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Show TENT COLONY TO IE REMOVED i Striking Miners Near West Virginia Coal Property to Be Ejected. Colliers, W. Va., April 1. United States Marshal Ned Smith came here today with an order from Judge A. G. Dayton to remove the tent colony of striking miners living near the mines of the West Virginia and Pittsburg Coal company. Attorneys for the strikers said that the court order would 1 be obeyed. Farmers refused to rent houses to the strikers, fearing they would bo in contempt of court. Poor officers were prepared to lake care of the strikers and their families If the plan to buy the ground on which the tents stand should fail. nn |