DROVE JAPS OUT

Colorado Miners Become Enraged at Importation of Oriental Labor.

By Associated Press.

FLORENCE, Colo., Thursday, Feb. 13. -- The trouble between the Victor Fuel Company and miners employed at their coal mines at Chandlet, near this city, culminated in an attack on Japanese miners who had taken the places of the strikers, and the demolition of the boarding house occupied by the Japanese. The mob drove the Japanese out of the camp.

The affair occurred after a meeting of strikers, at which it was decided to send an ultimatum to the Victor Company demanding the removal of the Japanese. A report was circulated in the meeting, which was largely attended, that 20 more Japanese were on their way to the Chandler mines and this so enraged the strikers that they decided at once to rid the community of the Japanese.

The attack occurred at midnight and it has not yet been learned if any one was seriously hurt, although the Japanese were roughly handled.