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Saturday night at Hilgard C.E. Arnold stabbed and fatally wounded Ed Schaffer so that the latter died in a few minutes. So many versions of the details have reached us that we shall desist from publishing them until the facts are know. The examination was held at La Grande yesterday.

C.E. Arnold, the man who murdered E.A. Shafer at Hilgard, on March first, was brought over from La Grande Friday by Sheriff Hamilton and is now securely lodged behind the steel bars of the county jail. Arnold was under the influence of liquor when he returned to his home from La Grande on that fatal afternoon. Sometime before this it appears that he had a quarrel with a man by the name of Cobb, in which Cobb knocked Arnold down. After this quarrel had been settled Arnold went to a room occupied by E.A. Shafer, broke in the door and stabbed Shafer in the neck with a dirk knife, death ensuing in about thirty minutes. Great excitement prevailed and for a time it was feared that Judge Lynch would hold an extra session of his court. Arnold was committed to prison without bond to await the action of the grand jury. E.A. Shafer, the man who was killed, is comparatively a stranger here having arrived from the East last fall. His wife and five children are still in the East.