The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1904-08-05

lacked by strikers and fired the shot
o Grighteu them. Hearing the shot,
Reynolds ran up 10 investigate, when
RUPEES gun was accidentally discharg-
ED taking effect in RUPEES abdomen.
The watchman has given himself up.
HOUSTON, Tex, August 2.-Katy
lines in Texas are badly tied up by
The strike of railroad telegraphers
The strikers are believed to be well
organized Their places are difficult
To- dII. but strenuous efforts are being
made
The tie-up is in response to a strike
order issued by the president of the
Order of Railway Telegraphers, with
headquarters at St. Louis. The strike
affects both the main line and the
many branches
The action of the men is the result
of demands that were made several
months ago, and which have been the
cause of frequent conferences between
the officials of the telegraphers' union
and those of the railroad The men
asked for an increase in wages and
certain other concessions.
NEVADA, Mo, August 2.-Katy
passenger and freight trains running
behind time and carrying signals. No
business is being done here
. SEDALIA. Mo, August Both the
katy flyers ran eight hours late this
morning, and an the other passenger
trains of the road are from six to ten
hours behind. There is no strike here
but all stations along the line are
deserted ana the uainmen won't leave
stations until assured of clear track.
.rcRq disfance telephones are being
usdd.
4 Practically no freight is moving
/ KANSAS CITY, August 3.-Michael
|Deuuelly president OF the .l,ing
amaIeam1ted butchers is ho~n on a
,our of the strike centers He address
. I'D q mass meeting this afternoon, and
turing his speech he said that he
could see no outcome but complete
/ victory for The strikers.
CHICAGO, August 3.-Four hundred
and 5eyeuy-nve carloads of stock ar
rived today and with twenty-nine
thousand hogs left over and the pens
filed with cattle and sheep which ar
rived Saturday an unprecedented glut
of the market exists. The packers
could not begin to handle the receipts.
Importation of non-union men con
tinues.
| CHICAGO, August 3.-Homer D.
1 Call. international secretary Of the
butchers organization, said today:
The greatest feature of the strike is
hat the meat trust has been broken.
Instead of the packers disrupting he
MON. the disiutogration OF one Of
the greatest combines the world has
ever seen has already set in. The
packers know that they have already
lost control Of a large part of their
business and that the live stock deal
ars will do all that is possible to as.
sist in their defeat Since the incep-
ion of the strike Independent COM
panies everywhere have been working
night and day. The public is support
ing The independent plants because Of
the damaging evidence secured
against the meat monopoly"
- KANSAS CITY, Mo-, August "a
t report from Parsons, Kan, by tele-
, phone says the NJ, X. & 7. division
! there continues TO be badly hampered
S by the operators strike Only one
freight train ran through today All
- passenger trains are an hour late The
S company says the strike could not
L have occurred at a more advantageous
d dime for it than August when freight
mess is light
S SEDALIA. MO, August 3.-suike
s. conditions on this division Of the Katy
'- improved slightly today but passen
o ger ,1ns are running from three tc
r .I hours late. Trains are being rur
ay the dispatchers riding from poin
d. to point, according to j. w. Solmer o.
e. the Order of Railway Telegraphers
IS The company says six OF the thirteer
1t strikers between Sedalia and Parsons
returned to work. The order denies
h. this
k NEVADA, Mo, August 9.-There Il
o. but little change in the Katy strik,
10 situation here today. No freight raj
n last night Seven operators are re
o. ported to have returned to work.
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