Show TV RAILWAY BLACKMAIL dynamiters DEMAND FROM NORTHERN PACIFIC declare that a refusal to pay down th s sum will result in whole sale destruct on of property it has developed that the recent at tempts to dynamite the bridges and track on the line of the northern pa between livingston and missoula are in furtherance of a plot to force the railway company to pay 50 for immunity from the outrages in august last the company re a letter demanding 25 and it w was s threatened it if the terms pro posed were not agreed to dynamite would be used on the line no attention was paid to the de mand inand and shortly after the railroad bridge at livingston was partially wrecked by dynamite ank and a few nights later another stick of dyna mite was exploded near bozeman un der a passing train other letters tol fol lowed and the dynamiters proposed that the company pay 50 and if it acceded to the demand it was to carry a white f flag ag on engines hauling trains and sept 22 was to run a light engine from butte to missoula and at a point on the road it was to stop on a signal and an agent of the company was to pay over the money the company hoping to catch the men put out the flags and on the night agreed upon ran the light engine behind it followed another engine pulling two cars one was filled with armed sheriffs and deputies and the other contained horses and bloodhounds the run was made from butte to mis soula but there was no signal and it was thought the men had been scared off shortly after the letters began to arrive again from the dynamiters making the same demand an and d telling the railroad it if it agreed to the terms to put the flags on the engines this the railroad company has not done and in the past two weeks there have been four attempts to damage the line by the use of dynamite |