El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 129, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1894 Page: 2 of 8
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THE STRIKE SITUATION.
RAIN KEEPS THE STRIKERS QUIET
AT CRIPPLE CREEK.
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Tli* Bltaetion Unchanged—A Heating of
Citleea* or Colorado Spring* Colli on tho
Miner* to L>; Down Their Arm—Tho
Governor ot the Scene—Movement* of
the Strtkor* ot Other Place*.
Denver, May 3)—After giving out In
formation that he would not start ft r
Ortpple Greek until today, Governor
Watte took a special train last night
over the Denver and Rio Grande rail
road. The governor will hold a secret
conference with the lenders of the
strikers. He said he would talk to
them as Knights of Labor and hoped to
indnoe them to agree to compromise.
Argument was beard in the United
States oourt today by Judges Hallett
and Riner on applioation made by the
Raven Gold Mining company, a West
Virginia oorporatioc, for an injunction
restraining the miners from interfer-
ing with the working of their proper-
ties at Orlpple Greek. The applioation
Is based on the ground that the mines
are located on the publio domain and
the strikers are preventing petitioners
from oomplying with the laws under
whioh it nas taken up olaima on min-
eral lands. A decision will be given
tomorrow.
Cripple Creek, May 30—Heavy
raina wbloh caused several washouts
on the Midland railroad has sent Gov-
ernor Waite who is on his way to the
camp aroand by the Florence and
Cripple Greek railroad. It is a question
whether this line will be any better
than the other as It is through the
canon, whioh is eighteen miles lung
and there are eighty bridges.
A heavy downpour of tain has made
the roads almost impassable and it is
deputt
against the miners today. The strikers
hot believed any deputies will move
expeotthe deputies will approach from
three directions simultanously. It is
said they have laid mines of dynamite
under all approaohes to ball Hill
whioh oan be touohed off by eleotrioity
thus destroying the enemy.
The entire day has been spent by the
miners on Ball Hill anxiously await
ing the arrival of Governor W site
The chief executive of the state spent
from 5 o’clock a. m. to 3 p. m., in trav-
eling frpm Florence to Victor, a dis-
tanoe of 24 miles. The reason for this
snail’s paoe is that the Floreuoe and
Oripple Greek road is entirely new,
and that eighteen miles of the road
bed is in a oauyoh, the walls of which
often reach a height of more than a
thousand feet and that in winding
down the canyon the railroad crosses
the stream eighty times, and as a storm
has been raging in this region for 36
hoars and that the road is new, it ap
pears almost a miraole that none of the
bridges are washed out.
On reaobing Victor the governor was
hastily put into an express wagon, the
only vehicle that oonld be had, and
transported to Bull Hill. Here he
met the officers of the Union in seoret
session. It is impossible for a news-
paper man or a person no’t a member
of the union to tarry in the vioinity, if
in fact he was permitted to reaoh the
summit, for a longer time than five
minutes.
The governor was not in the best of
temper and he insisted that nothing
like oratory should be practiced upon
him and in consequence a statement
of so called facts were submitted to
him.
What the governor said in reply it is
impossible to learn, but it is given out
as a faot that at the conclusion of tue
conference he was given full power to
act iu behalf of the miners with the
mine owners.
Governor Waite left Viotor over the
Florenoe A Cripple Greek road tonight
in oompany with President John Oal-
derwood. It is understood his excel-
lency and representatives of the
miners anion are to have a oonferenoe
with the mine owners at Ooiorado
Springs some time tomorrow.
Colorado Springs, May 30—A mass
meeting of oltlzens was held in the
oourt house today whioh resolved that
the time for arbitration at Oripple
Greek had passed and the only way to
settle the difficulty now was for the
miners to lay down their arms and
surrender the mines to the owners.
One hnndred and fifty extra deputies
were enrolled, of whom 100 will aot as
a home guard. Among them are suoh
prominent oltlzens as Percy Hager man
and Judge HarrUon.
Walsknborg, Oolo., May 30—General
Manager Kebier of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron oompany has refused to oome
here and confer with the striking
miners. Over 2000 miners are now as-
sembled here and there is a very bitter
feeling among them against Manager
Kebier and the deputies employed by
him.
Pittsrorg, May 30—A number of
consumers and operators In the region
surrounding Pittsburg are making an
effort to have tbe governors of the
coal producing states to aot as a board
of arbitration between thb operators
1 and the miners. This oonrse was de-
cided upon after a private oonferenoe
in this oity. Favorable responses wers
received from Governors Pattison, of
Pennsylvania, MoKinley, of Ohio,
Matthews, of Indiana, and Jaokson, of
Iowa. All expressed a willingness to
serve on snob board if requested. For
the miners, President MoBrlde said he
believed the miners will be willing to
have the matter adjudicated by the
gentlemen named.
