BY TELEGRAPH rs A american M E R I 1 C A N CAMP STAGER on ferlys ferrys lake enke wyoming aug 12 via fort Wash washable akle wyoming aug 13 it was determined last night to move our camp this thia morning a few miles to where there would be more abundant grazing for horses and mules accordingly at a m bevery one was in he baddie saddle upon the valley on the right bank of wind elver river owing to the rain of yesterday the trail was in splendid eplen did kondi condl condition tion for comfort in marching the sun was obscured by clouds and with a temperature of below bellow 50 degrees fahrenheit a finer niner day for journey our Zur could not bo be wished atthe end of an hours houra travel trave over high rolling ian jan the wind river was reached at a point where it passes through the gorgeous masses of rocks known as bed lied buttes the first crossing was made by fording in a diagonal direction up stream where the water was so rapid in its flow that ones neighbor seemed to be moving up the river with the speed of a running horse soon by a ford the river was again crossed andl and at the end of another mile the western boundary of the shoshone xe reservation was reached from this poin point tour toun our travel was very interesting difficult aljourney over a berles herlea of lofty divides to ts es cape the precipitous banks of small email streams flowing from the mountains into the river in descending one of these it was necessary to dismount and lead the horses on the highest divide we halted baited to take in the beautiful valley covering scores of miles up and down the river with the snow covered peaks of the sho bho bhone ahone mountains in front of us and those of the wind river riven mountains at our back here we took our last look at the great landmark landmarks crow heart butte 30 miles milea away which had been in view since leaving fort washakie following buffalo one of our arapahoe guides tells us that it got its name after a great battle between the shoshones Bho Sho bhones and the crows many years ago the victory of the shoshones honeg bones was celebrated by burying the hearts of the dead crows un on the summit of the butte after a ride of twelve miles we have reached the banks of some beautiful lakes jakes called after captain zor lor formerly merly an officer of the almy army but now owning large largo gattle gattie herds on the ranges near by the lakes are sald eald said to abound in large trout and we expect to spend tomorrow to morrow fish slag jug game gamb is not very abundant in this neighborhood neighborhoods but our hunters brought in two antelope yesterday and a few mountain grouse groube were killed billed on the march today to day shoshone dick a white member of the tribes tribe who was i captured probably from an emigrant train when so young as to have lo stall recollection of the event is one of our indian party he has gone off to look for signs of game and we hope for a good report from him our camp la in named camp stager stagers in honor of general anson stager of chicago in 1870 first class operators could make from 90 to a month these rates extended back to the time of the beginning of the war when the scale was about the same as at present for railroad operators and that for commercial little higher the western union company employs one quarter of all the 0 operators in the country and two th thirds ards are railroad operators the american rapid company only employs one fifth as many operators as the western union the protest of the brotherhood was against all the companies and all employers of tel evgraph operators bates nates of wages are not considered sufficient to live on and were much below that of common laborers in many instances the companies were able to nav better rates to the operators without increasing their rates for service to the public this thia wa was evident from the large dividends paid by y the western union besides their facilities for transmitting messages had been increased by the invention of the duplex and quadruples system there had been no reduction in the tariff in consequence of these improvements but on the other hand the operators wages were re deuced the number of operators had doubled since 1870 while the facilities of the companies had more than doubled the western union in that year handled mes wages sages and last year the number numb leow vw mr campbell also recited tho the th history of the strike atme since it beskit on the of july the demands were presented to the western union american rapid baltimore ohio commercial and numerous telephone companies and the only answer yet received la Is from the ame Amt american rican nican rapid company which has demands partially acceded to the demands domande of the brotherhood the answer of the western union to the appeal of the operators was that it was not noi known whether the committee had authority to speak for the employees of the company campbell baid bald 90 per cent of the employees were members of the brotherhood the operators had frequently presented their grievances to the local managers for an increase ol of wages but these had bad been disregarded it was generally believed the western union com comm pany had bad a weli well established system of blacklisting men who made applications for increase of wages