Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-02
MORE TROUBLE IS
FEARED At 500
Fifteen Hundred Idle Men Reported
Marching on Canadian City
to Join Rioters.
ILL SALOONS ARE KEPT OPEN
And ARE HEAVILY PATR0kIzED
Disturbances Looked For Unless Au-
DDS In Dealing with Mob-Lcaders
of Riot Arrested-Soldiers Leave
Toronto for the 500.

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Sept. 3d.
There were no further disturbances Mon
day night nor early Tuesday in the
Canadian 500, but the situation has some
elements which do not promise long
continuance of the present peaceful con-
dition. In the first place, every saloon
In the town is wide open, and most ct
them practically in the laboring mems
districts are being patronized heavily by
the hordes of idle men who composed
Mondays mob. In the second place, $500,
Instead of 400 men were reported at
Wiers, a numbering camp of the company,
IL miles up the Algomar Central road,
and it is this body of men the railroad
has refused to transport to the 500 I'M
der present troubled conditions. OF this
number Is walked in Monday, reaching
the 500 about midnight, and the rest OF
them walked down Tuesday. This big
accession to the ranks of the unem-
ployed is looked upon as sure to cause
trouble, unless the authorities show more
yigor In dealing with the situation.
The third troublesome feature is the
delay In getting additional troops here.
just eight soldiers got in Monday night,
and the grenadiers did not leave Toron-
to until four o'clock Tuesday morning.
The policy of the local authorities in
permitting the saloons, in the west end
Of town especially, to open Tuesday
morning is provoking much criticism.
Riot Leaders Arrested.
About nine o'clock the police Of the
Canadian 500 began placing under ar.
rest all the leaders of Mondays riots
and within an hour seven of these agita-
tors 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 Monday he was to
be found wherever a crowd of the men
gathered haranguing them. and urging
them on to further acts of violence. The
two Frenchmen wounded in the row with
the police are also charged with aiding
in arousing the rioters.
One Of them, 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
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The Minnie NJ. the company's steamer,
operating between the 500 and Michipi-
Gotten, is expected to arrive Tuesday with
another load Of miners. An attempt will
be made to start the cars on the Canadian
side. The ferryboats between the Amer
ican and Canadian Soos are running.
heavily guarded by soldiers.
DragoOns Leave for 500,
Toronto, Ont, Sept. 3o.-Twenty men
Of the Royal Canadian Dragons, with
16 horses and 40 infantrymen, under
command of Col. Buchan, left early
Tuesday for the 500. They were fol-
lowed later by 10 men from each of three
city regiments, 210 in all, and 80 regu.
lars. They left in response to an
urgent appeal from Col. Elliot. of the
Ninety-seyenth regiment, at the Soc
who stated that the companies now there
were utterly unable to cope with the sit.
nation