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Show uu ELECTION IS THE CAUSE OF FIGHT Politics Is becoming ratlin warm when it leads t.o men to light on the public atieets, causing their arrest on the charge of disturbing the peace. E S Wood and Fred Young were the participants In this particular lls-tlc lls-tlc debate. They wore arrested bv Patrolmen .leir. Kclllhcr and C E. Lane on the cornei of Twenty-fifth street and Lincoln avenue while engaged en-gaged in a lively scrap. Both weie booked on the charge of disturbing1 the peace and were tried before Judgo W II Reeder this morning. Young pleaded guilty to the charge, but Wood pleaded not guilty, stating that he was not the aggressor but was defending himself from the attack of Young. Neither could give reasons for the fight, but stated that thev believed it was caused by a political argument Their uncertainty, they -aid, was because of a few drinks they had taken preceding the bat- tie Wood was ghen 15 days and Young will serve 20 davs for tho manner in which they were settling their dispute, dis-pute, William Carson, a crippled miner, arrested for vagrancj, was given a suspended sentence when lie was able to produce enough raonoy from a pocket pock-et that was passed over when searched search-ed last uight in the station, to get out of town. Steve Koropolls forfeited his ball of $25 for falling to appear for trial this morning. He was arrested after complaints had come In stating that the Greek was following two women and had offered them money. |