Crossword-Solution: WHEATLAND 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Unable to run away from her, Captain Wheatland reported to his owners: "We took in steering sails, wore ship, hauled up our courses, piped all hands to quarters and prepared for action.

This fellow Alf Guinness had had a row with a farmer in Wheatland County; there had been a barn burned nearby, and Guffey would furnish an automobile and a couple of detectives to travel with Peter, and they would visit the scene of that fire and the nearby village, and familiarize themselves with the locality, and Peter would testify how he had been with Guinness when he and a half dozen of the defendants had set fire to that barn.

Wheatland estimates that less than a score of these strange malignants are now to be met with on the streets of Salem.

The setting of the riot is best given in the article above referred to, "The California Casual and His Revolt." "The story of the Wheatland hop-pickers' riot is as simple as the facts of it are new and naïve in strike histories.

Four men were killed--two of the posse and two strikers; the posse fled in their automobiles to the county seat, and all that night the roads out of Wheatland were filled with pickers leaving the camp.