Show great northern men determined the tie up is rapidly extending postal authorities closely watching the result mall service demoralized seattle april 16 the great northern railroad yards were as quiet as a grave yard today an offer was made by tho strikers to take one the mail cars but abo offer was declined the local officers made no attempt to ret men to take the strikers places and apparently none will be made until after the conference in st paul tomorrow with the chiefs of the railway em unions there is a small landslide on the coast line but superintendent copeland od could not get a crew to a out and clear it away at a general meeting of lie railway employees on all the line it was determined to sustain and alio great northern men in their strike it is confidently expected here that penceal on the trana continental lines except the union pacific will be orde reil before the end of the week unless the manager of the roads restore the scales to that in fores on the union bt paul april 10 the great northern strike at dark tonight was le ported within one division of this city and it is probable that it will be her before morning since saturday it haa extended to rook ston on the fergus falls division and to breckinridge on the division the report received last from the west that the northern pacific employees would probably strike out of sympathy can not be verified and is generally cene rally discredited st paul april ac at orand forks he officials wanted to get out a train this evening and twenty deputies were sworn in but men assembled at the depot and declared that no train could be made up there another attempt was made at devils lake this afternoon to take out a train but it failed as has previous attempts during the past two davs april IC Pos tonico department part ment officials are watching with broat interest the creat strike on the areat northern railroad to its serious effect on the transmission of malls thero arc few connections from other lines to points on the great northern and effort are being made by the department to carry malls to each of these places the establishment of a temporary mail service between several of those accessible ces sible points has been ordered the extension of the strike to seattle has resulted in temporary steamboat service between new and seattle |