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Show 4- 4 WIRE BRIEFS ON R. R. STRIKE I I ' COLUMBrs, Ohio. July 21 Declar-I Declar-I Ing that oca official are unable to Cope with lh.- situutlnn. and that "Governor Davis liajj refused to furnish fur-nish us any protection," the Consolidated Consol-idated Coal and Coke company of Bui-lor. Bui-lor. la., through Its attorneys here, today telegraphed President Hardi-ig 1 a.sklng that federal troops be sent to gnurd the company's operations nerr I New Btraltsvllie, l'erry county, Ohio TRUCK lTA sKLD. DENVER Colo.. July 21 Colon-.l A. Lk Dowlby, chief of the war ma-j ma-j terlals department, bureau of public I reads, at Washington, telegraphed the 1 Colorado state highway department I Inquiring how many army trucks Col-I Col-I orado could furnish to carry goverr.-i goverr.-i nient mails in .un emergency. He was informed 200 trucks couid be placed Immediately at tho disposal ; of the government. The trucks are I scattered throughout the various 1 buntloa of the state. The trucks are those turned over to the state highway department utter I tho world war for use in road work I It is undtrstood similar telegrams have been sent to other Btatos. TROOPS POURED IN. H ARRlSBUlKi. Pa., July 21 Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania cavalrymen and machine tunmrs are moving into Cambria. Indiana. In-diana. Somerset, 'Washington and Westmoreland countieH in the south-, south-, western part of the state today to prevent disorder when bituminous in nfit are reopened The whole pow-'r pow-'r ijf the state government Is being massed bt-hind them, state police in the affected districts will act with the soldiers. TOWN WITHOUT TRAINS. HANNIliAL, Mo.. July 21. By'to-morrow By'to-morrow all Wabash train service Into Hannibal will be cancelled, according to an announcement of officials of thai road today. Two fast Kansas e'lty-Detroit trains were annulled today to-day All other trains will run only to Kuat Hannibal, across the ilisslislppl river from this city. OFFERS SLIDING SCADE. CRESSOX, Pa, July 21. The Pennsylvania Con and Coke corporation corpor-ation has posted at its 24 mines In Cambria, India and Somerset counties .1 notice advising former employes, now nil striUo th.it It will nnl hrim. lu outside labor to operate the mines, and Inviting the workers to roturn to work on a eliding wago scale which will bp put Into effect, operative until April 1, next WARRANTS SWORN OUT. MODESTO, . Cal . July 21. Eight John Doe warrants charging abduction abduc-tion were sworn out Thursday against the tupposed leaders of a group of r illroad Khop strike sympathizers at Rlverbank as a result of tho alleged Kidnaping of Clarence A Bradford, an assistant boiler foreman at the shop I Hie Atchison, Topoka A Santa Ft-railway Ft-railway company there Wednesday : Ten automobile loads of men arc uld to havo visited the shops ami borne Bradley away to Waterford, 12 miles distant where they left hin. without the injunction never to return. re-turn. Bradford came (o Modesto and told Itory to the sheriff Eradford said ho was obliged to give his watch and ham to the supposed t.idnapers as rlty for his promise that he would .Slay away from Riverbank. I ROES ! BLH . PROJL. LANSING, Mich.. July 21 Governor Gover-nor Groesbeeh today asited the striking strik-ing miners in Michigan to return to the mines, either under public or private pri-vate control. In a message sent to l 0 Jones of Sagln 1 w, president of dn-trlct dn-trlct 24. United Mine Workers of America, Am-erica, the governor asked that the miners go back to work and produce 1 "il sufficient for municipal and stute purposes. He gave the miners until Monday night to reply The governor has received no word from Washinff- regarding his suggestion that the mines bo placed under public control. con-trol. on |