Show ATTEMPTED HOLDUP IF anyone has consoled himself with the idea that the rEcent captures of holdups has de I 11 > ed the ranks ol that fraternity he has been deluded with + a false hope for the knights of 4 the sandbag are still in the ring as was demon btrated again yesterday evening About 630 pm J T Spencer an employe in the general onlce of the Union Pacltlo railway had made some purchases and was wending his way homeward home-ward along Fourth South street When about midway between West Temple and First West streets there suddenly appeared before him two large men who cried Hold up your hands Mr SIfencer cafledrorinlpandstarted to move backward when he stepped into a ditch and tell backward Just at that moment the holdups hold-ups lired at him butfortunately the bullet took no effect and the Callister boys in front of whose residence the escapade was taking place tame out with a shotgun and the men tied in the darkness Mr Spencer was escorted home by his rescuers and he probably will long remember re-member narrow escape He state to a reporter re-porter who called on him last night that the men appeared to step from behind the trees and come together from both sides of the street which was very dark owing to the electric streetlights street-lights not being lighted in that vicinitv The absence of the street lights which has been so general of late is a bonanza for footpads |