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SUSPENDER JACK AND BOGARDUS.

Look Out for a Saugulnary Duel Soon on Staten Island.

New York World.
The feud between Suspender Jack, the cowboy, and Capt. A.H. Bogardus, the chamption shot, of Adam Forepaugh's show at Erastina, State Island, is a deadly affair, Capt. Bogardus says that Jack, while pretending to shoot at bottles last Thurday, tried to put an end to the former's mundane marksmanship by filling hus left ear with a compound of gunpowder and cold lead. The powder actually singed the captian's hair, and Bogardus at once proceeded to take Jack by the hair with one hand and by the neck with the other, and disturb the yellow earth of the Woods of Arden with his buckskin clad frame.

Bogardus weighs 100 pounds more than jack, and the only thing left for jack to do was to invoke the civilized law of West Brighton, which was yesterday morning administered by Justice Corbett at an expense of $10 to Bogardus. "Jack is only a dime-museum cowboy," said Capt. Bogardus yesterday afternoon to a reporter of The World. "I ain't going to kill him. He ain't worth killing. Why he's only a southerner who's let his hair grow."

"All I want," said Jack, "is to be shut up in a dark room with Bogardus. Let each be given a gun and cigarette. We can take aim by the fire in each other's cigarette. Bogardus can't shoot, He has to have the ring-master pull the bell so people will think he has hit the bull's-eye."

Mrs. Lucy Heyman, the wardroke keeper, and Miss Sallie Connolly, the charlot rider, were named as seconds for the combatante in case of a duel. Both offered to do anything in their power to bring about a fatal result in case of a meeing between the men. O. J. Ferguson, the veteran manager, proposed that the men should be furnished with clubs and allowed to beat each other to a pulp. It looked very lowering in the Forepaugh camp last night. Surrender Jack fell of the steer which he usually rides with great hauteur in the performance, and Captain Bogardus came near perforating a super, instead of the target. If the men are killed they will be buried in the wild wood just back to the refreshment stand. The real cause of the trouble is said to have been that Jack's picture was printed in a newspaper and he was given the honor, in the account accompanying it, of being a bigger man in the show than Bogardus. Captain Bogardus insisted that he was in charge of the ammunition of the concern and was ahead of Jack in distinction. Jack has a letter from Buffalo Bill to prove that he is a genuine cow-boy. In it Bill says Jack talks too much.