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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1894-09-01

The Issue between the Republican
and rha Populist parties this year L.
mainly one Of Law and order against
anarchy The prevalence Of the latter
spirit breeds strife and unrest ana
means increased taxation. Colorado,
with resources uucEcrlIcd by any state
boz the Union. would now be enjoying
exceptional prosperity II ahc had
bu7iua-s administration Of state ar
fairs. IniiI rhis occurs no showing Of
material resources Will induce the re-
uun NJ confidence 20 necessary 10 their
Development \ vote therefore. Tor
ia" Republican party this fail.is vote
FOR COlDradO'@ material Interests and
a restoration u hrr oId-lime prosperity.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1894-09-01

As predicted. the prosecution Of the
Tarsney outragers has been practically
abandoned Assistant Attorney Gen
eral sale, who was detailed to look az
Ter the matter by his delinquency"
G0yeruor Waite reported that he
could SEQ nothing In the evidence ad-
duced 10 warrant the prosecution and
beIieyes that il would be a failure.
The cases were called in Justice Nc
Coach-s court at Colorado City, Tues-
day afternoon but no one appearing
10 prosecute they were discharged.
Wilson. who has been indicted by the
II Pas0 county grand jury. will b.
held for trial In the District court. but
II IS doubtful II he will ever b. tried.
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TROOPS FOR BUTTE.
The Strikers Not Likely to Offer the
Slightest Resistance.


BUTTE, Mont. July 19.-General Agent
Maze of the Union Pacific stated this
evening that the train bearing the Omaha
battalion of regulars would arrive at Poca-
tello at q o'clock on Friday morning, which
would put them in Butte about fifteen
hours later.
The strikers are making no preparations
to receive the troops who are expected TO
arrive tomorrow. 1t is said that several
com mpanies of regulars now in Helena, and
whose destination as given out several
days ugo when ordered out from Fort
Assinabolne, are really intended for Butte.
and will be sent to this city tomorrow.
The local officers of the A. r. U. say that
not the slightest resistance will be made
to the soldiers. but that they will make it
interesting for nOn-union men.
A bridge below Lima, on the Union
Pacific. is said 10 have been burned to-
day. The Union Pacific receivers offer a
reward of $1,000 for the arrest and convic-
tion of any person destroying property in
their charge in Montana.
HELENA, Mont, July 19-The strike in
Montana is practically broken as far as
the Northern Pacific is concerned The
through line and branches, except the
short line from BozemsD to Butte, are in
regular operation. The Union Pacific is
tied up eighty miles, between Dillon and
Butte, but this will be opened tomorrow,
when the troops from Omaha arrive.
CHEYENNE, WyO.. July ia petition
to Congress praying for the impeachment
of AttOrney-General OlDey was signed by
every mem ber of the a. r. u. to-day and
will now be circulated among citizens by
a committee from the union. Both male
and female residents of the State will be
requested to sign. All other local branches
throughout the country are taking similar
action.
ST. PAUL. July 19-The Northern Pa
cific to-day gave notice the entire system
except the Ceur d'Alene branch which
was damaged by the floods in June is now
open for transportation of all kinds of
freights and passenger business is also re-
sumeG in full.
TACOMA, July 19.-August Goldberg,
William Cassidy and John Short were
arrested tonight for contempt of court in
disobeying Judge Hanford's orders. They
were bridge carpenters. and took hand
car on which they rode from the Stam-
pede tunnel to Kent. Part of the stolen
dynamite taken week ago was recovered
to-day near the magazine. Strikers or
sympathiZers were supposed TO have taken
it. The Northern Pacific has shipped $50
cars of freight from Tacoma eastward
since Monday and will ship 200 more Fri
day. Orders are on file for HOO empties on
this division, but they cannot be supplied
until delayed cars arrive from the East
and are unloaded.
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DENIED BY DEBS.
He Has Branded Nobody as a
&C Scah -

