The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-27
Get away
MysteriOusIy Disappear From
Coal Fields, Reports State.
District Attorney Williams Re-
turns From Crawford County.

That from ESQ to $50 aliens ef the
more radical type have mysteriously
disappeared from the coal mining sec
Non in southeast Kansas since he
started his campaign to deport such
undesirab1es from the. country, was
the announcement made here today
by Al +. Williams, United States dis
trict attorney, upon his return to To-
peka after spending several days in
that vicinity
Williams says the figures were given
to him by peace officers and special
investigators in the fields and he be-
lieves them to be fairly accurate. With
a corps of assistants. including George
Wark and his federal prohibition en-
fOrcement officers. Williams has been
able to keep a close check upon the
situation and from many of the for
eign hot beds reports have come to
him that groups of radicals have
quietly departed for parts unknown.
Plenty of Work to Do.
with the departure of these aliens
the situation for us is clear to some
extent" said Williams, but there is
still plenty for us to do. Wark and
his men are helping to great extent.
1 suppose they have seized at least
$4,000 gallons of liquor in Crawford
and Cherokee counties during the past
few weeks. One of the sights that
greeted me when l entered the hotel
in Pittsburg a few days ago was a
large copper still of a capacity of at
least twenty-five gallons. 1t has been
brought in by Wark and was on ex-
hibftfou in the center of the lobby
In response to the request which
Williams made last week to the de-
partment CT justice and immigration
officials for assistance in deporting
John Mack, of Capable. Crawford
county, which was the first direct
action toward deportation proceedings,
the district attorney received letter
from Washington this morning advis-
ing him that both departments were
willing to cooperate to the fullest
extent AS a result Williams has
started to collect the names of all
aliens in the coal mining district to-
eether with record of all those who
have been arrested for various Of
lenses, and is giving special attention
TO those who have been playing an
important part in the recent uprisings
in the district. He already has a rec
ord of the aliens serving time. in the
state penitentiary. most of them be-
ing persistent vioiators of the pro-
hibitory law and he proposes to start
deportation proceedings against them
as fast as they are released.
5000 Aliens There.
Few people realize that there are
at least three thousand aliens in that
StCLlOlt WHO nave lAdtu4y IGCOSillNGu all
American law until~XVark and his men
entered the field and 1 threatened to
deport he worst radicals" said Will
iiams- Not all of them have been
causing trouble. except that when a
situation like the present arises they
all flock and act together like so many
sheep. They are now just commence
ing to realize what law enforcement
means, and we are going to go just as
far as We can to make their education
along that line complete"
Practically all of the mines in the
district are again working, Williams
says, and in many cases foreign labor
has been eliminated entirely. One
largo mine, near Scammon, where
much trouble has occurred recently, is
now working one hundred and eighty
men, William says, and all of them are
Americans and speak the American
language Getting rid of the radical
foreign element will put an end to the
troubles in the mining district, Will
liams believes.