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Show This Time it is on the Great Northern. TEAINS AEE TIED UP. At Devil's Lake and Other JPlaceB The Oity Authorities ofnDevil's LakoTako a Hand Oorbett Will Pifjht no More. r St PAul, Minn., Nov. 5. A special from Deyil's Lake, N. D., days. Since the strike was ordered no freight trains have departed, and but one has arrived. ar-rived. The latter wa3 a limited one from the east. Passenger trains are not interfered with. Mayor Kelly and the city council are determined that no such diegrace- I ful scenes as were enacted in the last strike shall occur. The business men generally are provoked and disgusted with the state of affairs. The elevators are full to their capacity with wheat, and unless cara are furnished promptly they will not be able to take in more gnm, which will cause a complete stagnation in business and jobbers will quickly feel the effects, as country mer-unauts mer-unauts will be unauie to meet their obligations ob-ligations at maturity. The strikers are quiet and orderly and have made no action toward mter-tering mter-tering with their fellow employes. The men simply leluse to answer ine calls. They Beem to be determined. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 5. There are soma threatening aapecte in the Great Northern btriKe situation, which lead to ihe belie! thai, tne strike may Oecome general among Urn A. li. U. mftue 'dischTrge oT IfinfefePwHlMin Best, the hero ot the Hinckley lire at Wesc Supanor, is very distasteful to the men. Best was president of the A. R. U. at that point and a member ot the grievance committeo. A deyil'e .bake ft. D., special says : The sa'ike went into efiect at 2 o'clock this morning. Tram No. 15,tast freight arrived this morning and is still standing stand-ing on the side truck. Three engine crews responded to the call of the iore-man, iore-man, but so tar no tram crews have ueen secured. Only part of the em-pi em-pi yees are out. The city council adupled a resolution last night declaim ing in case ot a strike the company's property and its operation ot trains would be zpiotected at all hazards. This was wired President Hill. In view of the fact that I)uil's Lake was the strike center in the last &trikejthis is deemed significant. Kalispell, Mont., Aov. 5. Eoy Goodwin, Good-win, dlrecter of the A. It. TJ., who has just been leleased from jail, .wDere be waB sentenced by the United (States court, with E. V. Debs and others, called cal-led a meeting ot that otder last night. Only ten membeis of the Kalispell division di-vision were present, the balance being men who have been disebsTged from the Sfivice, it waB voted to strike and Goodwin called the strike to take effect at 11 p. m. At the appointed hour the train crews responded promptly and when it was announced that Goodwin had called a BtriKe they took a strong stand in favor of the company and expressed a determination to defeat the strike. Goodwin was denounced as an agitator, agita-tor, unworthy of notice. His anarchist speech at 8pokane a tew days ago lose him any supremacy he may have enjoyed en-joyed among J.he railroad men. All the trainmen? freight; and passenger engineers, dispatchers and trackmen kept at work and volunteered their united support to the company. They" have no grievance. The only railroad men in active service who went out on tne Kalispell division are three firemen, fire-men, one engineer and one section boss. The others, about thirty, are di:chaiged section men. At midnight a mob ot fifty strikers went io the roundhouse, billed all the engines and pushed a car into the turn-t turn-t ble. Sheriff Baldwin sr.on patrolled tbe track with deputies and guarded the trams. Supeiiutendent Hyan acted prompt ly and set about to end the strike. Warrants were sworn out for Goodwin and other ringleaders at 4 a. ro. Goodwin Good-win was arrested. AGAINST WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. Boston, Nov. 5. The hopes of the friends of female suffrage have been buried beneath an avaianche of ballots. bal-lots. Hardly a town that voted showB a majority io favor of the proposition to gran suffrage to women in municipal munici-pal affairs. A fair estimate of the result re-sult would be three votes against female fe-male suffrage to one in its fay or. HIS LAST FIGHT. Memphis. Tenn., Nov. 5 James J. Corbett eaid t: a representative of the associated press laut night: "J do not M eve that there will ever be another fi ii.b prize right in public in tho United States. The public sentiment is too strong to overcome, and the dayB of great fistic carnivalB are past, to como no more. There may be spurring exhibition and a few finish fightB in private, but there wll be no championship champion-ship battles m public. I have fought my last rim: hattla, and in future will devote my time and talents to the theatrical profession." |
