Evening star., 1900-06-09
NO CALL FOR MILITIA
St. Louis Officials Still Considering
the Question.
GOVERNOR STEPHENS At CONFERENCE
Some Talk of Calling Out Entire
State Guard.
MORE CARS NN1NG

ST. LOUIS. No. June Gov. Stephens.
Brig Gen H. c. Clark. Adjutant Gen. NJ.
F. Bell of the Missouri National Guard.
police officials and a committee of citizens.
who held a conference last night with a
view of calling out the militia to suppress
disorder in connection with the street rail-
way strike. We're closeted again today at
police headquarters in the Four Courts.
The advisablity of calling out the militia
was discussed at some length, but no ac-
ton had been taken when the conference
broke up at noon.
More cars We're in operation today than at
any time since the strike began but the
service was NOT complete by any means.
Many persons, especially those living in the
northern and southern sections of the CITY,
have to depend almost entirely or wagons
and other similar vehicles to reach their
places of business.
Sheriff Pohimans posse of nearly 1000
nlsu continues to guard the property OF the
street car company. A number of the posse
have been discharged for refusing to ride on
street and for refusing to obey orders.
Seven deputies on duty at the north
broadway power house refused late last
night to obey orders of their commanding
officer. They We're deprived of their arms
and stars and locked up at the Four Courts.
Meeting of Police Board.
A meeting of the police board was called
and the governor and Chief Campbell
talked over the situation with the commits
sioners. After a conference of an hour
the conference again adjourned to the
chiefs office. The governor left St. Louis
to return later in the afternoon. Gen. Bell
and Gen. Clark said positively that they
have not yet received any different orders
II the militia is called it is likely that the
entire National Guard of the state, COM
prising four regiments and battery, will
be pressed into service.
John Powers. motorman. one of the $50
nuH-union men who came from Philadel-
phia, is confined at the City Hospital. cry
ing for the guards to defend him from
imaginary pursuers. His mind became un-
balanced from the tremendous strain.
The feature of the meeting in Chief
Campbell's office was the presentation to
the governor of a formal written request
by Sheriff Pohlman to call out the militia.
1t follows:
''As sheriff of the city of St Louis, de-
sire to inform you that there r.,, exists
in this city condition of tu;r.ult. Acts of
violence and disorder are of daily occur
renee.
II have sun1.noned to nv assistance a
larse pose and have exhausted every
means at my command but the civil au-
lh|rities are unable to cope with the situa-
ton. All other means being exhausted l
respectfully call upon you and request that
the National Guard Of Missouri be called
out in numbers sufficient to restore order
and prevent further acts of violence
Woman Daubed With Paint.
Last night a mob of furious women and
boys beat ana denuded Lena Kaentner, a
voting woman who makes her living by ped
ding lunches among employees of the Cali
fornia avenue street car line. When the
mob had stripped her to the waist, one
woman daubatl her with green paint, while
two Others held her. The jcering boys and
women of the mob applauding the outrage
and throwing mud. Two shop girls Were
attacked by The same mob an hour later,
and they also We're partly denudcd before
they escaped.
An organized Committee of women be-
gar to visit the public schools YESTERDAY v
afternoon, entering the school rooms, ac-
crsfns the teachers of riding on the tabooed
cars, and threatening them with bodily
harm If they did again. At the Mt
Pleasant School the leader of this commit
tee seized the principal. Mrs. Rose Fan
ming, shook her violently, and announced
that she would be tarred and feathered if
either she or any of her teachers rode on
the cars again.