| Show THE iii TRAGEDY AT KEYSTONE E S Details of or tho Shooting in Nevada Mining Camp Ca lp t I I I 1 MINERS M D DEMAN DEi S p 11 Ami 1111 t W IC hours In Iu St t huh lu to II Ilien hii llie tho Tho Time White Pine News Nels published hell al at n lily Uly Nevada gives the time following nao no of or tim tragedy of a few days no not lit at t the property properly of 01 the IV mt k aaa Nevada Mimming company at IIII For Ifor several uveral weeks there tins Immis Leon been trouble lucre litre between trio no manager and amid employee of oC the New Ne York and amid Ne No Nevada vada Copper Coppel company duo tp u a Ii rut out In ita Inthe the thC which that company had bu buri buen ii paying to Its Bui nUL little attention huts has been imad to the tro by Ii 1 i thu lie uninterested until un III the time past nil 1111 believing that the discontent would be ho amicably rind ond speedily and anti operation resumed without serious In Injury injury jury to employer r or This It twins seems was uras not net to be Things each day la 1111 a I mure immure critical arid and serl emi ClI ai No acts of 01 violence had hart been committed and withal the tho union non men had imad on un the whole been beell able to 10 council COmm tho actions of t booms among them thein Then limen too there are nio many hen both bolh union und and nonunion men then who that tho the of tiE Supt HUllt Traylor were not ordered or In ln domed by the lime company that he was uses actuated by purely and tutu was trying to usurp the author authority ity lIlt given him him That he lm had been beon acting tinder instructions Is IH noen trout from froma troma a letter remit direct to us from head headquarters quarters On nn lU putt the I union submitted a latter hotter to 10 Mr tr Traylor the superintendent of 01 the copper com coma company pany fin at follows fallout Hall hail of 01 Union Nn ii 17 Jan 6 0 To Mr tr J A Dear Sir The following schedule of at wages Is submitted to you for your sig signature nature und mind by b II a motion carried at our meeting this evening you ou are alo allowed IS 1 1 hours houts to study It over oer and aM If It not ac nc accepted and signed by b you OU nt lit the time end and of 01 that bitt time thus namely n 12 hours hauls from froni tho time time you Vail receive this we will resort to Kleiner measures All 11 li men working bo ho bolow h hios low ios tho th of or the time shaft shall hall be con can miners anti and shall receive aGO 1310 per lid day d or of eight hours Also AIKO top handling curs cars from rain cage or dumping buckets hall rhall be considered miners and a like compensation name namely Iy ly 3 50 per day clay da of or eight hours Fire Firemen men n n shall receive c 3 to per day of at eight el h t hours All laborers working on tho the grading for buildings etc ec echal shall hal receive 1300 per day of nine hours Furthermore If at nt nay any time either cither of pt the parties to title Oils agreement find It nu no to change any an part or parts of 01 tho time foregoing schedule they the will with give Ilu the other arty 30 days notice of 01 their I Intention before taking action Signed I WM W 1 LLOYD f Prest Irest Miners Union No ITS Ii P 8 BIt If you wish w h to consult con with the executive board before you OU sign this schedule o Inform tho time gentleman who presents this to you when anti It would be bc suitable for tor you to thorn them If It we do not hear heaz from fromn you rou at nt of or 12 ho we WI will wll con consider hIder sider this schedule declined and act Yours WM lit LLOYD It appears that after the tho abouo notice on Mr Ir Wednesday morning a large delegation of or tho ito MI Ml ners nerl union left town can on ott toot foot for Lano LallI City elt where they awaited the arrival of Mr Mi When that gentleman an ani hm lime secretary Mr came caine along en time the way stay to tho time mine the till union men stopped them and asked the orator former gentleman what he proposed to do In III regard regail to adopting their scale of ot wages wage To ro this demand ho lie replied that tIey hod given glen him luau 12 hours In which to consider time the proposition and that he pi III opened to take taku ta k the time allowed After Arter this Ihl short Interview he Ito was per permitted omitted to go IrO on his way unmolested Hut HIlt It that several members of time he union were not satisfied with his hili reply and wore were In favor tavor of 01 further teeing Ii their demands From all that could bo be learned 1 It that a n committee of or six inca inen Willlam Lloyd J B I Smith James Jame Cli Him Johnson Max Mox Lambert Lombert and John Perry undertook the time Job joli of 01 I going to the Keystone and further In Interviewing Mr which they timey did with timp toast moat appalling results According to a Li statement of or one of 01 the tho wounded men melt they the oil all entered the time theollie olllie ollie e at time the Keystone l whore where Mr Tray Tm Irr anti and his Ills secretary were at about II I 1 anti demanded an nn Immediate answer to their lIe He Informed thorn that he ho did not have to comply with any an of time thc demands they th JY made whereupon told him that Y would mike masks It their heir I business to wait walt muon him hIm and all show sho him the way ay out of If clump camp arow nrose and amid attempted to g get t hold haitI of o him that and lii his secre seere secretary tary tU provocation opened lire which resulted In two men being killed and three wounded James Jam received one bullet In Inthe till the stomach und mind another In the time right rl ht eye 11 from which Injuries he Ime died b before for ranching town tun S J 3 E K Smith was wu the tIme next man to fall the time bullet penetrating his Oils heart hElart causing instant In tant death Max Ia Lambert was warm next shot hot twice no bullet pasting rasing r through h both of ot hIs hI lips and loosening his teeth the tue other Othel shattering his hili left shoulder houlder will necessitate amputation In graler to save his life 1114 It U is stated by b eye witnesses 8 that shot all of 01 the time above mUll men Sam Harn Johnson John on who was shot in the th left breast and received r a n wound from which he tie stands but hut little show sho of at re recovering reo recovering covering soya that hint Gaskell shot him Time fhe bullet entered Just below his imis heart h rt mid sud came caine out In time the small email of 01 his Oils back backon on oil the hi right side I Jock Jack Perry lerry also received n ii In time tho tight right rf ht shoulder houlder the tim bullet entering el just below helo the shoulder blade brodt which bone Unie It struck mend and glancing embedded Itself In the ileth from which It was easily extracted lie IC he says that he hc was shot bm by b W None Non of or the tho s 1 nun inca limed had any nn fire firearms arms allM on un them hiram when rh n they went Into the cities Notwithstanding reports to tho the con contrary contrary claims that he never tired n It shot After AfIr things became a n little quiet both Loth Traylor and Gaskell got Into their and started for town Arriving near nr City Ctt they the leered feared again being waylaid and amid turned up the thc canyon to lo loth the th and came to town ownby by the White river road giving thc up to tt the When It II became generally known Traylor lor was v s in town ton Indmon n nhim him reigned torn for a R of 01 mob mobbing mobbing bing binl and lynching were wel Milt made but no further acts of violence were we attempted and everything Is now no quiet and peace pae peaceable able Sheriff Newman however feared that some acts acU of at violence might be at mit attempted tempted pre the prisoners allowed to here and deputized Thomas Thematic Weldon II n and together they left lett last OA with the prisoners for Elko where here they will wll be lit confined awaiting aw trial |
