| Show NO FEDERATION MEN MN NEED APPLY Situation at Goldfield at Dead Deadlock Deadlock Deadlock lock With the Mine Own Owners I ers Determined TELEGRAM TO ROOSEVELT ROOSEVEL T PRESIDENT URGED TO RETAIN TROOPS Goldfield Goldfield Nev Ner Ne Dec 21 The mine operators of Goldfield are loath to leave the task of preserving law am and ami order In the camp in the hands of Sher Sheriff SherIff iff Ingalls They are using every en cn endeavor endeavor I deavor to prevail upon President Roosevelt to order a portion of the fed federal federal federal I eral troops to In Goldfield In Indefinitely Indefinitely Indefinitely definitely Telegrams have been sen senat sent at various times today not only from the mine owners but from officials of the various civic cl lc bodies and private in individuals individuals all urging upon the president the necessity for the presence of ot the troops Meantime it would appear that conditions today are much better for a peaceful solution of ot the difficulty between the miners and an operators than ever ver before Mahoney on the Ground C E B Mahoney Mahney acting president of the Western Federation of Miners MIlers ar ax arrived arrived rived tonight and is in consultation with the officers of the local miners union Attorney O 0 N Hilton will leave In the morning to assist In the Petti Pettibone Pettibone Pettibone bone defense Mr Mahoney Mahone will make a proposition proposition proposition tion to the mine operators on Monay Monjay Mon ay but the operators assert that It will re receive receive the same sam treatment as the over overtures overtures overtures tures of Attorney Hilton a positive refusal reu to compromise Officials Official of the Mine Owners association association tion said today These men here can go back hack to work but ut not unless they renounce the Western Vestern Federation In the event that the local miners do renounce renounce the Western Federation or get their theil positions back through some other proceeding the operators say they will pay the strikebreakers now nowhere nowhere here bere half haJ a months pay and send them back to where they came from Sheriff Working on Plan PIan Sheriff Ingalls is working on the de details details details tails of his plan to handle the police situation ip JL Goldfield el and ani wm fi or orThe it on Monday The operators say they the will consider it but in the meanwhile they are going ahead with plans for their own protection protection protection tion in case cas of trouble No more strikebreakers came caine today and the operators say no more are com corn coming comIng ing lug soon There Is a feeling of apprehension apprehension apprehension hension over the order for the recall of the troops which it is Impossible to conceal INTERVIEW WITH SPARKS n I F Believes Misled by the La Labor Labor Labor bor Commission 4 Reno Nev Dec 21 From his bed this morning Governor Sparks who Is Isa Isa isa a very ver sick man made the following statement 1 Throughout this whole controversy I I have acted according to my best Judg Judgment jUdgment judgment ment I believed from advices that I Ii received from confidential agents in Goldfield that trouble was Imminent in inthe Inthe Inthe I the mining camp camp camji I know that dyna dynamite mite ad been stolen from the mines that the miners were w re armed and pro pre prepared pared for trouble and the picketing of or mines and preventing men from work workIng working I Ing was damaging property I wag was also advised that the sheriff and other civil authorities were unable to cope with the situation I made these facts clear to the president and In the absence of any state militia I asked that troops be besent besent besent sent to prevent trouble I thought there was no necessity and that no good could be accomplished by calling a special special cial dat session of the legislature It Is true that since the arrival of the troops there has been no violence And that Is why we for troops I believed that so long as there were regular soldiers on the ground there would be no outbreak but I feared and had reason so to fear that unless such action were taken immediately there would be riot and bloodshed Rifles In Goldfield While I was In I Investigated Investigated gated personally the conditions that prevail I found that the business men were afraid of violence and that hat the women were In terror I found that there was an band of high graders and that the sheriff is absolute absolutely ly unable to secure a conviction of any ore thief I learned that there are over overa a thousand rifles in the be possession of the miners and that the spirit of many of the men Is such as to warrant TUP nw In believing that those thos rifles would woul be used upon small pretext While General Funston Funson was 35 there I conferred with him frequently After he had made a thorough investigation seeking Information from all sources he told me that it was as his opinion that the troops had arrived none too soon I think he considered the situation grave and he gave gaye me to understand that he Indorsed my action In requesting that the th Ih troops be sent He practically stat e od r that a portion of o the troops would remain in Goldfield until winter had passed President Roosevelt Roos velt has evidently acted upon the advice of the commis commission commission commission sion which he sent to investigate They I Continued on Page 2 NO FEDERATION i MEN NEED APPLY Continued from Page 1 were there a short time and their lures were perforce much more in incomplete incomplete incomplete complete than those conducted by b Gen General General General eral Funston I have always had a high regard for lor the president but I be believe believe believe lieve he has made a serious mistake I hope dope that no blood will ill stain the streets I or Of because of If t his error but I fear before b fore many days have passed some violent outbreak will prove the of his MB act wit I 1 have haye given no thought to Issuing a special call for the legislature If I thought I could accomplish anything by so doing I would not hesitate a second I should do all in my power to maintain order however Governor Sparks will probably leave for Carson tomorrow His preset Ill Illness illness illness ness was contracted on the night when In the midst of a storm he came from Carson to Reno to meet the troops as they went Vent through to Goldfield |
