Deseret Evening News | 1906-12-26 | Page 8 | Colored Troops Are Arrested for Rioting

COLORED TROOPS ARE ARRESTED FOR RIOTING r Leavenworth Kin Kun De Dec teen soldiers time the ot of whom lre are of at time tho Ninth WO today In connection the riot 01 on a streetcar Int last night I a number or of shots shota were fired Orad into Inlo me It clr car amid several slightly Injured bY by broken glasl glass Cap of at the tho Ninth cavalry Is making nn an InvestigatIon Into the causes or of time Iho trouble which Is believed to bo be similar to that of tho ho nt at Fort ort Reno Heno recent thy A tul full Inv investigation Into the reported rIot on A Leavenworth bound streetcar Christmas eve evo Is being con conducted ducted by Capt Wal Walsh h commandIng the tho squadron ot of the Ninth cavalry cot col color or oreil I Capt Walsh said fwd tonIght Three men are aro uller under arrest I am tol told that there rero no shots fred fired In Inthe Inthe the ear by br ium ho soldiers Time Tho conductor claImed such hut but ni an old sergeant or of orthe time the Infantry says they were time tho There lS ils an all argument over the payment or of tare bel between wen a 11 trooper and the con which led to time tho trouble Tero There II ii no imo delro desiro on the larl part ot at either the 11 or colored soldier soldiers who were on the tho car to shield theIr comrades they are malIng voluntarily or of what they know