Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-07-27
NEGROES ON HAND.
Keith g. Perry Supplied with Mon
from the South.
PUT THROUGH A COURSE OF DRILL.
Perry Says He IL Determined to Work His
Mines, Whether Accorded state
and County Protection
or Not

WEIR CITY, Kan, July 26.-There
have been no further hostilities since
midnight Monday night. A shot from
the stockade at Keith & Perry's mine
No. o at about that hour put things on
the qui vive for awhile, but nothing
turned up. Inquiry in the morning
ELECTED the statement that guard had
fred at something he took TO be man
who refused TO answer his challenge.
AT 8 o'clock yesterday morning a
Gulf train came into Keith & Perry's
mine No. with two car loads of negro
miners from Colorado, and an hour
later another Gulf train from the north
ran through town without stopping
until the stocltades were reached,
bringing In four car loads of negro
miners from Alabama This lat
ter train was reported TO have
for the Kansas g. Texas Coal Co. at
Litchheld. Tho ten cars handled by
this train are known to have been
gathered from the south and TO be the
forerunners OF still heavier importa-
tons, but there Is something peculiar
about the fret two cars. II has been
learned that the division superintend-
ent of the Frisco was in town Sunday
endea vorinR TO dispose Of two cars Of
miners from Colorado.
He had instructions to deliver them
TO Keith & Perry, but Superintendent
Mackie, of that company, disclaimed
all knowledge Of them and refused TO
take them. The other coal companies
i L. Q.
Colorado shipment Since then, how
ever, Keith & Perry agreed to take
/ them.
When the importation OF Colorado
men was rumored on the streets some
time ago II was said the miners would
manage to introduce union negroes
into the stockade TO proselyte among
the others, and the singularity Of n sur
plus In human freight induced the sus-
picion that the Miners union was ut
the bottom Of the scheme. What truth
there is in IL Is not known, but II is
taken for granted that Keith & Perry
did not receive them until satisfied
about them.
At n meeting of the miners a commit
tee was appointed to visit the negroes
and endeavor to get them out The
committee was refused admission to the
stockadc by the guards. Returning to
town, they produced the sheriff and un-
der his wing passed inside. Hardly
were they inside before John Perry,
general manager of the company, dis
covered them and fired them bodily.
During the day two negroes, who were
doing some Disseminated talking, were
turned out and told to skip by Mike
Cleary, who has charge of the guards.
Coming down they addressed the
miners and told them how they had
been deceived and purse was raised
to send them home with the under
standing that they should endeavor to
keep away the other negroes who In
tended coming. The two negroes told
the miners the negroes would not go to
work and not TO hurt any who might
come out on the street
Keith & Perry are unquestionably
prepared for n fight and do not care a
straw whether the sheriff or militia
protect them or not A correspondent
was admitted to their arsenal and
found over 400 loaded Winchesters
where they could be had at moments
notice. lie saw the negroes put through
tne drll Tor lOrinlnR ItnCa, icNNa'aur
arms and assuming stations, though
the arms themselves were not given out
They have a guard of fifty picked ex-
perienced men on duty, some of them
mounted, and all under command of
Mike Cleary, who had charge of break
Ing the great Burlington strike recent
ly and of the Missouri Pacific strike in
1885, when Martin Irons assumed the
endeavoring TO rival.
Sheriff Arnold received a telegram
from the governor, refusing to furnish
him the 200 guns asked for. Gov. Lew
cling said the arms were intended for
the use OF the militia and could not 20
out except in their hands. Fred j.
Close, Gov. dwellings private secre-
tary, was in town all day. He said he
was sent here by the governor for the
purpose of looking over the ground and
securing exact information as TO the
situation. The Kansas & Texas Coal
Co ran No. Al strip pit again yester.
day and also started up mine No. Is.
IL is their intention to start the
Granat strip pits to-day. The com.
pany reports no trouble from Litch
field. At this hour everything is
! quiet. The miners are holding secre,
meeting from which outsiders are rigid,
ly excluded. President Walters, it was
4 learned, was cited to appear before the
/ United States court TO answer TO u
charge of contempt, based upon his an
archistic speech OF Saturday night
Sheriff Arnold has discharged fifteen
/ of his deputies, us he considered theil
services unnecessary.
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