The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-15
Can Use Telephone Only to
Talk to His Wife.
Franklin County Sheriff Not So
Friendly With Him.
SHERIFF WEBB TO RESIGN?
Crawford County Official Deliv-
cred Prisoners to Two JaiIs.
"king of Kansas Miners" De-
fiant of Court and Allen.

Pittsburg. Kan. April 15.-Judge
Andrew ]. Curran of the Crawford
county district court this afternoon
overruled the motion for a new trial
in the cases OF Alexander Howat,
Thomas Harvey. August Dorchy and
r. B. Foster. officials OF the L. NJ.
w. A. sent to Jail last Friday for con-
tempt of court in refusing TO testify
before the court of industrial relations.
The motion was presented by Phil
II. Gallery, attorney for the miners.
Ottawa. Kan, April 15.-Alexander
Howat, president of the Kansas miners,
was brought to Ottawa by Sheriff
G. Clint Webb of Crawford county at
$3.50 o'clock this morning. r. B. Fos-
ter. district union auditor, also was
brought here After breakfast at a
restaurant. the union officials were
placed in the Franklin county Jail.
Howat and Foster were placed in
the second story of the Jail. Sheriff
w. S. Barnett announced that Howat
and Foster would be allowed the
freedom of the corridor and allowed
newspapers. Howat may use the tele-
phone to talk to his wife. He will
not be allowed to use the telephone to
talk to his office, it was stated.
In Aliens Home Town.
Howat was in a talkative mood
| when he was placed in Jail. II would
say the same things 1 said at Girard
Monday night" he said
In his speech Monday Howat re-
ferred to Gov. Henry j. Allen as a
skunk" ottawa was formerly the
home of Governor Allen and his
mother lives here now with q sister.
Mrs. E. S. Sheldon.
The trip to Ottawa was made by
motor car and train. Webb took his
prisoners to lola. There in the Allen
retary-treasurer, and August Dorchy.
vice president. The rest of the trip
to Ottawa, was made on A train.
| Hold Howat Hearing Today.
Pittsburg, Kan. April 15.-The
| hearing on the motion of Phil IL.
Gallery, attorney for the officers OF
District No. IA. United Mine Workers
scheduled in the Crawford county dis
| trict court today.
| Some doubt exists that the miners
| intend to carry out their plans for
| a demonstration at Girard, since
Alexander Howat. district president,
and his three fellow officers have
| been removed from the Crawford
4
| iff's statement to its unsafe condi-
ton, and are lodged in jails at Of
! tawa and lola. All union labor I'm the
county was asked 20 suspend work ard
| participate in a master demonstra-
| ton"
No announcement of action on Gov
| ernor Aliens request that the attor-
ney general proceed against Howat
under the criminal section of the in
dustrial court law has been forthcom-
| ing. With custer proceedings against
, G. Clint Webb, sheriff, for permitting
Howat freedom to address crowd OF
miners from the Jail balcony, set for
hearing Monday 1t is believed no other
radical developments in the case may
] be expected before that time. In the
I meanwhile, the mines of No. IA dis
trict are largely idle.
Webb Plans Resignation.
Webb has not yet returned from OF
tawa TO which place he took Alexan-
| der Howat on an order of transfer
from Judge Andrew J. Curran last
! night. 1t was expected that he will
act to terminate his official career
soon otter his return. The sheriff
thus will avert possible custer by the
supreme court which has set the case
against Webb for hearing next Mon
day afternoon. The state started suit
! because Webb permitted Howat, presi-
dent of the Kansas miners, to leave
I the Jail and make an incendiary ad-
dress before a large crowd of miners
Monday noon.
| Partisans of Alexander Howat are
planning for a big demonstration OF
protest against his imprisonment, at
! Girard this afternoon. The fact that
, Howat. the Kansas miners leader, was
taken to the jail at Ottawa last night,
! will not prevent the demonstration.
radical leaders said. Mobilization In
Girard is set for 1890 o'clock
A change in speakers. however, will
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