The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-07
CONFERENCE WITH MR.. WRIGHT
MITCHELL MAKES A MYSTERIOUS
JOURNEY To PHILADELPHIA.
Wright Cannot BE Found and the
Miners President Is SiIent-CoaI
Land Owners May Sue Lessees.

HARRISBURG. Pa, Oct 6-Governor
Stone late tonight ordered out the entire
division of the National Guard of Penn
sylvania to duty in the anthracite coal
regions. The soldiers will be in the field
tomorrow The order calling out the
guard is as follows:
Headquarters National Guard, Adjutant
Generals Office.
Harrisburg, Pa, Oct. 6.
I'm certain portions of the counties Of
Luzerne. Schuylkill. Carbon. Lackawanna.
Susquehanna, Northumberland and Colum-
bia tumults and riots frequently occur and
mob law reigns; men who desire to work
have been beaten and driven away, and
their families threatened. Railroad trains
have been delayed, stoned and the tracks
torn up. The civil authorities are unable
TO maintain order and have called Oh the
Governor and commander-in-chief of the
National Guard for troops. The situation
grows more serious each day. The terri
tory involved is so extensive that the
troops now on duty are insufficient to pre-
vent all disorders. The presence of the
entire division National Guard of Penn
sylvania is necessary in these counties to
maintain the public peace.
1.-The major general commanding will
place the entire division on duty, dis
tributing them in such localities as will
render them most effective for preserving
the public peace.
.'As tumuits riots, mobs and disorder
usually occur when men attempt to work
in and about the coal mines, he will see
that all men who desire to work, and their
families. have ample military protection.
He will protect all trains and other prop
erty from unlawful interference and will
arrest all persons engaging in acts Of vio-
lence and intimidation and hold them un-
der guard until their release will not en-
danger the public peace; he will see that
threats intimidations. assaults and all acts
of violence cease at once. The public peace
and good order will be preserved on all
occasions and throughout the several coun-
ties and no interference whatever will be
permitted with officers and men in the
discharge of their duties. under this order.
The dignity and authority of the State
must be maintained and her power TO sup
press all lawlessness within her borders
be asserted.
by order of
''WILLIAM A STONE,
Governor and .Commander-in-Chief.
THOMAS ]. STEWART,
"Adjutant General"
The formal order was given out at the
executive mansion little before III O'Clock
tonight by Private Secretary Gerwig. Gov
ernor Stone called a conference of the gen.
eral officers OF the guard, at which II
was decided to place these troops In the
field. Those present at the conference
were: Major General Miller General Goblin,
of the Third Brigade; General Schall, OF
the First Brigade; Colonel Hulings, of the
Sixteenth Regiment, who represented Gen
eral Wiley, of the Second Brigade, who is
IN Kansas; Assistant Adjutant General Ell
lott and Assistant Quartermaster General
Richardson.
The canvas and other camp equippage
will be shipped from the state arsenal and
IL is expected all the troops will be in the
field within twenty-four hours.
Fourth, Eighth, Ninth. Twelfth and Thir-
teenth regiments OF the Third Brigade
and the Governors Troop, Sheridan TROOP
and Second Philadelphia City. Troop. The
troops which will be sent to reinforce those
now on duty are the First Regiment, Sec
ond Regiment, Third Regiment, Sixth Regt-
ment, Battery A, First Troop Philadelphia
Cavalry, who compose the First Brigade
Fifth Regiment, Tenth Regiment Four
teenth Regiment, Sixteenth Regiment
Eighteenth Regiment and Battery B, who
constitute the Second Brigade.
Major General Miller will have his head
quarters in this city for the present. He
will be assisted by Colonels Elliott and
Richardson. Adjutant General Stewart ex-
poets to return to Washington TO attend
the national encampment of the G. A. r
as soon as all the troops are in the field.
This is the first time since the Homestead
riots. in 1892, that the entire division of the
guard has been ordered out for strike duty
The cost to the State of this tour OF duty
probably will exceed s1.000O00.