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Show In a Battle With a Posse in Which Dynamite Is Used Belllnghnm, Wash , Dec. 2. Two bandits. Walter Footc and Fred James, fortified themselves behind a breastworkB of logB on tho banks of tho Skagit river, near Sodro-Wool-ley, last night, and for three hours stood off a posse of 200 citizens. More than a thousand shots were fired and forty dynamite bombs thrown against the logs beforo tho highwaymen surrendered. sur-rendered. Footo was found to have seven bullets bul-lets in his body nnd died soon after having been taken to a hospital. James was uninjured and was lodged in tho Skagit county Jail |