CHICAGO, July 19.-Presdent Debs said
tonight that the published and posted
notice that any men continuing in the
employ of the Union Stockyards and
Transit Company would be branded as
"scabs" and treated as such. so far as the
officers of the American Railway Union
are concerned, is forgery. He also took
occasion to forcibly deny other reports
which have been in circulation showing
the officers of the American Railway
Union 10 be selfish and overbearing in the
extreme.
The Stockyards Company will endeavor
to secure protection for its men out of
working hours by lodging them in its
building. The workingmen are frequently
beaten by the strikers.
At the Pullman works to-day Manager
Middleton was registering men willing to
work. 1t is claimed that in two hours the
managers registered 325 men. About 1000
will be necessary before the works resume.
About 100 Hollanders were intercepted on
the way to tho Pullman shops by the
strikers. A free light followed In which
no one was seriously hurt. The Holland
ers resumed work.
The Federal troops moved out Of the city
to-day.
HAMMOND, Ind, July 19-The soldiers
stationed around the Monon and Erie de-
pots and Adjutant- General Robbins head
quarters were in high state of excite
ment last night over the attack OF small
gang of desperadoes on Monon tele-
graph operator of the name of j. K. Fry,
and for few minutes the air was thick
with orders from the commanding Of
fcers. The depots. which are situated
in the heart of the town. have been the
lounging places for the rio ters. and when
the operator left his Office to walk across
the track he was pounced upon by half a
dozen men, who threatened to kill him.
The soldiers that were doing picket duty
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Look at me straight. Don't look cut
Of the corner OF your eve"
Il object to such questions" interj jected
Attorney Baker. "The boy has right TO
look where he likes"
Il understand, sir" replied Hart i'm
pressiyely. that certain motions were
made in this court this morning to this
witness and l want to stop it. Now,
Johrny, tell me sure have you not been
with any one else this afternoon?"
"Yes, sir"
The boy stuck stoutly to his story, but
Hart elected from him very willingly
that he had come out of the Capital Hotel
with Detective Hickey and Attorney
Bruner of the railroad.
Bruner took offense at this. "I came
out fifteen feet ahead of him." be cried
angrily. "and your question is an insinu-
alton on me. l was fully fifteen feet
ahead of him."
"Well. that's the distance most every
body is from another when he's coming
out OF hotel" said Hart sarcastically.
Then he asked. Have you been to Judge
Armstrong; rooms in the Capitol"
The boy answered NO." firmly enough,
claiming that Hickey. the detective, was
the man who visited The railroad attorneys
rooms in the recess hour. After while
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that he had conversed with Sergeant Vic
tor Schultz in the morning about the side
of the wagon on which Worden was sitting
and that the sergeant had agreed that
Worden was on the left side of the driving
seat; also tha: he had not identified Wor-
den al first glance.
Sergeant Schultz evidence corroborated
that of his superior officer as regards
Worden's team having broken through the
lines. 1t was he who tried to stop it. He
described the team as a double-seated
wagon with canopy and identified Wor-
den.
When Schultz got through, Carroll Cook
explained that they had no witnesses but
the boy for that afternoon and the court
adjourned until tomorrow morning.
Then Johnny Sherburn's cross-examina-
ton will be concluded. The prosecution
claim to have positive evidence to con-
vict at least Worden. They have the tools
1t is claimed he threw out OF the buggy.
They will also put on the stand the man
who was knocked down by the team when
the break through the lines was made and
the man who was on the velocipede. So
far very little has been adduced connect
ing Knox or the others with Worden and
General Hart says, if necessary. he will
bring testimony TO show that inducements
had been offered to strikers to wreck a
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NEARING THE END.
Strikers at Sacramento Begin to Grow
Restless.

SACRAMENTO, July 19.-The situation
here is something puzzling. Railroad off,
cials say the power of the strikers is
broken, and that within a day or two traffic
will be revived to all its former liveli-
ness. The strikers take exception to this
one-sided view, and declare that their
power is not broken. and that railway
traffic will not be revived to all of its former
livellness just yet. Where the mos: truth
lies in these two assertions is not easy of
determination. and because of the lack of
determining the difficulty Sacramentans
are puzzled.
However, it must be confessed that the
railroad officers have something of fact
upon which to base their declaration.
There were 430 men at work in the rail-
road shops to-day. and these are not
merely figures given from the depot offices.
but the result of an actual count in the
various shops. There has been considera-
BILE activity in every department except
the rolling-mill and foundry, and the rea-
sou why these shops are not beginning to
run is to be found in the fact that at pres
ent there is 10 need of such labor. Three
competent switching crews have been at
work all day and more are expected to-
morrow, according to reports from officials
at the depot. Trains have come and gone
without interruption and Sacramento is
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FlLLMORE'S FAITH.
He Does Not Care About the Strike
Being Declared off,

