Show OUR NEIGHBORS OAKLEY IDAHO IDAlIO GUN OUN ST Eugene Curtis Shot ami Killed Lear Jill Inc n a undo of nt Four I our Months Month Special Correspondence Oakley Cassia Casa Co Idaho April 22 oe On One of ot the saddest accidents that fluit has Happened In this neighborhood for Cor years yean rut rist happened this morning resulting In lu the death of at Eugene Curtis of ut this plaue e The Tue particulars are arc OB a follows Brother left his homo yesterday aCtor dinner to go to his sheep camp about six miles southwest of at town tak takIng taking Ing ine an nn old 45 Winchester title rille with him to kill Rh coyotes cootes He lie spent the night with the sheepherders at lila his camp comp and was In his hi usual good go all health and spirits This morning he waa moving camp having gone gOlle to within a halt mile of ot the place Intruded for or his hili stopping place e and at a n point where ho had to drop his trail rail wagon to get et up a II hilt hill the trail wagon wa n hall hail been brought up to the other oWr and during the time of ot coupling the wagons together Eugene I roust t have havo seen a n coyote or some somo other pame ua us ho lie took tho thu gun from tha niB walon agon and either while doing d so BO or Immediately after utter tho the gun gUll was acci d 1 discharged dl hanell the load entering his hs jaw Just under the chin away alla th lower part lort of ot tho lie face and part fart of at the root roof of ot tho mouth Initiating Indicting a B fatal wound from which ho died In about halt half an aft hour He lie war alone nt Rt atthe the time but Mr 11 Prank Frank dimming Cummings who was herding his goats gont some somo Ills die away awny and within sight of ot th Curtis wagons heard the tho shot nod n heard Brother Curtis call three tunes presumably for Cor or help then thun the marks of at blood shows that ho he went wont ami aTel pat pal down on Oil the tongue of ot the trail trait wagon Magon which was Wag not yet hitched north alter after this Mr 11 Cummings saw MW Curtis running away II unil anil a ai M the th animals made n a turn nod lIm v ne toward where ho was ho became rested In the he and soon saw IW Curtis urtis como coma running after them After ACter pursuing hi jI team for iwai ly a quarter of ot a 1 mile mite Eugene J fell tell to tile ground from exhaustion awl ami lo t of or blood and expired It Is thought that tInt utter after sitting Hitting on the wagon to his horses lur ful oJ a n Willie while that he lie wint which took fright nt at the smell of ot llO pow powder der rr end villI blood and run 1111 away Tho Tile team was II caught by br Mr Cummings and bad back to where tho the body lIlIly of ot th dead may lay In and us as soon oon as ns he lie found that tha t I was shot hot dead Mr rode to this tills place bringing th lb sad wid news In III a n very vcr few minutes m II C with several men imil tell for the tha scone These were fol tol followed lowed by b Drs Alba Mba ROLl and Hamburg Bamburg and th county coroner In two hours from rein the receipt of at the new of the tho thoI PI C I Bishop Haight had tile lie re ro lilt conveyed home hobo where an nn vm held the Jury returning a 1 verdict of or death ll l th by bi I a n gun shot accidentally l In the tile hands of ot tho the de deCAP I CAP Elder Curtis Curll Is tho the son on of ot Patriarch Per Por P J Curtis of ot Oakley Oakle 32 years of ot otI i ii ri HP II was a II a man loan of or most exemplary life III and has tinS been ben one of or the tho homo home mis of ot this stake for some time II li liD was married to Ml Miss Julia Samuel En F in of ot this tills place four months ego ago and th Ir home boa hM been among the tho i P t Tho Tim bereaved young wife witt Is la pros uros with grief and has hILls the tue sympathy of ot a host hOlt of lit IC friends The fhe deceased undoubtedly hall had a 1 presentiment pre qt ot rump nuch sUh lurking harking It evil ns tie when whon part parting PIg ing with his wife yesterday he turned I kirk lIk k three times anti remarked that h hI II III ti II I cr 1 hated to leave home so bad III In hit his life lite The Tiit time of ot funeral has hns not vet et ct been bern decided upon |