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Show BUTTE QUIETUS TROOPSGUARO Number of Miners Returning Is Admitted Insignificant by Operators BUTE, Slont.. Apcll 2-i. With nn Increased but still small number of men reporting for work at Butte's copper mines, the situation created through the strike called by Sletal Workers' union No. 800 of tho I. W. W. showed little change hero today. A number of troops arrived yesterday yester-day from Camp Lewis and Fort George Wright. Soon thereafter the rumors of possible violence which hau been in circulation died away. The troops here comprise several companies com-panies but their exact numbor has not been announced. About 500 more men reported on the last shift than on the preceding one, but the proportion of men working to thoso on strike, mine operators said, was insignificant. They declared de-clared that after a day or two conditions con-ditions would be more nearly normal. nor-mal. Theysald they gradually would extend efforts to re-open their properties. prop-erties. So far the principal effort has been to keep the pumps operating, to prevent flooding any of the mines. No change had been reported to-J to-J day In the condition of any of the sixteen men injured in Wednesday's 1 clash between picketing strikers and , peace officers. The strikers yesterday made no cf-I cf-I fort, to picket the mines. |