Show BATTLE BETWEEN SCHOOL BOYS IS C 7 INTERRUPTED BY ERS Henry Shephard a lad la yesterday y declared that could whip I the three boys who pelted P led him with snow balls ball and the challenge was promptly accepted by Hubert Rubert Hay Alex I Dahlquist and Sidney Johnson The scrap that followed was waG interrupted by bythe I the police and the four belligerents occupied quarters at the police sta st I lion Uon yesterday afternoon The three younger boys are students stud tree boy at the Union o school and ad have been ben I with passersby having glorious sport wit since the snow began to thaw Shephard does do not attend that school but passed p i in range rane rn e of or the te trio tro at t noon flOOR yesterday i and was promptly tired fired fred upon Nothing daunted by the fearful odds against him he returned tie the te fire fre and the balls bals sped fast fat and furious The honors honor were about abut evenly divided when en the hour to report for Co duty arrived and hostilities were suspended Shephard had been ben thoroughly aroused arous and issued the challenge that he would meet the three at any time and at any an place and let them select the weapons His challenge chanen e was vas wa accepted and it was wa agreed aree to pull pul off the te event Immediate Immediately ly Iy after the dismissal of school schol in the afternoon The report that the duel was as to take place spread rapidly among the stu students student students dents dent and throughout the neighborhood and by the appointed time a crowd of or several hundred people is said to t have gathered Shephard was the first frt on j the scene sene however and is said to have hc waited in the vicinity the whole afternoon School was finally finaly dismissed and the tle t c three anxious for battle batte appeared upon the scene No seconds were I deemed necessary and no deme nor other accessories to the th modern system nr oher of warfare and the fray fr be began the combatants caught gnu gan as soon sn as Sight of each other There was no sparring for time or for Cor points but it i was as a fight to the finish from pint the start Noses Nos bled and eyes bo bogan bog bogan darker hue three gan to assume a thre landed g on Shephard and ShepHard land landed landed landed ed on the three throe without favor and without te partiality They The tried tred to close in on him and throw him to the toe ground but he ducked and kept his feet teet The odds began to tell ten however hocer and Shep Shephard Shephard Shephard hard was losing ground He was forced down dor the street the crowd still fol following lowing kwing and cheering lustily The fact that a riot was In progress finally reached the ears earn of or Officer Gil GI Gillespie lespie le pie at the Oregon Short Line station staton and he hastened to the scene Pushing through the surrounding crowd he came in sight of the combat Gory GoO faces and panting boys fighting like and he arrived demons met his gaze just in time to prevent the mortifies mortification jus tion of a possible defeat for Shephard He promptly prompt arrested arrested the quartette and took them to police DoUce headquarters headquarter where they the were locket locked up The four were released later laer in the afternoon on their own own recognizance re and will wi appear before Judge Diehl Diehi in 1 city court this thi afternoon |