and took the first opportunity to discharge them upon some pretext or another favoritism was shown by all the local managers and skill was at a discount A system of intimidation was practiced by the officers of the compary com since 1870 several movements had been started to organize the operators but all falla on account of this system of tion john mcclellan an officer of the brotherhood and an operator for 14 years said bald the direct cause odthe of the strike was the insult in refusing to recognize or treat with them until then it had not been expected that a strike would occur but it was thought the company was willing to listen to the demands of the men and come to some adjustment if possible the grievances were real oness ones and if their had been a spirit ot of concession conce conee eblon ebion manifested by the company comp anys the operators would have met them in this spirit it was shown that gen eckert ecbert and other officers of the company had known of the plans of the brotherhood before the strike began the company knew that grievances existed and the demands were to be presented and had been preparing to resist those demands ever since march last if the present strike was a failure it would only strengthen the existing organization instead of breaking its power when asked whether he could suggest any method by which more equitable divisions could be made of the products of labor and capital between employer and employed McClellan said this would not be impossible the inquiry will be morrow manager sink of the western union says baya tonight to night twelve strikers returned today to day the wires he said had all been repaired and everything is in good working order i oswego 13 four of the seven operators here who went out on the strike returned to their keys this morning chicago 13 superintendent clo olo mowry dowry wry ilas haa been advised today to day that two strikers have returned ta work at cleveland and one at detroit the striking operators here were prid off today to day and claim there have been no further defections from their ranks in this city jersey city N J IS 13 more cirei were out cut in this city this morning the central road station at was visited and three wires cut south of elizabeth more wires were vete severed the cutters evidently boarded the milk train and rode to jersey J avenue in this city where 32 wires were cut they then than crossed jersey avenue bridge over the canal and severed 35 wires two of these were fire alarm telegraph and the consequence was when the line was cut the alarm on the bell sounded the gong linemen were sent bent over from new now york and they crossed on the central railroad ferry on this side they found waiting for the boat to cross to new now york one of the strikers he la in suspected of being one of the cutters ATLANTA 12 melborne hill co and ed mccandless McCan mocan diess dIesa were on hand as aa soon as notified of the fire and with the assi assistance stanco of citizens took valuable books and papers from the vault to a place of safety A safe containing a hait half million in valuables could not be removed As soon soon boon as possible a steady stream of water was turned on the vault and it is thought the papers and money are safe vineyard haven 12 A public meeting was wag held at cottage olt cit olty city y to today day at which w a relief committee 0 of i twenty one oie prominent residents nd end visitors were appointed this afternoon the committee issued the I 1 following appeal au an appalling calamity hab has befallen the village of enten entea of food clothing or money addressed to capt jas jr smith treasurer Treasur Trea surer aurer eri ers vineyard haven mass will be thankfully received by the relief committee signed WM wk H chairman wes we the selectmen of the town of jaburg in which the village of vineyard haven Is the above appeal signed trueman ALLEN OWEN I 1 chicago 12 A young man named hans hana harrison crossing van buren nuren streel street bridge over the chicago river this thia afternoon afternoons broke in upon the ordinary conversation by remarking 1 I might as aa well end it here and plunged into the river two hours previous an unknown man leaped from division street bridge into the river the dead bodies of both men were recovered kansas city 12 blade slade the maori wish his trainer arrived from new now york today to day mitchell Ml and party came in from denver blade and mitchell will at au gnoe once ca go into active training for their coming matehs match the time for which has haa been changed from september to lith to be held within miles orthis city or omaha baltimore 13 the grand jury presented a true bill against all members of the late commission of the fire department for malf malfeasance bas in office bail la Is fixed at each the presentment has haj caused great excitement and astonishment at the city hall and court courthouse house the late board was superseded recently by the appointment of the fire ore mar marthal sEal and the presentments grew grow out of the charges made by the present fire marshal against several members of the board charging them with wilh furnishing various supplies to the department and charging more than marke market rates there thereser the refer fors in violation of the city ordinance di nance