Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-11-17
VIOLENCE
GENERAL
Feeling in Regard to Chicago
Street Railway Strike Be-
coming More Intense.
N-UNI0NIST BEATEN
Obstacles Placed on Tracks, and Shots
Fired at the Passing
Cars.

Chicago. Nov. 17-While the city
council last night was engaged in de-
bate, at times very bitter, over the re-
lations of the police to the street rail-
way strike, and while the aldermen
were ordering Mayor Harrlsons au-
thority for the placing of policemen
on cars to be explained by the corpor-
alton counsel and while, finally, the
council was voting it's confidence IN the
mayor, violence became general along
the Wentworth Avenue line
Mayor Harrison today, acting under
the recommendation of the city council
began an attempt to mediate IN the
differences between the Chicago City
Railway Company and the striking en-
ployes. He has arranged to have rep
resentatives OF the company meet with
himself and a committee OF aldermen
this evening in an endeavor to dlscov-
er means by which the strike can be
brought to quick end.
One non-union car man who VEN
tured out of the company's barns, was
set upon presumably by pickets and
given chance to leave town. He hes
itated and was beaten up, thrown in a
box car, and the door locked. The car
was part of departing train. He was
carried away with his wounds un-
dressed. A wagon load of bedding, In
tended for the barn barracks, was sat
urated with oil and burned at the
Thirty-ninth Street corner
A shot was fired into the Englewood
police station from the darkness, the
bullet narrowly missing the desk SER
geant's head. The Cottage Grove Ca
BILE system was put in operation this
morning. The five trains under police
protection running on the Wentworth
Avenue line was continued. A thou
sand policemen were distributed along
Cottage Grove and 500 on Wentworth
Avenues.
On the Wentworth Street line, OBJ
stacles were placed on the track in a
number of places, missiles thrown and
occasionally a shot fired into passing
cars. No one is known to have been
injured. For two or three miles the
switches were spiked and 1t was nee
essary to make frequent stops to close
them. Railway officials are making
elaborate preparations for siege, and
| it is reported that the management
stated it could fight all winter IT nee
essary"
A number of pistol shots near the
barns on Thirty-ninth Street and Cot
tage Grove this morning startled the
non-union employees housed within
who for a time believed that an at
tack was being made on their strong
hold. The shots proved to have been
fired by a man who brought two wagon
loads of supplies into the barns, and
who when molested by the pickets op
ened fire and drove quickly into the
barns. After unloading he returned
to the company's headquarters fol
lowed by brigade of union pickets.
The initial cars of the Cottage
Grove line traversed the entire route
| to the center of the city without ser
ious difficulty. The strikers in crowds
maintained perfect order.
General Counsel Bliss of the City
Railway. this afternoon gave the State
Board of Arbitration the long expect
ed letter. He automatically evades
the boards proposition to submit the
strike to arbitration. The board re
newed it's offer to step into the breach
land asked him to explain his attitude
| which was not clear to them.
| Governor Yates was then called OF
the long distance telephone for in
structions.