The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05
Situation Improves With Dis
appearance Of Strike Breakers
GOING BACK TO WORK
Seventy-Five Carpenters at Chi
cago Shops Return.
Situation at Omaha Is at Stand
Still.

patrol of this town neceSS1tated DE
rioting growing out of the Illinois Cen
trail strike was increased today by the
arrival of five additional companies of
troops. At daylight special train
reached here with the Jackson and
Greenwood companies and at o'clock
q provisional battalion of three COM
panles arrived on a special train from
Meridian.
After twenty-four hours of excite
ment and rioting caused by the pres
ence here of a train load of Illinois
Central strike breakers McComb City
citizens slept in peace last night fol-
! lowing the departure of the nonunion
men. The military patrol was increased
to about 300 men during the night.
Neither the strikers nor citizens resent
the presence of the soldiers who are
confining their patrol duty to the rail-
road property.
Arrival of additional troops has re-
yived rumors that the federal govern
ment is preparing to make an import
+ ant move in connection with the en-
/ forcemeltt with the injunction restrain
| ing interference with the Illinois Cen
/ trail railroad affairs.
The Illinois Central company today
! began construction of ten foot fence
around its shop property here. As soon
it is completed it is said the COM
pany will send 500 or 800 strikebreak-
4 ers to operate tie shops, having been
/ assured by Governor Noel that a suf-
! fcient force of the Mississippi national
! guard will be kept in camp here to
! guarantee fullest protection.
Carpenters Back to Work.
Chicago, Oct 5.-seventy-five strik-
| ing carpenters and carmen returned
to work at the Illinois Central shops
at Burnside today making a total of
800 men now at work, according to
statements made by railroad officials
When the men reported to work this
morning they passed scores of little
groups of strikers but effort was
made to molest them Although
heavy police guard is maintained
| about the shops as a precautionary
measure, there has been no disorder
since Monday morning when a brick
was thrown at a strike breaker and
watchman was roughly handled
| Representative of the strikers say
that not more than fifty per cent of
the normal freight traffic is moving
and that three-quarters of the passen-
ger trains are from one to five hours
behind their sch edule. especially in
| the southern divisions
| st Stand StiIl in Omaha.
Omaha, Oct. 5.@The Union Pacific
railway is making no attempt to fill
the places of men who went on strike
at their shops in Omaha and other
| cities on the system. No strike break
ers have been brought in, and officials
of the road say that no necessity for
such action is apparent.
\ Striker Is Shot.
Jackson. Miss, Oct. ST.. s. Deputy
Marshal Aired shot and seriously
wounded a striker in the Illinois Cen
trail railroad yards here this morning.
| The marshal, it is said, caught him
uncouplins cars
Little Freight Is Moving.
Memphis, Oct. 5--Notwithstanding
zoo and Mississippi Valley. railroad
strikers, here today that no freight of
consequence had been moved in or
out of the local yards the railroad Of
ficialg claim that yesterday they han
died fifty per cent of the business US
ually done daily in this city. Accord
ing to President Carrigan of the rail-
road clerks union, several hundred
non-union men had arrived in Mem
phis since the inception of the strike
He said, however. that about 100 had
been persuaded to leave the employ
OF the company
Guards Shoot Guard.
Houston, Oct. 5.-With what is
probably the second fatality here in
the Hartman lines strike staring
them in the face, city officials today
prepared for rigorous measures to pre-
vent further cIases. Meanwhile
Frank Tullis Hartman line guard,
lies near death, from bullets that
strik ers say were fired by his fellow
guards. The guards say the bullets
came from beneath cars that faced
the pOSTJlO0 tney occupied. Ine S0OOt-
ing occurred early today near the
shops of the Galveston. Harrisburg
and san Antonio railway, a Hartman
line.
Embargo on Freight.
New Orleans. Oct. 5.=Although no
denial or confirmation by those in a
position to know was obtainable, a
story was in circulation shipping and
commercial circles here today that the
Illinois Central had placed an en-
barge on all shipments from the
north and east destined to Memphis
and New Orleans and intermediate
points
Ryan Expects Arrest.
Kansas City, Oct. 5-"The chances
are that you will receive an indict-
snent from the federal court before
night. Get ready"
The foregoing message was received
by Martin F. Ryan, president of the
Brotherhood of Railway carmen today.
The warning came from Chicago. Ryan
would not give the sender's name.
1t is thought the message refers to
tie possible prosecution of union Off
ciaIs involved in the Hartman line
strike under the Sherman antitrust
law.
Strike Breakers on Coast.
San Francisco, Oct. 5.=Aside from
efforts to increase the force of strike
breakers in the local shc2s, the shop
mems strike situation on the Pacific
coast was relatively unchange% to-
dav r. L. Reguin, president of the
federation insisted today that order
would be maintained at all times So
far the strike on the coast has not
lguin said the men were standing firm