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Show A LIVELY TIE. Tta U. P. and R. G. W. Fight Over a Gar. Supt. Welby and His Force ot Men Tear Up the Track. Agent Craig; is Struck Over the Head by a R. C.W. Brakeman. The depot was the scene of a lively scrimmage yesterday afternoon, and for a time things looked very serious. The row was between the officials of the U. P. and 11. Gr. W., and arose over a car belonging to the former road aud which was loaded with lime for the Salt Lake contractor, Elias Morris, preparatory to being shipped there. It appears, from interviews with the agents of both roads, that Mr. Thomas, the lime merchant in town, on Wednesday, had ordered his men to load up a car of lime for Mr. Morris. The men went down to th depot, and commenced loading up a U. P. box car standing on the joint switch, and which had been p'aced there for the West Co-op. to load with potatoes. Agent Craig, of the U. P. saw the car Leing loaded with the lime, aud at once saw Mr. Thomas, who told him that he had not instructed his men as to what line to ship it over,and that inasmuch as the material was being placed into a TJ. P. car, he would give him a bill of lading for it. Mr. Craig left, and soon after saw Agent Taggart. of Uir It. G. W., to -.horn he related the fact that he had a bill of lading for the car, and that he was going to ship it as soon as loaded. Mr. Taggart said if the U. P. had a bill of lading for it from Mr. Thomas, that he would do nothing about the matter. Things went along, and the next thing that Mr. Craig knew was that th. car had been run on to the II. Or. W. switch and securely locked. This riled Agent Craig, and he started in for business. Not being able to get any satifnfle JWn lAt'u i epity nied thenar. In the meantime Supt. Welby and Col. Dodge, of the R. G. W., who were at Thistle, were appraised of the situation. id agent Taggart was telegraphed tele-graphed by lae train dispatcher not to do anything in the matter until Supt. Welby could get to Provo. In about twenty minutes a special came rolling in from Thistle, and out jumped Supt. Welby. To liim Agent Taggart gracefully grace-fully resigned the reins of government.' govern-ment.' ctive operations then commenced. com-menced. The U. P. run an engine on to the opening of the joint track, so that the freight train that had the car in dispute, could not leave, Supt. Welby then ordered a flat car placed at the head of their engine, and determined de-termined to trv "bumping" tactics. When the bystanders, who by this time had become quite numerous, saw the ugly phase matters was assuming, thoughts of steam, lire, cinders, broken ties and rails caused them to scatter. But U. S. Marshal B. Bachman appeared on the scene at this juncture with .replevin papers in his hand. As soon as Agent Craig saw this he ordered or-dered his engine off the joint track. Directly the engine went, Welby ordered or-dered his train to "close in" on them. When this was done l.e set his men to work tearing out the "frog" of the joint track, rendering it perfectly useless use-less to the U. P. It was this part of the performance that caused the U. P. men to don their war paint, and they did it right royally. Agent Craig, as soon as he saw the intention of the 11. G. W. people, going to tear out the track, ordered his engine to back down on the joint track. Welby and his men then placed ties in the way of the engine, but these were readily pulled out of the way by the U. P. force. While Agent Craig was stooping in this part of the work, the contemptible brakeiman of the II. G. W. struck him behind the ear. Mr. .-.xilleen, the portly, jovial ticket agent of the U. F. saw this, and liflingup a tie, would have laid the brakeman low in the dust had he not got out of the way. The track was finally torn up, and the disputed car, loaded with the innocent lime, went on iis way rejoicing. This morning Agent Craig went be-for be-for Judge Noon and swore out a complaint com-plaint against the brakesman, charging charg-ing him with assault. The case will be heard on Monday. It is not known yet what action the 11. P. w ill take in the matter, but it is thought that a hot controversy will be engaged in the courts over it. Inasmuch Inas-much as the 11. G. W.put up a $8,600 indemnifying bond to get the car out, there is money at the back of the business, and undoubtedly the U. P. will make it warm for the R. G. W. The track that is now torn out, has been in controversy a great deal lately, and it is possibly a good thing that this bone of contention, is gone. But one thing that will go bad with the R. G. W., is the fact that the switch existed before ever they came to Utah, it having been owned by the Utah Central. Another bad .feature that will operate against them is the fact that they tore up the track after t he U. S. Marshal gave orders for the matter to stop. Meanwhile we await developments, with interest. |