The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-08-30

The authorities also have been In
formed that some rs automobiles car
rying armed men dashed out of the
Cabin Creek valley near here today
and passing through Marmet contin-
ued up the Lens creek valley along
the line taken by the men who set out
to March to Mingo county last week.
Mystery In Situation.
Last night was one Of uncertainty
as to what was happening along the
Logan Boone county line. Early to-
day 1t was much the same, Latest
reports were repetition Of yester-
days, no more reassuring and no less
alarming.
Adjutant General Charnot was back
in the capital after hurried trip
through the district. The word pic
ture he painted of the situation in an
oral statement last night was 80
alarming that Governor Morgan sent
the midnight appeal to President
Harding for immediate aid.
Refuse to Dlsperse.
In his request, addressed to the
chief executive and Secretary of War
Weeks. the governor quoted the ad1u-
tant general as reporting that during
The trip he commanded armed bands
to disperse but that they refused to
do so and continued 20 maintain pa
trolls Of the road along the boundary
line Of the two counties. Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad trains have been
commandeered to transport contin-
gents to armed camps and tele-
phone wires have been cut and steps
taken to re-establishment OF COM
mUnication.
Efforts to communicate by tele-
phone with Blair and Scharpels have
been unsuccessful for several days.
Union Mans View.
Attorney General Charnot's corn
panion on the mission, p. p. Porter.
United Mine Workers executive board
member, returned to Charleston with
the state official. He, too, gave 4
gloomy account of conditions prefac
ing his formal statement with fore
boding metaphors. His struggling
reports to C. F. Keeney, president of
DlStrlct NO. II, 1OIlOWS.
with all makes from the ages of II
to 60 under arms, women and children
fleeing in panic over the line into
Boone county, armed patrols arriving
and departing and every available
conveyance carrying supplies to the
picket hills the Scharpeps bare scep-
ter may we'll be compared with the
Il 80
Have Picket Lines
"On the northern side of the noun
tain which serves as watershed lies
the camp and main forces of the min
ers. Similarly situated on the south
side are the Logan county deputies
and the state police. The miners have
advanced picket lines in the hills.
"Should these men clash it would
draw into battle total Of $500 men.
Along the top of the ridges are trench
e' and breastworks Of stones and felled
trees.
"According to Mr.. Porter several
men at Scharpels told him their stor-
les of the fight when several men were
killed in the engagement near Scharp-
els between state troops and deputy
sheriffs and band of armed men.
They stated that one campaign and
one broad-brimmed hat were picked
up near the scene. After the battle
Mr.. Porter said his informant told him
all the miners in the vicinity armed
themselves and small boys stood with
arms at their sides. At a nearby farm
house, according to this story the
searchers found Magistrate Fulton
and four others eating dinner
with two machine guns, rifles, pistols
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