Show Hooked a Swordfish Eight miles off Newport Cal Cat a 12 foot toot swordfish with a sword four feet Ceet long caught on an SO hook by Hugh McMillan and G 0 G Shoemaker towed the tho fishermens fishermen s launch two miles after having charged the tho boat boal repeatedly anti anil scarred tho the stern in numerous places The monster was killed after arter half an hours light It weighed sev several several several eral hundred pounds When limo tho big fish was first caught It charged to the surface endangering the lives of two men and of oC other men In Iii two nearby launches The captors of or the monster were towed almost out of sight of tho time men mon In the lie other boats Persons ashore refused to believe that hint the two men caught the fish on their 27 strand cotton line lino until the tho story was vouched for by the men In the tho theother theother other launches haunches |