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Show HAD DAY SPENT WITHMVERNOR Houghton Officials Not Working Work-ing in Harmony Other Disagreements Dis-agreements Discovered. ATTORNEY QUESTIONED Conflicting Views Regarding - Retention of State Troops in Calumet District. Houghton, Mich., Jan. 6 Officiate et Keweenaw county spent a bad day with the governor. The state executive execu-tive drew out that Sheriff John H Epting and James A. Hamilton, prose cuting attorney, had not always been f ... In harmony, tho prosecutor saying tnat n? never had been consulted on any strike matter and that no cases arising from arrests had been called JU 'to his attention. Wesley Clark, chairman of the board of supervisors, Indicated that the board and sheriff had disagreed and when the question of withdrawing the company of state troops was broached said that the soldiers sol-diers be kept in the county until after af-ter the strike is ended." The governor also drew from tho prosecutor the fact that the latter had made application for membership In the Western Federation of Miners and paid $3 to that organization. The official said he never had joined and did not consider himself a member He refused to make public his rea sons for sending In the application and was given the privilege of ex plaining to the governor in private. The 6tato executive finally broughf out that after January 12 the troops might be sent home, Russell Smith, superintendent of Ahmeek mine, ana a member of the county board, thought they could cope with the situ ation after that date. |