The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-31

against Dands OF armed men had be-
come quite general
Following the killing of deputy John
Gore on Blair Mountain this morning
the governor was informed at 1880
p. m, that a miner had been killed and
deputy sheriff captured in brush
at Crooked Creek.
BLUEFIELDS, w. Va, Aug. 81
The provisional military company. or
ganized here yesterday for service in
Logan county, was this afternoon call.
ed for duty 6y Governor Morgan.
The company made up almost en-
urely OF ex-service men will be ready
to start for Logan as soon as the de-
tails of transportation can be arranged.
LOGAN, w. Va, Aug. 31.-John
Gore, Logan county deputy sheriff
was killed in fight between a border
patrol and an armed band on Blair
mountain this morning.
This is the first casualty since state
police, deputy sheriffs, and volunteers
from southern West Virginia, gather
ed here to resist the forces which for
days have been assembling on the
east side of Spruce Fork Ridge. be-
lleved to be bent upon an invasion of
Logan county.
Reinforcements for the thousand or
more volunteers, who are also on the
Logan-Boone county line continued to
pour into Logan throughout the morn
ing and as quickly as possible were
sent into the mountain, to join units
already organized.
AirpIanes Busy.
| A1rplanes today distributed copies
| OF President Hardings proclamation
throughout this district. Thousands
were printed here last night. Friend
and foe alike received the pamphlets
containing the presidents command
that all persons engaged in "insurrec-
tlonary proceedings" dispense and re-
turn to their homes at or before noon
Thursday, Sept l. Flying eastward,
| the planes crossed Boone and parts of
kanawha counties dropping the circul.
/ ars.
| WASHINGTON. Aug. 31.-Adminis-
! tratlon officials today looked for re-
ports from the West Virginia coal
fields that persons engaged in "unlaw-
ful and insurrectionary proceedings"
were dispensing and retiring peace
fully to their homes as directed in the
proclamation issued yesterday BY
President Harding.
Should this not be done by tomo--
row noon, martial law it was said.
would be declared. and federal troons
| Will be sent to the scene in response
to Governor Morgan's reiterated re-
quests
Official reports will be sent to the
war department by Brigadier General
II. II. BandholZ, who made a prelimi
nary investigation in the Mingo county
section last week and who today was
returning under orders to watch the
situation and report on how the pres
identfal proclamation is received.
No Child's Play.
On the occasion of his visit before,
General Bandholz expressed the opin-
ion that the state authorities had mado
only feeble attempts" to resore order.
| Should federal troops take hand, il
has been intimated that there will be
] mo child's play"
The proclamation was issued by the
i. president yesterday after he had been
: in conference with Secretary Weeks,
General Bandholz and Major General
! Harbord, assistant chief of staff a
! West Virginia delegation headed b.
Senator Sutherland also conferred
: with the president and urged imme.
! diate dispatch of troops to the troubled
area.