Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 1 | Kansas Takes Steps to Dust Sheriff Webb

Officer Who Let Jailed Mine Leader Speak May Lose His Job PITTSBURG Kan., April 13. Papers Pa-pers in an ouster suit . against G. Clint Webb, sheriff of Crawford county, coun-ty, are being prepared today by Attorneys At-torneys for tho court of industrial relations re-lations for filing In the-Kansas supremo su-premo court. The sheriff was accused of misconduct miscon-duct in office by permitting Alexander Alexan-der Howat, president of the Kansas miners and a prisoner in the county jail, to deliver a speech to a crowd of miners at Girard yesterday, i Almost complete paralysis of the Kansas coal industry is reported today. to-day. Tho announcement at the headquarters head-quarters of the Coal Operators' 1 association asso-ciation as to operations said that only four steam shovels were working. No deep mines were working. Tho report snows that more than 200 miners out of the more than 111,000 in tho district are at work. No strike has been called and thc men are refraining from work on their own account, so far as tho records shov.v- When the names of twenty-five miners' union officials and miners ordered by Judge Andrew J. Cunan yesterday to appear before the industrial indus-trial court yesterday to testify con- . nnrnlnir nnnrlil ihnc in Mm nrin I f I n Wl were called in court this morning only two men responded. They wero Tony Ruper, white, and Thomas Mur-I Mur-I dock, colored. Judge Curran in close touch with the proceedings instructed AV. 12. Pay- ton marshal of tho industrial court, I to call the roll from the steps of the j courthouse. There was no response, j Steps wero immediately taken for con-! con-! tempt proceedings and the arrest or j the men who refused to obey tho order will begin this afternoon. Judge J. L. llugglns, presiding judgo of the industrial court, fca-I fca-I tured tho session of tho court this morning with a searching examination examina-tion into thy methods of eoal companies com-panies of advancing monoy ahead of payday to coal miners and chargliig ten per cent. An official of a loading coal company was on tho stand. . Judgo Hugglns asked the witness: "Have- you figured tho por cent of interest computed by tho year you chargo thoso minors?" Tho witness said ho had-not. "Well, it Is t20 por cant per year,'' tho Judge said.