Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-07-02
Ninety Deputies Sent to Dillon Station
and Reach Ration Carrying
Mail Sacks.
Unole Sam Takes Hand and Sends
Instruction to Attorney Heming-
way-Tha Narrow Gauge
and the Mails.


mined to try and find new men to take
the places of the strikers and to this end
deputy U. 8. marshals are being employed
to protect the railroad property and pre-
serve order.
AFTER DEPUTIES.
Chief Deputy United States Marshal
W. H. LOOMS, accompanied by Deputy
Cooley Beaver, an old locomotive en-
gineer, and two others left here for the
south at 10 o'clock yesterday morning on
a special train manned by main line
crew. This train carried mail for Albu-
querque and other southern points, and
returned from Albuquerque about mid
night, bringing letter pouch only. At
80 this morning the train went out to
Lamy carrying ten deputies and these
Joined posse of about eighty deputies
which Mr.. LOOMS had gathered at Las
Cruces, Deming and Albuquerque. This
party of deputies went on up the road at
once and Is reported to have reached
Ration safely this forenoon. 1t is thought
that an attempt will be made to start a
train south from Ration sometime this
afternoon.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
On Saturday night United States At,
torney Hemingway received the follow.
ing from the attorney general of the gov.
eminent:
To Hemingway, United States Attorney, San.
ia Fe n. Nj.
Washington, D. c., June 3O-See that
regular trains carrying mails as per act OF
congress and directions of the postmaster
general are not INSTRUCTED.
Procure warrants or other appropriate
process from the U. s. courts and direct
the marshal to execute same against all
persons engaged in such obstruction.
The postmaster general complains OF
obstruction at Ration and Las Vegas.
(Signed.) OLNEY, Attorney General.
In response to the above the following
was sent Yesterday morning:
To Attorney General olney Washington D
Santa Fe, July IL am advised that
there is no positive obstruction of mails
but only refusal of employees to work
The Judge has issued an order requiring
employees to obey receivers or quit theiI
service. 1 do not understand that mere
refusal to work is obstruction of mails
but if in error advise me and will pro.
coed at once. l have suggested to the
attorney for the road that if new men
shall undertake to move trains and are
interfered with there will be case OF
obstruction.
(Signed) HEMINGWAY,
US. Attorney
THE D. s. B. G. LINE.
Local advices up to the hour of noon
to day are to the effect that the D. Il R. G.
road continues to operate its trains with
out much difficulty. Most of the en-
ployes in the yards at Pueblo are in the
strike, but it is not believed that this will
greatly interfere with the running OF
trains from Denver to all connecting
points. President Jeffrey's reply to the
strikers is so conservative and fair that
many of the old employees of the company
have decided not to join the strike for
the present at least.
PRESIDENT JEFFREYs LETTER.
"Yeur telegram came few minutes
ago requesting an immediate answer as
to the policy the Denver & Rio Grande
company will pursue to regard to run
ming Pullman sleeping cars.
sour company can not exercise any
choice in this matter because it is under
contract obligations to haul them upon
its trains and can be sued for damages
if it fails to comply with the terms of
the contract, which was made in Feb,
ruary, 1890, for term of twenty-five
years.
81 can not believe that the employees of
the Denver g. Rio Grande Railroad COM
pany will, at this critical time, while we
are suffering from decrease of nearly
one-third in our revenues and from great
damage to our property by food, injure
the company still further by attempting
to force it to ignore its contract obliga-
tons which we're entered into in good
faith.
II do not know anything at all about
the contention between the Pullman COM
pany and its shop employees in Chicago,
and our company has no relation what
ever with the dispute, but do know that
the Denver d Rio Grand" railroad COM
pany earnestly strives to serve the public
in an acceptable manner and to treat its
men equitably and Justly and it is en-
titled to loyal and efficient service IN re-
turn and also to the support of it's en-
ployes in carrying out the terms of all
l. c,.l b. Ln- IN T.,
company"
THE MAILS.
No through mails have reached New
Mexico points over the A., T. & s. F.
since Tuesday night last, but the narrow
gauge being open this city has Jared
much better than its neighbors. On
Saturday night the st. Louis, Chicago and
New York mails we're brought in over the
narrow gauge along with the Denver
mail, and this arrangement will prevail
until affairs on the A., T. & 8. F. are set
tied. The postal authorities are COM
mended for their action in thus doing
what they can to facilitate the mail SER
vice.
LATER-3 P. NJ.
Conductor Boone's train carrying the
deputy U. s. marshals reached Dillon
station, one and half miles below Ration
at O'Clock this afternoon. 1t was
thought best not to run this special train
into Ration. So the deputies we're marched
into the town on foot from Dillon, each
deputy carrying sack of U. s. mail on
his shoulder. They reached Ration at 2
p. m.
1t is now thought that no train will be
started out of Ration this afternoon; that
no action will be taken there until after
matters are more quiet at Trinidad. As
to the situation at the latter point the
New MExIcAN's telegraphio report deals