The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-08
1t Is Rumored That Pinkerton
Men Are Employed to
Watch Property.
FIRST INJUNCTION ISSUED.
Employees Warned Not to Modest Those
at Work or Interfere With
the Trains.

DEVILS LAKE, N. D.. Nov. IA spe-
clal train arrived here this morning on
the Great Northern Railroad with seventy
special policemen. eighteen new conduc-
tors, twenty-five brakemen and three fire.
men. The arrival of these men is expected
to break the strike, as the delayed trains
have been sent out with the new men and
the old employees who did not go out. The
yards are patrolled by deputies.
WALLA WALLA, WASH, Nov. AT
midnight last night Jay H. Adams, attor-
ney for the Great Northern at Spokane,
applied to Judge Hanford of the Federal
court here for an order enloining the
strikers from interfering with the opera
ton OF the road.
Accompanying the petition was an aft
davit setting forth that Dan Keardon and
other members of the A. r. U. had been
unlawfully obstructing and interfering
with the operation of the road, including
the carrying of United States mails and
interstate traffic, by means of intimidation,
threats of violence upon railroad employees
and threats of the destruction of their
property.
Judge Hanford issued an order to defen-
dants to appear before him at Seattle, No
vemper %, to show cause why they and
other members of the A. r. 9. should not
be restrained and enjoined from interior
ing with the operation of said road. I'm
til such hearing Judge Hanford issued
temporary iniunctions, restraining the de-
PENDANTS and their associates from modest
ing or causing the destruction of the build
ings or rolling stock equipment of the
road, or for assaulting, threatening or in
timidating the employees to cause them to
leave the employ of the company.
They were also enjoined from further
combining and conspiring together unlaw-
fully to obstruct or EN- barrass the railroad
company in the conduct OF its business.
The injunction was telegraphed to Spokane
Immediately and given to a Deputy United
States Marshal for service.
SPOKANE, WASH, Nov. IF there is
any strike on the Great Northern or at
Hillyard it is not visible to the naked eye
tonight. Railroad officials declare it a
tempest in q teapot. all their trains are
running on time except for ordinary de-
lays and there is no interruption of traffic.
A few men that went out at the Hillyard
shops have been replaced by others, and
officials say there has been no interruption
of work whatever. The only men that
appear to be determined are bridgemen,
and they have all gone and still are out.
The company has advertised for other men
to fill their places and expect work in this
department to continue.
The writ of injunction issued out of
Judge Hanford's court yesterday and tele-
graphed here from Walla Walla last even
ing was served by Marshal Vinson this
morning. The men claim that such action
on the part of the company was wholly
uncalled for and that it indicates that they
are afraid of the men and expect trouble
and that the mere securing of the injunc-
ton shows that there is strike and that
they are afraid of it. The statement was
made here, which was only denied IN a
half-hearted way, that Pinkerton men
had been secured to watch the property of
the company. Nothing new has, however,
transpired with the strikers to-day and
everything is quiet.