The morning call., 1894-07-10
UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
All Sacramento Now Looks for Blood
and DYNAMITE.

| before 3 O'Clock. Excitement is INTENSE
| here in anticipation of the arrival OF the
| Federal troops tomorrow morning.
| RumUrs and reports of a startling char
acter are flying about town, and every one
| within earshot of the exciting talk OF the
| groups on street corners and in saloons IS
| quickly infused with the same half
| terrifying Information that the climax OF
| this extraordinary industrial revolution
| has arrived. There are throngs on the
streets and in hotel corridors, all earnest
and excited in the discussion Of the
absorbing theme which has aroused all
| Sacramento from the apathy of the past
| few days. Messengers of Government
officials and military authorities hurry by
| on the most important erraDds OF their
lives.
Things are lively here now. If they never
were before. Those dreaded regulars, of
whom so much has been heard, and as
much been feared, are to move on the
State capital. That is the report which has
stirred Sacramento from end to end, but
there is another report which has done even
more stirring than the news that the ma
TONS military authorities are coming this
way. The strikers are to have something
to say in the matter of that arrival. Every
one of those striking trainmen is up and
doing tonight. Every one of them is
serious in his determination to oppose the
advance of these Federal troops. Detach-
mentS have been ordered out with instruc-
lions so secret that not even the most in
Quisitiye of newspaper correspondents can
secure hint of the proposed operations.
Whether the regulars arrive or not Sac
rament0 is aroused over this alarming
information. 1t is very reliably reported
that by o'clock tomorrow afternoon the
Federal military authorities will have pos
session of the town. 1t is also asserted On
the authority of such a man as Henry
Bauman, secretary of the Federated
Trades, that the A. r. =, men will permit
one train to be taken out tomorrow from
the Southern Pacific depot and that the
trouble will begin if an attempt is made
to take out more. The purpose seems to
be to allow one train out so that the road
may be cleared and provocation given the
strikers TO begin operations. If reports
say true, and they are considered pretty
reliable, there will be dynamite used,
and blood will be shed before
these Sacramento strikers give up possess
SlUu VI buC piOpCILys 1Hty art
considered to have established an arsenal
for purpose, and they will not permit all
of their laborate preparations for trouble
to be upset without a struggle. This in
teresting but rather uncomforting in
formation has placed an entirety new as
pect on the situation here. and develop
ments are now sure to come quickly.
Fhe strike business had been getting
positively wearisome up this way. Since
that deplorable fzZIe on Wednesday last
there has been no kind of movement ard
all kinds of rumors until every one has
been thoroughly dissatisfied with the con-
tinued uncertainty of the whole situation.
Every day the interest in the probable
operations of the Federal troops has in
creased, but this interest has reached its
altitude and it is time something happened
or pretty soon the Interested people in
Sacramento will decide not to play.
1t is now positively understood that the
Federal troops will operate around this
center at once, and Sacramentans are in
terested in reports of the departure of the
Federal soldiery from Omaha and in this
direction. From military authorities here
it appears that those United States troops
have orders to advance directly upon Sac
ramento and 1t is also supposed from in
formation that seems reliabl that Geneaal
Ruger, California Department CON-
mander, will arrange operations until the
troops from the East are near enough to
cooperate with his own.
1t hardly seems to the people here likely
that the troops will act very much or pre-
ciptate matters here when the facts are TO
bo off hof ha olc
from places east ard farther distant with
the purpose of doing some portion of that
precipitation also. During all this specu-
lation on the probabilities and possibilities
there is this other and important certainty
that the strike leaders in Chicago may
quit the game and that the whole ex.raor-
binary disturbance may have the bottom
knocked out of it.
No one is positively or even in any de-
gree certain that the strike may not end
without any further blood letting. No one
is certain that blood is not going to be-
spilled along those sooty planks down at
the depot. No one is quite conf ent that
the militia may not go in again aud settle
the affair here, nor is any one entirely GER
tain that the regulars and militia ann
strikers will not mix uD tomorrow in one
almighty row. The fact is that no one is
certain of anything around here.
The militia and strikers and everybody
else are away out at sea onsthe all-.bsorb-
ing proposition. with considerable pros
pect OF their being on there until to-mor-
row noon. Under ordinary circumstances
there are prophets even in Sacramento,
but these are not of ordinary times and
the best kind of prophets were played out
long time ago. No one dares to predict
anything. Soldier and striker and citizen
keep up continual worrying and wondering.
Rumor is swift of wing here. and scores
OF reports are hurried along with haste
that allows no attempt at sober consldeia-
ton until their failure to marerlaliZe makes
their absurdity plain. Militiamen are not
in the most desirable kind of position, as
far as news goes, to make their positions
desirable. They are always in their camp
and have few opportunities to learn ABOUT
any small developments here and much
less of larger ones elsewhere. The news
papers are eagerly read, ana 1rieDds ana
newspaper correspondents are more ire
auently halted for information than for
passes.
Late tonight rhere was conference
held at United States Marshal Baldwin's
headquarters in the Golden Eagle hotel, at
which Attorney knight, Generals Sheehan
and Dickinson and General Superintend-
ent Fillmore were present. Fillmore Is