Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-04-23 | Page 11 | Declares War on Coast Klan

DECLARES WAR I ON COAST KUK I District Attorney Intends to Drive Night Riders Out of Fields BAK.EHSITELD, Calif . April 22. District Attorney J. R. Dorsey an PPpa nounced today that "the Ku Klux Klafi PPpn ;cnd any kindred organizations in tl PH .west side oil fields will be put out Cfl PPPJ business." The announcement follow PPPJ ed a conference with J. N. Pylcs, pppj 1 private detective, who last Mondnv PPH night was beaten by a hooded ami PPH 'armed band of men. PPPJ Pyles, who was warned by his as- pppj Isailants to leave the county by Ma ppH 1. under the penalty of death, departed PPPJ today for Taft, Calif, with a body of pppj armed men to continue his invest ik.i PPH tions of outrages that have been PPPJ mitted in the oil fields recently. PPH Dorsey .said that whether the K PPB Klux Klau was directly responsible for pppj the outrages In the oil fields, "if the ppH klan was not in operation ln the dis- PPPJ trlct, Other night riding gangs prol- PPPJ ably Would uot bo either," and he do- pppj clared open warfare would be declan o pppj at once on the klan. ppH