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Show Shot in the Eye. Air. Walter Ciagun rf Smlthflnld met Willi .t serious accident while out hunting chickens last Monday afternoon, after-noon, from which lib will not entirely recover for some time. In some way he got In lino with a companion's gun Just at the time he II red at the chicken with the result that one of the shot Imbedded Itself In his left eye, eighteen eigh-teen or twenty moie tearing through his clothing and scorching him it little. lit-tle. There were three in the party, Cragun, a young Smith and another companion. A bird (lew up near Smith and he covered It with his gun until It flew into a clump of willows about 75 yards away, when he tired. Cragun was also near that clump of willows and received some of the stray shot. Cragun was taken to Smith-field Smith-field and surgjeal aid called fiom this city. The shot was extracted from tho eyeball and It Is believed that the eye will not be permanently injured. (Jragun was In Logan Thursday on his way to Ilolbrook, Idaho, where he Is employed, and also acts as postmaster" postmas-ter" It is Indeed exceedingly fortunate for-tunate that the toting man lccclvcd no worse Injury. |
