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Show SOLDIERS SET TO CUARDMINERS Company of Infantry Will Attempt to Preserve Order at Fairbanks, Alaska, During Strike. IT Trouble Is Outcome of Demand for Higher Wages and 8horter Hours, ' and Attempt to Operate Mines j Independently of Western j Federation. j "i Washington. By direction of th ; president, Acting Socrotnry Oliver on Thursday ordered a company of Infantry In-fantry from Fort Gibbon, In Alaska, to Fairbanks, in that territory, to pro-servo pro-servo order during tho mining strlka in that section. Telegrams from Fairbanks Fair-banks to tho nttorncy general stated -that open nlr mass meetings nro being be-ing held by tho striking miners, nnd that threats of violence havo been made. Tho distance from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks is 165 miles, nnd tho troops will bu carried by sleds over tho route, which Is said to bo a very good ' one. If there Is urgent necessity for tho prosenco of tho soldlors at Fair- -i banks they can get thoro In four or m five days. But under ordinary condl- s Jr ' tlons the trip takes six or seven dnys. Fairbanks is In tho center of n mining min-ing countty, with n population of 7,-000 7,-000 or 8,000. Persons In Washington familiar with tho conditions existing nt Fairbanks say tho trouble Is tho outcomo of a strlko n year or moro ago for higher wages and shorter ' ltours for miners. This tho operators, however, refused, and their dctcrml- j nation to oporato their mines lndo- ! pendently of tho Western Federation of Miners may, it is feared, lead to trouble. |