Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-05-24
ISDUsTRIALlsT ITEMS.
nalton's Injury.-Ihe RAILWAY anu
Transportation fhroaieusd IrA'n
Stealing.

Tho man Dalton, who broke bis ieg
At Provo Tuesday IN trying 70 jump
from a re-. w. freight train hilei
leaving the members Of the Industrial
army who were being take TO SAT- liaa.
CITY, now says thst he was pushed en-
tbs car while the train was IN notion
other by a conductor or bfakenan'
Tbe county authorities have learned
that bls family lives In Salt Lake Ci'yi
and will attempt 10 have SAT- Aahe
county take charge Of him.
While Cartor's army was AZ Thistle
they increased about fcventyshVei
either through being Joined by mem
hers who walked or were carried there
by the railroad company. some Of the
army claim that wherever few men
were discovered on east-b0und tthint
stealing rides they were put OIL ~
Thistle, and that whenever any Of tho
army attempted 10 leave and gD east,
even In small squads, they were put
%. This, n true, dispols the idea that
the railroad company would carry
them In squads Of from i've 10 twenty,
but would not allow them 10 capture a
train.
A railroad official told yeur cores.
poudent that the above II actual.
iy the attitude Of the railroad
on the transportation question
and that no men will DO carried alter
they arc discovered.
The twenty-nine industfhllsts who
came In yesterday from Salt Lake City
and were pidt-ifackod ut Provo have
been further augmented by niTaggluff
who have tramped from Salt Like
They expect shortly TO have 200 men
here. 'frhon,D said one them,
1--WE will take tho nrst Train
that goes out OF Provo, aud
the ofiieeTa can either arrest US or
allow us 10 ride. We ohnF stay here
aud siarve, aud we cant get worh.0
They thought IL strange that tho city
marshal did not treat thom M they had
been treated In Ogden aud Salt Lake
City. There they were given a meal
ana told 10 move on, anu they would
"s0on be able 10 catch a train.D
At Provo the city marshal refused
TO feed them, and told them they would
be- arrested Tor vagfauoy II they
begged. Several Of them started out,
however, aud the citizens, ia many
instances, responded generously 10
their requests for food.
ShN " AuN nun HAAA Nv was WlNllnI
20 work NJ any employment and had
tried TO obtain work IN California for
three months before he Joined the
army. lie said hu did not caro- II ho
was tAkou 10 the penitoRtiRry. twas
q "chariiy business any way" aud he
would either have TO siatvu TO death,
beg or have the government feed him,
and he did not care much which.
Another said he could not see how
Il was that the Southern Pacific was
willing 10 carry the men east, and as
soon As they struck Utah the roads
were unwilling TO lot them ride,
"Nhy," said he, "On the Southern
Pacific we get on right IN view Of tue
railroad officials and no objection Ia
Taised.n
One Of the lndusttlalials told the
NEWS correspondent that at Thistle,
on Tuesday, before the train load OF In.
uusifiallsts was hauled 90 Provo, some
Of tho men were In favor OF taking
Superintendent Welby and placing
him on the engine, and with some Of the
lndusirlalista M guards, start the train
and compel Mf. Welby 10 give orders
for a right Of way over the track to
Grand Junction. Cooler heads, how.
ever counsoled that no violence be
attempted, and their advice prevailed.