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Show NEW ORLEANS EDITOR CHALLENGES OPPONENT NtW ORLEANS. March ?1 In jrea-terday'g jrea-terday'g taau of tha Bae. a French dally paper. Jlta ad 1 tor. Armand Cap1Tllla. challengee to a dual M. IV Baroncelll. adltor of tha Wasp, a weakly. "Too must either retrace your remark or meat mc In a combat with arma." la tha substance of tha challenge. Capdevllle. It la aald, bei-eme offended at editorial comment In tha Wasp which ha regarded aa reflecting on the quality of French uaad by tha adltor of the Bee. Tha challenge and a copy of a prepared "retraction" compoaed by the offended editor waa carried to M. de Rt.ron.-e 111 hy Jamea Ftotte and Leo Hay hi, seconds, which, after due consideration, were returned re-turned hy 3d. da Baron. -el II wllh fhe tatement that aa the alleged nnns1vt remarks were not directed at the editor of tha Bee ha waa obliged to decline to make any retraction or reparation. Thle proved unsatisfactory to M. Cap-devllla Cap-devllla and bis seconds, who. after fall Ing to And M. de HemnrelU. left "the papers" at the letter's offloe Both men are lea.lers sortaily. a brother of Kdltor Capdevllle. Paul Capdevtlle. having bean mayor of New Orleans aev-aral aev-aral yeara ago. Whan apprised that a challenge had been laaued hy tha editor of the Bee District Attorney Adams called the attention at-tention of Police Inspector Reynolds to tha matter with the advice that tha and be prevented- I |