Being Declared OF.
SACRAMENTO, July 19.-General Super
intendent Fillmore was asked tonight
about the business done by the railroad
here to-day and replied 1--WE sent out
from here to-day 154 cars of freight.
Thirty-seven cars were of fruit, eastbound.
and the balance mostly freight north and
west. We received from the east to-day
fifty-nine cars of ice. Two eastbound
passenger trains went out. All the main
line locals in and out of here are running
on schedule time. Tomorrow we expect
to get out six eastb ound freight trains,
about half of them fruit. Some fruit cars
will also be sent out on passenger trains.
We will have five or six westbound freight
trains out of Truckee tomorrow.
give have sufficient switchmen coming
on the trains TO arrive from Ogden and
Portland tomorrow to equip our yard
fully; also additional brakemen and fire.
men to man all our trains. 1u some cases,
where we are putting on new tiremen-ex-
perienced men, but new to this division.
where we use heavy engines-we are put
ting two firemen on an engine until they
get broken in. This will prevent the neces-
sty of tying up trains on account of over
worked firemen.
The Oregon express will leave San
Francisco on time tomorrow night, while
the fast mail service TO the East will be
resumed on Saturday evening"
"Have you heard the rumors that the
strike is to be declared off by the A. R.
U. ?" asked the reporter.
Yes" replied Mr.. Fillmore. 81 have
had it intimated to me that the strike
would be declared off within forty eight
hours, but it makes no difference to u.s.
SO far as the railroad company is con-
cerned the strike is off now. We do not
care one iota whether they declare it IF or
not"
The executive committee of the Citizens
Protective Association. under instructions
from that organization. has to-day wired
as follows to President Grover Cleveland !:
1.-The Citizens Protective Association
of Sacramento City. organized on July 3.
1894, which on that date declared in favor
of the broad principle that neither corpo-
rations, organizations nor individuals
should be permitted to do unlawful acts
to secure ends. even though by them
deemed praisewortby. and which since
that time has actively supported the
maintenance of law and order in this COM
munity, respectfully congratulates the
President of the United States. on behalf
of the loya! citizens of this city. on the
able and fearless manner in which he has
upheld the dignity of the law. and proven
to the nations of the earth the firmness of
the foundation on which rest the liberties
of the people of this republic"
The examination of Seyler and other
Dunsmulr strikers for grand larceny, for
alleged theft of locomotive to bring them
to this city, was called in the Police Court
this morning. Owing TO the absence of
General A. L. Hart, the attorney for the
defendants, the cases were continued until
next Tuesday.
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surrounding this boy he cried. Il do
not know what this boys father may
think. but [ would sooner have my right
arm cut off than impeach my own boys
integrity in this way. l am. sir, going to
find out whether the administration of
public Justice has got to so low point
that a mere child should be kept in mill
tary Imprisonment to the very moment of
his trial, and his integrity of judgment is
assailed by refusing to allow him to asso-
ciate with his own school-fellows for fear
he should not tell the truth. This boy has
been kept in prison by Southern Pacific
detectives and military men. l will have
that sifted."
ALVIN Bruner retorted that the boy had
been kept in military imprisonment be-
cause it was asserted that the boy would
never live to tell his tale. His life has
been threatened" cried Bruner tragically,
but the audience laughed aloud. His
life has been threatened by the A. r. U.,"
went on Bruner. land it is to protect him
tnat a detective is with him constantly.
We are afraid for his life."
Attorney Baker objected to the method
of questioning, but Judge Fisher said :
This is killing whole lot of time. The
boy is intelligent. He is nobody's fool
Not bit of it
BY this time the boy was crying bitterly.
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PoLITENEss DOES NOT COUNT.
There Must of Necessity Be Violence
in a Strike.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 19.-J. T. Murray
of Monon was given a hearing to-day by
Judge Baker of the Federal Court on the
charge Cf contempt of court. The court
continued the case until November and
released Murray on a bond of $1,000. In
discussing the plea of Murray's attorney
for their client the court made use of the
following language:
81 have had occasion to say that any
body of men who have engaged in a COM
bination 10 strike and to interfere with
anybody else who goes to work and de-
nounces them as scabs would be in con-
tempt of court-that request under such
circumstances was the equivalent of de-
maDd. If in the nighttime some high
wayman should step up and say:
please give me your purse; l will thank
you to do it, Notwithstanding the polite
ness of his language. l would understand
it as threat. And SO when a member of a
strike comes, and with an angry mob be-
hind him of strikers, clothed with author
ity, should say to some other man in the
employ of the road: Please, now, don'tyou
think you ought to come OUT? the court
understands it as threat. 1t is the high
wayman's politeness that will make life
misera BILE for him if he refuses; that will
do as they did out here at Foutanel-
break switch-lOcks and hurl innocent men
to death. That is what il means. They
talk about being peaceable. Every one
that has any sense at all knows that
strike would not amount to anything
unless they follow it out by violence.
They know that if they would do what
they have a lawful right to do, decently
and orderly 60 about their business and
leave their employer alone, a strike would
not amount to anything. They know that
it would absolutely fail"
ST. PAUL. July 19.-The United States
Grand Jury to-day reported sixty indict-
ments against strikers and others for in
terfering with the mails. Bench warrants
were issued,
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about beginning to stir with its old-tIms

