The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-09
A HUNTING TRIP
ENDED IN DEATH
Soda Springs Boy Is Fatally
Shot by His Com
panion.
VICTIM WAS MEMBER
OF PROMINENT FAMILY
Ball Player Suffers a Broken
Leg While Engaged in
Game.
Special TO The Tribune

| Special TO The Tribune
SODA SPRINGS, Idaho, Aug, s.
Jay Gordon, 14-year- son of Mrs.
Leah Gordon of this city, was acci-
dentally shot and killed Saturday af
ternoon by Roy Horsely, aged II, while
out hunting on Spring creek, two miles
from this place Both barrels of a
shotgun In the hands of the Horsely
boy were accidentally discharged and
young Gordon s head was almost com
pletely blown from the body. Death
was instantaneous The body was
brought TO town by Horsely and two
other companions on the hunting trip,
Young Horsely is almost crazed with
grief over the accident and is unable
to coherently describe the circumstan
ces under which the terrible affair
happened. The Gordon family is one
of the oldest md best known in the
eastern part of the county.
There are no solicitors for the com
mission houses looking out for sheep
this season, but the spectators seem
to have taken their place and to some
extent arc lifting burden from the
shoulders of the sheep owners, Five
and q quarter was paid here for lambs
last week, which is considered excel
lent by most of those acquainted with
Ine CONDITIONS.
Big Hay Crop.
C. T. Woodall is jubilant over his
outlook for hay crop this season and
expects to put up over n thousand tons.
He has timothy that stands five feet
high, alfalfa that is over four feet,
and red top the same. He has also
been experimenting with clover and
finds that it does we'll
Jnsnnh bo1 1cb h,6 ,r
during the electrical storm Of last
week that he will not soon forget. He
was working at the sawmill, when the
lightning struck the south end of the
mill, tore few boards to pieces,
passed in along the carriage to the
saw and there threw sparks all around
him, besides splntering board in the
floor. he was not hurt.
Mrs. M. 1. Meeker, ST., is here from
Willow Springs, Mo, and will spend
couple of months visiting her son, the
dentist, and family.
A new station has been opened on
the Soda Springs-Lago telephone line
at the plant of the Telluride Power
company.
Postmaster l.. c. Eastman is recov-
cring from his recent illness and will
soon be able to attend to his duties
as usual.
Miss Evelyne Largillierc has returned
from Salt Lake City, where she has
been for the past few months study
ing music under Prof, Arthur Shep-
pard of that city.
Another small shipment of wool was
loaded Mt this station last week
Broke His Leg.
While our ball team was playing a
game with the Montpelier boys at the
latter place, Sunday, July 20, L. s.
Marriott of the Soda Springs club had
the misfortune to suffer broken leg.
Marriott had reached first base and
was stealing second, AS he placed his
left foot on the bag it turned, a spike
in his shoe holding to the bag in such
a manner that his ankle was thrown
out of place and when the weight of
his body came on 1T one of the bones
snapped off just above the ankle and
stuck out through the flesh. He was
given medical attention and brought
home on the afternoon train, but IL
will be long time before he will play
ball again.