The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-14
TRACKING THE BusawHAcKEEs.
More Evidence Dfscovered-The MEAN
ing Of Rsndriek's strike Bulletin

More Evidence Dfscos eFed-The Mean-
| ing Of Rsndriek's strike Buiietin-
TAcoxA. July ia teIl-taie table cloth
has been found where the bushwnackers
I fred several times upon Northern Pacific
passenger trains. and. together with =
number Of the rifles and sho;guns found,
is being used TO run the eulprits down.
The numbers Of the guns have 10 be sent
TO the manufacturers and then the origI-
nal purchaser IS located, and then the
next, and 50 on, until il is hoped to catch
the hushwhackers.
TaeoMA, July l3.-(SpeciaI. Assistant
Freight Agent Barnes will have a further
! hearing tomorrow before Judge Gilbert.
lie insists that he spoke 70 the men about
quitting work in friendly manner. as
brother 10 brother. The court will have
Superintendent McCsbe. Master Mechanic
Warner and others state tomorrow what
interference 70 the operation Of the road
would result in case one man was iniiu-
enced from doing the work of some other
man. Ii is held. of course. that such
interference would block business and
result in delaying the mails"
Regarding General Manager Hendricks
bulletin on the subject of the re-employ-
ment Of strikers, weIl-informed railroad
official says;
This bulletin means tina. the raen who
remained loyal 10 the road come first for
places and rank. Accordingly an engi-
neer. who remained at work on the South
Bend branch, will 10 doubt be found TO be
the oldest Inan in the employ OF the COM
pany on this division. Next to the men
who renamed loyal come the men who
have entered the service since the strike
was called. Next come tho men who ap-
n. IL.
there is no precedence as 70 application on
or before Sunday, those who were first in
the service of the company previous to the
strike will come first in being furnished
employment"
This man speaks authoritatively. and he
adds:
1T will be seen By reading the bulletin
carefully that the men are not reInsEated,
because that means carrying with IL all
the conditions and MISUNDERSTANDING of
the past. They are TO be simply re-em-
p!oyed. To all intents and purposes they
are new men. The company reserves the
right to discharge and decline TO employ
whom il pIeases.
at is also the understanding that this
bulletin means that no concessions are
granted the strikers. that the company re-
tains the non-union men employed during
the strike; that the strikers must uncon-
ditionally surrender.
The opinion Of the leading American
Railway Union men may be focused thus:
ut looks as If the General Managers
Association was responsible for the scare
about the strike being called eff. This
seems plausible. because that fake was
swiftly followed By the posting OF the
bulletin and the sending out of callers to
call ali the old employees for duty. But
the men thought IL strange that they were
being called in tho morning TO go 10 work.
Some OF them responded aud reported for
duty. But when they east their eyes on
that bulletin and read what il meant,
they shook their heads, and each body on
strike went az once into session and de-
cided not TO return TO work until this
matter is settled"
Chairman Crehan, of the American
Railway Union. said:
1T was simply scheme to stampede
the men into service. We are not going
back until all 20 back, and until the non
union men who have been hired during
the strike are dismissed"
Debs wired Crehan as follows:
PAY no attention to rumors and news
papers. Our condition Is first class Indi-
cations are for q settlement"
NJ. NJ. Perl. Assistant General Superin-
tendent pickinson's assistant, said:
THE strike is off, We have plenty of
men. We will put the old men in as new
men. provided they make application for
vacancies according TO the general mana
| gers bulletin"
Harry Wisner. deputy marshal, was
accidentally shot through the hand while
handling his revolver.
TACOMA. July iS.-Charles A. Barnes.
the ex-chief clerk OF the Northern Pacific
| freight department in this city. was given
a hearing today in the United States court
on a charge OF contempt of court by in
timidating Northern Pacific employees.
| lie hied q written statement saying he
| had made no Intentional violation of the
courts injunction aud pleading for mercy
| ii he had overstepped the bounds of the
! order. Judge Gilbert reserved his decision
until tomorrow.
Repairs 10 the burned bridge at Thorn
| have been completed and four trains
stalled at Eiensburg have started west
| These trains were made up at Spokane
and points vest, one Of them bearing the
militia guards which escorted the state
| militia trains 70 Spokane last week.
otyMrgA. July Is! special. The first
, freight train over the Northern Pacific
since the beginning OF the strike passed
/ through this city today ia charge of non
union crew. All efforts 70 bring about a
strike on the Port Townsend Southern
have proved uaavatling. and the trains
/ have ran regularly over the road from this
J city TO Fenino, carrying the United States
mail.