Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-07
'GOlOF|ELO IS QUIET CAlEb POWERS TRIAL
But Trouble Is Now Feared at Startling Testimony by Prose-
Any Moment. cuion's Star Witness.
TROOPS DUE THERE TODAY THE PLOT TO KILL GOEBEL
Dynamite Power Damaging Evidence Against Prison
Plant. er by Wharton Golden
ONE MAN sLuGGED BY THUGS THE PARDON BY Gov TAYLOR
fort-sensaton Over Threatened
ble-Dark Forebodines Arrest Of othersI Indie
But Trouble Is Now Feared at
Any Moment.
TROOPS DUE THERE TODAY
Effort Made to Dynamite a Power
Plant.
ONE MAN sLUGGED BY THUGS
Miners Union Issues a Statement
Giving Their Side Of the Trou-
ble-Dark Forebodings.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GoLDFIELD. New, December while
Goldfield was quiet on the surface this
morning, there were indications that an
may be brought to head with the ar
rival of the federal troops this after
noon. The radicals OF the Western Fed
Grafton OF Miners were stunned when
ordered here, but this has given way to
rage. and they now are openly threaten
ing to create trouble.
The troops, under command OF Col. AL
fred Reynolds, are bringing full field
equipment and two ambulances, number
1876 soldiers and four officers, including
COMPANIES B. D, X, 1 and NJ of the 22d
Infantry from San Francisco, and the
four companies from Monterey with two
machine guns.
Some disturbances have occurred in the
town Herbert Belford son of Judge Bel
ford Of Denver. was badly beaten by
miners last night. Belford says that he
was recognized and called to the street,
where he was taken into custody by
man representing himself as a deputy
sheriff. He was led to dark district and
set upon by thugs and left for dead. Bel
ford had been accused Of having
"scabbed" in the Cripple Creek district
during the strike there.
Fear the Troops.
Dynamiters made an effort last night
to wreck the electric power line which
furnishes the light and power to Cold
field. The percussion caps on the charge
had been exploded. but the powder. being
frozen. failed to ignite.
President McKinnon of the local miners
union, a brother-in-law of William D.
Haywood, is in charge Of the miners'
campaign.
Sheriff ingalls, and his force do not look
with pleasure on the coming of the troops
The sheriff and his forces have always
been charged by the mine owners with
being too friendly to the miners. Ingalls,
is the owner of one of the largest saloons
and gambling houses in Goldfield which
is largely patronized by working men.
Members of the miners union in large
numbers surround the union headquarters,
and meetings. formal or Informal, are
In constant session. but always guarded
with the utmost secrecy.
Miners statement.
The miners union today issued the fol-
lowing statement of its position in the
present strike: "In order to remove any
misunderstanding from the minds of
those who wish fairly to investigate the
present trouble and to offset the delibar
ate misstatements of those who represent
the Mine Owners Association, let it be
plainly understood:
II. That the miners do not refuse to
accept cashiers checks simply because
those checks are unusual, but they do
demand that the employers of labor shall
guarantee of their value as a medium OF
exchange.
"2. That the mine owners have abso-
lutely refused, after having been given
every opportunity to do what is right, to
guara ntee that the paper issued by them
in payment of their employees wages will
be secured by the product Of miners
labor, by the property of the mine owners
or by any tangible or long security.
"3. That the cashiers checks issued In
and that until they are secured by some
thing more than the mere word of
private citizen they cannot be considered
to be legitimate equivalent of wages
for labor performed.
Terms Of Peace.
~ That many mining and leasing
companies have given the strike commit
tee a satisfactory guarantee in this mat
ter, and that in all such cases the men
have returned to work.
''5. That as showing to what extent the
cashiers checks of this town can be re-
garded as worth their face value an adj
vertisement has already appeared in even
ing papers offering to pay cash for the
checks at discount.
g. That number of the business men
of the camp have Endorsed the action Of
the miners union.
~ That the present fight is not for
cash. but for a medium of exchange in
this town that will fulfill all the legal re-
quirements of cash and will not be dis
counted to the injury of it's possessors.
''S. That If the mine owners want peace
they have only to do that which they are
legally reqtired to do, to guarantee the
wages of their employees, and that until
they do this they will be regarded as the
aggressors in this fight"
Troops on the Way.
RENO, New, December 1.-THE first de-
tachment of troops passed through here
for Goldfield at midnight last night. Col.
Reynolds is in command.
Gov. Sparks did not go to Goldfeld, as
originally intended, but sent Capt. w. l..
Cox, a Spanish-American war veteran on
his staff, as his personal representative.
This was done at the request of Gen.
Funston to send a state representative
along.
Owing to storms on the desert there is
likely to be delay at Hazen. and it is
hardly probable that the troops will reach
Goldfield before 10 o'clock this morning.
The second section of the train bearing
about 800 troops to Goldfield arrived in
Reno at 7:3O o'clock this morning. After
a wait of about an hour the run to the
mining camp was resumed. It should ar
rive in Goldfield at about 5 O'Clock this
afternoon.