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Show TIIEPllLWIFIIEELS Butte Eailrohd Laborers Badly Victimized Victim-ized by Employment Agent W. B. Richards. THEY WANT TO LYNCH HIM. The Montana Union Oanses Miners to Come to Utah A New Line for Idaho. Hutte contain about forty railroad laborers today who aro extremely hot over the fact that they have been swindled swin-dled by a purported employment agency. W. B. Richards, well known in Salt Lake City, is the individual who succeeded in convincing the men that he could seciiro them work on the (ireal Northern extension at $3 per day. Richards represented he was acting lor the construction contractors of tho line and said there was plenty of work and sine pay. All this sounded pleasant to the willing will-ing workers and forty of them handed Richards $7.50 per head to buy tickets for transportation to tho scene of the extension. The outli; left Rutin on March 27 and traveled to Havre, about R!(l miles distant from where the (ireat .Northern tunnel is being run through the mountains. As there was no means of conveyance the men were told that they would have to walk uud they started across the snow for Citibank, where the tunnel is located. They endured great hardships and experienced experi-enced cold anil blizzards, not being prepared for such exposure. Tho out-tit out-tit met squads of men returning from the construction camps who told them tho pay was if i a day and not $1 and that meals were 00 cents each and other necessities proportionately high. '1 hen it occurred to the Butte outlit that they had been victimized and they proceeded to trump back to their starting start-ing point. By boarding freight trains dei)ito beitiif bounced bv conductors J a number of the party arrived at Rutte. A number of the outlit were left, sick at various points. Richards is wanted at Rutte and if captured he will be the principal of n neck tie party. Now i.iui. lor Idaho, The Idaho Kalis people are jubilant over the prospect uf u new railroad which will give them an outlet to the coast. The line is to be known as the Idaho Kails, Salmon River and Pnget Sound railw ay, and as the name indicates, indi-cates, it will be built from Idaho Kalis up Rirch creek, down the Lemhi and Salmon rivers, to connect with the l'uget Sound railway already under construction. It will strike Salmon City and Lewinton, while branches will extend from here to tho Lost river . .1 i ...i . .. country. Already a number of eastern capitalists have agreed to go in with tho enterprise and it Is believed to have tho backing of the Northwestern which will come down Snake river to Idaho Falls, and when the connecting link is made it will turn out. to be a Northwestern North-western cuterpri.se. F.uir Iltiran Fant Freight. Arrangements aro being made, says the Rocky Rar Bulletin, Idaho, to run a four-horse fast freight and passenger line from (ilenn's Ferry to Rocky liar as soon as the road is clear of snow. It is the nearest and easiest route to reach the railroad, and by judicious advertising adver-tising in Salt Lake and Roise also on the cars this new stage line should catch all the travel coming this way. Ilnltrnad lllpplri Retween President Miller of the C, M. it St. P., J. P. Morgan and C. Van-derbilt, Van-derbilt, the public need not be surprised sur-prised if developments of importance bob to the surface soon. Tho I'liion P.-icilic has Hoik) miles of track. Only 1 100 miles of this is covered cov-ered by tho government lien, which amounts in round numbers, less the sinking fund, to !f."i0,ooo,000. |