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Show yards away. He was taken to his home in Ephraim and at this writing writ-ing we learn that he is able to be around again. It was a very close call. Messenger. A NARROW ESCAPE.-An-drew Anderson, a lierder from Ephraim, had a very narrow escape from death last Thursday, during a thunder slorm on the east mountain. moun-tain. He was riding along on horseback when a bolt of lightning lightn-ing killed his horse under him. The rider's beard was scorched on one side, and his jacket and shirt was torn, scorching his breast quite badly, the bolt passing down through the saddle and instantly killing the horse. Anderson was rendered unconscious for a time, but he soon recovered enough strength to extricate himself from under the horse which had fallen on him, and found his way to the shearing corral of Ike Vorhees, which was only a few hundred |