The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-03
CRYING FOR BEER
STRIKE CAUSES a BEER FAMINE
IN ADJACENT TOWNS.
Guthrie Gone Completely Dry, and
the Border Queen is Expeetorat-
ing Cotton-ArkanSas City Also
Forced to Use Water for
General Debiliiy-Super-
intendent Hartman
Forecasts Serious
Outlook - Eff
fleets Here.

Inc Pullman strike Is becoming quite
! serious. 1t has already caused beel
famine in Oklahoma.
| Yesterday "a great cry came up from
there to the beer agents in this city; but
self-protection is the first law of nature
aud not drop was sent, for all the beer il
storage is needed for home consumption.
Alva and Guthrie wouldn't trust the
| mails but representatives came up in per-
son, and the way they pleaded for a supply
of the amber fluid would draw tears from
an Egyptian sphinx.
The Guthrie gentleman, speaking lto a
reporter, said Darn the PGllman strike.
anyway. We had no idea that it would
Involve the running of freight trains or we
would put In a supply shat would do US
for two or three weeks. As it is now there
isn't fifty bottles of beer at Guthrie Yes
terday it was selling for 81 a bottle and
men freely offered to pay % cents drink
for 1t. That is the way with all those
sirIkes-the innocent parties get the worst
OF them. If George Pullman had his sup
ply of beer cut short L would have no kick
coming, but when you and / and every
other citizen have to go without our little
refreshments simply because a capitals
and his employees had a fuss 200 miles
away, | think IL is an outrage"
A reporter for the EAGLE called on
the representatives OF popu-
lar brewery last evening and one
of them said: II have never
before had such a demand for beer. Guth-
RE, Perry, Enid and Arkansas City are
completely out and | simply can't do any
thing for them"
Just then messenger boy handed him
q telegram from dealer Ia Caldwell. IL
read: "For the Lords sake save our lives:
We havn't a drop; send down fifty cases. +"
II wish l could help the poor fellows
out" he said, they seem to be awful
dry.'
How are you fixed!"
I'VE have enough to supply the local de-
mand for about three days more and after
that we DOM know what we can do unless
there Is "A let up on the strike"
Coming down to the strike and its prob
able results the general impression in rail-
road circles is that it has only com menced
Superintendent Hartman of the Santa
he thinks il will be the greatest strike
that the world has ever seen. at MEANS"
said he, that the railroad companies Will
20 out OF business for awhile till their en-
ploye5 come to their senses. We are ali
right so far in the moving OF trains on our
division but got word a little while ago
that twenty-five OF orr men went out at
Arkansas City. We are doing no regular
through freight service. but we are doing
tween Wichita aud local stations" He
thinks the most serious part of the strike
has yet TO come. Local officers of the other
roads tell, IN substance, The story OF Mr..
Hartman.
The strike is beginning to effect Wichita.
Yesterday the City mills were compelled
to shut down. They could ship nothing
out and the house is filled with manu-
featured products. They contemplated
repairs for some time and they embraced
TINS opportunity.
Sugar will probably 60 up today. Last
evening IL Was reported that there wasn't
q pound of sugar IL the wholesale houses
and that he retail stores were very low
This is the sugar season in Wichita
as fruit canning has commenced
and every Indication points TO
a big value in that commodity TODAY.
1t Is said that the coal oil supply IS al-o
very low The fruit stands can't get any
thing liz the line of California fruits and
the tropical fruits will cease coming in TO-
day IN all probability.
There Is only one class in town pleased
with the prospects OF the strike aud that
class is the husbands Whose. wives ara
away visiting. They are tickled to death
at the prospect OF continued bachelor
hood
Yesterday morning a committee of
American Railway union organizers
passed through Wichita. These gentle
men are making hay while the sun is shin
ing. They organized WDfield and Well
lugton last night aud viii be here to or
game W Wichita this evening,