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Show n in iiypsE Three Thousand Started to Enforce Unionization at Coal River. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Sept. 6. C. F. Keener, president of the United Mine Workers of America of district No. 17, in a telephone conversation with Governor Cornwell tonight stated that the 1300 miners encamped at Danville would call off the invasion of Logan county and would return to their homes on a special train tomorrow. Keeney left Charleston at noon in an automobile automo-bile in an effort to deter the miners from proceeding further, after a conference con-ference with Governor Cornwell. Following this information, Governor Cornwall said that he would not ask that federal troops be called out. At the conference today, the governor informed in-formed Kceney that he had been in communication with Secretary of "War Baker and Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the central department depart-ment that he could get federal troops j to Logan before the arrival of tha min- I crs, and he warned that the marchers would pro.cced at their own peril. If j the miners decide to proceed further, J it is probable federal troops will lie called Out. Jt wns learned tonight that another ' party of men has been proceeding into ; Logan county by way of Cabin creek, j and is now said to be about twelve ' miles southeast of Madison, in Boone county. Kfforts are being made by the I mine workers' officinls to stop further j progress of this crowd. At the end of their day's march,' which covered about twenty-five miles, : t he miners, unaccustomed to hiking, j were weary and footsore. Many were i carrving their shoes rind trudging along J barefooted. They carried their rifles 1 on their shoulder, while provisions 1 were 1 ra nported in wagons. i After the passage of the men through Fevlonia, Governor Cornwell s.nid th'it when Jhev assed Madison he would' nsk for two regiments of federal troops. ' The original force was estimated at ! ".no men. but recruits were enlisted all j along the route, and tonight President i Keeney estimated the army to be of an ; riporoxirnntp streng'h of i.'liO men. Five hundred miners who left Oak; Grove this morning to march across the! mountains to Coal "River where thev '. said the;.' intended to enforce unionisation unionisa-tion in mines, were ioined at Hro-iue ; on the Little Coal river b1' .".(I0u more' men. according to word reeeived hv j Governor .John ,T. Cornwell shortly be- j fore noen. Ail of t'ie men were said to |