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Show STRIKE YET ON IN GOLDFIELD GOLDFIELD, Kev., Dee. 27. There Is absolutely no truth! to or foundation for published statements to the effect that oil differences between the miners end operators of Goldflrl.l have been swept aside snd that the lockout Is off. Practically every property in the district dis-trict is closed down except a few of the high-grade producing leaaes on the Mohawk. These leases and the few open smelter properties still actie are using seven hundred men, while pu equal number are thrown out of employment. em-ployment. There has been no violence and none is expected by either side to the controversy. con-troversy. It is generally conceded that when an understanding is reached it will be with the provision of a "change room" to prevent 'any further stealing of high gTade ore and the majority of the miners have r objeetUns to this, merely contendingjthat thrr should not bo asked to "strit to the Duff." The mine owners will be satisfied with the removal of outer qtothing only, snd with the requested raise of one dollar in wages granted, Uie strike will be off. Those in the best position to judge sc-tually sc-tually of the situation, predict settlement settle-ment by the middle of January at the farthest. Gov. Sparks apent a few (lays here since the dispute srose, but positively denied that cis'rip had anything to do with the strike, asserting that his mission was one' of private business. Horribly mutilsted remsins of an un known man were found on the railroad : track near Ooldfleldt Evidently the victim had been riding the rods and i fell, his body dragging for fifteen miles under the train. The face was entirely torn oft and no papers could be found with the shredded clothiDg. The fuel famine is partially relieved. Some coal is for sale at $40 per ton. The three carloads of wood shipped from I Richfield, Utah, to the brokerage firm of V. F. Bond i Co., who will ditribute it free where most needed, have not yet arrived. |