Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-09-01
SENT SOUTH
ON FRElCHT
UNDER E !. GUARD ] 4 |! | ]
seventy-fve Who Arrived
Wednesday Night Quick
" Rounded Up.
----.--- ~; 4.
FOUR DETAINED
BY THE OFFICIALS
Remnant Of Invading Force
Will Be Kept Going
BY Deputies.
Especial to the Herald. j

Langdon. N. D., Sept. 1..-Sseventy-,
one of the seventy five industrial
Workers of the World who invaded
Langdon Wednesday night, were this :
afternoon loaded on to flat cars and
sent south on a Great Northern freight
train. sss
The ywill be guarded as far as Un.
ion, which is the most southern town
Yin Cavalier county, by Cavalier county
officers. and none will be permitted to
leave the train. At Union, tits ex-
pected, that the train will be met BY. u
party of Walsh county deputies. who,
will see that the wobblies remain on
the train'hntil the Grand Forks coun-,
ty line is reached. It is expected that
the Reds will then be allowed to dis
perse. ~
-Four Are Detained.
Four Of the invaders are being held
by the Cavalier county. officials Three
of them are said to be leaders OF the
gang and to have taken a, prominent
part in engineering the '.inyasdon,'.
which had for its object the forcing,
already held in the county. jajL The
fourth man held is charged with car
'rying. concealed weapons. H. - 3
e. J. -Burkhast. one OF the chief
aeitators OF. the gang, was allowed to
depart with the rest Of the Reds Be-
fore being loaded on the train the en-
tire bunch was lined up and their
Of them returned to EanEdon they
might be readily identified. Is
sSs NJ Hrsastapoe llade u ssss 8.
u No resistanee was ii ~ any ofS
the wohblies AZ they were marched
to the train under a heavy guard ana
the town is, now quiet. I z & :fsG 4 81
The men who were shipped ont to-
day reached Langd6n "wednesday
night on. a. Great EpEthern freixit
! train. They were the remnant Of q
force Of Industrial Workers Of !: the
World. 200 strong; which gathered
at Larimone Wednesday morning with
to force the release Of five wobblieS
held in the county Jail there. 5ass #
| All but SO of this gang dispersed
| when warned by Langdons officials that
they would run into trouble If thew
persisted in their intention OF invad-
ing Langdon. but SO persisted in the,
4 original invasion plan and started for
Langdon on Great Northern freight
train. They We're reinforced by about
26 recruits at Eastby. and were about,
IS strong when the train pulled in to
Langdon. &s-,.s57.y
Herded in on Arrival.
l LdH6oou -S1l1ZSuS, 10V SIfOn&.rWSrA
waiting at the depot, many Of them,
armed with baseball bats and pick.
handles. 80
/ The train was surrounded and the
/ wobblies herded together without any
force being required. The invaders
were then marched to the city hall.
where they were searched and All;
weapons found were confiscated, They
were then locked up for the night and
kept in the city hall under. guard un-
til it was time for the 5eastbounnd
freight train to pull out this after
| noon.
No resistance was made by the i.
W. W. at any stage of the proceed :
| ingS. ~ 90
+ e Hearing Postponed
! The four wobblies who have been
in Jail for several days on the charge
! of being implicated in an attack on
| four American Legion men. were
scheduled to be given q hearing be.
fore the police magistrate today, The
hearing was postponed, however, and
it is understood that a change of
venue will be asked.
With the departure of the wobblies
this AFTERNOON. conditions in Lang
don have returned to normal follow
, ing the excitement which has pre-
vailed during the last few days
The freight train on which the de-
ported wobblies are travelling is ex-
pected to. reach Larimore late this
! evening.