Show WHY THEY SURRENDERED t Sanders Does Xot Believe That His 1 Soldiers Will Be Punished Topeka Kan May 1L The Sanders industrialists trainstealers arrived here I at 120 oclock this afternoon In charge JPof United States Marshal Neely hay efiTg been captured without even a sign J of trouble at Scott City yesterday afternoon af-ternoon The attitude of Governor Lewelling was soon mahifested toward the weal ers He and Mrs Diggs and Secretary of State Osborn and other Populist leaders at once held a private confer erice and at its close they issued a call for a mass meeting to be held on the public square this evening to dis I i cixis the question of the unemployed f Further than that the governor good naturedly consented to the request that the army be allowed to camp on the I court house grounds while in the city Marshal Neely J interfered with that r f i 6f < t 1 I Jr plan for the present by keeping the men locked in the train General Sanders San-ders says the Missquri Pacific in blocking block-ing its road to prevent the progress of his army through Colorado damaged dam-aged engines and cars to the extent of fully 5000 In getting around the least of these wrecks he was delayed exactly thirty minutes another one hour and the last three hours Some of his men are old trackmen and the army is plentifully provided with tools In his army are three locomotive locomo-tive engineers five firemen three telegraph tve fve fremen I egraph operators and one civil engineer engi-neer The others are laborers and he claims that all are honest and law abiding Not a weapon of any kind was found among them by the deputy dep-uty marshals Military discipline has been observed since the army started and I has been kept up since they have become prisoners Last night they submitted to Sanders discipline and command in the division of their board and today they strictly complied com-plied with his orders on the train Sanders is an electrician by profession I I and is a native of Misouri He is 291 years old and a natural commander He is a man also of some education and good mannersand is quiet and dignified dig-nified in his bearing While his men have been provided for by contribu I tions from the public Sanders has paid I foi his own meals at hotels He says he and his men are going to Washington j I i Wash-ington because there is no work for them in the west He hopes to reach II his destination by June 2 Marshal Neelys prisoners will have j I a formal hearing on Monday before I I United States Commissioner Wagge ner Marshal Neely has a load on his j hands which he is really anxious to 1 drop and after the formality of a I i i hearing the wealers will probably be I turned loose for the people of Topeka I I to take care of Sanders and his men look upon their arrest a a beneficent act of providence provi-dence to hasten them on their journey Ito I-to Washington Sanders does not believe i be-lieve they can be punished and that is I why he counseled his men to fall easy victims to Marshal Neely last night i Sanders said complacently just after he 1 and his men arrived in Topeka We are very much obliged to Uncle Sam I for helping us this far on our journey providing us with comfortable cars and i keeping us from hunger I |