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Show ANOTHER SQUAD OF THE ARMY OF THE UNEMPLOYED ARRIVES Union Pacific Places Guards on Trains Out of Ogden to Prevent Pre-vent Seizure by Large Bands of Kelleyites Men Are Fed at Police Stockade and Then Escorted to the Railroad District and Permitted to Proceed on Their Way. Thirty-five or more members of Kellcy's army arrived in Ogden this morning jn a box car attached to a train on the Southern Pacific. They camo in unannounced to the local peaco offlcei3 and scattered before word was reccled at headquarters. The fiifat word received of the Invasion In-vasion by the police came from a business house cn lower Twenty-fifth street. Detectnc George Wardlaw received the call and, recruiting Sergeant Ser-geant Mohlman and Patrolman Hearn, went to the bottom of Twenty-fifth street and corralled 33 of the unfortunates. unfor-tunates. Patrolman Hutchlns followed fol-lowed up with a search of the lower downtown district, but those who had been rej.orted as being fairly well dressed, made their "getaway." The 38 were marched along Wall avenue to Twenty-sixth street and then east to the stockade near the city Jail and placed under tho "eagle" eye of Patrolman Hutchlns. After questioning 4.hem to some extent, several sev-eral were liberated by giving proof mat they were not new arrivals, but hai been employed in local construction construc-tion work. Before noon the remain-, dpr were given all the corned beef, bologna bo-logna and head-cheese sandwiches they could eat, with plenty of ho; coffee to wash it down, at the ex-ponse ex-ponse of the city and county. Each man consumed a loaf of bread, a pound of meat and several cups of coffee, while several of the onlookers on-lookers stood around and envied them their appetites. All the men carried a roll of bedding. bed-ding. During the lunch honr, one of the men played several selections on a banjo and ono of the officers suggested suggest-ed that one of them make a speech. To this the "bunch" answered almost In a chorus, "Our mouthpieces are in jail." From this it was judged that they were members of Kelley's army. ar-my. Some of the men stated that they had been herded on to the cars by officers at Carlin, Nevada, and their numbers augmented in a similar way at other stations. They expressed a desire to leave town and said that they would do so peaceably, If given permission. After a conference between the sheriff and the city officials, It was decided to release them and give them an opporytnlty to leave town and they left the stockade about noon. This was thought best by the officers, on account of the fact that the previous previ-ous squad had bothered the farmers in the south end of the county considerably con-siderably when they were marched out that way. It Is probable that the men will experience ex-perience some difficulty In getting out of towPj as. a local official or , the Union Pacific stated that alfof their east-bound trains would be guarded to prevent the men getting on and the other roads running out of the city may take similar measures. Shortly after the "gang" arrived In town, Sheriff DeVlne and County Commissioner Com-missioner Skeen held a conference with Assistant Superintendent H. L. Bell of the Southern Pacific", as" to the manner In which the men bad been brought Into the city. Mr. Bell assured them that his company was practically helpless In the matter as it was impossible for the train crews to cope with the men when they held j together as thoy have been doing. He also said later that the statement of the men, to the effect that they had been herded onto the train by officers along the line, was untrue and without with-out foundation. a3 there is only a watchman stationed at Carlin and virtually no officers at any other station. sta-tion. He said that the men boarded the trains of their own volition, a number of them getting on at each station. nn |