The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-07-28

;+s sot;;erant. He does not declare
defnitI; against submitting to aroitra-
ton but urges that it would be unDusi'
nesslike to consent to an arbltratioh
which might decide that the Pullman
works be operated at a loss. he says
that he offered to open his books Tor the
;nsnection of his employees to prove the
/ works were running Mt a loss, BUT tne
offer was not accepted. He blames inc
A. r. II. for the strike, and says us
object was to begin Just such a genera,
strike and that his works were selected
for n beginning. He says that it would
he nonsense to talk of arbitration wneh
the works were running at a loss. ne
concludes by denying the charges tnat
his company compelled its men to pay
large rents and forced them to purchase
goods of the company's stores.
St. Paul, july 17.-John O'Brien, at
Duluth. an ex-railway employe, formerly
with the Duluth & iron Range road, ana
at che time with The Northern Paclhc
r, cd, was before Judge Williams, OF the
Uni+rd States circrjt court, this morn
ing Oh the charge of contempt of court
in h. wing assaulted a fireman on the
Northern Pacific at Duluth. He acknowl-
edged having made the assault ard saM
that he was not aware at the time that
the read was in the hands of 4 receiver.
Judge Williams gave him a telling rep
rims I'd upon his conduct and then SEN
fenced him to ninety days in the coun-
ty Jail and to pay the costs OF his prose-
crtion. ~
This me rning seven employees OF the
Great Western road, arrested at Dodge
Center for interfering with the United
States mails, were brought before Judge
Nelson for the purpose of having their
bail fixed. Judge Nelson named $l,OU
as the penal sum. The men believe that
they will be able to secure s%ureties, and
pending the time when they secure them
were committed to the county jail. Their
nf mes are G. Kennedy, G. L. Fowler. w.
J. Digby, w. L. Armstrong, f. w.
Flynn, Thomas Hanlon and Lewis Ev-
elts. The grand jury found a large num-
Der of indictments against railroad strik-
ers and others.
The lull in the local strike situation
continues. All lines are running pas.
scnger and freight trains and the North
ern Pacific is gradually perfecting its
overland service. The passenger train
which left here on Saturday passed
Billings this morning on time, making
much better progress than any Of its
predecessors. Another overland train
will be sent out this afternoon, as there
seems to be no obvious reason why all
through trains should not 60 to Portland
without difficulty. For the present
through freight is not being moved west
of Mandan. The only element of inter-
est in the situation, aside from the kill
ing of Engineer Luth, lays in the pros
-@-x &c k.-.l1o ~ kh@ N~ook ND~thnr,
owing to the lifting of the blockade by
the acceptance of through freight and
cars direct from lines involved in the
strike. 1t was generally stated yesterday
that trouble was inevitable and that q
strike would be ord cred, sore sad at /
o'clock and others said at 9 O'clock, hut
General Manager Case is authority for
the statement that the n en- agreed to
handle the Objectionable cars. If all re-
ports are true in advance of the report
of the grand jury now in session a large
number Of the men arrested during the
Great Northern strike have been in
dicted. 1t is said that one indictment
contains the names of forty-seven strik-
ers who were guilty of violence at
Barresville, AID another against seven
St. Cloud strikers, in addition to indict-
ments against individuals and twos and
threes. 1t had been expected that these
indictments would be reported to-day,
but they have not yet been handed in to
the court.
Minneapolis, July 1.-THE Milwaukee
officials report five switch engines at
work this morning, and that freight is
moving on all lines as before the strike.
No switching is being done at night as
yet. All the night work, for the most
part consists in transferring cars of
wheat, and as the mills cannot receive
any grain on account of the inability of
the transfer company to do business,
night switching has been abandoned.
Supt. Williams Says that none of the
switctmen have offered to return to work.
and only a portion Of the 6relnen. He
states that more work is being done in
the yards than for six months past, be-
cause the lumber and flour mills are load.
ing their products into cars in the yards
instead of at the mills, as formerly.
Chicago, July lit is said that Debs.
Howard and Keliher will be arrested on
the charge of contempt of court, and that
they will be refused bail and will be COM
PEELED to remain in Jail until their trial.
There was no trouble in the city to-day.
The strike situation at the town of Pull
man appears to be growing more serious
for the strikers. 1t is the general opin-
ion that if the works of the Pullman
company are opened tomorrow there will
be a stampede of the men to get their
old positions. During the last twenty
four hours the views of the strikers have
undergone a marked change, and where
previously they were talking about how
the fight was won to-day little groups of
w%orkingmen talked of how they had lost
the fight.
Chicago, July 16.-The American Rail-
way union officials nave determined to
make Il desperate struggle to regain for
that order the prestige it has lost in the
great strike now rapidly approaching a
close. The executive board of the union
held a meeting, the object of which was
to map out a course for the future. After
a lengthy discussion it was decided to
send out ':revivalists" to all important
sections of the West. Six agitators had
been sent uut Saturday and it was de.
cided to augment this number.
"The names of those sent out Saturday
will not be given out" said President
Debs to a reporter. "for fear of their be-
ing arrested for melting a strike"
1t was learned elsewhere, however,
that Director Kern was sent to st. Louis
to rally tile forces there. Hogan was
sent out over the Northern Pacific to
stir up the employees of that company.
and Goodwin was sent over the North
western line to use his influence with tho
employees of that system, and if possible
to induce them to 60 out. These dele
gates are all members of the executiva