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Show SEVERANCE WAS AFTER BLOOD. Archlteet timer Wn the Victim and Want to tho Floor. There is blood on the floor of Architect Archi-tect Ulmer's office in the Commercial block. The presence of tho crimson and a broken glass In the door of the room are the reminders of a morning scrap. A few hours since Henry Colin, F. M. Uluier, E. D. Severance and E. W. Taylor sat in the latter's oflice In the Commercial Com-mercial block. They were talking of surveying and platting property across Jordan. Lawyer Taylor had secured the work for Mr. Ulmer and things were progressing nicely. In the ab sence of his regular surveyor Architect Ulmer had employed Severance to survey sur-vey the realty for a day or so last week. Haying accomplished what was required of him Severance endeavored to do the entire job for Mr. Cohn by offering his services at a less figure than Mr. Ulmer's. Ul-mer's. This act with Severance's cry that he would do the wor k for "$10 less if Ulmer did it for nothing." caused the temperature of the two men to skip up several notches. The architect endeavored to avoid further controversy by repairing to his ollice. He went up stairs and was about to remove his coat when the door opened and Survey Severance walked iu. The latter asked the former when ho would pay him for his work, emphasizing empha-sizing tho speech with blue-bound words. The reply was in the same channel. Words about taking tak-ing it out of the hide were heard. Architect Ulmer's Yankeo blood biled and he pasted Severance one in the mug. The latter let out and after a round or two tho surueyor drew a slung-shot and made a pass, striking the architect on the back of the head. Fortunately the weapon's full force was weakened by it slipping from Severance's grasp and falling fall-ing to the floor. He sprang down and secured it and hastily descended from tho building. In the scrap Ulmer knocked Severance against the frosted glass in the door and shattered it, cutting cut-ting the latter's hand. Ulmer had a finger badly injured, and it may be broken. He hns had a warrant issued for the arrest of Severence. |