The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-12-18
Both Sides Are Called
Upon at GOIdfield For
Statements.
W.T.. M. NICE AND GENTLE
Says McKinnOn...Had No Violence
In Mind. Brutal Attack on Aged
Woman By Thugs Is Reported.

GOLDFIELD, Dec. 1.-THE Gold
field Mine Owners association sub
mitted Il statement to the commits
sion which President Roosevelt has
sent to Goldfield, this afternoon,
which declares that the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners is not a labor or
ganization, but a combination in re-
straint of trade, that Il is in fact
reasonable organization and in the
statement are quotations from The
preamble from the constitution and
bylaws of the Western Federation of
Miners in support of the contention
This statement has been officially
received by the commission and the
consideration of it will be begun at
8 O'Clock tomorrow. Today was
spent by the commission in going
over the information obtained by
General Funston and Governor
Sparks. All of this was laid before
the members of the commission. who
were in executive session this morn
ing, and the entire day was consumed
in considering it.
General Funston and Governor
Sparks will leave Goldfield on We'd
nesday morning, General Funston to
return to San Francisco, and Gov
ernor Sparks to go to his ranch to
recuperate.
Tonight President McKinnon of the
Goldfield Miners union, was called
before the commission and asked to
give his version of the trouble. No
int ti,,,n inp T. hot DIM In ba
session is given out, for after the
meeting it was learned that Presi-
dent McKinpon stated to the mem hers
of the commission that the members
of the Western Federation of Min
ers have been peaceably inclined at
all times, and was emphatic in his
declaration that no necessity has ex-
listed for the presence of federal
troops He has promised to prepare
a comprehensive statement of the
Western Federation side of the con
troversy.
Both the Mine Owners association
and the miners union are preparing
for the struggle which is to come.
Men are arriving by every train to
accept work in the mines. The as
soclation has purchased Il boarding
house at Jumbotown, which is on
ground owned by the Consolidated
company, and is building sleeping
quarters for the men near the Com
bination mill. As fast as the men
ccmt in they are put on the pay roll
and as soon as enough can be secured
mine will resume. The famous Lit
tie Florence lease is carrying 80 men
on its pay roll and will resume work
with 80, three-fourths of the usual
force
The miners union mas rented two
BOARDING houses in Columbia pre-
sumably for the accommodation of its
members who are broke.
Louis Scho5s. president and man
ager of the Keuanas Mining com
pany, says he was assaulted yester-
day in a miners saloon on Fifth ave
nue., near the Combination mine,
where he had stopped to get drink
on his way to his property. He knows
one of his three assailants and the
officers are looking for the mar, but
with small chance If finding him
GOLDFIELD, Dec. IA brutal
cowardly ana fiendish assault was
committed this morning upon wom-
an by members of the Western Fed
Grafton. The woman's name has not
been learned but General Funston.
Governor Sparks and Captain Cox
say the assault was committed and
the woman will personally appear be-
fore Funston later and tell her story
There will be several witnesses to
corroborate her story.
hnI
strike breaker in the Nevada-Gold-
field Reduction works and since that
plant opened the mother had accom-
panied him to and from work for
fear that violence would befall him
On several occasions, it is learned,
the mother and son were followed
and vile names were hurled at them.
This morning after she returned from
the mill several men called at her
house, call her to the door, and after
heaping abuse on her proceeded to