Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-03
That May Clear Up the Dy-
Mantle Explosions
ON THE CLEVELAND LINE
The Accused Admits That He Tried to
Buy Some Powder But Says He
Did it For a Stranger--The Boy
colt Movement.

Cleveland, Aug. 2.-The police believe
they have made an arrest which may
lead to important developments in con-
nection with the several attempts to blow
up Big Consolidated cars since the be-
ginning of the present strike. This fore
noon job Schoenthal, a striking conduc-
tor, was taken into custody on the charge
of being a suspicious person., and has
since been detained at the central sta
ton, where he was subjected to a rigid
examination by the detectives.
Several days ago a we'll digger named
Stokes, living at Nottingham, a suburb,
told the police that a street railway man
had tried to purchase dynamite from him.
The report was investigated and the ar
rest of Schoenthal followed. The pris-
oner admits he is the mar who APP
preached Stokes, u he says he made the
inquiry at the instance of another man
whose name he does not know. He says
he was approached by the stranger, who
asked him if he knew where 10 pounds
of dynamite could be purchased. The
prisoner told the stranger that he knew
a man in Nottingham who used dyna-
mite, and he might have some to sell.
Thereupon he went to Nottingham, saw
Stokes, but failed to get the explosive.
He reported his failure to the stranger,
according to his story, and that was the
end of the matter.
The police will not say what they think
of the story, but they declare that they
are not yet through with the investiga-
ton, and they hook upon the arrest as
an important one. Schoenthal had been
employed by tie company about four
years before theastrike began.
There vas prHetically no change in the
strike situation here today. President
Everett of the Big Consolidated declares
his company has about all the men re-
CURED and that the service maintained
on various ines of the systems is equal
to that which was in force prior to the
strike.
General Axline said today that pro-
prietors Of stores who refused to sell
goods to either soldiers or civilians could
be punished under the law. To a re-
porter of the Associated Press, Business
Agent Pratt of the striking street car
mems union said the boycott had practi-
cally passed out of their hands.
"The people themselves have aiken it
up, and where the movement will end no
one can tell"
1t is stated Governor Bushnell will
come to Cleveland soon to investigate the
situation.
Good lawyers say the boycotters may
be proceeded against under the Ohio anti
trust law, which overs conspiracies of
all kinds on the restraint of trade. One
lawyer, who has examined the law, says
that merchants who refuse to sell goods
to boycotted persons, as we'll as those who
assist in placing the boycott upon them,
aiding or abetting it in n way, can be
conspiracy without proof of the exist
ence of a conspiracy. The penalty pro
cided is a fine of from $50 to $1,000, and
Imprisonment of from six months to a
year, and each day that the conspiracy
continues constitutes a separate offense
This law passed at the last session of the
legislature, but the authors of it intended
that it should apply only to trusts.