The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-07-12
CONE TO SACRAMENTO
Troops and Calling Guns on Steamer
Alameda.
CONCERNING BRICKS IN LIVINGSTON
Over 5000 Armed Citizens Ready to
Meet the Blockade Broken
Further South.
On their way to Sacramento.

On their Way to Sacramento.
SAN Francisco, July 10.-There are
many conservative men of affairs here
who fear and believe that tomorrow will
develop a desperate conflict between
federal troops and the striking American
Railway Union men and their allies.
Sacramento is the threatening point.
The seriousness of the situation is shown
in the warlike precautions that the
army authorities have taken. Up to IL
this morning the federal authorities had
made every move in secret. At about
that hour the big ferry steamer Alameda
steamed out from the Oakland mole and
steered directly across the bay to the
Presidio wharf. At IL :45 the steamer
had effected a landing, and there was all
the noise and hustle of a hasty embarka-
ton of horse and infantry. Two troops
of cavalry and five batteries of light
artillery were rushed on board. Gatling
guns and two Hotchkiss cannon were in
evidence, and Colonel Graham, COM
mandant at the Preside, was personally
in command of the expedition. The
Alameda with her formidable-lookin
cargo steamed direct toward the mouth
of the Sacramento river, but so guarded
&ad the army's movements been that it
Was not known until she entered the
river channel whether her destination
was the state capital or Oakland. 1t is
probable that the troops can be landed
at Sacramento before midnight.
The publication of President Cleve-
lands proclamation extending the con-
ditions of the military regime to Calf
ornia, caused intense. excitement in
Sacramento, but this afternoon when it
became positively known that Colonel
Graham and soldiers to the number of
300 were en- route to reinforce the state
troops at the capital, the excitement
there became wild and ominous. The
strikers grew loud in their threats to
resist any further attempt of the troops
to clear the railroad yards and depot,
and their leaders loudly proclaimed that
the Southern Pacific Company would
not be permitted to move its trains.
Nor were their hostile demonstrations
confined to talk alone. Armed men
soon appeared on the streets. As if in
preparation for battle, they transferred
their guns and ammunition from their
storehouse on street to their head
quarters nearer the railroad yards. No
attempt at concealment was made. The
strikers marched boldly through the
streets, bearing their weapons on their
shoulders, and they were loudly cheered
by hundreds of sympathizers. 1t is
claimed that the American Railway
arsenal holds at least 1900 rifles and
shotguns and quantities of ammunition.
The strikers who came into the city on a
train, seized at Dunsmuir brought over
200 rifles which they had collected at
Dunsmuir, Red Bluff and Sissons.
Another train from Truckee also brought
in guns and ammunition. This after
noon a number of strikers were practic-
ing with their rifles on the Yolo side of
the river.
There are now over 5000 strikers in
Sacramento to resist the federal and
state troops. Flushed with their victory
over the United States marshals and
police on Tuesday last and complete
victory over more than 1000 state militia
on the following day, they are in just
the mood to resist United States regulars
tomorrow. The steamer Alameda, with
300 soldiers from the Presidio, arrived
at Mare island this afternoon and took
on 800 marines. There the Alameda
steamed around the point and the men
were transferred on two Sacramento
river steamers, which had been lying in
wait. One troop of cavalry was landed
on each bank and will march to Sacra-
mento along the river as an advance
guards to the boats. General Graham.
while at Mare island, received orders
from Washington directing him to pro.
ceed to Sacramento, and leaving the
conduct of the whole campaign to his
discretion. 1t is anticipated that the
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