, and our members are expected TO do
their work as members of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, as far as possible,
the receivers of this company to furnish
you with ample protection in doing your
work wherever it is required. Notify all in
terested. J. f. RoDDY,
Chairman General Com. Adjustment.
IRVING WELLAIAN, Secretary.
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The Santa Fe Railroad company applied
to the federal courts at Denver and at Santa
Fe, for protection for its trains. Marshals
~ere sent from Denver to La Junta, COL,
aud from Santa Fe to Ration, n. II.