about beginning to stir with its old-tlme
vigor.
AS far as the strikers are concerned
there is dearth of action at their head
quarters and among them generally. and
from the view point of careful observers
it has seemed that the A. r. .. orgsniza-
ton here has been pretty badly demOraj-
lied. Reliable reports are to the effect
that, with few exceptions, the strikers here
are extremely anxious to return to work.
but they are afraid of the consequences
threatened by the union. Almost without
exception they agree that their former
positions are being rapidly filled by other
men, and this is undoubtedly true, and it
is expected that pretty soon fear will give
way under the pressure of parental solicit
tude and an attempt at least at self-pres-
ervation.
Reports reached here this morning that
the military patrol had found rocks and
timbers on the track half mile east of
Dutch Flat about midnight. The obstruc-
tions had evidently been placed on the
track with intent to wreck one Of the east
bound trains. They were removed by the
guard, and perhaps a serious calamity was
averted.
The following dispatch was received
this morning at A. R. U. headquarters:
DUNsMUIR, Cal, July 10.
T. II. Douglass, Sacramento, CAL: All solid.
Fifteen men from the north refuse TO work.
Had been misinformed. Depend on us. Duns-
muir proud of Sacramento.
TURNER AND MADDEN.
There was circular distributed on the
streets this afternoon which was Ostensbly
Issued by some anonymous friend of the
strikers. In it mem mbers of the A. r. U.
we're asked to be men and not to return TO
work until the strike is over.
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train with soldiers on it. the expression
being made that SOLDIERS only get S13 a
month and there's plenty Of them"
WORDEN WAS THE MAN.
General Graham Adds Point Against
the ALLEGED WreCker.


SACRAMENTO. July 19.-At the Stewart
inquest General Graham of the Fifth Ar
tillery was called as a witness and during
his examination he referred 10 a certain
affair which was interesting in the relation
1t bore to the trestle disaster and to Wor-
den, VINO is on preliminary trial for caus-
ing the ditching of the train. General
Graham explained about the rules which
govern such extreme action as shooting in
cases of riot or other disturbance. He
considered that from the reports received
the shooting was justified in the Stewart
case.
AT this jnncture and with a view Of
furnishing a better explanation General
Graham stated that be had received relia-
BILE Information that Worden was the man
who had hurried through the lines on the
day of the wreck in a buggy and who had
refused to halt when commanded to do so
by the sentries. This was reported TO
General Graham, who reprimanded the
sentries for not firing on the man in the
buggy. He said that If the sentries had
fired the accident at the trestle would
have been averted, for he believed tnat
Worden was then going to the trestle to
remove the fishplates. According to the
best of his information ON the subject the
man in the buggy is known to have been
WOrden
Private Day, another witness. detailed
his knowledge Of the occurrences that
morning, and among other things stated
that the first shot fired was, in his opinion.
a pistol shot. 1t did not sound at all like
a Springfield rife shot. Whether it was
fred by the soldiers or the mob in that
vicinity he could not say.
Private William Hjelmberg testified that
that when the train reached the opening
between the sheds where the crowd stood
one man waved his hat Captain Roberts
grabbed Helm mberg's rifle. pointed it at
the crowd and ordered the crowd to dis
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MEN IN CAMP.
The First Does Not Relish. the Fact
of Being Divided

