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Show illlLiliFFffif; $200,009 Pill fitfN Seattle Millionaire Willino- (f A (Jive FoHnnc to See r;i Agfa. jre.E! WIRES JEFFRIES AND JOHNSON HIS mi' - L Bet JeAries Quits Training, Accord iS to Reports, and May Never Fight. ' H t ' Advices are received from the cnW' that James .1. .loTrics has quit traini&.f1'?1-1 which means that the undefeated chai'1'1 pion will not liht any more. .Teffffe--011 has probably eome to the conelusTfcdl--that ho enunol --ot himself into ciLFe' dition, and knowing this, refuses i..t ,0 become a public ehoppin-; block p the strappinff, athletic, negro wh0fl.Gbl the present Inn., lays claim to -tb-tkc world's lienvyweiRht, puRili.stic chKll,n pionslup. WHiM FiRhtorB and prominent trninore wfS havo been watching the biff fellow woia:h t in tho cast all proclaim I hat Joirflil11 11 cannot possibly -ct himself into coV ditirm and that ho would bo an calTrtfidei mark for Jack Johnson in his presoi .tin, stale. Five years of a !.f,. .0f eaLlfeS clone, tor .loft ries wliut , man cotfJSf do when he was boxm-r, . put him7-? ; the ."has-been" shelf with Messrs Sf livnn, Corbel t and Fitzsimmniis. ' &f-c-': In the same breath, that Jeffries ltfftU mnt i train in--, comes tho word thatS i 1). Ilillman, a Souitlc millionaire, MVbsi, ofTored a purse of .?200,000 with a pk. vision that the winner lake 7.1 per ctnt11'0 and the loser 2;" per cent of the bicfd, ortJ tune and that the lifht to be arrantS between Jeffries and Johnson take plnl i on July 4 or oarly in Septemher.H-Siiion. Seattle. Ilillinau announces lh.it ifitl has received word from Jeffries vwMn ticulby ntfccpling the biir offer, andyJ this is correct, the "traiuinf- story-WlMiy. probably the work of sonic press acefe-Hd! Ilillman is ono of the richest nicnjlfi 'fl ' Soatlle and t ho 1iij-p amount of monjJ'- 1 is but a drop in the bucket as coinpam"?f with his immense wealth, it is said. ITE'S |