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Vol. 2—No. 15
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA., THURSDAY, SEPTtMBI !, 1, 1921
PRICE, THREE CENTS
Americanize Non-Union Coal Fielt. • Lewis
BY JOHN L. LEWIS
President of the United Mine Work-
ers of America.
Copyright, 1021, by United Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 1.—In Went
Virginia from the line of the Kana-
wha river northward some 65.000
miners are employed working under
joint agreements of the coal opera-
tors and the United Mine Workers
of America.
In this section peace and harmony
prevail between employers and em-
ployes with precisely the same re-
lationship as exists between the mine
operators of Ohio, Indiana or Illinois
and their employes who are mem-
bers of the United Mine Workers of
America in those state.
In all this great area no disorders
occur and community life in the
mining camps is peaceful. Contrast
this condition with the situation ex-
isting in the territory south and
east of the Kanawha river in the
counties of l^gan, Mingo, McDowell
and Mcrcer. In this section, some
40,000 miners are employed who dare
not become members of the United
Mine Workers of America for fear
of instant discharge by the operators.
Tamps Corporate*!.
They live In corporated mining
j camps where their domiciles and the
i land on which they are located are
| owned solely by the coal companies.
IN DECLINE
U.S. II
[PORT
Excessive Hains, Cool Weath-
er and Boll Weevil
Causes.
WASHWGTOK, Sept. l.The
1l>21 cotton crop was estimated
at 7,037,000 bales bj the depart*
ment of agriculture today. The
total production for 1920 wn*
13,430,603 hales The condition
of* the crop on August 2o wna
40JI per cent of normal as com-
pared with 64.7 on July 2' , and
67J> per cent on August 25, 1020.
The condition report forecast*
a yield of about 127 pounds per
acre.
Excessive rain and cool weather
are held responsible for much dam-
age suffered by the crop.
The condition figure, 49.3, set a
new low record, the department
stated.
"Everything seems to have gone
wrong with the crop," said the de-
partment statement.
"In South Carolina, Georgia and
Arkansas and portions of other
states, excess rainfall and cool
weathtr combined to produce a big
weed, which the boll weevil has at-
tacked very hard, destroying all
squares and bolls set during August
and some of the larger bolls."
Conditions are especially bad in
southern Oklahoma, the statement
said.
In South Carolina the crop is l£sa
than a third.
Damage has been greatest in the
area from central Oklahoma to
north central Texas, the decline in
condition ranging from 25 to 30
points.
Cotton Prices Make Big
Advances on Exchanges.
NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 1.—(By
U. P.)—Wild scenes were enacted
on the New Orleans cotton exchange
shortly before noon today when the
latest government crop report,
showing a great shrinkage in the cot-
ton crop, was read.
In the first five minutes after the
report was read cotton advanced one
and three quarter cents, bringing
contracts for October delivery as
high as 17.25. This Is six cents
higher than the price two weeks ago.
After the first wave of excitement
passed prices settled down and ten
minutes after the readlnsr of the re-
port, the net advance ranged from
120 to 154 points.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Prices on
the cotton market rose rapidly today.
October was quoted at 17.38. up 133
points; December 17.69. up 136
points; January 17.65, up 140; March
17.86. up 140; May. 17.82, up 132;
July 18.08, up 163.
PUBLIC DISROBING
HALTED BY OFFICER
NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Sept. 1.—
(By U. P.) Disrobing in New
Haven is reserved for bedrooms,
Chief of Police William T. Smith
Informed Ina Claire today.
The chief watched Ina start to
get undressed in her new French
farce Bluebeard's Eighth Wife—
at Shubert's last night, and
stopped the show right when it
was getting interesting.
In most instances there are no pub-
lic roads leading to these communi-
ties and in&ress and egress are over
land held by the coal companies.
Mine guards are furnished under
contract by a detective agency. This
agency does an interstate business,
charging the coal operators so much
per day for each gunman furnished
them and receiving a stipulated
profit for each one over and above
the expenses of his maintenance.
