The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-23
Request for Help at Shawnee
Not Met by Governor.
Troops Are DemObiIized But
Must Be in Readiness.
PEACE Dove CAN'T Be HEARD
Bombs Are Exploded in Several
Big Railroad Centers.
Strikers Attack Homes of Santa
Fe Workers in California.

Oklahoma City. Aug. 2S.-Six units
of Oklahoma National Guard troops
modified here last Saturday for pos
s:ble duty at Shawnee. where disor-
derS were reported at the shops of
the Rock Island railroad today were
Markham after a conference with
Gov. ]. B. a. Robertson. The soldiers
have been instructed to- hold them
selves in readiness for instant re-
mobilization should necessity arise.
Col. Markham asserted that the gov
ernor expressed himself as satisfied
that United States Marshal Alva Nc
Donald and his force of approximately
100 deputies has the situation well in
hand at Shawnee and that unless con-
ditions there get beyond the control
of federal officers and authorities OF
Pottawatomie county there is no nee
essity for sending in troops.
Earlier in the day Marshal McDon-
aid gave out a statement at Shawnee
to the effect that troops were needed
to cope with the strike situation at
that place. Approximately 100 fed
eral deputies were on duty at the rock
Island and Santa Fe shops there to-
day and it was said that Mcdonald
was trying TO increase his forces while
waiting a decision from the governor
on his-request for troops.
Chicago, Aug. 23-As railroad ex-
ecutives gathered in New York today
to consider peace proposal by the
heads of the transportation brother
hoods acting as mediators in the shop
mems strike, trouble on the Southern
principal sufferer from train
men walkouts during the past few
days, began 20 clear away.
The voice of the peace dove was
drowned in the noise of exploding
bombs which kept the rail strike fever
at a high stage in some of the ma
lions rail centers.
Explosion Shakes Round House.
A tremendous explosion in the Chi
.ago & Alton round house. at Venice, |
Illinois, shook buildings within a ra- |
illus of three miles and police squads !
we're rushed to the shops when further |
violence was threatened.
= Bombs were hurled at the homes of |
AtchisOn. Topeka & Santa Fe em- |
Dloyes at San Bernardino. Cal, where
iaily outbreaks have marked the !
shopmen's strike. windows were |
broken by the explosions, but no in |
uries were reported. Michigan Cen |
raj officials increased their reward |
FOR the arrest of plotters accused of !
causing airy, Ind, wreck Sunday to !
$4,000. tt original reward was |
$1,000.
Striking shopmen of the Southern |
at Salisbury were on guard |
around the h e of the Rev. Thomas
P. Jimison, who received threatening |
letters follC ing an alleged assault !
upon him by postal employe. The
minister had been a champion of the |
s rike and strikers went to |
MS defense, maintaining guards in |
eight hour shifts at the preachers |
nome.
Louisville. Ky. Aug. 23-Restora-
ion of thru passenger service in the |
western district Southern railway be-
-ween Louisville and St. Louis. be-
ginning with trains numbered % and
"A this morning will be followed i'm |
Is the result of trainmen at Princeton, |
md, agreeing last night to cancel the |
Talkout called for 1901 a. m. tomOr- !
-ow.
Caught Removing Spikes.
Brownsville, Pa, Aug. 23.-Two !
italians, Paoli Di Francesca and An |
hony De Fore of Allison. Pa. are in /.
custody here this afternoon while |
state, county and railroad officers in /
-estigate their affiliations and past |
activities. The two men were arrested, !
according to police, as they. were re-
moving spikes from the MononGahela /
'ailroad at midnight in a cut four !
niles from here.
Comb City for Suspects.
San Bernardino, Calf, Aug. 23.-i
Acting on, the theory that new bomb :
ng outrases here were reprisals for
he shooting of a striking electrician !
VI IoNday night. Sheriff We A. Shay and .
chief of Police A. A. Burchana, today .
combined forces for a systematic
,ombing of the city for suspects. Thir-
light and early morning hours today
md several attempts were made to set
ire to the homes of strikebreakers.