Show JUMPING A REPORTER Coffee Johiit Tackles Whitney or the Herald Shortly after 3 oclock today Coffee John the restaurant man and Bud Whitney reporter of the Herald met on the sidewalk just north of Johns place and the result was a harmless spat She affair grew out of Whiteys report of the BrisacherDyer case in which John was given a pretty hard scorching Whitney says that when they met John hit him on the nose scratching the skin off and he slapped back when i Deputy Sprague stepped between them and separated them John says that when he hit Whitney he yelled and ran away putting his hand to his hippocket as though to draw a gun Had Whitney drawn the contents of his hip pocket there would have been but little damage done as a pocket handkerchief handker-chief is a harmless weapon John a immediately arrested and was on examination before Commissioner McKay when TIE DEMOCRAT went to press |