Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1894-07-14
THE SIEGE IN TUCSON.
Beer. Lemons and Fresh Fruit
Very Scarce.
Arbitration Mentioned by Employees
Tucson Divisions Awaiting
Their Neighbors.
The seige of Tucson is still on.


Except for threatened scarcity of
lemons, beer and fresh fruit the town
joys along pretty we'll. With the 300
or so railroad men about the streets
Tucson has lively appearance rsther
than otherwise. While no money comes
in-and at the hotels they complain
thereat-none goes out. Other pursuits
than railroading 60 forward about as
usual. People have taken to reading
books in addition to their DAILY CITI-
ZEN, in lieu of periodicals. Vacations
have been deferred to the indifnite
sometime when the railroad is open
again. With some railroad people it
looks as though the strike has senttheir
vacations glimmering. Work has ceased
and household expenses have gone on
Just the same. Such course, long pur-
sued, will make vacations few and short;
in fact good many will have to con-
tend themselves with vacation in Tue
son, with stroll in the park or on the
banks of the gurgling Santa Cruz.
The railroad men here are in a state
of quien sabe. They think the strike
will be long or short, according to how
they wish it would be, but they don't
know, they think the matter ought to be
arbitrated, and that the road will come
to arbitration by and by, but they are
not certain of it; they cannot say wheth-
er the railroad is going to tske through
mail cars without Pullmans or not, but
they think not; whether or not trains
will be brought out of Los Angeles to
Yuma they cannot say. With regard to
bringing trains to Yuma, they do say,
however, tina. they will rot bring them
out of there unless they are taken into
Yuma by union men.
On the divisions here now the men
aud the company have nothing for dis
agreement. Only local trains are moved,
and these the men willingly handle.
The Tucson situation awaits the doings
OF the divisions beyond Yuma and Ell
Paso. AS will be seen by the following
kilograms, the strike is on at FL Paso
az well as at Los Angeles. The follow
ing new kilograms have been posted at
the A. r. Z. headquarters, which were
established yesterday on Congress street:
CHICAGO. July 5.
L. B. HAYES:
Stronger than ever tonight. Spread
ing to New York. No weakening any,
where. Stand pat and victory is GER
tain. Z. V. DEB.
Los ANGELES, July 4.
l.. B. HAYES:
We are out here irrespective Of organ
izations. Nothing moving here. Stand
firm. None go back till all reinstated.
We have sympathy OF entire population.
Keep us posted. Sure to win.
PHIL. STANwooD.
President.
Los ANGELES, July 5.
Yours received. just the same here.
All solid stay with the pot. Sure to
win. w. II. CLUYE.
Secretary.
Ell PAso, July 5.
l.. B. HAYES:
We are all out hare, shops and yards.
Cook.
Local trains continue to arrive and
depart. Merchandise goes out from
Tucson as usual to points along the
road; and the stations along the road
get their water barrels filled "a they
always did. The lodges of the engineers.
men meet daily, almost hourly. The
railroad employees are probably as a
rule sympathetic with the strike. but
some OF them express the wish that the
lodges were carrying their expenses
now, instead of gong into their respec-
tive stockings. put away for such rainy,
nays stormy, days as these of general
strikes the country over.
Whist the end will be there is no FORE
casting. There may be arbitration, or
there may be long test of endurance.
One of the two is probable. AS said
before, so far as Tucson Is concerned.
all depends on what is done on the out
side.
A carload o: beer for Los Angeles is
the object OF much solicitance in Tue
son, where beer is becoming SO scarce.
The car passed through here a few
daps and is now at Yuma. AS it will
not keep without ice, it will probably
go there for song. One dealer here
offered to purchase the beer, but was
refused.