Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-07 | Page 13 | Kelly's Army Not Making Good Time

KELLY'S AM II I MIKINEEDOD TIME I California Towns Passing the Unemployed Along With ' Much Difficulty. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. March 6. "Pass them along" Is the plan on which jH California communities are dealing with "General"' Kelly's army of unemployed, now on its way to Washington, D. C, jH and as a result tho tourists arc travel- jH lug in state. jH It cost Contra Costa county $703.50 In railroad fares today to ship the army to Bcnlcla, Solano county. Benlcla at once made preparations to send it on to Yolo and Sacramento counties. An appeal to the state railroad commission brought IH permission for the Southern Pacific to grant a reduced fare, but the railroad JM company Itself refused to be a party to IH any plan "for dumping a lot of undeslr- ables onto unoffending communities," IH and the Solano county officials then agreed to pay first-class fares, as had IH Contra Costa. There was a hitch while the railroad company rounded up cars to make up a special train, and the armv camped at Benlcla for the night, with Adjutant General Forbes of the California National Guard on hand to see If there IH would be any need of calling out state troops to preserve order. IH Contra Costa count v was lavish In its hospitality today. It distributed to the two camps of marchers 3000 loaves of bread, six Quarters of beef, fifty sacks of potatoes, twelve sacks of orilons, a IH wagonload of fish, and tea, coffee nnd rice by the hundredweight. "Colonel" Louis La Place, attached lo the staff of "General" Kelly, deserted last IH night and returned to San Francisco to-day to-day to resume his place as a police de-tectivc. de-tectivc. When the unemployed first in- vaded the city four months ago. La Plare was detailed to join them, and his Identity was hidden so completely that he returned today with his head In bandages as the result of a beating given him bv a deputy sherin: at Blchmond yesterday, when the army engaged in a riot. La Place says the army consists of 1172 officers and privates, and Is growing in number dally: that It plans to divide jH into two divisions on reaching Kansas, one continuing on toward Washington, D. C, by way of Kansas City, and the other by the way of Omaha, and expresses little sympathy with the personnel of the army or the purposes of its leaders. Some of the members, he says, are workingmeu who were lured from good positions and the rest he declared to he Incurable vagrants, with no thought of looking for JM work. The leaders, he says, are all pro- iH fcsslonnl agitators.