The morning call., 1894-05-11
DOWN THE MOUNTAIN.
Gravity and Stolen Car Help the
Northern ARMY.


Northern Army.
TACOMA, WASH, May 10.-Sixty Coxey-
ties captured single gondola cOalcar at
12:40 this afternoon, at Cle-elum, on the
Northern Pacific main line. fifteen miles
east of the Cascade tunnel. The Indus
trials guarded every switch so that the
railroad men were powerless to interfere.
TIE coalcar was quickly showed to the
main line. Sixty Coxeyites braced their
shoulders against the end and sides and
gave the car tremendous shove. From
| Cle-elum to Elensburg the track has an
| easy down grade, the distance being
| twenty-eight miles. At exactly 12:45 the
sixty men Jumped aboard the car, then in
motion. and started for Ellensburg. The
heavy car rolled along at an easy speed,
reaching Ellensburg, according to railroad
reports, at 3:07 P. NJ. In the meantime
| Superintendent McCabe, at Tacoma, had
ordered all trains near Ellensburg side
tracked giving the gondola complete
right of way. The car was stopped with
| the brakes at Elensburg. the sixty Cox
eyites joining hundred or more of their
| friends there. The former had been hang
| Ing about Cle-elum for two or three days,
hobnobbng with the Roslyn coal-miners.
| The seizure of the car had been carefully
planned.
| Industrals all along the line feel in bad
humor ON account of last nights trouble
at Yakima. 1t is reported that sixty
Coxeyites were arrested at Yakima this
afternoon for last nights shooting, but de-
tails have not been received. Over 100
| Iudustrials are still at Yakima and claim
1 IA toIya fret fraiUht
| Deputy Marshal Ed Minsc h of Tacoma is
here in charge of about fifty specials. and
| Joe Warren, with twenty-seven men all
armed with rifles, arrived this morning
| fr m Spokane. IG Is claimed that some of
the sympathiZers at Yakima melted the
Commonweaers 10 resistance and did
much to precipitate the conflict of last
night. A special dispatch says that the
clerk of the United States court is there
with citations for ten of those who made
the most infammatory remarks.
| Judge Ii anford of the United States Cir
cult Court has arrived at Yakima from
! Spokane. The situation there looks
serious. OF the Industrials injured last
night Nick Weaver of Seattle was shot in
the neck. McAppee In the ankle and
Seattle" Savage was shot in the head.
Savage was taken to the hospital. Ali are
doing we'll.
Deputy Marshals Chidester and jolly,
who were shot in the fight, were bro ught
to Tacoma to-day. Jolly's wound Is seri-
Gus, it being through the bowels. He is
| not expected to live. Chidester Is but
slightly hurt by ball in the thigh. The
Marshals say that two shots were fired by
the Cummonwealers before the Marshals
used their guns.
| SPOKANE, WASH, May 10.-Judge Han
| ford has issued an injunction restraining
all persons from interfering with or tres
passing upon property of the Great North
ern. Any one so doing will be guilty Of
contempt of court and liable to immediate
arrest. The Spokane Coxeyites are very
much disturbed. The traitOrous conduct
of Leader Dolphin ank the vigilance of the
authorities have crushed their spirits and
desertions are numerous. Deputy United
States Marshal Vinson went out to Hill
yard al noon to-day to serve the papers in
| the Injunction issued by Judge Hanford
restraining the Commonwealers from in
terfering with the property of the Great
Northern Railroad. The committee from
the Spokane Trades Council. with Jumbo
| Cantwell, commander of the Tacoma
Army, at the invitation of Dolphin, went
out to Hjlyard this morning to investigate
! the charges of the ATTEMPTED deserti0n of
Dolphin. The investigation will be in the
| form Of a court-martial. 1t is thought
| Dolphin asked this for his own protection
until he can get out of town. as there are
| threats of lynching. Part OF the Spokane
army will probably 60 to E. j. Jeffries.
commander of the Seattle contingent, and
| part to jun bo Cantwell. Dolphin can no
| longer lead them.
Colonel" Dolphin has been deposed as
! leader of the Spokane Industrials. He
was courtmsrtialed to-day, and drummed
out of camp, trying to desert bis army
with allthe funds. About thirty of the men
went with him. They took their blan kets,
and when last seen were tramping east
ward over the Great Northern. Jumbo"
| Cantwell. the Western Washington CON-
mander, assumed charge of the encamp-
ment at billiard. Among the Common
wealers here all is doubt and confusion.
They are drifting along with no definite
purpose. but are thoroughly under control
of the peace officers. Unless new leader
ship is soon developed their army will go
| to pieces.
| United States Marshal Pinkham has
gone to Sand Point on special train with
| twenty deputies and fifty United States
| regulars. At that point there Is draw
bridge over the Pend d'Oreills River. at
which point Pipkham will establish head
quarters. All Great Northern trains will
stop at the bridge. and not be allowed to
pass until 1t is stripped of every tramp
who may be trying to steal ride.
| NORTH YAKIMA, May 10.-Flfty-nine Of
the Commonwealers were arrested
late this afternoon when encamped
near the city. and marched under
| heavy guard Of Deputy United States
| Marshals, armed with Wlnchesters. to
the county Jail. These were some OF the
men who captured the train last night
| and had the encounter with the Marshals.
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