Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-05 | Page 8 | Boy's Eye Put out in Mimic Battle

I BOYS BOY'S EYE PUT OUT IN MIMIC SA TILE BATTLE w By Tb nt i TU Tami F s f. Jan n. 5 While G While playing war ar yesterday ay among the tho boulders In Upper Bingham Canyon Canon near tho Apex mine young oun Georgo George E E. Olson was waa shot in the tho eyo CO About eighteen of or the young oun foreigners foreign foreign- ers era mostly and Italians armed themselves with guns JUn chose leaders and settled Into Tho The Austrians cho chose c ramparts alon alonI along alonga a cliff on tho time sIde of or the hills rhe The Italians attacked them from below belo While the tIme Austrians walt waited d sheltered sheltered shel shel- behind time the rocks above the thc little Italians lIans slowly crept to tho the attack A hall hail of eal real i-eal bullets stopped tho the advance ad- ad vanco vance and young Oleson writhing In l pain ain rolled front from behind a n rock and a truce truc was declared Tho The wounded youth was wa rushed d down wn to it n doctor where his eye eo was operated upon Ho lIo refused to tako 0 an anesthetic and never flinched through the operation Mayor F p K R put a n stop atop to a n. further char charge e by his appearance on the battlefield where ho lie Is said to have spanked panl several of or the youngsters and to have broken their gun guns