Columbus, O..May 30-Sheriff Riley,
o* Athena oounty, called on Governor
MoKinley for troops to release a train
eiezed by the miners at Glonstef.
Indianapolis, May 30—Late this
afternoon the governor instructed rail-
way attorneys to file a written com
plaint oiting instances where strikers
interfered with the running of trains.
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The governor tonight Issued a pro-
clamation Instructing strikers to oeasa
interferenoe with trains, if the strikers
do not taka heed, tbfc governor will
order out the militia. •
Columbus, Ohio, May 3fi—Governor
McKinley has ordered four companies
of Infantry to report at Gloster.
The trouble at Gloucester has been
settled peaceably. About 5 o’clock a
telegram was received at the governor’s
office from Sheriff Riley, stating that
the T. and O. O. railway oompany had'
agreed to eapitulate to the miners and
no more West Virginia ooal would be
banled during the strike.
Trumbull, Ohio, May 30—Night be-
fore last a local freight on the Kanawa
and Michigan railroad, carrying several
oars of ooal mined in WeBt Virginia
entered Gloucester. A mob of miners
was iu waiting. The train men were
oom polled to take ont the ooal oars
and promise to haul no more before
tbe train was allowed to proceed. Last
night a train was similarly held ap,
the mob drew the ooapllng pins and
threw them away.
Sheriff Riley was oalled and he was
booted at by the strikers and the en-
gineer would not pull out under his
gnsrsntee of protection. A brakeman
who became loud In his denunciation
of the miners was hit on tbe head and
badly hart. Troops were called for.
The Uommonweelera.
St Louis, May 30—This belDg a
holiiday, thousands of people visited
the camp of the eommonwealers. Com
modore Kelly had planned to leave
tomorrow but will be unable to do so
on aooonnt of a split In the ranks,
oaussd by dissensions of long stand-
log. Colonel Speed, of Sacramento,
has suooeeded in getting companies
“N,” “B," “O,” “B” and “D,” repre-
senting the California contingency, to
follow him and they will go to Wash-
ington by another route than that
taken by Kelly.
Boise, Idaho, May 30—Judge Beatty
today sentenced three oltlzens of Mont-
pelier who aided tbe Coxeyltes to seize
a Union Paeiflo train to imprisonment
for contempt of oourt. The 250 Ooxey-
ites who stole a train and were captur-
ed in Wyoming will be brought to trial
at once. _
Bight Between Macon* end Catholic*.
Paris, May 30—This being the anni-
versary of the death of JoanofAro,
deputations from several Masonic
lodges today plaoed a large floral
wreath upon the statue of the Maid of
Orleans in Rue Des Plramida. The
wreath was inscribed: “To Joan of
Aro, abandoned by royalty and burned
by the ohuroh.” The inscription
caused a riot. Tbe wording was seen
by a number of young Catholics who
gathered in a body and made a dash
for the statue. Tbe Masons bad in tbe
meanwhile re-assembled' and when the
young Oatbolios removed tbe wreath
and tore down the inscription there
was a free fight between Masons and
Catholics, during whioh stioks were
freely used. Finally tbe police charg-
ed tbe combatants and dispersed them,
after making a number of arrests.
General Thornton Arreated,
London, May 30—General John
Thurston, an Amerioan, who has been
staying at tbe First Avenue Hotel in
this oity, has been arrested, charged
with oaueing the death of a man named
George Barton. General Thurston
wa» walking in Gray’s road and was
rhdely jostied by a party of itinerant
masioiana. He remonstrated and the
party turned on him and struck him.
General Thurston oarried an umbrella
and used it to defend himself. The
point of the umbrella entered Barton’s
eye, one of the assailants, and he fell.
He was taken to a hospital and there
died. _
Prominent Horae Thieves.
Guthrie, O. T., May 30—During the
past eighteen months nearly 200 horses
have oeen stolen in Pottawatomie
oounty and it was impossible to obtain
any oiue to the identity of the thieves
until the past week when a man in jail
for mnrder made a confession which
gave the officers a clue resulting in the
indiotment of thirty three residents of
this oonnty for horae steeling. Many
of the indicted men ere farmers of
prominenoe. Seventeen have already
beeu jailed Considerable exoitement
prevails. _
Ba-Orgeuizetion A** a red.
Kansas Cirr, May 30—8. M. Jarvis
and S. L. Conklin, of the JarvisUon
kiln mortgage oompany is in the oity.
Without reference to the affaire of the
Jarvla Conklin Mortgage Trust oom
pany, Jarvis said: "I oan aay that re
organization ie now assured and the
creditors will receive one hundred
oente on the dollar. It will take ebont
ninety days to wind ap the affaire of
the old oompany. The new oompany
Is capitalized et 11,000,000.
Sensational Elopement.
Richmond, Vs., Mey 30—Society
olroles have been wrought up et the
news that Miss Addis Johnson had
eloped Sonday night with Edward
White, formerly of this oity, but now
of Ghloago. Miss Johnson ts connected
With some of the best families In the
state, being a nieoe of ex-Congrsesman
Venable, of Petersburg.
