The ,:::.ska Agricultural College
and Sdiocl of Mi
' VOL. 1. NO. 61
McGRATH, ALASKA, SEPTEMRBE 3. 1921.
PRICE 25 CENTS
DESPERATE WARFARE
BREAKS OUT IN WEST
VIRGINIA COAL FIELDS
Charleston, W.’.Va., Aug. SI
r The West Virginia coal fields
are again the sc.enes of terrible
- conflict. Armed miners are
maintaining patrols along' the
». boundary dine of 1 .Logan and
Booae counties, t Chesapeake &'
*■ Ohio-Sail-way trains' have been
• ecisitnandeered to transport con
r signments to armed' companies
and the telephone wires have
been cut. Magistrate Mitchell,
i of Logan county, wasr captured
. and-shackled G*nd ds- being held
t prisoner, ■ his captors moving
f him from place to .place.
'■Washington,.'Aug. 51.—Presi
■ dent' Harding today signed a
5 proclamation oalliag^on ltlae dis
. ordoidv elements in the.mining
. districts of West. Virginia to dis
pefse and return to fcheintweces
» by noon of September 1.
Logan^ Wi Va., Aug.' 31 .—“One
v thousand men, made up . of two
< companies of State police, partly
• of deputy sheriffs, and the re
^ mainder of armed volunteers and
^citizens from all over. Logan.
« county, are ready, their leaders
said today}-for «ny -eventuality.
Aeroplanes today distributed
» copies of . Harding’s . position
. throughout this dispute.
The border > patrol on Blair
t. mountain -.was tired upon this
. morning by a party of men from
v the east slope. • The fire was re
turned and the attacking party
driven back by Logan-^county
. deputies holding this sector..
. John Gore,, a* deputy sheriff, was
. killed.
Logan, Sept. 1.—Thirty miners
v-iwere killed in Crooked creek and !
Blair mountain battles-yesterday
. and last night, according to the i
t reports of air .scouts .brought
here today.
Charleston.—Reports reaching the
t office of the Governor this afternoon,
t indicated that firing.along the JBoone
Logan icoupty line, held by the Slate
police and deputies against bands of
armed taen, had - become general, fol
> lowingahe killing of.Deputy Gore* The*
Governor was informed .that a miner
had been killed and a. deputy . sheriff
f captured. (
Charleston.—Governor.. Mprg-an. ..an
, nounced this afternoon' that ’he has a
report from Logan of firing on the
(.-♦mountain. „ Brigadier,,. General. Ban
holtz. representing the war depart
ment, has arrived in Charleston. The
Governor and other officials believe
that martial lav/ in /-Logan and other
nearby counties is inevitable.
Deputy sheriffs posted in mountain
passes north of here bad a hard battle
yesterday.
General Bandholtz this morning said:
“1 am satisfied the miners will not obey
the President’s proclamation. I have
despatched a telegram to Washington
requesting that Federal troops be sent
to West Virginia immediately.”
VNorfolk. — Thirteen army aeroplanes,
carrying bombs and machine guns, left
here today for West Virginia mining
districts. _
Welch—Sheriff Hatfield of McDowell
county today received word from Sheriff
Cbafin of .Log a a ■'.county that the ad
vance of armed men on Logan county
had been renewed.
TROOPS IN
READINESS
Preparations Made to
, Send Federal Forces
, to Coal Fields.
. Washington, Sept. 2.—Orders
for ithe immediate entrainment
of troops for the . West Virginia
mining fields.were, issued early
today, but action is postponed
on declaring martial law pending
a conference between Secretary
of War Weeks and President
.Hardfng. The proclamation has
been signed, however, and re
quires only issuance to become
reflective.
She Spoke for Debs;
GotRough Treatment
Mason City, Iowa.—Mrs. Ida Crouch
Hazelett, New York socialist, while
speakiDg on behalf of Debs here last
night was yanked from the platform
and ithen carried ten miles into the
country, where she was dumped.
Buokslcin Harris, who brought four
horses from Kubv to Tacotna early in
tthe season for use on road work, is
scheduled to leave the latter place
shortly for ,JRuby. taking the horses
with him.
