Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-06-13

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Injunction, litIgious trick and DEVICE
the shifty craftness of which lawyers
are master. all these are story so Ola
as TO be trite. Even the resort to physi-
cal obstruction by the blocking OF
contested railway crossings by anchor-
ing locomotives and freight cars there
on Is an expedient now almost too COM
monplace to be interesting, except when
riotng results.
But there is something refreshing,
novel, something delightfully."- primitive
IN the melee when an army OF eager AK
men sallies forth at the behest OF one
Slant corporation and In a few hours
slashing use OF the keen steel edge or
medieval warfare slaughiers the prop
efty Of another great company 70 the
value of something like a million OF
dollars.
That all this was done, not In mere
WantOn fury. but well within what the
axemen's masters, at least, contend was
their lawful right in the premises only
adds to the interest OF this unique tour
de force, the stage for the exploitation
OF which extended along some 1900
miles OF steel rails
When the 'sappers and miners" OF
the great Pennsylvania Railroad army
assailed the Western Union Telegraph
company simultaneously In front, flank
and rear, Frustrated 10000 Of Its poles
and cut and grounded thousands OF
miles Of telegraph wire, says the New
York Herald II simply marked with
big exclamation point one phase Of a
hot campaign, during the waging OF
which the advantage al one time SEEM
ed to lie with the forces Of the Goulds
md Russell Sage. and at another with
the cohorts Of Cassatt Earlier phases
az the warfare had been fought out
conventionally In the forum Of the
court These not being spectacular the
workaday world at large had given lit
tle heed TO a shlndy in which the ia
vored weapons were mere briefs, COM
plants. summonses and injunctions.
AXEMEN INTO THE BREACH
But all at once the long siege was
raised. A certain Judge Joseph Buff
fngton Of the United States circuit
court refused 10 continue a restraining
injunction against the Cassatt belliger-
ents. This opened the long sought
breach In the Western Union defense
Into that breach General Cassatt, with
the flash Of single order, hurled his
army Of 10000 axemen. In six great
states they stormed the enemy's lines.
Before nightfall the big battlefield was
atrewn with the litter Of tangled wire
and dead" poles.
Hara ar ioet yyoo eOu,o,hfper trttlv
spectacular Thereupon the world won.
dered and the two thirds Of It which
did not know awoke and asked what
Is II all about?"
il Is not strange that upon this par
ticular question neither Mr.. George
Gould nor President A. ]. Cassatt has
been loquacious. Field marshals en-
gagcd In maneuvering their forces
during a spirited engagement are not
wont 10 pause in the heat OF action
either TO confide IN lnauisitive outsiders
or 10 discuss the motives of their own
actions. Their leutenants are hardly
more communicative. Precious little en-
llghtenment viii the inquirer gain who
goes to former Judge Dillon. Of the
Gould headquarters staff OF legal lu-
minarles. Still less frank information
Will be vouchsafed by the brigade or
division chiefs Of the Cassatt forces
Railroad men. like diplomats, are train
ed from their youth up TO the merits OF
silence.
MI. Gould will discuss other interests
fully enough In the Western Union
building. He viii talk polo entertain
lngly AT Lakewood. But say 10 him
pennsylvania or 'cut wires" as a re-
porter .: the Herald essayed to do while
the news from the battlefeds was yet
warm. and his face lengthens, his Jaw