Show california SHOOTING SCRAPE The Younger carried a gun ana tho other one got the bullet ller ced cal july 12 elmer bolles was ahot and killed by rix this morning at 8 the tragedy tol lowed a quarrel between the two men the trouble began last night when after a war of they came to blows bolles was the larger and stronger man and shafer ran from him and started for his home this morning they met on front street bolles had beba drinking and from the story of witnessed ea he appeared to be the aggressor and insisted upon taking up the quarrel of the previous evening shafer told bollea to attend to his own business and warned bobea that be had a revolver with him and if feces would use it bolles called him a coward for carrying a revolver and threatened to whip him when he found him without one then left him and walked down the street bolles stood fora moment watching shafer and then started down the estreet in the same direction ho eoon overtook chafer who without further talk turned and fired the bullet struck ballee in the abdomen they were about fifteen feet apart the wounded man reeled and staggered to the edge of the sidewalk where he eat down shafer immediately surrendered and was taken to jail doctors were sent for and every effort was made to eavia bollea life but he was bleeding internally and nothing could bo dono for him he died in about thirty minutes before his death be made a statement to the officers that he had been shot by rix and that he had done nothing to provoke the shooting young was raised in this city where his parents and other relatives now bebide he haa never evidenced a desire for hard wore and liaa generally been considered conui dered as posing for a reputation as a bad man |