The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16
LOOK TO PRESIDENT HILL.
Commercial Organizations May Take
Action to Enc the Strike,

ST. PAUL. Aug. S.-Commercial
clubs and merchants and farmers or.
CARNATIONS along the lines of the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
IN Minnesota are asked to take action
to end the present telegraphers' strike,
and the governor of Minnesota has
beer appealed to use his good Offices
in bringing about harmony, in order
that business interests may suffer no
further injury.
The wheat harvest throughout south.
ern Minnesota and the Dakotas has
begun and the work Of moving the
crops will, it is said, test the capacity
of the roads, even under normal con.
ditiOns.
The t~elegraphers at strike headQuar.
tiers seem to attach Importance to the
expected arrival of President J. j.
Hill, and in his official circular to.
night President Perham says:
~. ]. Hill is expected in St. Paul
within q few days and it is thought
that he will look into the strike situa-
tion and possibly bring about q solu.
ton OF our differences"
A special from Aberdeen, S.. D.,
says the strike on that branch Of the
Great Northern road is over, all Of
the men having returned to work,
satisfied with a schedule presented to
them last night. More freight was re-
ported moving today than has been
moved for a week past. The ~restric-
tions on perishable goods were re.
moved by both roads today, although
bills for freight consigned to some
stations were requested % be prepaid.
President Perham denies that there
has been any serious detection from
the ranks of the strikers and says that
the companies are not securing sufi-
cient operators to be of much service
to them. He denied there was a pos.
sibility of a general sympathetic strike
on the part of the engineers and train.
men,, but said that on the Montana
division conductors and engineers had
refused to receive telephone or alag
orders.
HELENA, Aug. S.-A. Gibson, SUI
~perintendent of the Northern Pacific,
with headquarters at Missoula, Is ir
Helena today and made vigorous de-
NAL OF the stories telegraphed from
that city last night, to the effect that
the company was refusing to accep'
%perishable and other freight, aud said
that a majority of the Offices wert
open for the transaction of business
on the Rock Mountain division.
On the other hand, j. j. Dermody
fourth vice.president of the Order o
Railroad Telegraphers, asserts tina
there are only two operators at worl
j, between Helena and Missoula, one a
> Garrison and one at Elliston. Mr.
Dermody said that be was havin!
great success in inducing strikebreak
ers to leave their positions and that
with the assistance which they had
reason to expect from other quarters
e the strike would yet be won by th
e photographers.
t On the whole, the situation may b.
regarded as unchanged.
ST. PAUL, Aug. 9.-The first def
!. mite step looking toward arbitratio,
r Of the struggle which has been in pro
r gress for over q week between tn
d Great Northern and Northern Paci6
2 railways and the Order of Railroa,
Telegraphers, was taken today, whe
Gov. John A. johnson addressed lie,
r tiers to Presidents j. j. Hill and How
9 ard Elliott OF the railways, and Presi
r dent H. B. Perham, of the railwa
telegraphers, urging a settlement c
the trouble and Offering his service
as mediator. The exact terms of tn
letters written by Gov. Johnson ar
a not known, as the governor preferre
8 that they should be given out by tn
recipients, il they saw fit. In a ger
4 eral way, however, the governor ou'
lined to the Associated Press VIII;
y was contained in the letters. He Gale
+ the officials attention to the fact tn,
4 the present strike was working a hare
q ship in various communities through
out the state and appealed to them t
take speedy steps to secure an adjus
ment of the troubles.
To this end, he rendered the good o
fees of the chief executive, saying tn,
he stood ready to appoint a commi
sion to consider the differences b.
:. tween the couteuding parties, or
q any other way to assist them to con
u to some agreement that would perm
"a the roads to move their traffic witho,
, the delays and inconvenience that a
4 said to exist.
N NEW YORK. Aug. 81 ames j. Hi
n sets at rest today the reports, sa;
to have been spread among the stri'