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Show QUARREL OVER CONTRACT. Baker City Politician Shoots and Seriously Seri-ously Wounds Associate. Raker City, Or., Jan. 10. W. F. Butcher, former Democratic candldato for Representative Repre-sentative to Congress and one of tho most prominent lawyers In eastern Oregon, last night ehot J. C. White, a contractor, onco In the neck and npaln In tho arm. White was able to walk for several hundred feet to sccuro medical aid. The physicians arc unablo to stato whether ho will recover. re-cover. White and Butcher quarrolcd over a contract con-tract for tho construction of a light and water plant at Wclscr, Ida., In which they arc Interested. |