The record-union., 1894-07-19

Wadsworth and Ogden. 556 miles, all
trains are moving on time, and our off,
cials on that portion of the road reported
to me this afternoon that there was no
necessity of having trains run under
guard of Deputy United States Marshals
and the State militia, although l have
asked as matter of precaution to con-
tinue this few days longer.
Thirty switchmen were to have come
out of Chicago this afternoon to take
service on the Sacramento division, but
wired our General Manager that we can
fill the positions before these men could
reach here with experienced men from
Portland, Ogden and Salt Lake. with
those that would report for service in
California, and / have advised that they
be not sent from Chicago. although they
were ready to take the first train from
that point and New York.
1.-THE report that had sent for the Me-
diation Committee of the 4. r. u. to have
conference with them is utterly false in
every respect, as published in the Erum-
SneT and call this morning, and that
committee has also given the information
to the CtrOnicte that it was false. A COM
mittee OF citizens of Sacramento and fruit
growers and those representing refriger-
ator car lines carrying this fruit TO the
East called upon me yesterday, asking
that l should meet the committee of the
4. X. u. and themselves. | refused to do
so. They called again the second time.
and as a personal courtesy to them as
patrons OF our road l consented TO do so.
II very plainly stated 10 the committee
of strikers and also to the committee of
citizens and the fruit men that no COM
promise Whatever would be made on the
part OF the railroad company. and, fur
thermore, no concessions relative to TAX
ing back the men of the a. Il. U. organ
ization or others that had taken con-
spicuous part in this strike.
The only men that we are short of are
few switchmen at different points.
principally the sacramento Division, and
in the next twenty-four hours we will
have every place filled and will move ali
the traffic that is offered"
GENERAL NOTES.
To-day Assistant United States Attor-
Dey Knight will return to San Francisco
to attend to pressing business there,
and while he is away Judge Armstrong
will act as adviser TO Marshal Baldwin.
The railroad pay-car left Oakland yes
terday morning and in the afternoon paid
of the men at Port Costa. 1t is expected
to pay off here tomorrow.
Among the many Iudicrous dispatches
that are being sent from this city regard
ing the strike was one sent to Oakland
yesterday by L. II. Douglas, the present
American Railway Union leader here.
and which announced "All trains an
nulled until further orders" What must
the Oakland strikers have thought to find
trains rolling in there from Sacramento
aud other places after they had been ''an-
nulled?''
The attorney for Knox, Worden and
| others yesterday had forty or fifty rail
road employees subpenaed to Woodland
as witnesses in the murder examination
cases. The trains ran just the same, how
ever.
1t looks very much as if the railroad
engineers are going to join the American
!. hallway Union, since they employed
Carroll Cook to prosecute the American
Railway Union leaders charged with the
murder of Engineer sam Clark.
The best joke of the season was a story
that was being told at the American Rail-
way Union headquarters last night. 1t
was TO the effect that one of the trains
going out had a Chinaman for fireman.
And the best of it was that some of the
men believed it. To-day it will probably
be telegraphed to the Oakland strikers
with the usual wind-up-''Stand firm,
and victory is ours ~