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Show SH00TIXG AT TLNTIC. j A Man Gets His Irish I'p and Puts ! Some Lead Into Another. j Early on the morning of the Fourth, j a man by the name of Sullivan shot a 1 man named Johnson in a saloon at Sil-! ver City, Tintic. It appears that some j feelings existed between them for some j time previous, and. vi'&iie in the saloon they got into word, when Johnson, j who is a man weighing 00 pounds or over, seized a chair and attempted to strike Sullivan. A struggle ensued and they clincher!. Sullivan threw Johnson, John-son, and after getting him down he tried to hold him, but Johnson was too strong a man for him and lie soon re ained his feet. Sullivan then backed out of the saloons and skipped. Returning in a few minutes with his gun, he met Johnson at the door and renewed the quarrel. In the midst of the melee Sullivan shot him twice in the left leg, once through the calf and once above the knee. John- son was j.icked up and taken to the j Condor house, and a doctor summoned from Eureka, who dressed the wounds. He was then carried to the train and taken to the hosjiital at Salt Lake. Sullivan is still at large, and although the sheriff was present, he was not arrested, ar-rested, but at night attended the ball and danced with as much gusto as the merriest. I |