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Show THREATENS TO I BURNTHE CITY I Serious Charges are Brought I Against I. W. W. Leaders at Goldfield. City Is Patrolled Day and Night by H Heavily Armed Cowboys as Re- H suit of Threats Made by Agl- H tors of Anarchistic Ele- H ment. H Goldfield, Novnda Just aftor the H cruel murder alleged to havo boon H commlttecd by a walking delegato of H tho I. W. W of ono of their ono- H mles, John Sllva, Vincent SL John H ono of tho dlsturbors from Cripple H Creek, who Is directing tho efforts of H the I. W. W., stated, It is currently I reported, that If tho present difficulty H between labor organization In Gold- I field should not bo settled according: H to tho dictates of the I. W. W tho I city would bo reduced to ashes. I Wednesday morning It was dlscov- H orcd that the halls and stairways of I tho McKenzIo building, near tho Nix- I on block, were saturated with oil. It I was Just back of this building that . I shots wero fired Tuesday night All day I Wednesday thero wero current ru- I mors that tho cntlro block would bo I burned beforo morning. Tho man. who fired the shots was disturbed, it I Is bclioved, in tho act of firing tho I building. Ho has not yet been appro- I bended. I D. McKcnzle, whose offices aro In I this building, is ono of tho men said I to bo marked for slaughter by tho I. I W. W. John Cook, tho prominent banker of Goldfield, who Is ft closo I business friend nnd nssoctato of I Nixon and Wlngfleld, was tho target I of the shots fired by tho alley as- I sasslns. The two bullets missed him I only a few Inches. I Tho Inquest over tho remains of I John Sllva, brought forth nothing I new, excepting the statement of Con- stable Inman, who testified that tho I deceased had named his murderer as I ono of the walking delegates of tho I 1. W. W. Ono of tho plcturcsquo features of , jfl tho present situation In Goldfield Is- l tho patrol of seventy-flvo cowboys- M who rldo the streets and tho outskirts. m of tho city day nnd night armed to m teeth. |