Arizona republican., 1900-12-15
II WILL LAST A WEEK
Foggy Weather in Kansas is Hailed as an Ally of Their Cause Railroad Officials Charged With Aisrepresenting Conditions-A Kansas Senator With Legisla- tion Favoring Strikers.

Topeka (Kan.,) Dec. 15-No new de- Velopments have come to light in the Photographers strike. The telegrapher< have established headquarters here with the head officers of the Order of Railway Photographers in charge, and announce that they Will keep up the fight until they have won. Not all the teleGraphers on the division are out, but the officers expect that they will be out before the operations go much fur ther The officers of the strikers say they are not prepared just now to give out all the information they have. but they intima-e that they will have some thing to suggest in a few days whi
 VIII surprise people, especially the officers of the Santa Fe road.
 Preslder- Dolphin says he feels as sured Of the ultimate outcome of the strike as he would be if it were already Won lie sets a week as tne time for the strike to end and be won Chair man Newman, of the grievance com mlttee, was much pleased this moring over the foggy weather. He said the new men did not understand the man. ner of adjusting their instruments to stormy weather conditions, and as resul,, the train reports were being hopelessly delayed. MT. Newman learned this morning that the new men were not succeeding in getting in any Of the train reports on time, and this IS one of the points about which Third Vice President Barr has been partfcu- lar in the extreme. No great difficulty is experienced in the running of th.. trains on the main line, though they incl moving 50 rapidly as it was. Here is one of the points where the strikers think they see a chance of winning. The passenger business has largely fallen off. Instead of the large busi- ness Which the road always enjoys at the Christmas season, the passenger traffic is not so large as it is ordin- arlly at any other season of the yea. The road is using the block system i.l the running of trains. Some of the new operators do not understand the work fngs of the system and some accidents have been narrowly averted.
 President M. M. Dolphin of the Or ganized Railway Telegrdphers arrived in Topeka this morning and took per sonal charge of the strike development over the entire Santa Fe system. The fight Of the telegraphers will hence forth be conducted from Topeka.
 In discussing the strike tonight, NJ. Dolphin gave out the following signa.I statement:
 The status of the AtchinsOn strike this evening is most reassuring ani our success seems certain. I am sur prised to find that the Santa Fe man. aging officers and their numerous sat- elites have resorted to wiIlful misrep- resentations of facts, threats, intimi- dations and forged telegrams in their attempt to defeat the meritorious cause of the striking telegraphers.
 That the public may not be mis- led and our men imposed upon it should be understood that the last en- deavor of the men on the Gulf lines to avoid the existing conflict was to earnestly request the president and vice president of the Atchinson to agree to refer all existing differences to arbitration, Ito which request MT. Rip ley and Mir. Barr both replied peremp- torily, refusing to arbitrate or con- sider rules governing conditions of service.'