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Show RACE WAR IN CHEYENNE Soldiers and Negroes Battle; Bat-tle; One Killed; Others Arc Wounded. CHEYENNE. Wyo., July 2. William Carpenter, colored, was killed, and Walter Jones of company E, Eleventh Infantry, waa shot through the abdomen abdo-men in a fight In West Cheyenne early today. Ten or twelve negroes were beating Charles C. Lands, a soldier, and his cries attracted other soldiers to the scene. The shooting followed. It la supposed that Carpenter fired the shot which wounded Jones, and that the latter lat-ter shot Carpenter. Many negroes and soldiers were arrested. Jones is in a critical condition. |