Salt Lake Herald | 1896-02-14 | Page 1 | Another Story

Another Story EL PASO Texas Feb 13 Johnny Murphys trainer Conroy told a peculiar pe-culiar tale about the trouble with Mahers eyes He was asked if Peters Pe-ters eyes were as bad as represented His eyes are slightly inflamed he replied but are plenty good enough to fight I that is so what is wrong then 7 Ill t l you confidentially Maher is afraid of the authorities Last night our training quarters were surrounded by as hard a looking set of men on horseback with rifles as I ever saw I They patrolled the house that fis within with-in fifty yards of i all night and had the life scared out of everybody We learned from Deputy Marshal Jim Beardson who waits on us at the house they thought we were going to pack up and leave for the battle ground and they were ready to trail us up Neither Maher nor anybody in our camp Js ready to die with his boots on and unless Stuart can guarantee protection pro-tection MaTier Marshall nor Murphy I will get Into the ring