Show DINGS FIRM STAND lieutenant PREVENTS BLOODSHED AT CAPE NOME his action in stopping a miners meeting protected claim owners and saved a hard tight fight st july IT 17 via siu salt F yran iraln cisco july 2 S 91 lacut spaulding phird U S A and nil his detail or 0 lle fie men mca on ca I 1 july I 1 isah from rom curio cups nome having hi vini been relieved by LL a hund or of IL like number under command of crangle of tho the seventh regiment which ar arrived lust last week neek on oil the st paul it aiom ont tun san francisco during the two weeks they mere re at nome spaulding and his men ineil nacre kept busy nearly every hour of oc the four up to the time lime of C the miners on an the ol of the joth tile the principal portion tion or of their work consisted in adjusting cosea cases of oc town lot jumping Jum pine regarding hla his action lit in dispersing the fineis cecili ig spaulding says for several days preceding tile tho meeting I 1 heard that it vaa as the dinten lion alun ot of ti aloo ore interested in the meeting to pass a resolution throwing open the he district for retroaction sit such ell action as tills this would no doubt have haie cau caused ge at bloodshed as ail met owning tile the claims would not have permitted outs outsiders ideis to jump join 0 them consequently aben the nice aing was called to order by a me man 1 named dark clark and the resolution lia had d been read I 1 addressed the chair stati ing inc that I 1 was waa there to represent the united states state j government end and would not permit them to pass such a resolution it it that if 1 they lenh tod I 1 would clear tile the hall I 1 had stationed in the rear of 0 the room mix men and a a nor gearan with nith drawn bayonets and nihon nhon I 1 noticed a disposition on oil the part if i tile tho alner to romaan I 1 ordered toy ray men to clear tile tho hall which trav did later te verat small gallit red in the I 1 BISO also bcd d tho the next day I 1 learned on absolutely rel reliable lable authority that men stationed flattened on tho the brow of 0 tile hills baric back of the iba town Nv walling alting fur for tho signal that tile hie iad had been adopted alien N lien they boull i ush fort for the lie claims andare and ri akitake thern them the men ott at the flu and c cai iles lally bially the aring Naders mere vely much at me tor fair eting their said cats wore made tu to lynch J ine lot but hoie here I 1 am out ot of tle tile crowd ot at GOO atio attended tile the meeting I 1 do in nut not believe rr re inne than lhnn lot bona fido clagan ovi ON tiers abany oc 0 then ars otere frs men nho have beon been ran nin out or of other camps in alaska anil and would woul if if they dare lull things to suit I 1 licar solves so at borne one of tile the most rabid agitators at the meeting arrive vel I 1 at camp only lorty elget hours before the metting ili hf was wab it a CO 0 per cent liy lay dilleh lie he refused because illo ground had never been prospected brot atod even when cornered off corf ercil ered vt 1 a day to paris peet the saine mun before accepting like hie lay jay lie refused jt it 10 this ical il of mn men who bould rob the legitimate mainers PC their just rights epla adding ii 14 in action by tile solid element of the cattail and district |