Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-07-03
OBJECT TO PRESENCE OF MILITIA
AT CARTERvILLE, ILL.
NO DISTURBANCE YESTERDAY
STRIKERS GAVE NON-UNION MEN A
DAY OF REST.
People Denounced Sheriff Gray for
Asking for Militia, and Declare
He Made No Effort on His
Own Account to
Keep Order.

CARTERvILLE, ILL, July 2-Had 1t
not been for the militia patrolling the
streets to-day, strangers would hardly
guess that the little city was in the midst
of a struggle between capital and labor
Both sides in the trouble between the
union miners and the non-union men lay
on their arms, and there were no disturb
ances. The presence of troops quieted
matters and allayed fears of riotous out
breaks. .-..
In accordance with the orders issued by
Acting Governor Warder, through Adju-
tant General Reece, last night, two COM
panies of militia, c, of Carbondale, under
Captain Barton, and F, of Mount Vernon,
under Captain Pavey, arrived at Carbon
dale on a special train to-day. There they
awaited the coming of Colonel Bennett, of
Greenville, who arrived at noon. He took
command Of the troops and the special ar
rived at Cartervile at l p. m. They i'm
mediately camped in a grove on the out
skirts of town.
A detachment of Company C was de-
tailed to patrol the roads leading to the
Brush mines and detail from Company
d patrolled the outskirts of town. Colonel
Culver, of the Sixth Illinois regiment, came
down from Springfield on the noon train
as the representative of Acting Governor
Warder to look over the situation. The
| business men and citizens generally of Car
terville expressed disapproval of the action
of the acting governor in sending the
militia here.
toward the soldiers by the crowd that had
assembled at the station when they came
| in but the consensus of opinion was that
there was no occasion for their presence
l here Sheriff Gray was roundly denounced
| by several merchants for his kilograms to
| the governor, which resulted in the calling
l 49, II, af I1lA
CATION of merchants and property owners
called on Colonel Culver to protest against
the presence Of the troops and te ask their
tion stated that Sheriff Gray had not ex-
hausted his resources to prevent con-
| fict, and that he did not even attempt to
at the scene of the trouble more than
three hours during the two days it lasted.
At the meeting of the leading merchants
| to defray the expenses of sending away the
nom union miners in the Brush shaft. The
negroes have expressed their Willingness
of the militia to-day 1t is said that within
forty-eight hours not one of the negroes
would be in the mine. AS 1t 1s. the citizens
arily thrwarted, but hope is expressed that
the existing arrangement still may be car
ried out and a peaceful solution of the
SPRINGFIELD. ILL, July 2--Early thi:
morning Acting Governor Warder received
the following telegram from State Secre'
tary w. D. Ryan, Of the United Mine
Workers of America, who had been a
Carterviile since Saturday noon:
Honorable Walter Warder, Acting Gov
ernor Springfield, Ill.
! "In the name of 10000 United Mine Work
ers of Illinois, protest against state troop:
being sent to Carterville. The sheriff ha:
not been here for twenty-four hours, ant
certainly he would be here if the situa
ton demanded his presence.
| - "W. D. RYAN,
"Sec. United Mine Workers of Illinois,"
Soon after the following dispatch was re
| ceived by the acting governor from thu
mayor and other citizens of Carterville:
''To Hon. Walter Warder, Acting Governor
Springfield, Ill.
I'VE understand that militia has beel
ordered to Carterville. Militia Is not need
ed and the citizens protest.
'F. c. Zimmerman, mayor; R. H. Hampton, A.
Ellis. G. A. Henshaw. S. H. Bundy, J. v. Watkins
7. ]. Moatke, c. E. Owen