These guards are recruited from
all classes and are equipped with
rifles, revolvers or automatic pistols.
These professional gunmen, directed
by the detective agency, have during
their years of employment inflicted
almost countless assaults and out-
'BRING BACK LAW TO WEST VIRGINIA'
A return of the administration of the law. the restoration of the
rights of American citizens under the constitution, and the abolition
of the mine guard are fundamental necessities before an enduring
peace can be obtained in West Virginia, asserts John L. Lewis in
a statement written for the United Press today presenting the union
miners' point of view of the situation.
Lewis points out that the trouble area In West Virginia affects
only four counties and that elsewhere In the state that 65,000 union
miners work in hsrmony with the coal operators.
i upon their liberty and the indignities
wheh are perpetrated upon them,
l'hey have in vain sought redress
1 from the constituted civil authorities
o' these counties and from the exoc-
viiH-es of the commonwealth of West
Vll tula. The political influence of
in.ercial operators and the
agency Is sufficient to pro-
vent their trom securing Justice In
the mL'ty courts or in the councils
of th- s a fcovernmont.
The Uuttt 1 Mine Workers of
America lia made public protest
pled this section since the days of j against t • e trages and even at
fore the governors
rages on individual mine workers
The men employed"in the mines > the settlement of the country and 1 times broi
of these four counties are almost 100 deep in their hearts is the Inborn of West VIt tnia the maimed, bleed-
per cent American. They are of a . love of liberty. Their spirits rebel | tn« and band ed Ictlms of the ^un
race of mountaineers who have peo-I against the unwarranted restriction** men as evldei • o their atrocities.
and upon every occasion hat. een
denied redress.
Protests Repeated.
The international officials have re-
peatedly taken the matter up with
Koverninental departments at Wash-
ington, extending back through sev-
eral administrations and despite
these efforts the mine guards of
West Virginia continue to flourish,
j imposing the will of these feudal coal
| barons without warrant of law upon
| the Americans who are compelled to
live In this environment. Under
I these circumstances can one marvel
! that patience has ceased to be a vir-
tue and that the mine workers are
venting their pent-up Indignation
and resentment by assembling in
CK
30 DEAD IN BATTLE;
IS MINERS ASK TROOPS;
GUT PLANES DISPATCHED
mum
N SCAB PUN.
| force to protest these outrages?
i The United Mine Workers of Amer-
• i« a condones no violation of the law,
but for those who have knowledge of
• ondltions in southwest Virginia it
I in easy to understand the psycholog-
ical processes which the. minds of
the o toilers have undergone while
brooding over their wrongs.
Federal troops may restore order
j in West Virginia, but unless the
primary cause of this constantly re-
curring trouble is removed by the
abolition of the mine guard army and
the. recognition of the constitutional
rkhts of the miners in thle ' -
the dove of peace will nev
permanent abode in this
territory.
SCUFF
I
SHOOTING
Commissioner Donnelly's Son Reinforcements For Miners
Is Held Up On Thir- /\re Massed on the County
teenth Street. i Lme—Establish Field Hos-
pital.
Highwaymen were still busy In the
city Wednesday night. Mike Don-
nelly. Jr., son of the city finance
commissioner, and J. R. Hill were
The battle along the border line
between Boone and l^ogan counties,
DRIVER DIES
IN HILL TEST
Chevrolet Sales Manager and
Aviator Fails in Pike's
Peak Effort.
COLORADO SPRINGS. Sept. 1.—
Wallace A. Coleman, assistant sales
manager for the Chevrolet Motors
company In Denver, and well-known
automobile race driver and aviator,
was killed today while making a
speed test of a Chevrolet car to the
top of Pike's peak preparatory to
the annual race.
Coleman's car was unable to ne-
gotiate "Hairpin" curve and plunged
into a field of boulders, striking one
and caroming off. The car turned
turtle, pinning Coleman under it,
breaking hiB neck and fracturing his
skull.