The working forces on the Tacotoa
Ophir highway have been reduced ma
terially .-within the past fe_w days, about
twenty-five men having been laid .off.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Moscow.—One hundred American
dollars sold today for four million
rubles. _
Madrais, India.—The Malabar dis
trict of British India has been pro
claimed a military area.
Seattle.-'■George Beaumont, recently
confirmed as U. S. Marshal for First
district of Alaska, arrived here today.
Los Angeles.—John Hamden Hood
committed suicide here today, jumping
from the window of a nine-story build
ing- _
Washington.—President Harding an
nounces that he is in favor of labor
being represented at the disarmament
conference.
Berlin.—Field Marshal Von Bueiow,
commander-in-chie?,of Germany’s sec
ond army during the world’s war, died
here today. _
AtlaotieCity.—Samuel Gompers an
nounces that organized labor desires an
invitation to sit la a conference called
on unemployment,
Panama. ^Panama will not resist by
force the demands of the United States
thas Oosta itica be permitted to occupy
the disputed Coto territory.
Seattle.—IrviDg D. Smith, of this
city, who lost an arm in battle at St.
Mihiel, has been appointed registrar
of the General Land Office.
Chicago.—Charles W. French and
eight associates, involved in a fifty
million dollars swindle, were today
bound over to the grand jury.
London.—Conditions in the disturbed
district of Southern Calcutta, British
India, are of considerable gravity, the.
Government statement reveals.
Nogales.—Frank Parsons, postmaster
of this place, was murdeaed by-bandits
today when he resisted their attemt to
gain entrance to the interior of the
office.
Chicago.—A warrant was issued to
day for the arrest of D. M. Davis, mill
ionaire president of the Winton Auto
mobile Company, in connection with a
bond theft.
Eureka.—The last body recovered of
the steamer Alaska dead, has been
.identified as that of George W. Bush
well, Los Angeles .capitalist, once a
member of the Minnesota Legislature.
Seattle.—Robert S. Hall, bookkeeper
of the Snoqualmie Humber Company,
who pleaded guilty to stealing four
thousand dollars from that concern,
was today sentenced to ,six months in
| W alia Walla prison.
Washington.—Senator McNary, who
refused to report at police -headquar
ters for iast driving,, was arrested this
morning and taken, in a police patrol
wagon to headquarters. Both wagon
and bonds were forfeited.
I
Seattle.—.Police^ Detective G. A.
Bergstrom committed suicide today by
putting a bullet through nis heart. He
never recovered from injuries received
in an. auto accident over a year ago.
Bergstrom was an early-dav Alaskan,
having .pioneered in the service of
Dalton. ' -
FRIGHTFUL
CONDITIONS
Instructor Visits Fam
ine-Stricken Regions
of Russia.
■i. ii
Riga, Sept. 1.—Jerome Davis,
instructor of sociology in Colum
bia University, returned today
from a seventeen-day tour of
[Russia, covering many hundreds
of miles in ■visiting the famine
stricken regions.. . His descrip
tion of conditions is appaling.
‘In many'villages in-the Sa
mara district,” he said, “one
half of the population is dead.
People are eating the bark of
I trees, gnawing in thoir..desperate
i hunger at anything vegetable,
and many njothers, in despei’a
tion, are drowning their. Infants
in the rivers.”
BIG MONEY
And Old Familiar Pork
andBeans Is Base
for ;Hef Suit.
■ Chicago, Sept. 1.—Mrs. Louise
Farson has instituted suits to re
cover one hundred and twenty
million dollars from Chicago
packers, the Standard Oil Com
pany and various Chicago and
New York, banks for .alleged in
fringement of her right to an
<ar.c:y ration, similar to a biscuit,
made of pork and beans, which
she claims to have invented.
Biff Dreadnaught Is
Launched at Camden
Camden. — The superdreadnaugbt
Washington was launched today at the
Gloucester plant of the New York
Shipbuilding Corporation. Miss Jean
Summers, ten-year-old daughter of
Representative Summers, of Walla
Walla..christened the new warship.
Total 'Brady,' who left here early -ia
June for Tacotna, end who has been
connected with the Road Commission
far some time, left the upper.town yes
terday for Ruby, on his way to the
Chandlar, traveling overland in com
pany with Messrs* Rukens and White
head, who go as far i^s Ruby.
_ "
Anerew Olson, from up river, arrive*?
.yesterday, fpc* short,..—