The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-13
MINERS MAY CLASH WITH THE
MILITARY.
General Gobin VIII Prevent a Demonstration
at the Funeral of Those Slain
by Sheriff Martins
Force.

pany. Jones, whose unpopularity with
the miners was one of the nrst causes OF
the strike, was not there, but the men lit
! orally wrecked the interior OF the house,
and then attacked a mine powerhouse near
by and stole therefrom a quantity OF dy ma
mite. As soon as he heard of this, Cen
eral Goblin assigned guard of the Thir-
teenth Regiment to remain al Audenreid.
The addition to the strikers ranks, if
made, Will be the men at Cox mine, and
should they 60 out, the last big an
thracite company in the region will be
idle. II was not known until ;o-day that
the 2000 men, employed at co.liery No. Z,
held NEE ing 1T Stockton last night and
drew up a petition to the operators, de-
mandiDg an increase of 10 per cent. This
will be presented tomorrow, and in case
OF refusal they Will strike.
1t is accepted as fact that if these men
60 out all the others employed by Demp-
sey Will join them. making a total num-
Der of between 5000 and 1000 from these
mines alone. The Cox men had already
been offered an increase. but elected il
on the ground that it was sui lower than
the scale paid by the other operators in
the region. These men had been work
ing steadily up TO this time, and OF late
up TO 10 O'CLOCK at night.
To all intents and purposes Hazleton Is
under martial Jaw. General Goblin de-
clared tonight that in spite OF warrants
issued no constables nor civic authority
would be permitted to arrest the deputies.
he said that tie Sheriff was an executive
officer, whose duty it vas to preserve the
peace, and he, Goblin, and the troops were
really subordinate 20 the Sheriff at this
time, beng engaged in helping him to
perform that duty. Under these crcum-
stances be would not permit interference
with the Sneriff's officials so long as the
militia was here.
In spite OF this fine distinction the COM
mander's decision on this point is accep pied
as superseding the civil authorities by the
military power.
The events of to-day were the death OF
another of the wounded, Jacob Tom
ashanto, the 18year- old boy who was shot
through the head; the announcement
was made this afternoon by the doctors
that six NOR will die, several perhaps
before morning, and the funerals of four
OF the victims. These were Andrew
I uTek, oIeVe L uIelCu, JOnn rula ana
Nike Cheslek. Ten more Will be buried
tomorrow, and here the trouble is likely
10 occur. II has been arranged that the
ten cotfins shall be carried on the shoul-
ders Of the strikers fro II the undertakers
shop to the front of st. Joseph's Church.
In front of the church a platform is to be
erected, on which the ten coffins will be
placed. Then addresses in Polish, Lithu-
anian and English are TO be delivered by
priests and others; the bodies will be car
ried inside and pontitical high mass will
be celebrated.
After the services the procession will go
to the Polish cemetery where eight of the
coffins-those containing Poles-will be
placed in one large grave. 1t is the pur-
pose TO acquire by subscription sufficient
funds to erect over this a monument bear
| ing the names of the victims and a brief
history of the event.
Seventeen societies. all but one made up