The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-13
NEARING The END
Worst is Over in the st. Louis
Street Car Strike.
1t is Believed That There Will
Be No More RiOting.
BOYCOTTING INSTEAD.
Already Deputies Cannot Buy
Food or Drink.
All Negotiations For Settlement
Declared OFF.
Samuel GOmpers Will Take
Charge of the Fight.


st. Louis, June 13.-Sheriff Pohlman |
and Chief of Police Campbell are of |
the opinion that the reign of terror |
that has prevailed during the greater |
part of the past month or more as a |
result of the street railway strike is at
an end. They are confident that their
combined forces will be able to prevent
any further lawlessness. 1t seems to
be the general opinion that Sundays
riot was the elimination of these out
breaks. Chief Campbell says:
I am now of the opinion that the
worst is over and that there is now no
need of calling out the state militia
The shooting of those men Sunday has
given those inclined to rioting to under
stand what they are to expect and
believe will result in greatly relieving
the situation.
We have withdrawn the police from
several of the lines. and so will con-
tinue as fast as we consider it safe.
I believe that the Transit company will
be able to run it's cars in most parts
of the city in the future without diff
Guilty. There may be some trouble 1t
night in the extreme southern and
northern portions of the city, but the
police and posse men will be able TO
cope with it,
The street car service is improving
| day by day and has been extended to
number of lines at night. Accord
| ing to the Transit cOmpany's marriage
meHt, enough men to man all its cars
are 1t work and more are coming daily.
All negotiations looking to a settlement
4 of the strike are off and the officers
| of the company do not expect any fur
| ther attempt to reopen negotiations to
/ end the troubles. The street car men
are as firm in their attitude as ever
! Samuel Gompers, president of the
/ American Federation of Labor, is ex-
/ pected here this week, to take charge
! of strike affairs, and his coming is
/ looked on in labor circles as a sure
| sign that the fight against the Transit
! company will be pushed to the limit.
Sheriff Fohlman's posse comitatus has
! almost reached the number-2, 800
| asked for by the police board. I'D to
| last night about 1000 posse men had
| been assigned for duty. This force is
made up mostly Of we'll known business
| men and citizens, who have dropped all
else to serve at the present time. The
| strict enforcement of law that has
| marked the service of the different
companies of deputies has brought
them into disfavor with strike sympa-
thizers in various parts of the city. AS
a result citizens wearing deputy sher-
ifs badges are made to suffer the in
conveniences of a systematic boycott
in many localities. They are unable
to buy anything to eat or drink At
first meals were obtained at boarding
houses and restaurants near the differ
ent power houses and car sheds at
which deputies were stationed. This is
! changed now and the sheriff is making
prepara tions to feed his men at their
respective stations.
Henry G. Brown, a stationary engi-
neer living with his wife and family at
2S41 McNair avenue, on June 4, was
sworn in a member of the posse conf
tatus and assigned to company NJ
Since then he says the neighbors have
looked upon him as an enemy of the
| ,|,+ III
family a moments rest. 1t came to
such a pass that Mrs. Brown could
not even buy anything to eat in the
ueighborhoOd, and she sent word to
| her husband, who has been given a
leave of absence for three days to re-
turn home with his gun and protect
his family.
The inquest over the bodies of Ed
ward Thomas and George RENE, vic
TINS of Sundays riot at Washington
avenue and Sixth street, began today.
A large number of witnesses had been
summoned by the coroner and were
present
The city council killed the Kelly bill
at its session last evening by a vote of
t Z to 5. The gallery was crowded with
large delegations of union labor peo-
5 pie, and the speeches favoring the
ordinance were enthusiastically cheered
l while those against the measure We're
2 Kissed and laughed at.
The Kelly bill was introduced in the
| house of delegates four weeks ago by
2 ! the delegate whose name it bears. II
, was passed in the house by a large ma
) jority. The measure provided for the
= repeal of all the ordinances granting
| franchises to the various street rail
ways Incorporated in the ST Louis
T | Transit system since the adoption O1
the present city charter
2 THE CORONER'S INQUEST.
In the absence of Ex-Governor VIM. J
Stone. who was absent looking after
matters in connection with the fedora
2 Injunction case, Attorney Charles ]
: sociated with him was Kimbrougf
4 Stone son of the ex-governor. F'orC
/ Smith, attorney for Sheriff Pohlman
D was also present.
Before the inquiry began the officia
report of Police Captain Keely Of th
Fourth district on Sundays shooting
I was received by the coroner. This re
g | port stated that the man who shot Ed
ward Thomas was Deputy Gordon Nc
: Knight. It set forth that Thomas wa
about to shoot Adjutant G. B. Webster
when killed by Mcknight and that
revolver, now in the possession of Col
Cavender, was found on the body o
Thomas.
Coroner Lloyd impanelled the follow
ing jury and then proceeded with tn
. inquest:
E. ]. Lorenzen, plumber: ]. C. Schif
ferle, house furnisher; J. A. Grombech
halter; Vim. Sieling, furniture dealer
Fred Evertz, cutter; Louis KaltwasseI
q merchant.
i Attorney Maurier said he would en-
a deavor to bring out evidence showing
n that the shooting was not done by tn
: deputies in the performance of thei
: duty under the law and therefore wa
= not justifable.
l. The first witness was James P. KIatz