ITAI.T ACCEPTS.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.—Italy's
acceptance of President Harding's
formal invitation to the powers for
the Washington disarmament con-
ference was received today by Sec-
retary of State Hughes.
White Man Declared to Have
Been Shot With Own
Gun During Affray.
O. J. Davenport, 1124 West G, Cap-
itol Hill, was reported to be in a
serious condition at the University
hospital Thursday and T. J. Lard, a
porter at the Adams rooms, 220Vi
North Broadway, was being held at
the county jail as a result of a shoot-
ing scrape on North Broadway at 2
o'clock Thursday morning.
Davenport was shot in the left
thigh, the bullet coming out through
the right thigh, when1 a gun o\er
which the two were scuffling ex-
ploded. Davenport, is said to have
approached the negro with a gun.
According to I>ard's story to police.
Davenport was under the Influence
of liquor. Davenport Is alleged to
have gone over to the A. D. T. of-
fices, 111 West Second street, where
he once worked as a tinner, and re-
turned with a .38 pistol.
He is said to have approached
Lard again and told him that he
was working for the city and flour-
ished the gun, which Lard tried to
seize. In the scuffle that followed,
Davenport was shot. Both men ran
at the report. I^ard was halted at
the Rock Island tracks on North
Broadway and Davenport was locat-
ed in the alley between Third and
Fourth and Broadway and Robinson
streets.
County investigation of the shoot-
ing was under way Thursday when
County Attorney Forrest L. Hughes
interviewed the wounded man at
University hospital.
RATE SLASHES
ARE ALLOWED
I. C. C. Permits Lower Freight
Rates on Grain—Sched-
ules Are Cut.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.—Western
railroads today were given permis-
sion to reduce rates on grain for ex-
port via the gulf on four days' no-
tices instead of thirty days' as un-
der customary procedure.
CHICAGO, Sept. 1.— Lower freight
schedules on grain for export, af-
fecting shipments to gulf ports from
the Missouri river to related points,
were sent out today by the western
trunk line committee.
The reduction will go into effect
about September 12, and will be gen-
erally cents a hundred weight
Kansas and Nebraska are reduced
3 cents and from Oklahoma points
2V6 cents with the provision that
they shall no be higher than other
rates In the territory affected.
Application for the new schedules
was approved by the interstate com-
merce commission yesterday.
PART INDIAN TO FIGHT
MAN WHO WED DAUGHTER.
POSSESSOR OF OIL LAND
WICHITA, Kail.. Sept. 1.—Claim-
ing that his daughter is under age
| and a ward of the government with
i valuable Osage oil land worth nearly
i a quarter of a million dollars, Paul S.
Lyman, one-sixteenth Osage Indian,
j is on a little warpath all his own,
on being informed of bis daughter's
j secret marriage ten days ago.
1 He threatens perjury charges
against W. E. Hyatt, the husband.
held up In widely separated parts of I West Virginia, w here an army of
town.
I miners now numbering over 5,000 haj
A lone highwayman met the com-I dvMced #t ,nd armp(|
missioner s son. a block east of the cHlMni hol(1,ng Sprucc Fork* ridge.
Santa Fe on Thirteenth street at
10 o'clock Wednesday night and
robbed him or $9 in cash at the point
of a gun.
An extended search of the neigh-
borhood by police shortly after the
holdup failed to uncover the rob-
ber, who was described as being
commonly dressed and about 5 feet,
9 inches in height.
Is apparently to be fought out until
federal troops arrive.
COOL WEATHER
MAY CONTINUE
The cool weather of the past two
days will continue throughout the
week. the weather man announced
ursday. The minimum tempera-
fer Wednesday night, was 68
the maximum temperature
i N i aat twenty-four houra was
85 m <«.
Armed Workmen Promise To Western Bank Supply Com-
Disband If U. S. Soldiers Pany's Employe Rushed
Supplant Anti-union Guards To Hospital,
and Thugs.
