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Show made this statement. VIRGINIA CITY. A II I n 1 ii : Proprietor Thrent-cueU-JLabor Blot Feared. Virginia, Nev., 2. Great excitement excite-ment prevails to day over the prospect pros-pect of a labor riot. J. D. Bod vr el I, the man who organized a cooperative mill and mining company to practically practi-cally reduce the miner's wages to $3 per day by securing them employment employ-ment and taking their notes for $100, payable in installments ol $1 per day, was notified by the Miners' union that he must desist and on the written notice were the words, "A word to the wise is sufficient." He waa stopped at the postofTice about 11 o'clock a.m. to-day, and asked to explain his conduct, when he ran through a tin shop and fled down tbe canon pursued by several hundrtd men. Lynching and shooting were freely talked of. A party are still on hiB track and it ia believed he will never return alive. The miners hint ominoufily at a labor riot. The iron moulders are on a strike and wili parade the Btreets to-night with a band. |