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Tgroes has been fostered here for | seven years and 4e that time sotVIrate\I Riot Over Colored WtitenTaken Then By Elks\ft#ost ol the 51 Bedford Elks rbo went to Linton last evening, eaving here sbout- 6:30, to agist in the installation of Linton odge No 866 B. P. O. Elks, had\ leard more or less about coal Diners, but during the trip they earned just what cort of anar :bists those people are. The Jed ford lodge had a colored jani or or care-taker named Frank Jolden, and upon arrival atiwitz City the lodge received a e! eg ram warning them to drop■'rank off at that station if theylidn’t want him lynched at Lin on. This was done, Frank being ary willing to avoid an untimelyate, and the white folks went ravely on to the feast waiter-ess.The Terre Haute restaurant aan employed by the Linton Slks to prepare the feast for the 00 or more Elks asked if it rould be safe to bring in colored ooksand waiters, and was as-ured by the Lintonites that it rould, and that they preferred he colored men. Along in the dternoon.when the miners began o come up out of the earth, the igitators who lead these people tegan to harangue them from he street corners, urging them o run the colored men out. A toliceman finally went to the tall and notified the Elks to send be colored men out of town if hey didn’t want the hall mobbed, vhich was done.a negro has been allowed in the town. In 1896 a coal companyimported 300 negroes to take the places of strikers in one ofthe mines here. The negrce-organized a company arid drilledwith rifles on the streets. One*of them shot a white boy and the entire white population, aroused at midnight by the fire bell, raided the negro quarters and drove every one of them from the city. Several of thf m were shot.%A marriage license has been issued to Ollie E. Terry and Caddie M. Jones.Foe Rent—A very desirable room, with or without board, at 801, 16tb and H Streets.ExaursitR T* Cbioage.The Monon will run an excursion to Chicago, Saturday, July 18ib. Fare for round trip 12 00.BobAll seemed glad to see Harris back at the Hoosier quarries. 'He has been at Bowling Green, Ky.. for sometime.Marcus Spaulding has returned from a pleasant to the Sunny South, and reports a splendid time at a Southern Fourth.4W. A. Wilson of Danville, Ind., A. H. Johnson, wife and daughter, of Harrodsburg, Ind.r while►visiting friends in Oolitic, spent a few hours of real enjoyment looking through the, “Hoosier” quarries and mills.There is no place in Indiana £and it is doubtful if there is aplace in America that has shown,such a wonderful and at the sameEED , time substantial growth, as Jas*While the Bedford people were ... . r * . ... ^. _ » . .f »■. I onville. The mining towns in thelandsomely treated by theNLin on Elks, for whom tbfij havelothlng but praise, the hideous ougbneBS of the town was a re-relation to them. Linton with ess than half the population of Bedford has twice as many sa-ood8 and five or six times as many policemen, there being six regular men on the night force. Some of these uniformed nd star spangled guardians of the peace were so drunk last uight they had to lean up against the houses to keep from falling in the gutter.The installation ol the new Elks lodge at Linton was planned for a big celebration and while the unfortunate circum stances marred the program it did not interrupt the ceremonies. Thetirst class was initiated bythe Terre Haute staff. The de gree team from Vincennes did the work for the second class and the Bedford Elks officiatedat the initiation of the third clas. The banquet was carried out according to the program, but the loss of the cook and wait-ers spoiled it in a measure.A special from Linton says:Linton, Ind., July 6.—The appearance of eight Terre Haute negroes in Linton to-day caused a demonstration in which the men narrowly escaped death Alex. Sanderson, a Terre Haute caterer, was employed to serve the banquet at the institution of a new lodge of the Elks. He took his cook and waiters with him and while the lodge work in the ball was going on several hundred miners assembled in tne street and threatened to dy namite the hall unless the ne groes were sent out of town. The eight colored men were hur riedintoa cab and driven toDicka8on,where they were put onthe train for Terre Haute. Six policemen hung on the carriage and beat back the crowd while the negroes drove out of town. The intense feeling aga;nst newest are not to be compared with it, and no gae belt town ean come in the same class. It is situated close to the Clay county line, ninetyfive miles from Indianapolis and twentyfive miles south of Terre Haute, and for more than thirty years it was simply a little trading post where Jason Rodgers kept storb. Two years ago Jasonville had about fifteen houses and less then two hundred population. No. 4 coal was found at Linton, a few miles south, and it was thought that the vein ran out a short distance from that city. Prospectors, however, made drillings in the direction the No. four vein was supposed to extend, and behold, the precious fuel was found in all directions reaching out from Jasonville. In an incredibly short time there was a rush to the new coal field, and at this time every bit of workable land is taken up. Within a year mines began working and Jason-vilie became a place of near two thousand inhabitants almost in one night. Instead of tents and tumble down shacks, the people put up first class buildings. There are any number of band-some cottages there. A school house that cost $10,000 and a church that cost as much more went up. Several business blocks were built, a bank was started, the Jasonville Leader a well printed and edited paper, “launched its frail craft on the sea of Journalism,’* and now editor Cooke wears diamonds of the diametor of ha?al nuts. In ad dition to what ha§ already been done, eight business blocks are under contract to be built this year, and three quarters of a mile of brick streets and several miles of cement sidewalks will godown. The coal companies are unable to rent bouses for their men and have contracted for a large number of buildings, in which the employes will live. More than 400 of these housesrt5lt;Cigflt;bapdiFdlVS83T81OPJfi0 b1 81 a a5lt;\
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Bedford Daily Mail
Bedford, Indiana, US
Tue, Jul 07, 1903
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