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Show WHISTLING ENGINES. Freight Traffic Fnlly Resumed on the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Roads. The Knights Yet Trying: to Bring Hoxie to Some Kind of Terms. Bloodshed at Fort Worth Regular ; Battle Between Strikers and . Deputies. The Railroad Strike. , Kansas City, April 2. The Journal's Parsons, Par-sons, Kansas, special says: Eight companies of Colonel Patriok's First Eegimenfc Kansas National Guards arrived this evening, numbering num-bering about 400 men. Just 'after passing Ottawa a gang of ruffians came on the traok and signaled the driver to stop, which he did, and the leader, a man '. named Semple, handed anote to tbe engineer inviting, him , not to pull the cars out of Ottowa. The Major was in the front part of the train, and getting the note, he drew a rifle and threatened to shoot the leader, whereupon they fled from the traok. . General Roberts will arrive from Lawrence Law-rence at midnight, when Adjutant-General Campbell will return from Topeka. No trouble is anticipated to-morrow when trains will be moved. The troops are in good trim and ready for work if need be. BESUMPTION OF FREIGHT TRAFFIC. St. Louis, April 3. The resumption of freight traffic by the Missouri Pacifio and Iron Mountain railroads has now become an acknowledged fact. For the past few days the officials have been sending out the regular regu-lar number of trains, which although smaller at first than they were accustomed to before the strike, yesterday assumed their more natural nroportions, and to-day it is expected expect-ed they will' be as large as ever. NO MOBE HINDRANCE OR INTERFERENCE To the running of freight trains upon the roads is anticipated. East St. Louis is now beooming a point of interest, and it is expected ex-pected that the officials of the different roads centering in this oity will find it a difficult dif-ficult task to effect the resumption of freight traffic. All their efforts in this direction di-rection have, with few exceptions, failed, and the strikers, although they have announced an-nounced moral suasion as their mode of interference, in-terference, are determined to BE30BT TO MOBE VIOLENT METHOD3, And are determined that no freight shall be moved until the strike is ended. The railroad rail-road officials last night decided on running freight trains, and will to-day make every effort to attain that end. When these attempts at-tempts shall be made, it is expected serious trouble will ensue. KNIGHTS CONSIDERING THE STRIKE. , St. Louis, April 3. Frederick Turner, secretary sec-retary of the General Executive Board of the Knights of Labor, and Wm. H. Bailey, a member of the same committee, arrived in this city from Cincinnati this morning, and proceeded to the rooms of the local executive execu-tive committee, where they are now considering consid-ering the strike situation. After this conference con-ference shall have been finished and some definite line of action decided upon, Turner will attempt to see Hoxie and ascertain what line he intends to follow in re-employing striking Knights of Labor. A second conference will then be held with the local committee, and an agreement formulated which will be presented to Hoxie for his signature. - AN INTERVIEW WITH TURNER. Turner, in an interview this morning, stated that this plan is that all positions not now filled by new men who have been employed em-ployed since the inauguration of the strike, shall be open to application from Knights; that those who apply shall be employed, and from them shall be selected an arbitration committee, which will attempt to arrive at some amicable understanding concerning the grievances of the Missouri Pacifio Knights. Turner, in reply to an inquiry if he should request that all striking Knights of Labor be employed, replied: "No, such has never been the case heretofore, even when we have been victorious, and we can hardlv expect such a course to be pursued pur-sued by the railroad company now. We don't expect them to discharge competent men who have been employed during the strike, and we shall make no such demand. Neither shall we demand that those who have committed depredations upon the company's com-pany's property be taken back. Such demand de-mand would be inconsistent with the principles princi-ples laid down in our constitution." |
