The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-07-18

00A4 mS8sGv4&N0s WILL ~
fled IN the United States circuit court at
II o'clock to-day. 1t asked that Debs,
Rogers, Kelihsr and Howard be held for
contempt Of court. President Debs up.
peared In court accompanied by his ut.
| torneys. w. w. Irwin and w. H. Shoe
maker Of St. Paul and S. S. Gregory of
this city. He said he had not boon sum.
moned, but came on tho advice Of his law.
yers.
4 writ Of attachment for Debs. Howard,
Rogers and Keliher was issued by Judge
Seaman and the hearing was set for
o'clock this afternoon.
At 8 o'clock the contempt proceedings
against Debs. Howard, Kelihcr and Ro2-
ers were called and the cases continued
until Monday. Bail In each case was fixed
at 5000. Commitment was deferred to
allow defendants TO secure bondsmen,
but they expressed little hopo OF being
successful.
Debs and the other A. r. U. leaders 10.
fused to give bail In tho contempt cases
and were sent to Jail.
NOT ENDED IN CALIFORNIA.
SAN Francisco. July 17.-Tho Southern
Pacific company continues to run passon.
ger trains moro or less regularly during
the hours Of daylight, but all night trains
arc still abandoned. Nonunion train
crews arc not flocking to division head
quarters and this is probably tho reason
VIII y SO few freight trains are being
moved.
Tie first train dispatched for the East
since the strike was sent out Of Sacra.
mento this morning.
At Sacramento the only exciting Incl.
dent of the day was the dispatching OF o
train bearing GO United States regulars, to
Dunsmuir, on the Oregon branch. The
company agent at Dunsinuir reported
that the strikers there were becoming
ugly.
STRIKERS ACTIVE.
Tho strikers at Sacramento continue
active. Yesterday several hundred men
who had obcyed tho order to strike re.
turned to work in the machine shops. This
morning most Of them remained away.
Tho men were intimidated and feared vio-
lence.
A. N. Townc, vice president and general
manager of tho Southern Pacific, posted
notice to-day that tho Sacramento shops
would be reoponed tomorrow and that
protection would be afforded oil mon who
desired to return to work.
CAN'T GET THE MEN.
In Oakland tho railroad officials arc
meeting with difficulty in getting enough
mon to run their shops and man their
trains. The strikers have been pretty
successful In in,imidatina the mon who
otherwise might have stepped into the VA.
cant positions. Ono man, In whose pos.
session several sticks OF dynamite wcrc
found, was arrested near tho railroad
yards by the soldiers and taken to tho
city prison.
| The strikers to-day instituted habsas
corpus proceedings to recover Edward
Jost, one Of thor leaders, who 10 locked up
| In box car on tho mole and guarded by
soldiers. Jost. disguised ~ sailor. was
arrested last night. Tho soldiers found
him crouching under o Pullman car in tho
railroad yards.
TINE FOR THEM TO GET THEIR PAY.
The railroad company's pay car. bear.
ing sl5O,OOO passed down the Oakland
mole to-day and through the city, disburs.
ing the wages for May and June. The
strikers who came to tho car were told to
decide whether they would return to work
or not. II they elected to return their May
wages werc paid them; II thcy refused
every dollar that the company owed them
was handed out.
| TROUBLE AT POND CREEK.
/ I'll.
B. Frank has wired to Acting Governor
Lowe that Saturday tho city authorities
proposed to put into effect the ordinance
requiring the Rock Island trains to stop
ut the principal street OF the city and flag
crossings. lie wished the governor 10 call
for the assistance Of United States soldiers
to make the city ordinance effective, the
local force being inadequate. The mayor
added that the government had estab-
lishsd the city and was IN simple justice
bound TO afford II protection from the
tyranny OF any railroad company, and to
assist IL in enforcing tho laws made for
the benefit and protection OF ITS citizens.
The mayor Of Enid has wired tho gov.
ernor and United States authorities tina,
tho local authorities are unable to kcer
down insurrection or to apprehend the
men who have been destroying tho rail
road property and asks for an increase in
the number Of United States troops now
stationed in the city.
A NOBLE OFFER.
SACRAMENTO. July 1.-THE mediation
committee of the strikers to-day made O
formal offer to Governor Markham ant
United States Marshal Baldwin to furnist
from $3.50 to 5000 members OF tho A. X. u
to serve as deputy United State,
marshals for the purpose OF protecting
tho nonunion trainmen employed by tho
Southern Pacific company to operate II.
trains. The men offer TO serve without
pay and make only one condition, tina
they shall not bc called upon to assist IL
any way in the movement Of trains excep
TO protect the property and the mon.
Tho strikers say this oNer is made IL
good faith in the interest OF tho farmers
and merchants OF the Pacific coast S,
they may move their products and mer
chandisc, provided the Southern Pacific
company can find men 10 man thci
trains.
LOCAL IN CHARACTER.
NEW YoRK, July 17.-President Gomperi
of the Federation Of Labor is back from
Chicago. lie denies that he and Deb
had o quarrel and asserts the railway