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Show THE FESTIVE BULLET. A Itrace of Utah Ex-Mining Sharps Collide in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Doit (J. Butterfield and John Sevenoaks Blaze Away at Each Other. But They Ar lliifl Shots, suit OuiftiL to tjio in Trntuiug. I'ai'less lefltrnctioD of HIu-duw HIu-duw Glan. The following account of a shooting acrupe in San Francisco, on Friday, appears in the Chronicle. The prin cipala are woll known in bait Jjiiice where they have both resided: Great commotion was created during dur-ing the noon hour yesturday by a shooting affray in the very portals of that temple of Pluto the, Sao Fru-ciaco Fru-ciaco Stock Exchange on Pine street, the parties being Don C. Bulterfield and John Sevenoaks, mining operators. opera-tors. Five shots were exchanged between these valiant gentlemen, with the sanguinary etlect of a hbeep litht. The trouble which led to this ttflair, as described by Bulterfield, grew out of the circumstance that Bomo time ago Butter add, advanced rfovenoaka money to go to the Black Hills and npeoulate on their joint account. Sevenoaks went to the Black Hills and returned, but ignored Butterfield's claims to any ol the proceed!. Within the past fow days) SevenOiika has been niakiuy preparations prepara-tions to leave for Arizona, but Thurs day morning Butlerfield commenced Unit against bim for the recovery o :he money. Butlerfield claim w-ic lor 12,500, being one half of the proceeds of the sale of a mine lo Huggin & Tevia and others. Tht-purties Tht-purties first met in hostile spirit on Thursday, at the elevator in ih titock .Exchange, when Sevenoaks pulled A SELF COCKINO PISTOL and presented it at Butterfield's head. The latter caught it and the hammer camo down on bis thumb. Tho ;two were then separated by tho crowd, and after an exchange of tho Appropriate Appro-priate epithets passed their sever! ways for the time. Yesterday morning morn-ing Butlerfield was told that Seven-oaks Seven-oaks was hunting for him. At about 12 30 both men met on the step of the Slock exchange. Sevenoivks drew hia pistol and fired, and the shot was followed immediately by one from Butterfield'a pistol. Savenouka then ran clown the steps and when near the bottom turned and fired again. He then ran into the stockbroking office of Atkinson, Daud & Co., under the Stock Exchange building, where more shooting took place, But-terfield But-terfield firing from the sidewalk at Sevenoaks, who was within, and the latter poprisa AWAY i at hia assailant without. One of the l bullets wint through the glass in the door, and two struck the wainscoting near a window, making holes about two feet from the floor and only a fen incheB apart. At the back part of the , room there are two bullet holes, one over the fireplace and one to the i right, about the height of a man's i bead from the floor. One of the shots fired from within broke a window iu ' the second Btory of a building oppo site. Strange to say, not asingle person per-son was grazed in the course of thU battle. Butlerfield was arrested im mediately after the t. flair, charged with attempt to murder. At 3 p.m. he wa released on bail. Subsequently Sevenoaks was arrested on a charge of assault to murder, and gave bail in 85,000. Hia bondsmen were J. V. I Sargent of Santa Clara and Sam Bow-lav. sevenoaks' story. The case as stated by Sevenoaks differs materially from that given by Butterfield and his friends. Sevenoaks Seven-oaks saya that the difficulty is not of recent origin, as be and Butlerfield But-lerfield had an unsatisfactory trnns action, which was pretty thoroughly ventilated in the police court some months ago, when his name, and those of Butterfield, John W. Pearson and George Hearat were brought prominently before the public in connection con-nection with a clear case of forgery and a $500 note due to Sevenoaks. Last summer Butterfieid and Henry Hoi comb went to Suvenoaka, wanting money, and be gave Butterfield $15. He has frequently loaned Butterfield small Bume for moala, tobacco, etc., and he gave Butlerfield the very coal that be wears lo-day. While in New York lant summer, Sevenoaks borrowed bor-rowed $125 from Butterfield, promising promis-ing to repay it on hia arrival m San Francisco, and did so pny it in gold coin, notwithstanding Butterfield btili owed him $500 on the note. On his way back from New York, Sevenoaks, Seven-oaks, at tho request ol Hearst, stopped at Sydney, in order to make advantageous advan-tageous purchases of mining property IS THE BLACK HILLS, if poieible. He bought an interest in the Home Stake mine, which hid been loca'.ed some time previously by San Francisco capitalists, among whom where Haggin &, Tevis. When he returned to San Francisco he whs upbraided by Bulterfield, who charged him with having agreed to give him a half interest in any purchaso be might make in the Black Hills, and nnu uanuK yiuiulcu ujo ree U1UQI. Consequently, a few dave agn Butterfield Butter-field instituted suit for $25,000 against Sevenoak- the action being to recover recov-er that amount as due on the aMeged agreement. On Thursday Butterfield sent word to Sevenoaks, asking him to meet him at the Stock Ex change. Sevenoaks went there, and having been told that Butterfield was "laying" for him, went prepared. When they met Sevenoaks asked Butterfieid if he had made these threats. The latter replied that he w .is not armed, whereupon Sevenoaks eaiil be need not be alarmed, as he would not shoot an unarmed man. Yesterday they mot on the atepe of the Stock Exchange, and Bulterfield immediately fired, shooting twice before Sevenoaks, whose revolver was enUngled in his handkerchief, could draw his weapon. After Butterfield h id shot twice, Sevenoaks drew, and h and Butterfield exchanged four noli', two apiece, after which Butter- field lied |