Show I THIS STRIKE WILL BELONG BE-LONG DRAWN OUT Bitter Contest on Between Telegraphers Telegraph-ers and the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Roads St Paul With the telegraphers almost to remaining loyal moat to a man their union chiefs nnd the railway officials of-ficials making every effort to maintain main-tain traffic the telegraphers strike on the transcontinental systems of tho Great Northern and Northern Pacific roads has taken on tho aspect of a war to the finish Hundreds of mm have gone out on both lines neccs Bltatlng the closing of scores of stations sta-tions Through passenger and time freights by great effort havo been kept on almost schedule time but attempts at-tempts have principally been nban doned to maintain local freight and passenger service Tho greatest interferences Inter-ferences In schedules has been on the Idaho division some of the fast trains being delayed five hours where tho Striking operators had turned the signal sig-nal hoards or opened tho circuits Freight matter In less than carload lots for Intermediate points was refused re-fused at the freight offices In St Paul and Minneapolis during Wednesday Large quantities of perishable freight were handled by tho express companies com-panies Prepayment of express traffic traf-fic was almost Invariably demanded and townrd evening guarantees of do livery were refused signed notices being be-ing required The railway officials say that they are well satisfied with the situation and that In ten days they will havo enough men to fill the places of tho strikers Bureaus have been established estab-lished In the principal cities of tho west where men are hired |