| Show SITUATION BECOMES INTENSE IN GOLDFIELD GOLDI GOLDFIELD II LD Nc Nov Dec Dee J Jl Coy I.-Gov- Gov Governor Sparks and Colonel Reynolds who is in in command of the troops in Goldfield held beld a 1 conference this morning at al the governors governor's hotel and separated without deciding CC the tho matter of declaring martial mar tini Jaw law in this city It appears that tho the governor is being leing stron strongly ly ur urged ed by tho the thomine thomine mine owners fl to mako make every evory endeavor to induce Colonel Reynolds to take tahe this action before the tho tho- tho arrivEd arrival of General tomorrow Tho The conference thi thi morning mornin was barren of results and Colonel Reynolds and Governor Sparks will meet again this afternoon for another discussion of the matter It II appears that it was detectives in inthe tho the employ of Governor Go Sparks who discovered dis ais covered that II high tra grading was going going go to ing int on in Goldfield and that m men mou u were looting tho the Rogers and Little Florence leases laseR Colonel Coonel Reynolds was as shown specimens of the the ore oro taken from rom the themen themen themen men captured in the tho Little Florence o last nj night ht The ore was worth something like 20 a pound He lie admitted that be he would like liko to be beable beable 1 able ble to stop the outrages but was still unwilling to take any auy decisive decisivo stop step Until until un Un- til some act of violence had ben been committed corn com om or the arrival of General Funston Three more more high graders were cap cap- tu lured cd t this thie 8 morning The Mine Owners' Owners association om still ll assert rt that tho the mines wilt will he be worked tomorrow and that they the have men engaged to work them The effort to have havo martial law aw declared today is for the purpose of ot allowing troops troop to patrol the mine and to search for con eon calel sealed arms arras and ammunition ammunition- alleged to tobe tobe tobe be held h by tho the strikers in various places Tho The mine nunc owners anticipate attempts to destroy machinery of power wires or nr water supplies toni tonight bt unless the tho sol aol diers take char charge e of the tho situation On Ou the tho other hand the union men say they will attempt no violence nor destruction ti tion n of prop property rt but Jut will vilI picket the and will nH endeavor to induce any my miner who Mho may inay ml try to o. o go o to work to leave the mines mmes and join tho the union Tho The union has al also u sent sont pid pickets ettl to and Las Vegas Captain Swain of the Thiel a agency cuc has bas et eft for California Califor Califor- nm nia nin to bo be read ready to brin bring DOO California miners here on short notice The Tho men secured aro are mostly lead miners from Joplin Mo fo who have 1111 been strike breakers in idaho Idaho an and 1 California and aid can be bo brou brought hl here hore in two dav days days' time Constable Inman j is s swearing earing in m one ODO onehundred onehundred hundred extra deputies who will patrol the tho minin mining district toni tonight ht and be detailed do de tailed an as personal guards of the miners tomorrow They aro in in the tho pay of ot the tho Mine Owners Owners' Owners Owners' Own Own- ers ers' as association 4 These c deputies will wiH carry only onh revolver at at first r t and j if ne ne- y will be provided with repeating ri rifles later Tim situation here is is becoming more intense o every minute and there thore is not a person who does docs not noL anticipate trouble of or some somo sort sort- tonight hl or tomorrow at aL the tho latest |
