Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-08-19
QUIET RE|GNS
IN ILLINOIS
CAPITAL
GOVERNOR ORDERS TWO
REGIMENTS SENT HOME
Authorities Believe Two ThouS-
and MiIitIamen Sufficient to
Maintain Order Until III Feel
inc Dies Down,

tBy Morning Journal BDsniai I@aAad Wtlal
Springfield I'll, Aug lS.--rhat the
race war situation IN this city Is con
sidered much less serious was evil
dcnced tonight when Governor neneen
ISSUED orders for the return of the
First and Fourth Infantry regiments
to take trains for their homes tomor-
row.
II took this measure after confer
once with sheriff Werner. Mayor
Roecc, Major General Young. Adiutant
General Scott General Foster and
General Wells" explained Governor
Deneen tonight
Docs that mean that YOU consider
that all danger of serious trouble IL
past9' he was asked
1T means that we can properly
guard the city with the troops which
will remain. There viii still be the
Second and Seventh regiments under
General Foster In the western division
ana the Third and Firth under Gen
cral Wells The departure of the First
aud Fourth viii lessen your forces by
l.5O0 men, leaving good 1000 here"
Major General Young said
The mob element has had lesson
ana the way citizens with knowledge
of riOtluus msdeods are responding to
tho appeal for Information on which
10 base indictments viii furnish fur
ther Instructions to the violently In
elined We are getting news on which
we win be able To make many arrests
OF Importance. and these arrests win
render the situation much easier td
handle, with the ring leaders behind
the bars there VIII be little for the
military to do"
There were the usual baseless
alarms tonight but up to midnight
nothing Of a serious character had oc-
Cured Deputy sherlfs reported an
entire absence of trouble ar excite
ment at the Woodslde coal mine.
where the white miners refused to
work with the negroes Some nerv-
business was reported as existing fur
thcr out, at the TuXhorn mine but
no clashe4
The refusal of the whites to work
with their colorcd comrades was con
sldcrcd nj an all day session of the eN-
amining board of the state Federation
or the United Mine Workers of Am
erica As a result of this considera-
tion an order was Issued that the un-
ion docs not recognize the right of
the miners to cease work An were
ordered to report hack at their posts
tomorrow. The walkout today was
not In II body but by individuals and
small groups OF miners who feared
that the negroes. alarmed at condi-
tions In the city were armed ana might
inadvertently be startled into violence
The negroes protested the most peace
able intentions.
While the sheriff Of Sangamon coun-
ty is glad OF the presence here of the
national guards his deputies viii feel
much safer when they are gone ac-
oordlng to stories told tonight by
deputies.
Nearly all Of last nights shooting.
to Chicf Deputy Long was
done by soldiers Long was riding In
the wagon which contained other
deputies and soldiers. among them be
ing Lieutenant Ridgely, of the First
infantry. whose scahbard was struck
by a bullet and Deputy Sherifs John
Garfield ana Harry F. Kramer. II
leaked out tonight, despite efforts of
Garfield To keep the matter secret.
that one Of last nights bullets went
through his hat Others whistled over
Kramcr's head