Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-12-22
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Especial to the Bonanza) .
GOLDFIELD, Dec. 21.-The =
Commission from Washington .
= has folded it's tent and gone. .
= The troops still remain, but the .
. fact that they, too, are to go .
on the 30th, leaves the city in .
= state of quiet unrest. =
= The mine owners have been .
active since the news of Roose- .
= velt's ultimatum reached here .
Sheriff ingalls, has been busy .
= also If Roosevelt could see the .
warlike preparations that are .
being made for the preservation .
= of peace, he might think twice .
before ordering the troops to be .
= withdrawn. .
The streets are being patrol .
led by deputies armed with .
= pump shotguns, and the out .
skirts are guarded with mount =
= ed men from the sheriff's Of .
= fee q
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The sheriff and the mine owners
had conference tonight, and from
all accounts it was very satisfactory.
f7Nhe mine owners asked Sheriff In
&Slls ii he could take care of the
town, and he assured them that he
thought he could. They responded
that they could take care of the
mines. After the meeting the sheriff
said to Representative of the Bon
anza:
II will keep law and order, IL |
have to appoint every man COM
mittee of one to help me- We are
framing up now for anything that
might come | have put out men
with pump shotguns, and there are
more deputies to be appointed !
have also mounted deputies guarding
the outskirts of the, town. No pre-
caution for the safety of life and
property that can be taken is going
to be overlooked by me- | will have,
in all, fifty men patrolling the streets.
The mine owners say that they will
not treat with the Western Fedora
tion, but somehow, l look for the
trouble to be fixed up. sincerely
hope that it will be-"
G. e. Mahoney, vice-president OF
the Western Federation, arrived here
tonight, and will, from now on. have
charge of the situation, as far as the
miners are concerned. Mahoney was
here last spring, and he is the man
who settled the trouble at that time,
when it seemed absolutely impossible
to effect settlement Mahoney, il
is said, has a plan for the settlement
of the present difficulty, and it is
said to include the firing out of the
camp the agitators and trouble breed
ers of the union. If this is the plan
that he has to present, the mine own
ers say that it will not do. They
declare that they have forever cut
loose from the dominion of the West
ern Federation, and that they will
not take any chances of another situ-
alton like that which led to the
strike arising. Mahoney, though
while fighter, is pretty sauve dip.
lomat and he has a wonderful amount
of confidence in himself, and his per-
suasive powers.
There are lots of the union men
men of the best element, who want
to go to work under any conditions
but that of foreswearing allegiance
to the Federation. and they are try.
ing with all their power and influ
ence with the members OF the asso
citation to bring about change.
yN Hundreds of kilograms have gone
'Sbut of here to the President, asking
him to reconsider his determination
to withdraw the trooEs, and tha
fight has not been given up, by
long way Meanwhile, everything to-
night is quiet as the grave.
Tonopah has Joined with Goldfielt
in asking the President to reconsid
er his determination to withdraw the
troops from the lower camp. The