The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-15
Fourth Regiment To Leave
Pittsburg Wednesday Night.
All Volunteer Miners Released
From State Strip Pits.
MANY TOPEEANS DID DUTY
Eighty Coal Diggers Expected
To Reach City by Tonight.
Allen Praises Spirit of Men Who
BattIed Billiards.

National guardsmen from Topeka
ana other Kansas cities will be out of
the coal fields more than a week
ahead of Christmas. Units of the
Fourth regiment will reach their
homes Thursday morning, according
to official circles in the state house
today. Volunteer mine workers have
been released. and many have already
returned to their homes. The eighty
men from Topeka-twenty from
Washburn and sixty from the city at
large. were all expected to be home
by tonight.
Federal troops are expected to leave
the Pittsburg field late this afternoon
and national guardsmen will be mo-
bilized in Pittsburg. They will entrain
for home Wednesday evening. Tope-
kaus in Company H and the medical
detachment will reach home Thurs
day morning. other kansans included
in the 200 guardsmen in service in
the coal fields, will leave Pittsburg at
the same time Topeka units entrain.
Extend State Reccivership.
Legal provision for extension of the
state receivership over mine proper
ii was made today when the su-
preme court made a new stipulation,
giving defendant companies until Feb
ruary / in which to answer and plead
to the state petition. Governor Allen
believes the receivership will remain
in force at least a couple of months.
Under the agreement with Alexander
FOwat, district president the state
might extend its control of the proper
tics and union workers would continue
in employment of the receivers.
q Governor Allen returned to Topeka
Saturday night after two weeks in the
coal fields. He was enthusia site in his
Of no
1T was just the spirit that was in
evidence in France" the governor said
today Those boys were up and go
ing every minute. There was one
because the mules down there couldn't
understand English. The next day he
drew a new mule and it ran away.
That birds a volunteer he told me.
'"Nioc, Gentle Old Lady"
"One day l was riding to Frontenac
with d bunch of the boys when an old
woman rushed into the road, put her
thumb to her nose and wiggled her fin
gers at US Then she gave US a bunch
of the most awful blankety blanks you
ever heard. The greasy young chap
who was sitting beside me, turned and
remarked: Gee that's a dear, gentle
old lady. isn't she?' "
At his conference today with Topeka
press represen ia tives-the first in two
weeks-the governor declined to dis
cuSS legislation Wn1Cn may grow out OF
the state operation of the mines
Asked if new mining laws would be
asked or if decided changes might be
made in existing enactments relative
to mine regulations. Governor Allen
said he would make no statement at
this time.
The governor was in conference this
afternoon with Gen Leonard Wood
relative to withdrawal of federal
troops from the Pittsburg field. He
t1y
in long distance telephone conver-
sation with J. H. Lee, of Topeka, busi-
ness representative of the governor in
the distribution of Linn county COAL
Lee has predicted an output of fifteen
to twenty cars of coal a day from the
Linn county fields this week.
Il. s. \. c. Volunteers Home Today
Manhattan, Dec. 1a.-About 100
Kansas Agricultural college volunteer
coal diggers arrived home this morn
ing. A number of the students re-
manned at Pittsburg, to work in the
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