The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-28

Matter VIII be Aired Before
Judge Lewis This Morning
Lieut.. Boerner, of the Rondo street
police substation. in charge of asdetaIl-
OF police, yesterday afternoon arrested
fourteen linemen employed by the Twin
City Telephone company while they
were replacing the wires that had been
removed from Hague avenue by CITY
Engineer Rundlett. The telephone COM
pany early in the day secured tenn
pofary restraining order, and, with the
city engineer thereby made helpless
/, sent a large gang of men to the scene
ana proceeded to reset the poles that
nau been cut down and to string the
wires. The engineer appealed to the
ponce, and a, squad of patrolmen in
charge of Lieut.. Boerner was rushed to
the scene. Fourteen were arrested and
held until after o'clock, when the
company gave bail for their appear
ance in court today
I Developments in the contest between
the city and the Twin City company
(
phone poles and overhead wires on
hague avenue, from Victoria to Lex
lngton, came thick and fast yesterday.
The company first secured temporary
restraining order directed against the
Saty officials and then the city engi-
neer secured the arrest of the men
| sent by the company to replace the
poles and wires.
| AT the end of the days proceedings
| the telephone company had succeeded
! In resett1ng five Of the poles that had
been removed, and fourteen of the en-
| ployes had been put under arrest
charged with violating the ordinance
| requiring that permission must be Sc
| cured from the city engineer for the
placing of posts and the stringing Of
1 wires. =
| The police force continued in pos
session of the street all afternoon and
through the night, with instructions
to continue making arrests whenever
| an empioye OF the company attempted
| to string the wires. si-1-sa y
| Linemen Are Bold
The first arrests by Lieut. sRoerner
We're ordered shortly after O'Clock in
/ the afternoon and in, the END eight
men We're sent to the station, although
1 the original intention of the lieutenant
was to arrest none but the foremen.
ii. Critics. the man in charge of the
| gang of seventy five w0rkmtr. was the
! first to fall into the clutches of the
officer.
you are under arrest said Lieut..
Boerner to Critics. s9sEls.s
! "AH right" answered Critics, as he
| folded his arms and gave a signal that
| seemed to be understood 1888
e. Birch, who had been directing the
work of the linemen on part Of the
street, at once stepped to the front
and called upon the men to proceed
| with the work
Il am your foreman now" said
Birch. Ego On stringing wires and pay
no attention to what is occurring on
| the ground
Birch started off down the street
in the direction of Lexington, and Lieut..
| Boerner, turning his prisoner over to
| a patrelman, started after Birch The
| latter waS~feet Of foot and succeeded
in passing the word to all the work.
men before he was overtakenA and
placed under arrest. Birch went quiet
ly to Chatsworth street, where those
being arrested were being guarded AT
once c. w. Claussen, an assistant fore
man. took the reins and commanded
1 the men to rush the work. He was also
put in charge of the officers.
call was sent in for the Rondc
| street wagon, but as there was some
delay in it's arrival the workmen con-
| clqded that the arrests were a bluff.
and by common consent men began to
| climb each OF the twenty-five poles.
/ Upon the appearance of the wagon all
but five of the number scrambled to
the ground. The five who continued to
| work were placed under arrest by
Lieut.. BOerner. l.. H. Lloyd was the
last to leave his task.
fxo u.
| manded Lieut.. Boerner.
What do you want?" asked Lloyd,
continuing to work.
"Come down from there mighty
quick" commanded the lieutenant.
| You cannot make a monkey of me.
You may think that you are running
| the city, but you are not, and if you
don't come down here will find way
to bring you"
The lieutenant made motion as
though to draw his revolver.
Like Davy Crockett's Coon
Don't shoot; I'll come down. said
| Lloyd, and he at once began to de-
scend When he reached the ground
he was quickly hustled into the patrol
wagon, complaining loudly that he was
not permitted to secure his coat. The
other four linemen arrested in this
raid were Ed Boline William Coyne
]. C. Laferriere and Fred Laferriere
The telephone men appeared defeat
ed, but shortly after o'clock the line
men apparently responded to a word
given them from some source and again
began to swiftly ascend the poles. The
officers on guard were somewhat sur
prised, and with their lieutenant abb
/ sent hesitated until James Jordan, rep
reSenting the city engineer, demanded
that the workers be at once placed
under arrest. The officers obeyed, and
succeeded in lining up six of the men
The patrol wagon was called and the
prisoners were sent to the station
They were William Carr, William
Christian. Charles Stevens. Michael
Conway, William Burdette and Paul
Rohn.
The opening scene occurred early
yesterday morning. when force OF