Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27
WHY WORRY?
Coxey's Montana Army Will Prob
ably Get No Further East Than
Fort Keogh, Mont.
Col. Page, Commanding the U. s
Troops, Has Orders To Capture
and Hold Them.
The Coxeyites Now At Billings.
Where They Have Captured
rs q. 8. Marshals.

MILES CRY, April 25.-The Montana
contingent of Coxey's army will not go
any further east than Fort Keogh. Col.
Page, commanding, has just received Or
ders to stop and hold them. The army
is now at Billings, and dispatch just re-.
ceived here says that they have captured
seventy. five United States marshals who
had followed them from Butte. Super
intendent Finn Of the Montana
division is here, and will attend
to the stopping of the train at
Keogh. Hogan, in command of the
Coxeyites, had wired Finn that he
would want his car to go east from Miles
City, and Finn will be on hand to ex-
plain the interruption in the program.
The garrison at Keogh consists of 500
men with Gatling battery, and Col.
Page is just the man to execute his
orders. The probability is that the
Coxeyites will be returned to Butte
under military escort.
: To the people of this city, it appeared
for a while that unless something dis
couraging happened, General Coxey's
western army, in the course of the
day, it was probable it would
pass through Bismarck some time
I in the next few days. The army has
been gathering at Butte for the past sew
eral weeks. 1t has bad a good quota Of
membership, and in the past few days
they have become uneasy, and prepared
to begin upon the march to Washington.
Several unsuccessful attempts we're made
to seize freight trains to make the start,
but the army failed to get start until
yesterday morning, when the members
pulled out of Butte, via the Northern
Pacific, en- route to Washington.
The army is composed of about 600
men, and they are said to have been or
derly and we'll behaved. The train on
which they rode from Butte was pulled
by one one of their own men, and the
start was propitious. But not until
along toward evening did they realize
the troubles Of railroading. When they
reached Muir tunnel, the other side of
Livingston, they found serious land
slide in front of them. Coxey's western
army stopped the train in which it's
members rode. The enthusiasm of the
men was not to be checked by so petty
q thing as landslide. Shovels and
pickets were impressed into service by
!. the Coxeyites, and the track was cleared,
and the army proceeded.
The residents of Livington were dis
posed to treat the men kindly, and argue
with them over the great wisdom Of
proceeding, forward at once. Coxey's
army had a hearty supper, and shortly
after this, pulled out again. They made
a pretty fair run, but found, when their
engine was sadly in need Of water, that
the water in the tanks along the line had
accidentally (?) run out. Nothing
daunted, the mon stopped near river,
and 600 Coxeyites carried water to the
engine until the tank was full. They
then went on. The superintendent Of
the railroad division over which they
ran, yesterday, preceded their train in
his private car.
The local chamber of commerce has
made no arrangements to welcome the
army, but should they stop, it is not
probable the local police force will ar
rest the whole crowd, should they be
orderly, and behave themselves.