New-York tribune., 1907-12-14
c0[DF[ELD SITUATION.
cERIOUS, SAYS FUNSTON.
g,roons Viii Remain, Insuring Fair
ness to Both Sides.

,s.,d Nev.. Dec 13.-After having con-
s With many citizens of Goldfield to-day.
Funston said tonight that he found
-sftions worse than he had anticipated.
-, ,,ossibilities of further trouble following
,,s,c,lties between the mine owners and the
NE he said, ''are greater than my informa-
Id me- TO believe / have just telegraphed
ond report to Washington based on the
.-r,ation / gathered to-day 1 do not believe
-. +be Governor will declare martial law at
az no serious disturbance has occurred. I
= sot;shed and shall not advise such action
~ - is absolutely necessary. AS to the pa
.1,;,o Of the mines and the streets of the city
-;+b the regulars. that is a procedure that may
,e~o-,e necessary at any hour"
The statement of General Funston tonight
-,,+lss effectively the question of the withdrawal
= she troops from Goldfield. Neither General
--ns4or nor Governor Sparks will yield to the
oseure that has been brought to induce them
20 favor the withdrawal Of the troops before the
--ivaI Of the labor commission from Washing
ton.
A delegation of members of the Womens Club
,f C7oldfeld will call on General Funston to-
morrow and lay before him their side of the
o.,estiou, which will be that previous to the
coming of the troops they had lived in constant
,error believing that their homes must be de-
s-roved and their lives endangered by deeds of
violence and depredations Of desperate strikers.
They will ask that the troops be kept here until
all danger of trouble is past.
Delegations from the Goldfeld Chamber OF
Commerce. the Mine Owners Association and
the Goldheld Stock Exchange also will call on
General Funston to present the same view.
There is a well authenticated runeor tonight
that committee of citizens has been formed
ostensibly to act volunteer police and fire
department in the residence quarter, but which
will be more in the nature of vigilance COM
rnittee.
: A story is circulating that two union men
oorted a miner who had gone back to work TO
g point three miles from camp tonight and then
brutally beat him and started him for Tonopah
across the desert No trace of the miner of
the two men has been found.
General Funston said that the troops would
endeavor to protect Western Federation men If
any attempt was made to deport them, just as
they would protect men who might be set upon
by strikers
After an all-day session the Mine Owners
Association decided this afternoon to continue
the card system in operation and to require all
those who work to sign agreement renouncing
all allegiance to the Western Federation Of
Miners
In support of their refusal to accept scrip in
payment for wages the officers of the local
union dug up a section Of the constitution of
Nevada to-day which declares that no bank
shall issue or to be circulated any
money other than national currency or bank
certificates authorized by Congress
The Federation Of Miners has maintained
more rigorous picketing of the mines in opera
ton to-day than was maintained yesterday, and
the guards Of the Mine Owners Association have
heer more active.
II f. said that the Mine Owners Association
has two hundred strikebreakers the way
here hut strict secrecy is maintained as TO
.be movement of the train and the hour when
they will arrive.
night shift has been put on In the Consoli-
dated mines and the guards have been doubled
tonight.