Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-29
500 ASKS FOR TROOPS
Canadian Regulars and Mill
tia Hurried to the Scene.
SALOONS WIDE OPEN
HUNDREDS OF ANGRY MEN
WALKING TO HEADQUARTERS.
Quiet Today Believed by Many to Be
the Calm Before the Climax
of the Storm.
SALOONS WIDE OPEN

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, September
29.-There were no further disturbances
late last night nor early To-Day in the
Canadian Soc but the situation has some
elements which do not promise long con-
tinuance of the present peaceful condition.
In the first place every saloon in the town
is wide open and most of them, especially
in the laboring mems districts, are being
patronized heavily by the horde of idle
men who composed yesterdays mob.
In the second place loo instead of 400
men reported last night are at Wiers,
numbering camp of the company, twelve
miles up the Algoma Central road, and it
is this body of men the railroad has re-
fused to transport to the 500 under present
troubled conditions.
OF this number seventy-five walked In
yesterday, reaching the 500 about midnight
last night, and the rest of them are walking
down today. This big accession to the
ranks of the unemployed is looked upon as
sure to cause trouble unless the authorities
show more vigor in dealing with the situa
ton than they did yesterday. The third
troublesome feature is the delay in getting
additional troops here. Just eight soldiers
got in last night. and the grenadiers did
not leave Toronto until o'clock this
morning. which means that they cannot be
here before late this afternoon or tonight.
The policy of the local authorities in per-
mitting the saloons in the west of town
especially, to open up this morning is pro-
voking much criticism.
Soldiers Leave Toronto.
TORONTO, Ont, September 29.-Twenty
men of the Royal Canadian Dragons, with
sixteen horses and forty infantrymen, I'M
der command of Col Buchan, left early to-
day for the 500. They We're followed later
by seventy men and three officers from
each of three city regiments, 21O in all, and
eighty regulars. They left in response to
an urgent appeal from Col Elliott of the
CIth Regiment, at the 500. who stated that
the companies now there were utterly un-
able to cope with the situation.
Arresting Rioters.
About o'clock the police of the Canadian
500 began placing under arrest all of the
leaders of yesterdays riots, and within an
hour seven of these agitators were behind
the bars of the county Jail The leader of
them all is Jack Dean. This man is not an
. |employe of the Consolidated Company and
never has been. but throughout yesterday
he was to be found wherever crowd of
men gathered haranguing them and urging
them on to further acts of violence. The
two Frenchmen wounded in yesterdays S
row with the police are also charged with
aiding in arousing the rioters.
One of these men, Beault, who received a
wound in the neck. is found to be more
seriously injured than was at first sup
posed. Surgeons probed the wound for the
fbUllet last night, but We're unsuccessful in
locating it.
The Minnie NJ. the companys steamer
operated between the 500 and Michipicoten
is expected to arrive tomorrow with an
other load of miners. An attempt will be
made today to start the cars on the
Canadian side.