The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-16
Will BE TuRNEp BACK.
Railway Officials Even Determine
ton on This Course


Green River, Wyo., May 15.-[Special.J
The commonwealers presented a for
lorn appearance in camp alongside the
company's yards this morning.
Rations were short, cold wind blow
ing and a sand-storm raging. When
Rankin visited the camp they asked
to be put under arrest, and wanted the
government to feed them and take them
! to Cheyenne.
Rankin's orders not authorizing this
| course, the men got restless and pre-
tended to take train and pull out for
the east Rankin, determined To pre-
vent this, or any. interference with
company property, swore i'll a force of
six deputies here, and sent 70 Evanston
for eleven more, who came in at
o'clock, all patrolling the yards and
guarding the trains.
AT noon a rain and snow storm COM
menced putting out the camp fires and
chilling the Weala-s. They were getting
desperate in their misery, and were
preparing to make break for tAe cars,
when Mayor Talaferro placed the arm
Dry at cheir disposal and the army
picked up its baggage and moved in.
Some provisions were donated by the
citizens and the army was made com
Portable.
1t comprises companies NJ, E, G and
K, of Scheffiers ommand. with twenty
six of company H picked up at Water
fall last night, and numbers in all about
$50.
They have no officers over rank cap
tain. One of the most intclliger- of
the number interviewed, said: "Our
men will go east, but not west, without
fight; they disobeyed the injunction
in Idaho, and were not punished, and
most of them reason hat they can do
the same thing here, and if they cap
ture train the deputies will not have
the authority to shoot. At Montpelier
we turned down thirty deputies, all
with Winchesters, and took a train in
the face, of guns, and most Of the men
think we can do it again.
The railroad officials here are GER
tain that the only way of effectively
| checking the movement of the indus
trials over their lines is to turn back
the party here, and others now on the
road, and return them to Idaho or
Oregon. 1t was certain. too, that this
cannot be done by deputy marshals,
unless regular troops were present,
without bloodshed, and the informa-
route caused much qualification.
At o'clock Rankin received this
| telegram from Marshal Pinkham:
Hold the army that captured the
train at Montpelier yesterday, until I
arrive with warrants tomorrow I
waive no jurisdiction over them The
outrage against the law and the rights
of property was too vicious. 1 want
them back"
On receipt of this, Marshal Rankin
posted his force of deputies around the
armory building, went in and placed
the entire party under arrest Depu-
ties went through the yards and cap
tured all the wealers straying about.
The engineer who brought the train
last night, was captured by John
Ward, one of Rankin's deputies, while
trying to climb on the engine of the
outgoing passenger train No. l.
A list of the wealers' names was
taken, 1874 being enrolled. The wealers
are held in the armory They are very
unruly, accuse the officers of trapping
them into the building, and agitators
among them are urging resistance,
saying the marshal had no warrant
for their arrest. Deputies will keep
close watch over them through the
night and until turned over to Pink
| ham.
In order to put them in Pinkham's
charge, it will be necessary for Judge
Riner to come here the men given a
hearing and an order issued to place
them in the custody of Pinkham, as
an officer of the United States court
district of Idaho.