The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-11
Santa Fe Offers $3.50 Reward
For Arrests.
Want ANY One Who Has De-
strOyed Telegraph Lines.
A FREIGHT WRECKED.
1t Occurred on the Cut Off at
Olathe.
Officials Say 1t Is Not Traceable
to Strike.

The Santa F'e is running its road as if
the teleeraphers' strike is thing of the
past. Strikers places are so nearly fill
ed that the hiring Of men will be stopped
tonight.
Superintendent of Telegraph Sholes
said the western division has refused TO
take any more, as it has no further
need. There are five places yet to fl
this morning on the middle division and
four places on the eastern division
Thirty-hve operators are on No.5. which
arrived in Topeka at noon today.
General Manager Nudge Issued re-
ward notice today, as follows:
REWARDi
Two hundred and fifty dollars (s250)
reward viii be paid for information
which will lead to the arrest and con-
VictiOn Of any person or persons cutting.
obstructing or in any way interfering
with telegraph wires or instruments the
property of this company.
H u. NUDGE,
General Manager.
There was some Interference with
wires on the Oklahoma division and ut
Olathe." he said. 1t may have beea
done by mischieYOus persons other than
striking operators" he said. Keys were
opened at places, but altogether the trou-
Bile we experienced was slight
The strike was the greatest dzzle,' he
said
There was. a rear end freight collision
on the cutoff, near Olathe,at $50 o'clock
this morning. A stockman riding in the
Caboose was seriously injured. Mr..
Nudge said it was doubtless due to some
fault in tagging. but happening at this
time would of course be connected with
the strike situation
The California limited No which left
Los Angeles at O'Clock Saturday even
ing, ran through the entire strike. pass
ed Topeka at 1858 o'clock this morning
and was just four minutes late at Kan
sas City. No was run through the
strike from Denver to Chicago on time.
superintendent Resseguie points to
these instances as convincing proof that
the road is doing business normally. and
is nowise handicapped by the strike.
SITUATION UNCHANGED.
BY order of General Manager Nudge
the block signal system is in force agair.
on the santa F'e from Chicago to New
ton This order was issued this fore
noon, the company having manned it's
telegraph stations and placed the road
IN ordinary normal operating cOndi-
ton There is no tie-up anywhere
through the strike, the abilitq to move
trains and handle business being too
evidently demonstrated.
In the claims department claims ad-
justers have ceased reporting to division
superintendent, as they were instructed
to do while the strike was effective.
At Emporia telegraph did not go
out because their local chairman ques-
toned the legality of the call being
Inaue without giving the men a chance
TO vote on the proposition.
In an interview on the several fea-
lures of the strike Mr.. Nudge said to-
day.
Our business is running normal
again We have kept train movements
steady under the train order system. 1t
has been satisfactory enough to run
the trains in the same way that other
western roads run them. But the Santa
Fe has block signals, as the others have
not we are using the block signals
from Chicago to Newton again. I gave
the order for resumption this morning.
THE bogus message for operators to
go back to work which J. A Newman
says his name was forged to went over
the wires sure enough. It was taken
on the wire in the general Office, at the
shop and at Holiday. Where it orig
mated don't know. Mr. Newman's
personal message of protest reached me
late yesterday afternoon. There has
been nothing further heard about the
matter since 1 replied last night
Mr. Mudge's reply was as follows:
Your wire today. Am also surprised
that any official should forge your
name DO not believe it has been done
Please give me facts and name of Off
cial that I may investigate There
would be no object in endeavoring to
get the men back to work as we are re-
fusing to permit them to go back, as
you very well know"
Discussing the Olathe wreck Mr..
Nudge said:
1T is unfortunate that this collision
occurred at this time Such accident
would be likely to happen under block
signal running. but with a strike on it
Is more serious.
From the reports the conductor may
not have protected his train fully or
the following train may have run over
his signal It can not be determined
without an investigation
MEN HAVE NOT GIVEN UP
IheT'e are fifteen operators who went
out in this city They have established
headquarters in room 40 at the Ma
tlonal motel and are working along this
division.
They report the situation bright for
mem Sun and have not given up the
usht- 1ney say the men the company
have nLled IN with are incompetent
based on substitutes in Topeka offices.
and the fact that the general office
positions are still open
1t looks as If they were left to the
last and the company able to get 50
many men," said one, when officiaIs cit
at the keys for six hours working One
man came up from Kansas civ Lost
night. but refused to work when he
learned If was a case Of strike though
they offered him S90.''
WIDE DIFFERENCE.
Chicago, Dec. 11-According to the or
hcials Of. the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad in Chicago, only $50 of the
vacancies made by the strike of tele-
graph operators on that system vet ra-
main to be filed. and all of these arc
east of Albuquerque, including the Gulf
division, the center of the strike trosIIfe
have already been engaged to fill half Of
these places, and that the train service
OF the whole system, both freight ani
passenger, is now restored to the basis
existing before the strike was called.
General Manager W c. Navin AZ 80
n la1 he'd tod.