| Show NO TROOPS FOR THE VALLEY GOV AITGELD SEXDS COL BOYLE TO PHD SCENE OF TROUBLE 1 Admit That n Hundrbd Citizens Wore Driven Array Xo One Killed A Miners Meeting Adopts Peaceful and Reassuring Resolutions Resolu-tions Every Motion and Speech Repeated in Six Different Lang fuasres It is Generally Believed That if the Negroes Return There Will Be Trouble Chicaero Police Ilclicve Colored Men of That City Are Arming I SPRING VALLEY I Aug 7 State troops for the present at least will not be ordered > this turbulent town Peace has been declared This was brought about through the efforts of Colonel Hugh E Bayle assistant adjutantgeneral senthere by Governor Gover-nor Altgeld Colonel Bayle reached here at 1 oclock today He was met at the hotel by Sheriff Clark Judge Trimble and other officials and prominent promin-ent citizens A short conference was held in which Colonel Bayle outlined the policy of Governor Altgeld regarding regard-ing the present trouble Governor Altgeld sent me here said Colonel Bayle to investigate the trouble and ascertain where the blame lies He also instructed me to bring about a settlement if possible without aid of troops The governor told me that all American citzens regardless I of color or race were to be protected I upon investigation I find that the local authorities are unable or unwil ling to maintain law and order then troops will be sent here Law and order must be enforced at any cost Colonel Bayle was informed by Sheriff Clark Superintendent Dalzell l and other citizens miners and public officers tuat no one had yet been killed All admitted however that a hundred citizens all colored had been driven from their homes by a mob composed of Italians Poles Bavarians and Hungarians Many shots were tired and some of the colored miners were wounded and brutally beaten The nsroes men women and chil dren had been assailed and ruthlessly driven torn their homes and forced to go to ppaionvillp As to this outrage out-rage all wele agreed but that anyone had been killed or fatally kled fataly wounded both coal o anpany officials miners aniLofficers of the law denied Colonel Bayle was ihn informed that the miners were to hold a mass meeting on the public square at R oclock at which the following resolutions were to be presented for adoption Whereas a race conflict has taken place in this city within the last few days resulting in no loss of life but in serious hardships and inconvenience to a considerable section of this community com-munity Resolved That we the miners of Spring Valley in mass meeting assembled as-sembled declare it to be our belief that all men regardless of race color or creed are born with the same equal rigtht and should enjoy the same opportunities op-portunities in the pursuit of life and happiness Resolved That we denounce any attempt at-tempt at the suppressing of these rights as unjust and barbarous and pledge ourselves to maintain law and order so far as lies in our power Resolved That we are ready now to resume work providing the Spring Valley Coal company is ready to start their mines The resolutions also denounced the reports sent out from here to the Chicago newspapers At the appointed hour about six hundred hun-dred miners assembled in the public square at the mass meeting James Haney presided Every nation in eastern and southern Europe was represented rep-resented Every motion that was made and every speech had to be repeated at leastsix times and each time in a different language When the resolutions had been read In various languages the chairman asked i anyofe desired to speak In response came numerous inquiries as to whether the negroes would comeback come-back if the resolutions were adopted To these inquiries Chairman Haney replied that the law must take its course and peace oe preserved This did not seem to meet with general approval and many left the meeting At length the chairman put the quos tiqn The vote was about a tie and fie chairman declared it carried The meeting then adjourned When the meeting adjourned those who had been instrumental n callinKf i met at the Soring Valley Kel with Colonel Bayle the county olficial and representatives repre-sentatives of the coal company Most of the questions were proposed by James O Connor president of the State Miners union I was during this questioning it was developed that Manager TJalzell would willingly take back all the miners who had quit work save those who had committed crimes Dalzell explained that colored men who lad been driven from the mines were anxious to como back They had sent word to this effect OConnor requested Dalzell to wait two or three days after the mines started before be-fore he asked colored miners to return Dalzell said he would advise the colored people who had been driven out that they could come back Notwithstanding the miners resolution it Is generally believed that if the negroes return to work there will be trouble Chicago Xe STOCK AIII CHICAGO Aug GThe police this afternoon received information which leads them to believe that the eolored men of this city have perfected an organization orga-nization and are arming with the Inten 1 i 4 h tion of attacking the Italian miners at I Spring Valley The Information came from a number ofp awnbrokers who stated stat-ed that they had been approached during I the day by colored men who wejre anxious anx-ious to purchase numbers orWlnchester rifles I several instances purchases were made but a a general tIng the pawnbrokers pawn-brokers did not have enough of the rifles to make a deal with the coloral men One mae te wouldbe purchasers Bald when asked what he wanted to do with a number num-ber of rifles Oh we will show the da goes what we want with them War in Imagination Only CHICAGO Aug 6A special to the Post from Spring valley III says After crossexamining nearly every negro ne-gro and Italian the actual results simmer down to two negroes slightly injured and one Italian shot The race war exists only In the imagination of the Princeton newspapercor respondent from whom the sheriff of also obtained sherf Bureaa county aso obtaine his information and unless some unfor seen accident happens to create bad blood there Isno reason why Spring Valley should obtrude any longer onpublic notice PUZZLE DEVICE DECISION WASHINGTON Aug 7The assistant assist-ant attorneygeneral of the postofllce department ha rendered a decision In regard to the puzzle device employed by some newspapers to increase circulation newspprs culation The Chicago TimesHerald has been awarding bicycles to girls and boys who would put and paste together and name correctly disar of portraits of eo ranged fragments portrais people peo-ple notable In politics the drama or I wr To this Chicagos postmaster objected i ob-jected on the ground that the scheme was a lottery I Mr Kohlsaat owner of the Times I Herald called at the department yesterday yes-terday and asked for a ruling Judge Thomas decided that if the awards went by merit and not by chance the idea was not a lottery but on a par with the award of prizes in a school or college |
