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Show MORE TRAIN STEALING. The crowd that left here for Spring-vilie Spring-vilie la?t evening boarded the. east-bound east-bound R. G. W. freight this morning in a body. Attr two hours parleying they were induced to abandon it, but for a little while serious trouble was adticipated. "gentlemen" we a led s. Thirty-five industrials from California Cali-fornia were dumped off the R. G. W. eastbound freight in Provo this morning. morn-ing. They boaided the train at Mur- i ray. At American Fork they were asked to get off, but they refused. Marshal Knight was asked by them for food. The marshal gave the young men some fatherly advice, but no food. This army is well dressed. They say they have heard of the. troubles Carter's men have met with, but that they propose to show the Carterites how to get over the road. 8ALT LAKE CBUWDS THEM ONUS. Some eighty or more industrialists under "Captain" Jesse left Salt Lake yesterday afternoon, as did also two bands of twenty-three each. There camped at the hot springs just north of Salt Lake another crowd of Beventy five or more who were under promise to accept breakfast from the Salt Lai e police officials and march on south without stopping in the city. TMa nukes more than two hundred id e men actually marching down upon us and "Captain" Margetts who is in command of the hot springs' lot stated that there were 3,000 coming on from California; that every Southern Pacific train carried fifty to one hundrad of them, and that a tacit understanding existed with that company that whenever when-ever a band was congregated along its line the train would stop for them to get aboard. In one instance the train had run on and left a batch of them, but a complaint made to the nearest station agent brought an apology and a promise that such a thing would not happen again OGDEN QUITS FEEDING THEM. Last evening the joint committee of the city council of Oiiden and county court of Weber county met to consider the very perious question of what, course to pursue regarding the so-called so-called "industrial armies" that are constantly con-stantly arrivng at and stopping in Og den. After some little discussion it was decided that no more aid be given these detachments, and consequently when they arrive hen after thev will be escorted out of town immediately without being fed. The city and county have enough of their own poor to care for and cannot feed the thousands thou-sands of industrials that are headed this way. WILL sue the southern. The county court of Weber county has ordered the county attorney to institute in-stitute proceedings against the Southern South-ern Pacific Railway company to recover re-cover co6ts of feeding, etc., and damages dam-ages for dnmpinc these hordes of ijdle men into Weber county. |