Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-10-13
Operators Hustled For Men
to Run the Mines Last
Week.
WILL ATTEMPT TO nine COAL.
Some CoIisries VIII &c Started To-
cay and others Within Few Days.
Strikers Apparently Firm-Hoff-
man to Have Military Funeral.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 13.-Nothing
that is new developed in the strike
situation here yesterday. Not one
soldier was sent out from the camo
located in this city. There are ru-
mors in circulation that an extra
ordinary effort will be made this week
to start collieries, but no information
| to- this effect can be learned from the
extra efforts to resume operations
must first eninate from New York,
and the superintendent will try to
carry it out. The strikers and citi-
zens generally are not expecting any
thing to develop in the strike affected
| territory, but are eagerly following
events in New York and Washing
ton. There is feeling, which IS
growing quite general, that some de-
velopment in the direction Of set.
| tlement is near at hand. Last night
| it looked as though there will be very
little or no increase II the production
| of coal during the next week. The
miners are just as firm today in their
| declaration not to return to work IN
! til they get some concessions as they
have been all along.
Not Willing to Leave 1t to Morgan.
The appeal issued Saturday by the
| American Federation Of Labor was
received with considerable SatiSfac-
| tion by the strikers, but there was
| considerable discussion over the par.
agraph in the appeal which asserted
| that the miners were willing to leave
| their case in the hands Of ]. Pierpont
| Morgan. When Mr.. Mitchells atten-
| ton was called to it Saturday night
he said it was an error. Yesterday
| he refused to discuss it. 1t Is evident
there is some mistake and that he
does not care to call attention to t
| by discussing the matter
The talk Of calling on the federal
government for troops to assist the
state militia Is leard. In converse
ton with superintendent and mill
tary officers they declared the calling
on the national authorities is a re-
! mote possibility. National guard Of
| ficers do not take kindly to the sug-
gestion and say the state guarl
should be tried first before thinking
/ about national soldiers. Brigadier
| General Goblin does not take much
stock in the proposition. If it were
found that the Pennsylvania guard
was not sufficient in numbers to con.
troll the situpaticn he says he would
favor recruiting the state force up to
| twice it's size or to the number re-
| CURED to meet the situation, just as
was done during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war. He says the governor, I'M
der the laws, can do it, and if the
governor came to him for his advice
that is what he would suggest.
Hoffman to Have Military Funeral.
! The death in a Scranton hospital,
| Saturday night, of Colonel Theodore
F. Hoffman, Of the Eighth regiment
which is camped at Duryea, II miles
north OF here, cast a gloom over that
command. Memorial services were
held in camp yesterday afternoon by
Chaplain Daniel Eberly. The late
commander will be buried on Wednes-
cay. His body will be escorted from
/ Scranton to his home IN Pottsvillc
by eight sergeants Of the Eighth. H
will be given a military funeral and
General Goblin will ask General
! Schall, in command CT the First bri-
gade, ne1r Pottsyille, to detail two
! companies from each CT the Second
and Third regiments to attend the
funeral. General Goblin and part c.
7 his staff, Lieutenant Colonel ]. r.
Hutchinson, Of Harrisburg, who sue.
ceeds Colonel Hoffman, and the staff
and line officers OF the Eighth will
also attend the services. The late
colonel wi! Re buried in Reading.
Scranton, Oct 13.-This is the be-
ginning Of week which it IS gener-
ally believed will put to a test the
claim Of the operators that they will
be enabled to start up their cOilieries
if given protection. and the counter
claim CT the United Mine Workers
organization. as expressed in Wednes-
days resolutions that the strikers
will not return to work without con-
cessions, even though the entire mill
tary force CT tie United States was