The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1894-05-12
BOUND FOR ST. CLOUD
THAT CITY THE RENDEZVOUS FOR
NORTHW ESTERN COxEYlTEs.
Organizer WilaOn, Now at !Alcxun.
dria. Expects Three Thousand In.
dustrialS to Assemble at the Cap.
ltal Of MinnexOta.

Alexandria, Minn., May S.-Coxyites
are here, with Eradqu. .rters ": the
Arlington hotel. They are Engineer Viii
son, his lieutenant end tie steward.
Only three i'ldustrials arrived i.',,ln
Fergus Fails at 4 o'clock lust night, and
there We're besides only four recruits
here !, but several are hanging Gil as
though undecided whether TO enlist. Will
son readily talked. lie says this is the
twcnty-thirl COZ l,any he las organic ID
lie and the licut.nant :re busy securing
recruits, which are turned ever to
"Scotty," the steward, one-eyeh lna:l
with goatee, wi puts them through
without costs. Their destination is st.
Cloud, where they claim that over 1000
mel are to meet Their final rendcz-
vous is st. Paul, from where, Wilson
sa!s. they will take train through
without stops to Washington with 5000
men. They are not opposed here. but
are encouraged, in the hopes Of enlisting
tie element that can be easily spared.
Fergus Falls, Minn.. May S.-A Coxcy
org, nizrr who was here with a wing cf
the army in an interview said that 5000
vas raised in :;tte to help take the
army which he was organizing from the
West to tho East. He says that other
cities on the coast are raising large sums
to send unemployed workingmen East.
They care nothing about the effect that
the movement il expected to have OH
legislation, but it is cheap and popular
way to return to the East large army
of men which floated West during the
bcem days OH the coast, and which is
now drug in Western cities. While
the organizer was here prominent and
wealthy man gave him a list of 1O4 un-
desirable citizens and offered him $40 per
Eead for as many of them as he would
take East. the money payable when he
reached Pittsburg, so that the men will
not drift back ut once. The West hns
been getting dead heats and undesirable
citizens of the East, and it is now ship
ping them back by the freight train load
st. Paul, May S.-The following resp
luton was presented at tO-tlay's meeting
of the chamber of cOmlnt rec and referred
10 a committees:
Whereas, Our country is being hui
Il limited by the spectacle of numerous
/" dies Of unemployed men from various
localities marching to the national capi-
tai to cOercc congress into passing meas
ures for their relief. The worst feature
of the movement is that it il a menace
to law and order.
''ee.olvcd, That in friendly spirit
we would advise these men to abandon
their foolish and hopeless proceeding.
The United States government has mil
lions of acres of fertile land which it do
II, tcs to actual settlers in quantities of
1GO acres to evary head of family. OF
single person above the age of twenty
one, and if they are disposed to work
they can, by taking the benefit of the
homestead law, attain competence, as
thousands of others have done.
Resolved, That the practice which has
occurred in some instances of commune
ties, municipal and state authorities lend
ing the so-called Coxeyitcs facilities for
their progress, unloading them as it were
upon the next city or state, should bs
heartily condemned"