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Show TROOPS' ORDERED TO PROTECT ROAD Valdez, Alaska, April 25. Company A of the Fourteenth United States Infantry, In-fantry, stationed at Fort Llscum, near here, has been ordered to Anchorage for patrol duty In connection with the strike of laborers employed In the construction of tho government railroad. rail-road. The soldiers will sail for Anchorage An-chorage Wednesday on the steamer Alaska. United States District Judge Frederick M. Brown and Assistant District Attorney Munley have gone to Anchorage In response to a tele- i gram from Lieutenant Frederick i IMears of the Alaska engineering com- ' mission, requesting their presence in connection with the strike situation. Washington, April 25, Secretary Lane requested the war department , to dispatch the troops to Anchorage to protect tho government railway, at . the suggestion of the United States marshal in that jurisdiction. No serious seri-ous trouble has been reported to the war department, however, and It was ; believed that the troops wero request- ; ed as a precautionary measure. oo |