Show BOYS HAVE A BATTLE j THE SPANIARDS WERE DEFEATED BY THE AMERICANS chicago jan 8 little charles hos worth tooted a on horn sunday afternoon on the prairie at western and washington avenues and a hundred boys sprang to arms at the improvised bugle call A great battle had been arranged and the two armies of fifty boys each advanced toward each other in military fashion A military feud start edthe matter and under the truce of a white flag the boys had agreed to fight the battle of san juan hill many of the boys bad rifles and shotguns most of them unloaded fortunately those who could not get guns had brooms or sticks some of the boys had revolvers the two armies threw themselves upon one another with a fury little short of a real engagement while the battle raged the patrol wagon from the police station was tearing to the scene big policemen charged the combined american and spanish forces and when the smoke and dust had lifted the fleeting forms of the youthful warriors could be seen disappearing toward all points of the compass on the battlefield wounded and moaning lay several boys the worst injured waa lieutenant harry johnson 11 years old and a spanish officer who was shot in the back the spanish commander general artio had a bullet wound in his left leg others ahad slighter injuries but none of the boys were seriously hurt they were taken to their homes later the police arrested emit giustat son aged 15 who they claimed fired the bullets which hit the two spanish |