MADISON, W. Va., Sept. 1.-—(By |
U. P.I- The miners' object in march- ;
inj? upon lx)gan county is to forcr- |
the government to send federal
troops, their leaders iuformed the j
United Press today.
They will ccase fighting and rc:
tire when the troops arrive but not
.until they have forced the imposition
. Attacks upon \arious outposts of of martia| law.
i the lx)gan line of defense
irere re-
ported today and the miners are said
to have lost over thirty men killed
in an attempt to rush a niachino gun
nest.
Fifteen battle planes from l-in,;-
ley Field, Va., were ordered to the
At about the same time, two hi- „f t)gh0ng by the «ar dcpart.
jackers accosted J. R. Hill, Rashach i m<>n(
hotel, at the Rock Island tracks j Thr min(,rR aro prrparing t0 wrI.
and Ixje avenue, commanding him to jromP thr arrlva, 0f federal troops
stick em up, and while one of the an(j consider they hr.ve won a vic-
pair held a gun against his stomach, | jory jn having the government av-nd
the other reached for his witch.
regulars to take over control of tht
According to police reports. Hill | southern counties
struck at th< robber holding the gun. I Reports brought into headquarters
sending a telling blow to the hi- j of the defending deputies say that
jacker's jaBoth robbers fled,' the miners are retiring but from
taking Hill's watch and pocketbook Madison and Ethel reports indicate
with them. They escaped in the that the miners' army is bein^ lioav-
maze of box cars on the Rock Island ily reinforced and that the fighting
tracks.
HER PROBE
CASE
is continuing at many points.
MADISON, W. Va.. Sept. 1.—Miner
reinforcements are passing through
Boone county on their way to the
Logan border today.
I It Is believed at least 5,000 are
massed on the border.
It Is said, however, they estimate
| their dead at about 30.
j A detachment attacked a machine
Investigation May Be Made to j gun nest near Clothier early today,
a miner returning from the front
said. Forty or more were killed or
wounded, it was declared?
The miners established a field hos-
pital at Clothier. Train service harf
been suspended.
Determine if Conspiracy
Existed.
Further Investigation into the vio-
lation of the federal film transporta-
tion act for which Charles E. Myton
of Yukon was arrested in connection
with the transporting of five reels of
the Dempsey-Carpentier fight films
Into Oklahoma, was indicated Thurs-
day by federal officers.
The federal law forbids the trans-
portation of fight films from one
state to another. Persons implicated
in bringing about the importation of
the films may be prosecuted for con-
spiring with the actual transporter.
The spirit of the law will be de-
feated, It was pointed out, if the
messenger is punished and those
who make huge profits from the
transaction go unpunished.
The Alms have been widely adver-
tised and the Orpheum theater,
under the Sinopoulo management is
preparing to go ahead with the ex-
hibition.
Herbert M. Peck, United States
district attorney, and Tom Weiss of
the federal investigation office, who
are conducting the investigation,
were in Perry Thursday on other
matters, but it is expected that oa
their return further development
may take place.
STATE AGRICULTURE
BOARD IN SESSION
Meeting of the state board of agri-
culture was being held at the state
capitol Thursday, J. A. Whltehurst.
president of the board, announced.
Subjects to be taken up were the
combatting of the boll weevil sltua
tion, and the administration prob-
lems of the state agricultural college.
Stillwater.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—A squad-
ron of airplanes was dispatched to-
day to the fighting area of West Vir-
ginia, Secretary of War Weeks said
today.
The squadron consists of thirteen
airplanes and was ordered this
morning from Langley Field, Va.
WILLIAMSON, W. Va., Sept. L—
Miners massed for a fight along the
Union men regard the intervention
of federal troops as a victory and
were holding their ground, fully
"HANG DON CHAFIN TO
A SOUR APPLE TREE,"
CHARLESTON. W. Va., Sept. 1.
Efforts to recruit a large body
-*T former service men to fight
anion miners marching into \m-
c:an county failed here today.
