The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-06-04
MUTINY IN A PEN.
Measures Taken to Restore Order
Among the California Convicts.
TAILORS' DEMANDS GRANTED
Strikers at New York Go Back to Work at
Increased Wages-Miners Resume-An
Express Cashier Missing-Iron-
workers. Wages Reduced.

SAN FRANCISCO, June $50 far as eX
ternal evidences went, things were in
an improved condition at the pen at
San Quentin yesterday. In place of
the constant shrieking and bowling of
the preceding days, the bread and
water" gang kept sullen silence.
The state board of prison directors
held special meeting and authorized
the warden to shoot down convicts if
necessary to restore order. One hun
dred rifles We're borrowed from the
armory of company d. at San Rafael
and sent to the prison. Ten extra
guards We're employed and placed on
the prison walls for the night. At six
o'clock the captains went into the yard
and began operations. kid alley"
on the side of the prison which con-
tains 66 cells, was the scene of attack
by the officers and 40 guards.
This alley contains the boys and
young men and they made the
greatest amount of trouble during the
strike. When the officers and guards
appeared they We're cursed and hooted
as usual Each cell from which came
a sound was marked and the inmates
taken out and relieved of most of their
clothes. Capt. Birlem then ordered
out the hose. The nozzle was poked
into the wicket of each cell and the
convicts were thoroughly drenched.
THIS operation was continued until
eight o'clock and finally the yelling
and cursing ceased. 1t is proposed to
send a number of the ring leaders of
the strike to the branch prison at Fol-
-
rying granite.
Tailors' Demands Granted.
New YORK. June 1.-Two thousand
of the striking tailors employed in the
shops of 1O5 contractors went to work
this morning at advanced wages. based
on 50 hours a week. All their demands
were granted. The Lithuanian tailors,
numbering 1000 more, also made a set
Element at their own terms to-day and
will return to work. Fortyfive shops
of the JACKIE tmakers were thrown open.
Secretary Horn said that 700 of his
men were back at work at increased
wages and shortened hours. all their
demands being granted. Sixty manu-
featuring wholesalers and contractors
were on hand this morning and affixed
their names to the roll which $50 had
already signed.
Coal Miners Resume Operations.
DENVER, Col, June 1.-The coal
mines at Baldwin, Col, have resumed
operations, giving employment to a
large number of miners. The differ
ences between the company and the
miners, who had been on a strike for
some time, were adjusted by the state
board of arbitration, created by the
last general assembly. Neither sida
gained any advantage by its decisions.
A Sioux City Express Cashier Missing.
Sioux CITY, Ia, June 2.--Cashier
George Adams, of the American Ex-
press Co.'S local Office, went fishing
Sunday and has not returned. The
safe was broken open under Agent
Manns direction yesterday, but the
work of checking up the books is not
yet completed. Adams friends think
he has been drowned.
Ironworkers' Wages Reduced.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. June "A ten per
cent. cut in wages. affecting all men
not under the amalgamated scale, was
ordered at Jones & Laughlin's Ameri-
can iron works to-day. AS a result the
open hearth workers and some other
employees, in all about 200, refused to
work last night. The firm employs
nearly 5000 men.