| Show ON I 1 Cv u v THEIR WAY TO MINING CAMP I Nine Companies of Boys in Blue Sent by Gen Funston I to Seat of Trouble GOVERNORS MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LIFE AND LIBERTY AT GOLD GOLDFIELD GOLDFIELD GOLDFIELD FIELD SAID TO BE MEN MENACED MENACED MENACED ACED I 1 4 Carson City CIt Nov Dec 6 Gover 4 f nor Sparks departed this afternoon f 4 for Reno In a blinding rainstorm in Inan inan f 4 an automobile In order to meet meat Col 4 Alfred Reynolds Renolds with the federal 4 troops bound for Goldfield The gov gow govern 4 4 ern or received a dispatch from Gen 4 4 Funston requesting that some f 4 4 accompany the troops troop 0 o 4 4 Goldfield and as the governor has 4 4 taken the matter In his hands 4 4 proceed to himself Later f I 4 he will send one or more parties from 4 I 4 his personal staff 4 4 States Assistant Marshal Marhal 4 4 Mack returned to this city cU this even evenIng evenIng 4 4 Ing from Goldfield He Ho states that 4 V everything e is quiet so far as demon 4 w 0 4 fre are concerned He lie reports a 4 4 number of criminal cases such as 4 4 robberies but no public demonstrations f 4 1 f 4 Reno Nev Dec Dee 6 The first de detachment 4 4 of troops for t 4 passed through Reno Rano tonight Ow OwIng 4 ing to a storm on the desert It Is 4 4 not likely that they will wUl reach Gold Goldfield 4 4 field before 10 Captain W WL V 4 4 L 1 Colt ott has gone to Goldfield as the 4 4 representative of Governor Sparks 4 of t t t t t t t t 4 4 tt t t t t tSan tSan San Francisco Dec 6 Five compa rles ries of the Infantry stationed at Fort McDowell in this city and four companies of the same regiment at Monterey were dispatched to Goldfield Nev today by Brigadier General Frederick Funston command commandIng Ing the department of California in compliance with orders received from the war department late last ast night The troops were ordered to the big mining Ining camp in Nevada Neada by President Roosevelt in response to an appeal from tram Governor John Sparks of Nevada iho aho ho serious trouble as aa a result of the strike of the miners and I an attempt to open op n the ili mines with nonunion labor Jabor As Nevada has no state troops Governor Sparks called for tor federal soldiers About Abo t ISO men and fourteen officers under command of Colonel Alfred Rey Reynolds Reynolds Reynolds left Oakland mole on a special train of four Pullmans and two bag baggage baggage gage gag cars ears shortly before noon today The Monterey lIon erey contingent consisting of about men under Captain Curtis I Idt ft that city at 7 this The San Francisco troops were delayed about two hours near by the theW wreck W reck of a freight train Goldfield will wIil willbe i ibe be reached by the troops early tomor tomorrow tomorrow row ron ronIt It Is stated tho the Monterey troops did not nol leave Sacramento until 7 I tonight Owing to a storm in the Sier Sierras Sierras Sierras ras wire communications with Gold Goldfield Goldfield Goldfield field Is h meager It Is reported that god good order prevails INTENSE EXCITEMENT Goldfield Miners Hardly Awake to the Real Situation Situations s Nev Dec Dee C There is in int t nse but suppressed excitement In today toda over the expected ar arrival arrival arrIval rival of the United States troops in the Goldfield camp tomorrow morning It ItIs ItIs itIs Is he the only of conversation conver atlon Miners lIners union hall has been filled all allday allda day da and crowds fill the sidewalks and r streets In front There has been no demonstration to speak of though f excitement has been boen created by hotheads who talk talle of what they the will do after the troops come The miners havo hays thought the reports of the troops was vas all a bluff intended to intimidate te them and they the have only come to a realization of the real situation in the thelast thelast last las few fow hours They The se sem n disconcert disconcerted ed and nonplused as events have havo hap happen happen happen pen d and swept along too fast fat for them They are certainly certain unprepared for the present turn of ot affairs President McKinnon of ot the local J Miners union a of William D Haywood Ha wood is in charge of oftie I tie the miners campaign Vincent St John has lias been be n In the hospital for several I v e eel ks s as a result re of a gunshot wound re rc ived l In a duel between himself and f nother labor leader but he ho Is ready f fr r duty now no Over the Sheriffs Head Sheriff Ingalls and his force are dis dle disgust gust d at the coming of the troops and this afternoon the sheriff disappeared and his whereabouts Is unknown It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is conjectured his action has an Im Important important bearing on the present situa situation situation situation tion Before he lie left the sheriff said he knew of no trouble in Goldfield and that the call for troops was made over lila his head The sheriff and his forces have always been charged by tho tha Mine lIne Owners association as being more than friendly to the miners He lIe is one ono of the owners of or one of the largest su sa Continued on Page 2 SOLDIERS ON THEIR WAY TO MINING CAMP Continued from Page 1 loons J ons and gambling houses in Goldfield largely patronized by the miners Last spring during the strike hundreds ds of ot striking miners were sworn in as deputy d pu puI I ty and armed It was because of the th mistrust of the sheriff that the mine mino operators appeared to o the gov governor governor S direct Under Sheriff Bert Knight and nearly all the county om officers I cers signed a protest against troops N coming to Goldfield |
