The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-08

Deputy Ninson has been directed oy the
United States court 10 arrest the memD
OF Thursday nights mob and take them
10 Seattle over the Greas Northern ne
mayor has taken control OF the ponce
force and called upon all citizens TO assist
the officers 20 enforce order.
The citizens movement tor law and or
der has assumed large proportions Al ~
o'clock this morning an adJourne1 meet
ing was held in tie United states court
ROOM Sheriff Pugh Was in attendance,
and George Turner presided. Several
members of the city council were present.
A committee appointed last night re-
ported. recommending that ali enrolled
citizens tender their services TO the sherih
without pay and ask the sheriff 10 ap-
point them deputies. This was adopted,
and the sheriff during the day swore IN
40 OF the best citizens OF the city. ne
step taken By the city has overawed the
rioters. and today United States Deputy
Marshal Vinson was able TO make num-
Der o. arrests of rioters who took part IN
Wednesdays melee.
The Northern Pacific train which has
been lying here two days. pulled out to-
night in two sections. One VIII go 70
Fort Sherman, thirty miles from mere ana
take on force OF United States troops II
will rejoin the other section at Hauser
junction and the entire train viii proceed
eastward under guard of the regulars
TACOMA, July AT the American Rail-
way Union meeting tonight, when ialse
bulletin from Chicago stating that the
Pullman Company was preparing TO enter
tain an arbitration committee was read
there was tremendous cheering, which
lasted over two minutes. Chairman
Barnes of the committee OF strikers which
asked Master Mechanic Warner. of the
Northern Pacific, 10 draw all the fires
from the locomotives. says ne acted as an
American citizen and not as member OF
the American Railway Union. Barnes
says he hoped. by arousing the COM
pany to the danger of the situa-
ton to avoid bloodshed by making
no further attempt for forty-elght
hours TO operate trains. He intimates
that there may be serious trouble at the
expiration Of the forty-eight hours re-
A committee from Company q, Second
regiment, n. G. W., called upon the
American Railway Union committee this
afternoon and asked If the American Rail-
way Union would man the militia train.
The strikers replied that Judge Hanford
had not asked them to do it, and therefore
they would not.
The American Railway Union last even
ing adopted the following resolutions:
WHEREAS. The Chamber of Commerce
of the city of Seattle has petitioned our
representatives now at the capitol at
Washington City for the suppression OF the
American Railway Union. calling the same
a pernicious body and calling all bodies of
workmen of the same order, meeting
openly or secretly. OF even ordering strikes
when necessary against oppression per-
nlcious.
'Rssoiued, That we, the American people
of the United States, have right to meet
in open session or secretly anywhere in
hA faA of
thereof, and that We hereby con-
denim any and all resolutions lex
cept where life and property may be
concerned) that may be made by law
makers, or passed by the Chamber of
Commerce or other bodies of men consti-
tuting themselves authority to speak for a
few, legislating our American workmen
off the face of the earth; and be it also
"Resoltsd. That any citizen of the United
States, may he or they represent trusts,
monopolies or other kindred pernicious
concerns. be found discriminating against
other bodies of men, especially citizens of
the United States engaged in lawful occu-
patton, be considered by law INSIDE
meanor and crime; and, furthermore,
THAT if the prophetic wisdom of the
Chamber of Commerce is as profound as
what their action in this matter is I'M
just, they are rather 10 be pited than
thought of otherwise, and not only
them, but those whose mouthpIece they
have been. They might have stood among
the great throng that shouted: Cruelty
them, but We, the Americans, in thought
and actions, command halt to
these proceedings bidding our lawmakers
to account for anarchy in high places and
making laws for the goose as we'll as for
the gander, be they in silk or overalls."
ST. Paul, July THE transcontinental
train over the Northern Pacific, waiting
TO go West since June rs, left the Union
depot tonight under escort of two COM
panies OF United States infantry.