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Show TUSCARORA DUEL RESULTS IN DEATH OF 1W0 MEN Tn one of the bloodiest battles ever witnessed In Elko county, Nev., Clyde Thompson and James Baker, two cow-j cow-j boys and cattle owners, killed each 1 other at Tuscarora on Sunday night, 1 before a number of men who witness- ed the affair could Interfere and put I an end to the fight. It. appears that an old grudge ex-I ex-I isted between Thompson and Baker j and that when they mot in frout of a I taloon in Tuscarora on Sunday they I had a few words which resulted in , Thompson drawing a gun and shoot-1 shoot-1 lng Baker twice, once In the head and j once In the stomach. After the sec-. sec-. o:id shot Baker grappled with Thompson Thomp-son and drawing his pocket knife : threw Thompson to the ground, although al-though mortally wounded, ajid pro-I pro-I celled to nearly cut. Thompson's head I from his body. After cutting Thompson's Thomp-son's throat from ear to ear. Baker j arose with the dripping knife, in his j 1 hand and then fell by the side of the ! man he had killed. Thompson died almost instantly and Baker expired a few hours after the trouble. |