The San Francisco call., 1905-05-05
Sheriff Raising a Force Of
1000 Deputies to Pre-
serve Order,
Bloody Street Battles Arouse
Fears Of Windy City
Residents,
Demand for Troops Is Made BY
Merchants in Sweeping
Resolutions,

CHICAGO, May 4.-Sheriff Thomas
E. Barrett of Cook County will take
active control of the strike situation
tomorrow morning. So much pres
sure has been brought to bear upon
him and upon Mayor Dunno by men
who believe their interests to be Sc
riously imperiled by the constant riot
ing in the streets that the Sheriff has
been compelled to swear in large
force of deputies and take active steps
to do away with the present disorder.
Two hundred deputies were sworn in
this afternoon at the Office of Snerift
Barrett, and it is believed 1000 will
have been enrolled by tomorrow
evening.
A committee of prominent business
men, headed by John Shedd of Mar
shall Field & Co. to-day took steps to
lay the situation before the Governor
and declare that conditions are such
that the militia is imperatively need
ed. The Chicago Clearinghouse As
sociation this afternoon adopted
sweeping resolutions declaring that
the riots in the streets were cons ant
ly increasing in fury and had gone
beyond the power of the civil authori-
ties of the city and county to control
1t WAS therefore the opinion of the
members of the association that troops
should be called out. The Sheriff Is
determined to take the situation in
hand himself, declaring that until he
has done so he will not be justified in
calling for the militia.
Mayor Dunno for three hours this
afternoon rode through the downtown
streets in buggy and on his return
to the City Hall declared that he had
seen no violence and believed the po-
lice to be fully able to cope with the
situation.
MEN ARE PICKED.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Peters made q
close scrutiny of all candidates for the
position Of deputy sheriff. Every man
was required to produce some person
who could vouch for his reliability.
He announced that he would take
neither union men nor Representatives
Of the employers If he knew 1t. Two
union men who had made application
were detected before they were sworn
in and were told they could not serve
One of them was Steven Sumner, head
of the Milkdrivers' Union, who is now
under indictment for conspiracy In
connection with the strike.
The teamsters made an attempt this
afternoon to call out the employees OF
the Chicago Union Traction Company
This corporation operates all the
street car lines on the north and west
of receivers appointed by the United
States courts.
Albert Young, representing the team
sters, called upon General Manager
Roach of the traction company and
demanded that the company at once
cancel it's contracts with the Peabody
Coal Company and receive no more
coal from it. Young was informed that
the contract would not be Cancelled and
that the company would continue to
receive coal from the Peabody com.
pany. w. D. Mahon. president of the
national organization of street car men
was in the city. and after looking into
the situation tonight ordered all mem
bers of the Street Car Mems Union tt
continue at work. They were under
agreement, he declared, with the Unior
Traction Company. and this agreement
would not be broken.
CONSTANT FIGHTING.
Notwithstanding the constant fight
Ing in the streets and the numerous at
tacks made upon non union men, the
large dry-goode houses and wholesale
grocers tonight reported that they