Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1894-07-02

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Rioting in Illinois-War
Predicted by Railway
Manager.
Denver, Colo, July 2.-Five companies
of the 7th regiment of the United States
army, stationed at Fort Logan, left at
7:30 this morning on special train fo1
Trinidad, where over 100 deputy marshals
were disarmed yesterday by mob. The
troops are under command of Col. Ward
and Lieut.. Baker. They will arrive at
noon. The strikers have cut the West
ern Union wires near Cucharas. No word
has been received from Trinidad since IL
O'Clock last night.
WAR PREDICTED.
Supt. Dpell, of the Union Pacific road,
says:. "The extent of the strike indicates
that the country has serious PROPOSE
tion on its hands, as serious as anything
that has visited the country since the
war. If it don't lead to war it will be a
close call"
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Memphis, Tenn.-All roads still refuse
to carry perishable freight for st. Louis
and points north.
The Chesapeake & Ohio sleeper from
st. Louis, which had been stalled, arrived
this morning. A Pullman went out with
last nights north bound train on that
road, but it's fate is unknown yet.
SURPRISE TO THE MEN.
Fort Scott, Kas.-The Missouri Pacific
shops we're closed down to-day on account
of the strike. The order was not posted
until the hour of going to work and was a
surprise to all the men.
TROOPS USED.
Springfield, Ills.-A riot is reported at
the Wabash depot and troops have been
used to disperse the mob.
SITUATION IN CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco.--Th Southern Pacific
company having notified U. s. Dis
trict Attorney Garter that owing to the
Pullman boycott it was unable to send
out the United States mails, Garter tele-
graphed to Attorney General Olney and in
Enforce the laws prohibiting the OBJ
struction and delay of the United States
mails. Cause arrests and institute pros
ecutions wherever the law is violated"
Shortly afterwards Mr.. Garter sent a
second dispatch to Washington asking
whether the attorney generals instruc-
tions applied to mail cars only or to mail
cars as regularly made up. The answer
to his dispatch was: "Instructions cover
mail trains as regularly made up and of
all descriptions"
Immediately on receipt of this message
U. s. Marshal Long was notified and he
ordered a number of deputy marshals, all
of them men of GOODNESS and nerve to
hold themselves in readiness to proceed
to Oakland.
THE INSTRUCTIONS
given to the men were: "Make nc arrests
except where switches are disturbed, cars
are uncoupled or anything is done to pre-
vent employees from boarding trains or
from doing any duty asked of them"
District Attorney Denis at Los Angeles
has received similar instructions; he held
a consultation with the strikers on the
matter. The men declared that they
were perfectly willing to haul the mail
cars, and two of these were switched into
the main track. One was loaded with
mail for San Diego and the other for San
Bernardino, but the railway company
changed its mind and the orders sending
the cars out were countermanded.
SENSATIONAL FEATURES.
The attitude of the federal government
puts sensational aspect upon the case
as, according to instructions, the strikers
will be arrested and prosecuted as con-
spirators under directions from Attorney
General Olney, unless they go to work at
once. 1t appears here to men supposed
to know the law, that the Washington Of
fciuls have sadly failed to understand the
situation, and If there is an attempt to
arrest the men it is possible they will re-
sist. If they do a repetition of the Home
stead fighting is not impossible.
Two switchmen, McHugh and Goldstein,
we're asked to confer with Denis. They
stated that any mail train would be hauled,
that crew had been ready FOR "a hours,
but that the company refused to haul the
mail car unless it had a Pullman coupled
to it. Because of this the union bad de-
cided not to change its position.
1t is evident that the men have not
changed their opinion about operating
the Pullmans and they will be arrested
rather than give up.
SITUATION GRAVE.
Just before receiving his instructions
from Olney, Denis had prepared dis
patch to that official, in which he stated
the request of the railway company for
him to prosecute the strikers as conspira-
tors under the section of the revised
statutes above referred to, and in which
he said: "In my opinion the statute re-
ferred to does not apply to existing con-
ditions. Besides, the prosecution OF such
great numbers is practical impossibility.
There are no funds to prosecute and there
are insufficient accommodations in the dis.
trict for the mems detention"
Olney's order, however, overruled the
above. The situation is accordingly very
grave.
LABOR UNITED.
Dallas, Tex.-There is every prospect of
a complete tie up on the Texas, lines