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Show Shot by a Cine am an Th! Evanston Age saye thai on Saturday morning, about 3 o'clock, when the emigrant train was in tbe vicinity of Granger station, a China-man, China-man, who was occupying one of the Beats in the emigrant oar, gat up, looked around, took a drink of whisky, and finally pulled a revolver and commenced com-menced shooting at one of the passengers, pas-sengers, who was lying behind him, tbe first shot taking effect in tbe right leg, about half way between the knee nod ankle, shattering the bone considerably. The train was ordered to run faster than usual, and arrived in Evanston an hour ahead of time. The wounded man was taken to the Wyoming House, and the Chinaman lodgedjin jail. One of the passengers who saw the shot, remonstrated with the Chinaman, when he .threatened to shoot him also if he aid not go away. The wounded man is named Wm. Lowe, and hails from Chicago: be was en route for Oregon. Tbe Chinaman was from Pueblo, and says he has I been sick for a long time. He wat on his way to Sacramento. |