St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-26
BEDE PREPARING
To Give q Warm Reception to
the CommonWealerS

the CommonwealerS.
In speaking of the colnmonweal army
trouble along the Northern Pacific road
was making arrangements 70 resist the
encroachments of the Industrial army
in case it becomes necessary. He has
fifty of the best deputies used on the
Great Northern road in readiness. and
will add to the number and move out
along the line i'll case his services are
needed. There will be a hundred men
at the office of the United States mar
shall this morning at Z O'clock. ready to
60 with the marshal to intercept the
common wealers if they enter the state
and attempt to Interfere with the prop
erty of the Northern Pacific road.
Judge Walter FL. Sanborn, of the
United States circuit court, left early
yesterday morning for Dakota to make
any order that may be necessary in that
state relative to interference by the in
dustrial army. in so far as they may in
terfere with the Northern Pacific prop
erty.
An affidavit was filed in the Office of
the clerk of the United States circuit
court in this city by General Manager
Kendrick, of the Northern Pacific road.
This affidavit is to be used as the basis
of any order that may be necessary by
the court, either in this state or in North
Dakota. The affidavit is filed in the
action begun by the Farmers Loan and
Trust company against the Northern
Pacific railroad. and is accompanied by
petition of Thomas F.Oakes. Henry G.
Payne and Henry c. Rouse, receivers of
the road. The petition and affidavit re-
cite the facts i'll substance as follows:
For several days an organized body of
men calling themselves All industrial
army, has been recruited at Butte,
Mont, and they have been trying to
force the receivers of the road to con-
vey them on their way to Washington
city, not as individual passengers, by
the payment of regular fares, but as an
organized body, in box cars. without
other compensat ton than they choose TO
give. They have been systematic in their
course OF interfering with the property
OF the road. land compelled the company
10 abandon trains that were going out
of Butte. This eliminated Tuesday
night in the seizure of five coal cars,
box car and the making up of train,
which was manned by their own men
and run out of Butte eaStw ard, in spite
of the efforts of the United States mar
shall and posse of deputies that tried
to prevent. The train has been pro-
ceeding eastward at the rate of forty
miles per hour, regardless of scheduled
trains, and when told of the danger to
other trains, they told the officers that
if they did not clear the road they
would. 1t is asserted that if the move.
ment of this train should not be inter-
cepted 10y Thursday morning it would
reach the Dakota boundary line, and
endanger the lives of employees of the
road as well as OF passengers. The
United States judge Of Montana, and
those charged with executing the orders
of the court had exhausted almost
every resource for the arrest
and detention of the mob, all
to no avail. In case troops
should not be afforded by the general
government before the train reached
Fort Keogh there would be no available
place ill Montana to intercept them with
troops. In case they should reach Da-
kota there would be great danger to
people in Inc more thickly settled COM
munities. The danger would increase
as they reached Minnesota, which is
now in disturbed condition by reason
of a strike OH the Great Northern road.
and the trouble would increase if the
industrial army should reach the cities
| OF ST. Paul and Minneapolis.
The petition recites the fact that SIM
liar armies OF from 400 10 1000 are or
ganizing in Portland, Seattle. Tacoma
and Spokane. ready to move and make
similar demands, and that the traffic on
the road and Its business is confused
owing to the dangers involved. The
court Is asked to give such relief as is
in its power. Copied into the affidavit
and petition was the telegram sent 10
Attorney General Olney at Washington,
in which application for federal troops
was made.