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Show filANTI WAN HAS . A NARROW ESCAPE J. W. Whi:bck of MrrJ, who wis seriously injured i:i a d.-sp t ite battle' with a bear while huntintr about t .ventv nil;s from Manti. vest, rdav, was j brought to the L. D. S. hospiral in this ! city last night for surgical att-ntion. Whitbeck's left arm is broken in two places and his shoul lor is also broken, but the doctors d) not b!i?e h; will lose the arm. I Whitbeck became sep arated from the other members of his party and su I-d I-d -nly encountered tvo tvg li' irs. 0 i-of i-of them att-u-ke 1" him h-rir; he cull fire, and chewed his arm until lie was almost uncviK-i0M, d,Mg;.el him sev- eral yards and then left him. Whitbeck j arose and trie I to esfap , but the bear i attacked him again, and it was only j when he wounded the airm il with his I revolver that he finally drove it away, j He walked three miles to camp, wait- e l two hours for the .other m -mbers I of the party to return, thn role into Manti. A d oetor temnor irily dressed ' his arm an 1 he took the train for Salt Like, arriving at the loci! hospital late last night. Herald Republican. ', i |