A meeting of the American
Legion to effect a defense organ-
ization was held next door to
the executive mansion of Gov-
ernor Morgan.
It broke up with catcalls and
Jeers for speakers favoring or-
ganization, and the singing of
"We'll hang Don Chafin to a sour
apple tree.''
Chafin is the sheriff of Ixigan
county leading forccs fighting the
miners.
armed, to compel the government to
make good its threat to take charge
of the situation at noon.
Five thousand men strung aloug
the mountainous Logan county line
southwest of here, received Presi-
dent Harding's ultimatum with
"poker faces."
Death Is Threatened.
They sent unofficial word back to
their own union leaders that it
would be death for the latter if they
tried to come in and turn them back
before the soldiers arrived.
Conversations with miners today
revealed their attitude.
"The only way we can be assured
of a square deal is by the presenco
of federal troops. The original ob-
ject of our first march in which 16,-
000 participated, was a demonstra-
tion to force the release of scores of
miners arrested under state martial
Ixjgan-Boone county line, began law in Mingo and compel the expul-
wlthdrawing shortly before noon to
day, Don Chafin, 1-ogan county
sheriff, reported here today.
Thafin told authorities here he
feared a ruse and intended to
strengthen his guards. Chafin said
he doubted if the miners would act-
ually retire until federal Inverven-
tlon was assured.
One report here from Chafin said
advices received today was that
fifty miners were killed in three
bklrmishes.
ARE
RG
ES
COVER E
sion of former mine guards from the
state constabulary
"When we dispersed at the instance
of Keeney and Mooney no further
trouble would have taken place had
not the constabulary, reinforced by
mine guards, then attacked the Boone
county coal corporation mine near
Sharpies which is a union strons-
hold in lx>gan county.
Professions in Armr
Rush lost his hand as a result
of the accident, it was reported
Thursday afternoon.
Authorities at St. Anjthony's
hospital, where he was taken,
stated oier the phone that they
could give no information as to
his condition. They declared
I hat when an employer or family
of an Injured man requested that
no publicity he given, they could
make iio announcement*.
Frank Rush, open shop paper cut-
ter, working at the Western Bank
Supply company, was rushed to St.
Anthony's hospital Thursday noon,
following an accident in which his
hand was nearly severed in the pa-
per cutter at the Western Bank
Supply.
Hospital authorities stated that it
was probable that the hand would
have to be amputated. Rush was in
a Serious condition due to loss of
blood. A Street and Draper am-
bulance rushed the Injured man to
the hospital.
The Western Bank Supply com-
pany has been conducting its plant
with open shop help.
CLERK SOUGHT
Youth Is Said To Have Been
Missing Since Monday;
Books Audited.
Warrant for the arrest of A. F.
Wood, missing employe of the Okla-
homa Railway company was in the
hands of Sheriff Ben Dancy Thurs-
day following the filing of an infor-
mation by County Attorney Forrest
Hughes charging Wood with the em-
bezzlement of $86.1.21.
The information was file<f in the
justice court of T. F. Donnell Thurs-
day morning.
Wood was one of the most trusted
young men in the employe of the
Oklahoma Railway company. He
disappeared Monday, It is said, and
auditors began going over the books.
Sheriff's deputies were -fcnably to
locate the youth Thursday.
Un. u • vother for Thursday
night i feather for Friday is
the forec 3t.
IS HOSTILE T
EIUKED
EBS
Daugherty Denies That Polit-
ical Prisoners Have Su-
perior Rights.
Special to leader.
CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 1—Harry
Daugherty, U. S. attorney general,
has given definite indications of hos-
tility toward political prisoners, in
a speech delivered before tho Amer-
ican Bar association, at. Its conven-
tion hore.
His address indicates also a rever-
sion from the liberal ideas he i
supposed to uphold, In opposition to
the autocratic attitude of Woodrow
Wilson's attorney general, A. Mitchell
Palmer.