SACRAMENTO, July 19.--At the locality
where Colonel Sullivan's San Francisco
regiment is tented there has not been
much doing to-day. The departure Of
Companies a and B yesterday for Truckee,
with Major Burdick and Battalion Adju-
tant Hosmer, was not altogether pleasur-
able incident. The officers and men of
the First are so strongly united in their
State military service that any division of
the regiment at this serious time causes
natural regret. Burdick and Hosmer are
60 Insignificant features at the First's
headquarters in or out of camp. Burdick
is that tacticlan who perpstrated some
fearfully intellectual debates with Cap
tain Cunningham of the Second at Camp
DimOnd. Hosmer knows thing or three
about nail-driving and the like, and with
ability in these lines is necessarily promi-
nent on the sh0ulder-strapped list. Then
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the boy admitted he had been talked to by
A ttorney Baker on the stairs OF Bakers
office. The railroad detective, Hickey, had
taken Sherburn there. The boy said he
had talked about the case TO Baker. The
boy mixed himself up badly in this part of
the cross-examination. and it was quite
evident that he had been receiving in
strucions from some one during the re-
cess. He admitted that both Hickey and
Baker had told him some things about
testimony he had not given in the morn
Ing.
"Are you called Fatty or Ia it your
brother?" asked Hart.
'lt's me" said the boy.
do you know Badly Bennett the bag
gageman?"
II don't know that do"
Didn't you tell Nat Niebling in front of
Lou Green's cigar-store on the 18th or 18Th
of July that what you stated in the Bee
concerning Worden was a - le?'
Carroll Cook objected to the question,
but withdrew his objection, and the boy
said suddenly. ''Do you mean, Mr.. Hart,
the man that drives bu3?"
Eyes, do"
Then, sir, l know him." replied the
boy.
"You do-welI. did not you say that
statement was - lie?"
Yes. sir; l did," acknowledged the
witness. But it was before another
cigar-store."
"Oh," said Hart. "And Bennett was
there. wasn't hep"
"Yes, sir"
"Why did you say that ?"
II didn't want everyone to know l had
made statement"
You have told many people that you
had never been out with Worden?"
Yes, sir"
'What were you doing with those Signal
Service men, then?"
II was at dinner with them"
"Have you ever had a dinner alone since
the day of the accident?"
Yes, sir. l ate at home yesterday"
That's the only meal you have eaten at
home since the accident?"
"Yes, SIR" admitted the witness.
The attorney tried to get some descrip-
tion from the boy as to the characteristics
of the men he had driven in the wagon.
but the witness declared he could give no
description of them. He said No. left
the depot at IL o'clock.
"Who told you? ." asked Hart "Was it
Hickey or Burke or Ben True or ,he
United States Attorney in the Southern
Pacific depot?"
Il don't know" said the witness.
He described the wagon as a three
seated black-covered wagon. 1t was five
minutes after the wagon had stopped at
tho railroad crossing that the mysterious
man on the velocipede came down the
track from Sacramento and walked back
on the road. AS to the explosion he said
he had heard, he compared the sound to
the noise of "a two-bt firecracker." The
attorney tried hard to shake the bows
testimony as 10 the location of the buggy.
He tried to make him admit that he could
see the trestle where the wreck occurred
from the crossroads. The boy maintained
that willows obstructed his view. but he
could see the smoke. Then General Hart
asked the witness il he knew the nature
and obligation of an oath.
Il do" responded the Witness
Probed little further ne admitted that
he did not know what an OATH was. The
general asked why he had contradicted
himself. This precipitated row. Attor.
ney Bruner objected to the method of the
question, and Hart was to his feet in an
instant.
There are extraordinary circumstances