cincinnati 13 archbishop elect win wm elder yesterday issued an edict to the clergy of ma his diocese to meet here on next tuesday day of august to devise some means to pay the creditors of the late arch b bishop h 0 p purcell as a matter of charity but not as a discharge of lega legal obligations gat ions chattanooga 14 yesterday the mutilated remains of four white men were found in a railroad camp on the cincinnati bouthern southern railroad near cumberland fails taua the theory la Is that the men foughty foug hta double duel due over carda cards HELENA mont 14 the firm of iler lier co liquor dealers was closed by the sheriff this morning on attachment particulars not yet made public PiTTa pittsburg BuRG 14 the national convention of the antl anti musio music party assembled aseem bled bied this morning minis and elders were in attendance NEW york yore 14 wall wail street I 1 p m one of the sensations of the day was the failure of geo W bal lou loua co of this city and boston the failure la Is understood to have been caused by the inability of customers to make good their margins and the fact that the firm has had haa considerable money tied up in the cincinnati toledo st louis narrow gauge railroad which recently went into receivers hands about shares of various stocks were closed out under the rule for their account luc luding oregon transcontinental tin NY central denver rio klo Grande M pacific jersey central Cent rai raJ wabash pacific and lake shore there was a rally in the market before 12 and etwas it was on the reports that leading operators had purchased large blocks of stock new york it 14 the firm Is IB composed of wm bingham board member david H darling gt go 0 W ballon and allen alien S weeks no definite particulars could be obtained the house did a large an extensive tent tens lve ive business bu Biness in stocks blocks and its customers were principally bank presidents throughout the country A boston capitalist and new england member of the firm said bald the trouble was merely temporary and that the principal stock carried by the firm were ontario and western mis ouri pacific and western union it is roughly estimated that the liabilities will amount to between and under the stock exchange I 1 rules relating to failures all of the tiie stocks carried by thel that firm were sold at the exchange and prices were no not t materially affected but there was noena no end to the rumors and excite ment it Is said the failure will seriously cripple several other large houses on the street NEW The United blates states I 1 senatorial heard jno mcclelland member of the brotherhood today to day he said the estimated cost of a telegraph line 1500 miles long would be telegraph operators were generally young men and lived in boarding houses they generally come from the better class of society the morals of the operators as a class had greatly improved within the last 10 years and this was one result of the organizations which had been effected most of them were singles single but some bome of them were married men witness thought 50 a month was a fair estimate for food and lodging for a single man only one in a hundred over ever saved any adv money the highest paid operators did not receive enough to enable them to lay by anything for their support in old age in 1879 the western union company required every man coming into its ita employ to take an oath that be would never connect himself with a trade or labor organization this was called the ironclad iron clad oathy oaths oath and was administered to every person who took part in the strike of 1870 after the existence of the telegraph brotherhood was made known recently the railroad nten dents denta issued leaned a circular which was sent to every employee of the com corm pany forbidding him to corin connect wet tet himself with any organization under the penalty of dismissal day operators worked from sam U a ms to 8 at night and had but two or three hours to devote to amusements night operators had more time at their disposal no such thing as a vacation was known in the telegraph business thomas oreilly ORe llly a telegraph operator of 12 years experience has charge of the wheatstone instruments in the western union office he had bad been an operator in that system for ten ton years in scotland he came here about a year ago the western union gave him 20 per month as a retaining fee until the wheatstone instruments should arrive promises were repeatedly made that the wheatstone Wheat stone atone men should receive an aa much as nral first class dabb morse operators on the of last february it was announced that the wheatstone Wheat stone atone system would begin operation and the wheatstone opera tors were told that their salaries would be 50 a month the operators on the other side were better paid they had three weeks vacation enon each year ye arvith with salary and during sickness received hait half pay after being a certain number of jears yesra in the service services and their record being good operators receive a pension for life sometimes at full pay when john B an operator employed by the associated press confirmed the testimony of the previous witness in regard to the strike W H orr of philadelphia a member of the brotherhood of telegraphers eg sald said the salaries paid