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Show LEGAL BATTLE 10 BE WAGED HERE There will be unusual Interest In the j court room here next Wednesday when D. H. Rutherford and Sam Ray are to be arraigned for trial on the charge of disturbing the peace. ' These caes have a rather Interesting Interest-ing setting in vew of the fact that they were state witnesses in the court this week against Mike Francis, who was charged with attempting to use a butcher knife on a man with whom he was not on tha most intimate terms. The courty attorney abandoned the the case in the midst of the trial and had Rutherford and Ray. his own witnesses, wit-nesses, indicted on a charge of disturbing disturb-ing the peace. The trouble atcee after work hours In the arternoon when Francis and another an-other Austrian came by where a couple cou-ple of fellows were boxing ar.d in the Jostling crowd wa pushed from the sidewalk. Then he began to swear like a sailor and Rutherford protested. As the argument wanned up (Rutherford started to take off his coat and the Austrian batted him in the face. Ray then swatted the Austrian and the latter, lat-ter, after reaching his home, secured a butcher knife f;nd sought out Ray for a further settlement and chased him quite a distance, but failed to get in reach of him. , - Assistant County Attorney S. D. Thurmau will prosecute and A. C. Cole will defend the alleged offenders. A large crowd is expected in the court room to witness the battle. , |