El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-06
NEGRO TROOPERS

NEGRO TROOPERS
Are Creating Disturbances In This
Part of the Country, and If They
Arc Banking Too Much On Their
Cuban War Record They Will
Soon FIND the Peace Officers On
Their Trail.
A number of pistol shots were fired
on: Myrtle Avenue about 2:3O Sunday
morning near the residence of A. 2.
Coles. The shooting is supposed to
have been done by some member of q
Bliss, who were returning to the post
Policeman Joe Rogers heard the
shooting, and mounting his horse,
hurried to the spot. He rounded up q
wagonette containing five negro troop
ers and brought them back to town.
Two or three other occupants of the
vehicle are said to have jumped out,
when the officer approached, and made
good their escape.
The five soldiers arrested were tax
en- to the police station and searched
nv Dick Blacker. No arms were found
on any of them, but each had bottle
of whiskey concealed under his blouse
aud all appeared to have been drink
ing. After taking the names of the
five men they were permitted to go.
Yesterday Chief Lockart went out
mandant that it was believed that
some of his men had attempted to
shoot up the town Saturday night
The officer replied that he would IN |.
vestigate and punish the guilty
parties, if any such were found. He
said that his men had been done a
grave injustice by Associated Press
reports sent out from Texarkana and
other points, charging them with
route to the ports along the frontier at
which the various troops of the regi-
men are distributed.
The police hope the colored soldiers
will not:endeavOr to override the town p,
and feel able to cope with any situation
that may arise.
THE TExARKANA TROUBLE.
The following are dispatches sent
| out from various points along the line
of travel when the troopers were COM
ing this way:
Texarkana, Ark, Feb. 2.-The riot
Gus conduct of members OF the. Tenth
United States cavalry while passing
| through TeXarkana has been reported
to the war department aud will be
made the subject of official inquiry.
Congressman j. L. Sheppard of Texas
has laid the matter before Secretary
Alger.
Every railroad station from Little
Rock to Texsrkana shows signs of the
soldiers depredatiCns. The sign board
on every depot designating the cOlOred
waiting rooms was demolished.
When the fret train reached Texar
kama the drunken negroes began
throwing empty whisky bottles upon
tie station platform and SCATTERING
them against It's walls. Over one hun
dred of these bottles were thrown and
broken on the station.
Eight went to q house occupied by
white woman and broke down the door.
The woman fed and the negro soldiers
entered the parlor, broke up the fur
niture and fired three shots through
the ceiling. ALI were armed with load
ee Krag -Jorgensen rifles.
Col. Kemp, in command of the regi-
ment, and other officers were in the
station dining room taking luncheon,
while the riot was in progress outside.
The colonel came out just as Con-
stable Rochelle was running from the
mob. and he demanded to know
the cause of the trouble. A negro
soldier sullenly muttered that Nobody
could take mem Der of that regiment"
The colonel stormed at the soldier for
his insolence and the latter straighten-
ed up and saluted the colonel. Col.
Kemp then ordered the men inside the
cars and posted guards outside.
The regimental officers made no eff
fort, it is alleged, to assist in finding
the man wanted here. During the riot
ninety pounds of dynamite was
purchased by citizens from local hard
ware stores and was in possession of
the crowd around the cars, ready to
blow up the train bad the negroes fred
into the crowd
Austin, Tex, Feb. 1.--Capt Gray, of
the Tenth United States cavalry, pass
ed through here today with his regi-
ment for San Antonio. He stated that
the report from Texarkana that his
regiment was drunk and disorderly is
absolutely false. He says that there
at Texarkana; that there were
no drunken men, no loaded carbines or
occasion for any on the train at ell;
that the report, originating from who
ever it was, was gross falsehOOd, AID
that it was uufair to The Tenth caval-
ry, than which there is no bet err re-
gime mt in the federal service. He con-
dennis In emphatic terms the report,
and asks that it be denied in quite as
emphatic a.manner.
Richmond, Fort Bend Co., Tex,
Feb. 2.-Three companies of the Tenth
regular United States cavalry (colored)
passed west on the Southern Pacific
last night. Their passage through the
county was characterized by the most
outrageous conduct. Houses all along
the line were filed with bullets, and
several narrow escapes from death are
reported
DIED.