Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-06-29
A GRAVE SITUATION.
strikers 10 Be Arrested and Prose-
Cuttd as COlSpiTatOTS.
SERIOUS TROUBLE FEARED.


Attorney General Olney telling him
lake all possible measures 10 ezpe-
slts the mail service ami ~ secure for
the United States marshal the deputies
p,ersary to enforce any process Of the
c,utt Sir. Denis held consultation
with the strikers ON the matters. The
lssn have declared that they were PEI.
,cily willing TO haul the mail cars,
mud two Of these were switched into
the msin track. One was laden with
mail Tor San Diego and the other Tor
san Bsrnardino, but the railway com.
pnpy changed liz mind aud thu orders
sending tho cars out were counter.
mtnded.
The attitude Of the federal govern.
ment taken lats last evening puts a
sensational aspect upon the case, M
according 10 United Stalos District
Attorney Deuis'a Instructions, the
stflkefs will be arrested and prosecuted
IA c1nspifatofs under directions from
Attorney General Oluey unless they
10 TO work ut once. IL appears mere 10
men supposed to know the law that
tue Washington officials have sadly
Jailed 10 understand the situation, aud
" there " An attempt 10 arrest the men
II IL possible they will resist II they
do, n repetition Of the Homestead
nghiing IL not impossible. Air. Denis
has received orders from Olney to take
legal steps 70 compel tho passage Of tho
United States mails. Two switchmen,
Mciugh and Goldslein. were asked 10
q a. q N.a.N
any mail train would DO hauled, that
crew had been ready for twenty-iOur
hour, but that thu company refused 10
haul tho mall car unlessit had a Pull
man coupled TO II. Because Of this
tie union had decided not to change
It, position.
At meeting Of the railroad men
late last night general strike
on the Southern Pacific sys-
tenn was ordered by the union.
All the operatives Of the great coz
pofatlon will not wait Tor dismissal,
but will walk out, No that not even
local trains will he run. A telegram
from President Debs was read In the
meeting ordering the strike and II was
received with enthusiasm. The only
answer the men would make AZ 10
District Attorney Demise ultimatum
10 arrest them N the mail trains were
not run ~ usual IL that they had
nothing 10 say.
1--WE are ready 10 pull a mail car
anywhere, " said one, "but we DO not
think n Pullman IL part OF postal car,
or that the United states government
considers that the property Of an
Italian Marquis IL necessary part Of n
mail tramp
II Ia evident that tho men have not
changed their opinion hbout operating
the Pullmaus and that they viii DO
arrested rather than give In.
IL N learned ON what ought 10 be
good authority that all tue santa Flo
telegraph orerators and station agents
will quit. II the same policy Il 10 DO
followed by the federal authorities
towards the Southern Pacific strikers
hs well o. the Santa Fc men there will
be difficulty In swearing In enough
deputy mafHhals 10 arrest eight hun
dted " nine hundred alleged cOnHpir-
ators. The police anu sheriff have
made preparations In case Of trouble.
Just before receiving his instructions
from Oluey, Denis had prepared n dis
patch To that official In which he stated
the request Of the railway company
for him TO prosecute the strikers ~
conspiratoTs under the section OF the
revised statutes above referred To and
in which he saili
sin my opinion the statute referred
to does not Hpply ~ existing conditions.
Besides the prosecution Of such great
numbers ~ n practical impossibility,
There are no funds to prosecute aud
there are insufficient accommodations
~ tue district for the mems detention"
Oiney's otdeTs, however, OverTuled
the above, and the situation lie accord.
ingly very grave.
Es0INEERs ASD TELEgRApnERs
DISAGREE.
TACOMA, Wash, June 20. - Five
hundred members were present nj last
night. meeting OF the American Rail-
way union anu 100 new members
Initiated. The engineers made bOl1
move by stating their intention Of TAX
ing through Northern Pacific trains
from Tacoma to 81. Paul. They said
the union men at Helena and
other places had madb a mistake
Ia SINKING anu as the Northern
owned halt interest In the Pullman
cars tho strikers were simply hurting
their own ToAd and cutting of their
employment. A heated discussion
ehtued, tue telegtRpheTs favoriug the
strike. They were voted down and the
engineers proposition carried. The
enigueers hope by their loyalty TO have
their wage schedule raised 10 the old
standard.
The NORTHERN PACIFIC TIED UP.
sPoKANE, Wash, June 29.-No
Northern Pacific tfRid moved a wheel
yesterday. This main lins anu branches
were tied up az Wallace, Idaho. The
employees struck there Tor return u
the wages allowed prior TO January
The PoOfmau mine closed for lack Of
iuel. Othor mines will run for lew
days.
At Davenport, Washington, on the
Washington Central, business II SUI
ivTing.
Tue Union Pacific southbound train
Left two hOurs lgte, with Pullman,
attached. The yard men viii mol
handle Pullmans, but the manager the
Union Depot company coupled u cal
on and the train pulled out,
The Great Northern, having nc
Pullman cars, stu running all trains.
HUNTISGToN's INSTRUCTIONS
San FRANCISCO, June 29.-General
Manager Iownr, VI this Southern Pa.
ellie, has received the following telt-