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Show I WILD RUMOR I OP STRIKE I SHOOTING H Very little of public Interest oc- Hl currcd In the strike situation today. B Tho officials of the railroads stated Hl tllls morning that conditions ccntinuo Hft ' to improvo in tho operating depart- B - ment and a few moro men had been Hl PUt to work in the local shops- A. ro-t H port almost directly opposite to this' H : was given out-by the press committee HjL of the strikers. HJf The strikers say that two of the Hgl btrikc-brcakers left the stockade last Hf night and went Into somo of tho low- Hil er Twenty-fifth street saloons. On B- tboir way back to the shops the non- H union men were accosted by two un- H ' Ion pickets, who wcro about to ask H the strike-breakers not to return to H work. The non-union men, evldontly H thinking, that the pickets intended to B attack them, drew revolvers and ori derod the pickets to throw up their hands. The pickets obeyed the order or-der and wore forced at the point of tho guns to turn their backs on the strike-breakers and march south on Wall avenue. The gun men turned also al-so nnd returned to the atockado. This Incldont, together with the placing of torpedoes on the track by a Greek and the subsequent noise of their explosion caused the story to be circulated on the streets that a I shooting had occurred atthc stockade. stock-ade. Railroads Need No Men Los Angeles, Oct, 13. R, J. Clancy, assistant to E. B. Calvin, vice president presi-dent nnd general manager of the Southern Pacific railroad, arrived in Los Angeles yesterday. "Mr. Clancj said he had Just competed a tour of Inspection ovor the ontlre Southorn Pnclflc system and part of the Union Pacific. Regarding strike conditions on the Harriman lines, 'Mr. Clan said: "At every point I visited, and that Includes all points whore there are shops, I found conditions entirely , satisfactory Traffic is moving as usual, especially passongor trains Freight Is being moved with case at all placos. I found no trouble what-eor what-eor with our rolling stock. There are no new men, "being employed at this time, as the force now at work Is about up to the quota usually needed, 'both as to rumbers and efficiency " Mr. Clancy had prepared a lengthy report of his trip, which ho dispatched dispatch-ed to Vice President Calvin In San Francisco locally thero is no change in the strike situation. on i |