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Show LYNCHING IN SIGHT. Posse of Oregon People After a Trampi With a Rope. Residents of Canby, Ore., are in hot pursuit of a tramp who assaulted Mrs Tillie Willis. Indignation is running, high, and the man will undoubtedly be lynched if caught. About 9 o'clock j the tramp entered the house of ex-County ex-County Commissioner Bair, father of Mrs. Willis, and after pointing a revolver re-volver at her, committed the assault. . He then left the house and started up. the railroad track toward Barlow. The-woman The-woman gave the alarm, and about an hour afterward a posse started in pursuit. pur-suit. Descriptions of the man have been telephoned to points south, and it is believed that he . cannot escape,. |