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Show THIEVES SHOT IN ' FIGHT TO ESCAPE Men Supposed to Have Been Implicated Impli-cated in Southern Pacific Train Robbery in California. ASHLAND, Or., April 16. A battle look place this afternoon between threo bandits who havo been engaged in petty thieving from isolated farmhouses farm-houses east of this place. Ono of the gang, who was caught this morning by a farmer, said that thero wero threo others In tho gang and disclosed dis-closed their hiding place, whither officers of-ficers were sent The hiding place was surrounded and the bandits ordered to surrender. Insteud of complying they began a fusiladc, which ended only when tho desperadoes were wounded. Tho captured cap-tured men refuse to givo their names. Ono of them asserts that he is a half-breed, half-breed, and another ls supposed to havo been implicated in tho train robbery on tho Southern Pacific at Copley, Cal. |