Show ARDOR AGAINST REASON H The killing hilling of Hyrum Jensen by of I his frien friend H H Peterson in Black Black- Blacksmiths Blacksmiths Blacksmiths c smiths Fork Canyon a few days ago iJ was a lamentable tragedy The facts pf of the incident as first pub pub- published published in the Logan Journal ap- ap appeared appeared ap appeared later in th the NEV'S NEWS The young man who to his great sor- sor sorrow sorrow sor sorrow row unintentionally took the life of his companion saw a movement in inthe int inthe inthe t the brush imagined the cause of the commotion to be the presence of a adeer adeer adeer deer drew up his rifle fired and the deed was done ti I J If such occurrences were not nott t numerous this one would seem a oura l extraordinary As it has been our J painful duty to chronicle several of a ar r similar character they may be said to be remarkable as a whole But Butt 1 t we can only appropriately refer to the latest as a sample of the ten ten- tendency ten tendency dency deney of the ardor of hunting hunting- sports hunting 1 sports to stultify for the time being the reasoning faculties Mr Pete Peter Peterson son is an intelligent man His oc- oc occupation occupation oc occupation of teacher school proves that Yet Vet in the excitement caused t by the chase he set aside all the rules of logic which it is his calling to teach Pach the young and jumped to a conclusion on the r remotest possible evidence the re result re- re result sult suIt being most deplorable Young Jensen had agreed to traverse a ridge fJ search of game Mr Peter- Peter son instead of considering the pos pas possibility possibility of his failing to do this and go through the hollow took it for A granted that it could not be he who made the commotion in the bushes l The possibility of If it bei being ng somer some r other human being if not the unfortunate unfortunate un- un unfortunate fortunate young man who was shot d was evidently also not thought of Q N Neither either was it presumed that the ti Q movement in the brush might have been caused by the presence of a i a-i horse a cow or some other animal t which it would have been wrong to t shoot Yet of these none suppositions suppositions suppositions were improbable and hew henr h w necessary that they should be con con- conr considered con jf r when it is a matter of life and death Indeed it appears at ati this distance that anyone any one of th these probabilities was as reasonable as asto to conclude that the cause of the k 4 commotion was a deer there being many being l many chances to one against the k correctness of the latter supposition We draw attention to this subject to show that an exercise of ordinary reason would in most cases case prevent Kit such sad incidents as that which f- f deprived a young man of life in ink inOT k H OT Blacksmith Fork Canyon on Thurs Thurs- Thursday Thursday 5 day last threw a family into deep distress and cast a shadow upon the life of the man whose hand unintentionally unintentionally committed the act We wish if possible to cause people who handle firearms to look upon this latest tragedy of the accidental 6 kind as 88 a warning and lead them to ff A set down some rules of action from which they will never vary One is that they shall not fire at any 11 living ving object without first knowing exactly the nature of the animal at atz atY z Y which the shot is directed and that no DO human being is it within range The old one of being careful in the handling of firearms and regarding R or LT I 1 them as loaded whether whether it is thought they are or not is always good |