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Show ttlllA NAN OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 7. The man -hunt for draft resisters in three counties of southeastern Oklahoma Okla-homa is nearing a close. Officers, today to-day believed they had placed more than half of the working class unioiT" membership estimated at between 500 and 600jf-in the state penitentiary and county jail. Preliminaries of prisoners taken to McAlester will begin tomorrow before United States Commissioner Robert N. McMIlan. Tho U.. S. attorney has announced that draft resisters will be tried on conspiracy and treason charges charg-es and the death penalty will.be asked by the government ' One hundred of the rebellious are under arrest at Holdenville having been taken Into custody yesterday and last night. Telephone reports from the infested district at noon today told of the capture cap-ture or surrender of a decreasing num-I num-I ber of -prisoners and an allaying of i the intense excitement which has prevailed pre-vailed for' almost a week. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 7 Draft objectors continued to surrender today without offering resistance. With twoof the national organizers of the, Working Class union among the more than 250 prisoners already taken, ofilcors' continued their search for three 01; four others of the more prominent prom-inent pleaders in an effort to put an end tqUhe sporadic outbreaks. Th'e'(wounding of William McEwen, deputy, sheriff, while guarding the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad bridge at Werumka, and the capture of John Harj6'" Snake, leader of the Indian Working Class union membership of Seminole county, and the confession of Mate Harris that he ordered the burning burn-ing of the .'Frisco bridge near Francis,, were late developments of tho night. Tho home of Cho Parney Fi.xico, known as "Snake," the young Semin-, ole who captured "Bud" Manealey in j woman's clothing, was reported to have been' burned early today. oo |