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Show ! A Dti;int:i) town. An I own Mining amp Wined On by a Ktrlke. Kokt IhiiHit:, Iowa, M:iy 37. The j little town of K.ilo, south of here, ha been wiped off the map by a miner's strike. A momh ago Kulo wa a prosperous pros-perous mining town of 500 inhabitants; today not it doton houses are occupied. May' 1st all tho coal miner iitriu'k for higher wanes; tho mine owner refused the demand and shut dow n tin- mint. The M.riko proved a death blow to thi town. Without work all tho miner I were compelled to move. Some w out to Montana, others to Paw)!. Ion, nml more to this city, leaving Kalo with I empty streets ami deserted house. |