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Show WITH A POCKET KNIFE , A Wild Eyed Miner From Cottonwood Plunges a Blade in the Back of a Section Boss. HELD FQR ATTEMPTED MURDER The Sanguinary Affair that Broke Up a Might's Debauch in the Golden f Lion Saloon. Hilly Elton was slabbed in the back by William Frizes in an embroglio in the Golden Lion saloon, about 10 o'clock last night and was taken to the police station where Dr. Meachain gave him his attention. Seen bv a reporter, Elton stated that he bad entered the saloon w hen irizes, a wild eved miner of Cottonwood, dealt a fellow'debauehee a blow that foiled him to the lloor. Elton says the entire crowd was about to join Frizes in the assault when he interposed and urged that it was "not the square thing" for a regiment to assail a solitary individual. The opinion was evidently relished, for the speaker secured the entire en-tire attention of the audience, Frizes leading the enthusiastic charge and throttling the victim with ono hand while with the other he buried a knife blade in the back. A stream of blood gushed from the ghastly furrow and drenched the room while tho spectators spec-tators advanced on the murderous is-sailant is-sailant andsuccezded in disarming him. The wounded man had taken to his heels and was speeding up the street , followed bv a companion when Ollicers Pool and 'Birkuer overtook them and subsequently arrested Frizes, who was identified at the police station as Elton's assailant. Frizes was then staggering under the effects of liquor aud was slated oa a charge of assault with intent in-tent to commit murder. His victim was suffering intense j pain while the blood was still I pouring in a volume from the - v wound that was an inch or more in depth. While it was being dressed he fainted and whon removed to his lodgings lodg-ings was very weak. He is employed as a section boss on the Sau Pete V alley Railway and bears the reputation, according ac-cording to his friends, of a quiet, inoffensive inof-fensive feilow. His murderous assailant assail-ant is a brutal character when under tho innuenee of drink and will, in all probability, be held to the action of the grand jury. |