West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-07-24
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
H0V TIE TOWN or rUENELr0H IS
rYRANNIzED OVER BY
DEPUTY hLRSHALS.
Who Make War ON the Women and
Serve lsJnnctions Il ~ Per Head.
Special correspondent, Of The Argus

Jeiy ~ h1o<.
The old adage that "every deg
has his day" was most beautifully
exempli6ed here yesterday when
Supt. George Morris, Of the Mer-
chants Coal Company, vas arrested
on 4 warrant sworn out by o. w.
linn, charging him with interfering
with an officer.
He went before Mayor Mont.
gomery and confessed to the charge.
His Honor said SIS and the trim.
ming, $I7.a5 in all, would square
the bill and turned him loose.
When Supt. Morris got out his in
famous injunction not long since,
Town Sergeant linn was one of the
defendants named, and he was forth
with served with a,copy of it. This,
as every one knows, forbade him
from doing anything but drawing
his breath anywhere around these
diggins'. Since that time Mr.. Nor.
ris, his black-legs and a swell head
Deputy Marshal or two, have been
entertaining the idea that they owned
the town and had fence around it.
In carrying out this policy, they
have been in the habit of congrega
ting on the sidewalks, and il lady
wishes to pass, she must get off in
the road and 60 around them.
On Thursday evening a lady, who
lives in the upper end of town,
started to go home with child,
and requested Policeman linn to
escort her part of the way. In
front of the Hotel Watkins Mr..
Morris and some other men had the
sidewalk blockaded, and when the
officer asked them to move on and
let the lady pass, Morris wanted to
know "who in the hell owned these
boardwalks, anyhow ?" and some
other offensive language to the same
effect. In the morning, after a
short seance in Police Court, he re-
ceived the information he wanted
so badly. Experience teaches
dear school, but"
Major Elliott's deputies on duty
here, with few exceptions, are
about the choicest lot of curiosities
in the shape of swelled heads and
fossils that was ever collected in
one bunch. They delight in going
about the streets in groups OF four
or FIVE displaying great big guns
strapped around their waists, trying
to brighten the children and timid
women into Mysteries, but about
everyone else has only contempt for
such COLLINS.
On the day that the first batch of
foreigners arrived, there was big
crowd at the depot to see them
come in, among them several Depu-
ties. One woman made some re
mark to friend about the new ar.
rivals. The school boy Deputy
rushed up to her with copy of the
injunction, and with a great flourish
informed her that she must not talk,
as she was liable to do "irreparable
damage to the Merchants Coal Co."
The funeral party OF Joe Loar,
who was killed in t1e w. Va. North.
ern wreck, was leaving on the same
train. One of the pall-bearers leaned
out of car window to see the ami
mails unloaded, and made some
casual remark, when the same kid
Deputy made break for him, fran
tically waving the injunction. But
the train started then toward the
tunnel with the ubiquitous Deputy
in hot pursuit, and as they have no
injunction on the b. & o.. the train
didn't stop, so he missed his So. 90
fee for serving that one.
One day last week Mrs. J. B.
Mitchell, an estimablc lady who
lives about mile out in the coun-
try, had the temerity to express her
opinion to some neighbors, who re-
ported on her. Immediately Depu-
~ Starr, 1--WE don't know whether
he is the dog star or not), liked out
there and served copy of the
omnipotent writ on her and gave
her the information that she might
think, but she "dassent" talk out
loud. The next morning the same
Deputy was at Mr.. b. +. Prstt's
residence before breakfast trying to
hire one of Mr.. Pratt's sons to 90
to work in the mines. Since when
has it become the law for Uncle
Sam to furnish labor agents for coal
companies at S. 90 per day and ex
penses1
These are only a few out Of many
incidents of the kind that have oc.
cured here during the past few
weeks, but they are enough to show
the tyranny that we are compelled
to endure in this supposedly free