The daily sentinel., 1908-02-07
OBEY
NECR0'S ORDERS
This Afternoon Young Stranger to the City Was Found
Guilty Of Carrying Concealed Weapons, Following a
Quarrel With a Colored Porter-1 Won't Take
Orders From Any Negro, Said Defendant More
Trouble at the Depot

Declining to take orders from a
negro, as any Southerner would de-
cline to do, Jesse Earring, aged 80
years, whose old home is at Anchor
age, Jefferson county, Kentucky.
finds himself in trouble In Grand
Junction, and this afternoon was ar
raigned before Justice of Peace ]. p.
Sweeney on the formal charge of car
rying concealed weapons and was
found guilty.
If Earrings story is true and 1t has
not been disproven. then the negro
porter was carrying a revolver with
out any official authority or permis-
sion and was and is therefore liable
to the same charge on which Earring
was arraigned.
Earring states that he left his home
in Kentucky some four years ago and
came to Colorado. A year or two
ago he filed on homestead claim in
the Uintah reservation. He spends
the greater portion of his time on his
claim but for some time past has
been employed by Il. l.. Davis at
Telluride. Wednesday night he reach
ed this city over the Montrose line.
en- route to his Uintah claim. Yes
terday morning he purchased ticket
to Mack. He intended to leave Grand
junction yesterday at noon on train
No. for Mack. Having his suit
case in the waiting room at the depot
and being an entire stranger in
Grand Junction. Earring went to the
station yesterday morning about ten
thirty O'Clock and took seat in the
waiting room, thinking that he would
await the arrival of his train, due at
1915 o'clock. He states that while
l.. II ha
came In and told him to get out, that
no train would be in for two or three
hours and he had no right staying
in the waiting room all that time.
Naturally Earring got pretty hot at
these orders from a negro and told
the negro he had ticket, had right
to be in the waiting room and ex-
pected to stay there. Earring states
that the negro then pulled gun on
him and told him to get out quick
or he would shoot. Earring, being un-
armed, of course obeyed the negro's
command. However, being determ-
ined that he would sit in the waiting
room II he wanted to do SO Earring
came up town and going to hard
ware store purchased revolver. He
states that he remarked that he was
going back to the depot to stay there
and take his train and that the negro
had better not monkey with me-"
He went back to the depot and did
not see the negro porter but took his
seat in the waiting room. Presently
an officer, Frank A. Mahaney. who
had been summoned by the negro or
some one else, appeared on the scene
and slipping up behind Earring stole
his gun out of his pocket and placed
him under arrest Earring protested
to the officer but to no avail and
Earring was taken to the city Jail and
locked up after Mahaney had taken
all his personal belongings from him
and put them In the jailer's care.
Earring had over 500 on his person.
A little later Mahaney, who is the
regular night officer at the depot.
took Earring from the city jail. ar
raigned him before Justice sweeney
and entered formal charge of car
rying concealed weapons against him.
Earring entered plea of not guilty
and declared he thought a man had