In Memory or Hereee Greeley.
New York, May 30—Horace Gree-
ley’s memory was honored by Typogra
phloal Union No. 6 today when the
statute by Alexander Doyle at the
junction of Broadway, Sixth avenue
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AN ENGLISH OPINION.
The Depression In Price* Oeneed By the
Full In Sllrer.
Edinburgh May 30—An Important
speech, touching upon wheat, silver,
gold and *mertoan mining, railroads
and land mortgages, was delivered to-
agrionlture in Lord Salisbury’s gov-
ernment. Tbe speech wee an address
to a crowded oonferenoe of the Sootoh
members of husbandry and had for its
subject “Bl-mstallUm in relation to
agricultural depression ’’ The speak-
er declared that agricultural depres-
sion was chiefly due to the steady and
heavy fall in the prices of produoe,
whioh he claimed was doe to.monetary
ohanges In 1853, and oould only be
stopped by reverting to the previous
monetary system. Nobody oonld fore-
see where the present fall in prloes
would end. According to the latest
table, th* fall from 1873 to 1893 was
forty per oent; and wheat amply Illus-
trates this.
Continuing, he said the majority of
farmers believed that the fall in prloes
was due to foreign competition and
that tbe remedy was protection.
But the faot that half the countries
of the continent and the United Statee,
while imposing the heaviest duties on
imports of produoe, oomplain of
agrionltnral depression, refutes this
argument. Touching upon the farm-
ers of Ameriee, he said they especially
were being ruined End beooming bank
rupt faster than the British farmers.
there contend that over prodnotlon
is responsible for the fall in prloes;
but be olaimed, etatietloe show the
prodnotlon of wheat has decreased
although prloes have fallen. Therefore
from the point of view of tbe apeeker
it Is faroial and ridiculous to attribute
the fall in prloes to that oause. The
reel oause, he said, was the demoneti-
zation of silver In 1873 and the sub-
sequent dtvergenoe of the relative
values of metals whioh enabled silver
using oonntrles like India to export
wheat at the present low price.
He also said: “And If silver con-
tinues to fall, there ie no reason why
wheat ehoaid not oheapen Indefinitely.
We propose as a remedy, an interna-
tional agreement to revert to the sys-
tem whioh prevailed prior to 1873. The
failure of tbe Brussels oonferenoe is no
argument against this, as it has since
been olearly proved that nothing bat
the notion of the Eagllsh delegates
broke up the oonferenoe.”
Ohsplain reviewed the bi metallic
movement on the continent and point-
ed ont especially the importance of
President Cleveland obtaining power
to resummon the oonferenoe, adding:
“My answer to tbe argument that an
agreement as to the ratio between gold
and silver is impossible Is that bi-
metallists will aooept any ratio rather
then continue as now, and silver is eo
sensitive that the maket price will con-
form to any fixed ratio. The in-
creased output, consequent upon suoh
agreement, would in oar opinion, not
affeot the matter in the least, as It
would be iufluttesimal compered with
the immense exporting mass. The
argument that an international agree-
ment would make fortunes for the
owners of Amerioan and Mexican sil-
ver miners does not tonoh the question
of its expediency and general utility.
“The most important adverse argu-
ment is that Great Britain, being the
greatest ereditor nation of the world,
would receive payment of her debts In
the oheapest metal We contend that
both metals would perform equal
functions, while on the mother hand,
we make if it ie wise for a creditor to
embarrass his debtor by monetary
ohanges.”
The speaker then referred to Ameri-
oan railways and made the assertion
that one third their number are in the
hands of reoeivers. Ohaplalu followed
this by dwelling upon the pufavorabl*
investment made In Amerioan land
mortgages and said: “From aooonnts
of the oondition of land and farmers
there and especially the west, owing to
the fall in prices, 1 would be very anxi-
ous about suoh investments if they
were mine. In faot, creditors every-
where ere In the greatest danger of
losing their oapltal or the greater part
of it, owing to the appreciation of
gold.” The argument In favor of
mono-metallism Is based on the faot
that enormous quantities of gold Is ly-
ing Idle In the Bank of England Is er-
roneous as it merely points to the way
to Invest it in Industry and enterprise
in the faoe of falling prioee. The bi-
metallic prospects of the fntnre are
most promising and I oan re-aseure oar
foreign friends that the reoent bi-
metallic debate in tbe hone# of com-
mons is devoid of importance. The
disonssion of the matter was attempted
against the advice of its friends and
tbe result was inevitable, seeing that
no division was possible. “Advloes
from every quarter of Great Britain
show interest in the question is steadi-
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the audienoe end he wee loudly ap
plauded.
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El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 129, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1894, newspaper, May 31, 1894; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth540417/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.