In West Virginia

Wheeling, W. Va., Aug. 17.- The strikers show material gaing in all sections of West Virginia. In the Wheeling district there is not a miner working, while on the Ohio side of the river the last man, except those who are to furnish coal for water and elctric light plants, are out. In the Fairmont district the strike leaders did not succeed in closing the Montana mine entirely, but thêy made decided gains. The camp will be maintained Uil the last man leaves nis work, when these recruits will be taken with the main body to the other Watson company's mines to help close them. Ia the Kanawha valley about 300 men have gone to work since Monday morning, but more than that number have left their work. The trouble is that the mines are so far apart that concentrated action is hard to get. In the Norfolk and western región the organizers have gone to work again with a will. and in sufficient numbers to prove eftective. The leaders are getting on the United States court injunctions, and find upon careful reading that they prohibit nothing but trespass, and do not apply to speechmaking or assemblage on public ground. They are no Jonger a cause of alarm to the organizers.