Situation On The West Coast

San Francisco, July 18.- The Southern Pacific company continue to run passenger trains more or less regularly during the hours of daylight, but all night trains are still being abandoued. The strikers at Sacramento continue active. Several hundred men who had obeyed the order the strike returned to workin the machine shops, but they quit aain, having been intimidated by the strikers. The compauy inaists that all men taken back shall renounce the A. R. U. Intimidaron is aUo rife at Oakland, where non-union aud other men desiring to return to work are prevented for fear of their lives. A few have returned to work, but have to be protected going to work and returning boma by cavalry. One man, supposed to be a striker and in whose possession several sticks ot dyuamite were found, was arrested near the railroad yards at Oakland by soldiere and taken to the city pnson. The strikers have instituteel habeas corpus proceedings to recover Edward Jost.one of iheir leaders, who U looked up in a box car on the mole and guarded by scdiprs. Jost, disguised as a sailor, was arrested at night. The soldiers föund htm crouching under a Pullman car nibbe railroad yards, ïhe railway company's puy car, bearing over 5150,000, passed down tfie Oaklaud mole aud through the city, dlsbursin vages for May and June. Striners wao caine to the car were told to decide j et they would return to work or not. If ttüüT elected to return their May wages wre paid theni. W they refused every dollar that the company owad them was handed out. It is reported at Sacramento that j eral Superintendent Fillmore and the I mediación committee of the A. R. U. have had a conference. Fillmore showed the ! committee the contract betweeu the company and the Pullman company to ruu I sleepers. Fillraore said the strikers could return to work without prejudice with the exceptiou of those arrested for crime. The committee will have the ' tract read at the meetings of the various unions. Acting Cbairraan Douglass, of the niediation committee, said: "ïhe committee and Fillmore had a conference; it was brougut about by the fruit men. The strikers have not the power to declare the strike off. It ia with Debs. I have wired i him the situation."