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Show JOniiLLi , I Challenges Jeffries to Name ills H Olvn Terms for Glove H Contest. WHITE CHAMPION NOW - !' H WANTS ALL THE PURSE Will Fight Chocolate Drop if I Guaranteed $75,000. Win, H Lose or Draw. H At last definite news reaches us from Australia that Jack Johnson will give up everything he has got io get in tho ring with (Tames J. Jeffries. He says he has made all his arrangements with theatrical companies and fight promo-. tcrs to hinge on a proviso that if he can securo a fight with Jeffries he is free to do so. Johnson is willing that Jeffries dictate his own terms, for then he will have ho complaints . to make after tho fight, should there be one. Johnson is willing to fight, winner take all, after deducting train-ing train-ing expenses, and says- he is so conn-dont conn-dont that he cau defeat the white chain-pion chain-pion that nothingwould please him bcl ter than to post all the money he marie in tho fight with Tommy Burns in Aus-tralia Aus-tralia as a side bet and let. the winner take it all. Johnson says he would then either bo a pauper or a king among his H When Jeffries heard what Johnson had to say'Tegardiug a proposed battle. the big boilormnker said it was' the , same old story that is handed on' In every fighter. lie says he is confident. that Johnson would not last long if he (Jeffries) can get into shape, hut hn confidence seems to be somewhat shaken when some of his most inti-mute inti-mute friends say that Jeffries now wants $75,000. win, lose or draw. This is as much to say that Jeffries has de-cided de-cided to fight Johnson, providing he .can get all the. purse, no matter winch way the battle goes. Staggers Sports. Jeffries' request for so much money seems to stagger even the most liberal sports in the business. Johnson is not going to fight just for fun. nit hough tho colored champion is willing that the winner tako all. If Johnson's defi, which has been sent to the United States from Au?-tralia, Au?-tralia, is accepted by Jeffrie?. Johnson will immediately call off his fight with Sam Langford, which is scheduled to be IH held in London, and will immediately come to the United States to get ready for the battle. IH When Johnson was told that Jeffries IH had nu idea he could make bim quit. IH Johnson only smiled and said: HH "Did you" nil see how 'Mist a Bunns' mado 'muh'. quit in Australia V T just IH tell dat white champion to come au sho' hisself an3 time we meet " Evanson Again Champion. EAU CLAIRE, Wis.. Feb. 7. John Evanson, of Duluth. Is again natioruil ski champion. He won the big professional IH run of the National Sltl association to-dav. to-dav. His two jumps in the champion-ship champion-ship run were 1 IS and 121 feet. He Jumped 135 feet In a long distance Jump. but jH Track Washed Away. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal.. Feb; 7. Seven hundred feet of track was washed away near Oceano by. the severe storm today and all traffic on the coast division B of the Soul hern Pacific is blocked. Pas- sengor train No. IS. due at G o'clock this IB morning, arrived at I o'clock this after- IB noon, taking lx hours lo conic over the ten miles of the Cuesta grade. Il Storms Cause Washouts. ARROYO GRANDE, Cal.. Feb. 7. The worst storm experienced In this section of the state this winter occurred this morning, causing numerous wnshouts on the Southern Pacific and the narrow tM gauge railroads. Traffic Is suspended, and all trains for Los Angeles are being held here. Several thousand acres of la nil in the. lower part of the valley arc under water and much damage has been done. Earthquake Shocks. TIFLTS, Trans-Caucn. "us. Feb. 7. Two violent shocks of an earthquake were ex- pcrlenccd here during the night, hut no jBB damage is reported. Baltic Is Delayed. LIVERPOOL. Feb. 7. The White. Slar steamer Bulllc. on which Captain HBB Imnnn Sealby. who commanded the Ro- IBBBJ public when she went down two week' BBBJ ago off Nantucket, and "Jack" Blnnp. tli wireless operator, were passengers, missed BBBJ the tide In the Mersey and will not arrive here until tomorrow morning. Crowds IBBB that had been waiting to give tho two HBB men an ovutlon were greo-tly disappointed. BBBJ All Well With Fleet. CAPE ST. VINCENT, Portugal. Feb. 7. The, American battleship lleet, undor BBBJ command of Rear Admiral Sporry, home- BBBJ ward bound from Gibraltar, passed thl-j BBBJ point iit 10 o'clock this morning. The flagship signaled: "All well." BBBJ |