His denial of the category of "po-
litical prisoners" is being taken as
an indication that he has been won
over by the reactionary forces who
have been Insisting that men like
Eugene V. Debs #re among the com-
mon law violators and entitled to no
more consideration.
He declared he ^yould not dignify
the movements for amnesty if they
were confined to "Socialists, I. W.
W.'s and anarchists." Ho seems to
think it strange that there are peo-
ple who "term all the anarchists, I.
W. W.'s and Socialists convicted of
law violations idealists and heroes
of conscience and demand their re-
lease on the ground that their acts
are political offenses merely."
"Many well-meaning persons," ho
continues, "feel that it in sufficient
reason for the releaso of these peo-
ple to say that they are political
prisoners."
1,000 MEMBERS
IN TULSA KLAN
F
LLOY
ED
lu
Further Talks Suggested—
More Troops in Belfast—"
Red Flag Up. j
DUBLIN, Sept, 1.—Th« teply of
Dail Elreann to the latest Briti&h
move was forwarded to Lloyd George
last night. It was officially jianotinced
here today.
Special Irish couriers carried th«
bail's reply directly to the British
premier in Scotland.
The reply has not ended the ne«
gotiations unless the British govern-
ment insists upon breaking them off,
it was paid. Further pourparlers
bavo been suggested.
BELFAST, Sept. 1.—(By U. P.)—
More troops arrived in Belfast to-
day. The "no man's land" streets
between Catholic and Protestant
sections and the street car lines
along which the shipyard workers
traveled this morning were heavily
guarded. Barbed wire entanglements
were erected along York street.
The latent death roll was 16 with
practically 100 wounded.
DUBLIN. Sept. 1.—(By U. P.)—
Tho "red" flag has been raised in
southern Ireland.
In Burree, county Limerick, a
group of transport workers seized
a mill and bakery and declared them-
selves a soviet.
Placards declaring that the mills
were now the property oC Bruree so*
viet workers, were put up in the
town. They contained the announce-
ment:
"Wo make bread, not profits."
The action followed tjtie dismissal
of two employes of the mill whom
the owners refused 1<* reinstate.
BUST'S CAUSE*
0 BE QUIZZED
Eleven Miners Die of Explo-
sion—Seven Sufferfrom
Black Damp. , ,
HARRISBURG. 111., Si>pt. 1—(By
U. P.)—Th8 little mining village of
j Harco station, six miles Bouth of
Initiation Proceedings By Ku' here, today mourned tha loss of
Klux Near City Before
Midnight.
GIANT FLYING BOAT
DOING BIG COURSE ,
cn miners who met- death in an
explosion in the Harco Coal company
mine.
Wives, some oPthsm with babiis
cuddled in their arms, relatives and
sweethearts clustered about ths
morgue where the bodies cf the vic-
TUL8A, Okla., Sept. 1.—The
Klux Klan has reached Tulsa.
More than 1,000 men were initiated
into the order near here at 11 o'clock.; timH ]ay on 6iabs, weeping and hys-
Ilast night. Iterical.
i PEORIA. 111., Sept. 1. The giant a newspaper reporter for a local Seven coal diggers were badly
, flying boat. Santn Maria, left here j paper was taken to the scene blind 'passed but physicians held out hope
at noon today and will Btop at Ha-j folded and stationed 200 yards fi
| vana, III., Blgdsville and Alton en j the seene, permitted to wateh the
route to St. Louis. It will follow the I fair from h distance and after be
"This caused partial remobllization Mississippi to New Orleans, stopping 'again blindfolded was returned
and our ranks now Include farmers, |at all the larger towns. town.
From New Orleans the boat goes I "Tell the folks we are here,"
to Vera Cruz. was instructed.
doctors, lawyers,
foremen, superin-;
even independent I
MOTHER OF FOURTEEN CHILDREN
SEEKS DIVORCE FROM HUSBAND,
CHARGING "EXTREME CRUELTY"
railway men,
preachers, mint
tendents and
operators.
