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Show Free Shooting. A correspondent ! writes from Tinticand gives an account of a peculiar shooting case that illustrates illus-trates the freedom with which some individuals in-dividuals can handle a weapon. As die news comes to us, a Mr. Smith, who had been foreman of the Boscoe mine, had a quarrel at Eureka with the superintendent of that mine and some very unamiable language passed between them. Somehow said superintendent super-intendent got Smith's pistol away from him and struck him over the head with it. Smith went off, got a Henry rifle, came back, and seeing somebody he took to be his foeman, blazed away twice, one shot taking effect in both legs. But the wounded man wasn't tho superintendent; it was another person who had nothing to do with the quarrel. Surgical assistance was obtained, ob-tained, Smith was arrested by Joseph Hyde and taken to Silver City at 3 a. m. of Wednesday morning. The wounded man was suffering severely when our correspondct wrote. A little more law, and a little less unhealthy bullet practice in that region, would be to the advantage of the peaceably disposed. |