The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-28
NEGROES ON HAND.
Keith & Perry Supplied with Men
from the South.
PUT THROUGH A COURSE OF DRILL.
Perry Says He Is Determined to Work Hil
Mines, Whether Accorded State
and County Protection
or Not.

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. at about that hour put things on
the qui vive for awhile, but nothing
turned up. Inquiry in the morning
elected the statement that a guard had
fred at somethingshe took to be man
| who refused to answer his challenge.
at 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 til stockades were reached,
bringing in four car loads of negro
miners from Alabama. This lat
ter train was reported to have
left six car loads of negroes
for the Kansas & Texas Coal Co. at
Litchfield. The ten cars handled by
| this train are known to have been
| gathered from the sonth and to be the
| forerunners of still heavier importa
tions, but there is something peculiar
about the first two cars 1t has been
learned that the division superintend-
ent of the Frisco was in town Sunday
endea voring t0,-dispose of two cars of
miners tnbNeg6db ~
to Keith 81 Err isnd Superintendent
Macl<ix het Hppany, disclaimed
all llnoMJe4 item and refused to
take thems Tho other coal companies
also said they knew nothing of the
Colorado shipment. Since then, how
| ever, Keith & Perry agreed to take
them.
| When the importation of Colorado
men w as rumored on the streets some
time ago it Vas said the miners would
manage to introduce union negroes
into the stocl1ade 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 it is not known, but it is
taken for granted that Keith & Perry
| did not receive them until satisfied
| about them.
At a 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
stockade 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 fred them bodily.
During the day two negroes, who were
doing some discontented 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 a 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 unquestionabfy
prepared for 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
twhere they could be had at moments
notice. He saw the negroes put through
4 the drill for forming lines, receiving
arms and assuming stations though
the arms themselves were not given ont
They have a guard of fifty picked. ex-
perienced men ON duty, some of them
mounted, and all under command OF
I Mike sCleary, who had charge of break
ing the great Burlington strike recent
ly and. of the Missouri Pacific strike ir
1886, when Martin Irons assumed tho
prominence which NJ S. Walters is now
endeavoring to rival
Sheriff Arnold received telegraH
l from the governor, refusing to furnish
him the 200 guns asked for Gov. Lew
cling said the arms We're intended fol
the use of the militia and could not gt
out except in their hands. Fred j
Close, Gov: LeweIling's private secre
tary, was in town all day. He said ht
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 Goa
Co. ran No. a strip. pit again yester
day and also started up mine No. is
1t is. their intention ito start th,
Granat strip pits to-day. The com
pany reports no trouble from Litch
field At this hour everything il
quiet. The miners are holding a secre
meeting from which outsiders are rigid
ly eY2uded. President Walters, it wa
EIearned, was cited 70 appear before th.
United States court to answer to s:
charge of contempt. based upon his an
archistic speech of, Saturday night
Sheriff Arnold has discharged fiftee,
of his deputies, as he considered 6thei
I services Unnecessary. s.S--s