"We determined to make the pres-
ident make good his promise to send
federal troops. Our work finishes
with their arrival. We will probabl;.
retire soon, assured that tho regular
j soldiers will provide protection for .
Stock Owners Fed On Beef j union miners in Logan county an<i ! Married at lf{, in 1883, mother of according to ti
prevent operators and gun men from fourteen children, Mrs. Ella Key- the past twelv
I committing; further outrages. j nold5 took the witn(.ss stand Thurs- n"vcr ,oolc her
i "We hope that a congressional in ! , . L iog. she says.
_____ .. .. ... ., . . day morning in an attempt to obtain , , , , K
I vestigation will result in the end of j 1 whipped her c
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Sept. 1.—Forty 'the mine war which has blackened a divorce from her husband, Nathan whip for
guests at a dinner gi\en stock own- the state for years and we have every Reynolds, wealthy Edmond farmer, cursed at
Itir at the state fairgrounds were re- reason to believe the probe will do on the grounds of gross neglect and for u di\
covering from ptomaine poisoning in j this." j extreme cruelty. declares
| hospitals here today. | While they waited for federal In-1 She declared that besides doing all lated thrc
In in.-
ithan R
Pickets and sentries guard
Succumb to Ptomaine
Poison.
FORMER ARMY SURGEON
ARRESTED FOR MURDER Eight \ictlms were in a serious terventlon, the miners established! t^e housework, washing and chore
DENVER, Sept 1.—Dr. W. A. Had- j condition, and physicians feared they their own form of martial law her< and bringing up her family, that she
ley, former United States Army sur- might succumb to the poison. (Pickets and sentries guard every was compelled to give birth to her
any socii
children Witt
itty misdemeai
abused her.
n of $35,000 \
husband has
3 her help.
om j for their recovery.
; It was said a miner was drilling
;i hole in a new coal bed in an old
to j walled room providing means of es-
cape of black damp and gas seeped
ha, through, suffocating the men. A
{dynamite charge ignited the fumes
j and caused the blast.
HARRISBURG. II!., Sept. 1.—State
investigation to determine the cause
j of the explosion in the Harco Coal
company mine at Harco station, near
here, which claimed the lives of
eleven men, began today.
The dead are Charles and Michael
Uosrn, George Warwicj, Herbert
Reeder, Hiram Brown, Charles
Goodrich. W. J. Lyman Buckey;
John Luther, George Hunter, Her-
;<nd
geon, formerly prominent In Wash- j The dinner was tendered by the possible means of ingress and egres
Ington. D. C„ and Virginia, sought i !i ternational Live Stock exposition Passes are necessary to get in and
for three years on a murder charge ' to more than 200 stork owners from pet. out.
in conneetion with the death of his Oh o, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and I
. | children without medical attention.
> J that she and her children were com-
' pelled to milk twenty-five cows and
care for the cream and butter. She
nold:
and daughter o
name to checks,
cursed him and
wife. Mrs. Sue Hadley in Virginia, j other states.
has been arrested at Faunlogton, I The poisoning, phvsicians say, was '
New MexiGOw cuised by corned beef.
honeymoon flight by aeroplane charges her husband with being
the experience of a recont bride unbeliever in God.
stand Mrs.
J she did h
j when her
Reynolds i
f having forge 1 his
He claims that she
abused him. On the
nolds admitted that
st to hold her own
nd aubsed her. Mrs.
years old. Her hus-
I in Oshkosh. Wis.
They moved in. 1890 to Edmond, | band is
.shel Naughn, George Stewart.
Seven miners are in a hospital
here suffering from black damp.
The) .ire expected to recover.
State authorities sealed the mine
Four hundred and thirty-six min-
ers were at work in the pits when
the explosion occurred. All escaped
sa\r eleven, who were entombed at
a depth of 445
Tli** . Mtiers were believed to havf
been killed by a dynamite c harge in
a new coal bed which crushed tht
old vein walls.
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MacLaren, William. Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1921, newspaper, September 1, 1921; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc109530/m1/1/: accessed May 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.