Show MINERS MAY BUY MINES DEAL PENDING WHICH MAY END LONG STANDING TROUBLE IN ARKANSAS COAL FIELD I 1 under terms terin of the offer the coal companas Comp anys suit for damages j against the miners union would he dropped fort smith ark the united alno workers of america have offered for the or of the baclic denman coal company tn in the hartford valley af arkansas kansas Ai it be camp came known hero bare sunday it was be deved here that tile the deal would be consummated within a few days and thus bring to an end the troubles in the coal mining region under tho the terms cf the offer all difficulties growing out of troubles be tween tile coal company and miners are to be dropped this would woud in elude the dismissal of tile the com comp anys suit for damages against the united mine workers of america the local unions lu in arkansas okla homa and texas and the national of leers in with the of four of the companas comp anys surface plants at prairie creek last july it II was understood that creditors of the bache denman syndicate ten ol of whose companies are now in the hands ot of a federal receiver have ap proved the plan it was asserted that the union in tends operating the mines tor for the benefit of its members temporarily and unless they can be sold at a profet will retain them tor for operation on oil a operative cooperative co basis |