News has reached this city that Montague…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

News has reached this city that Montague F. Stevens, a most successful cattle raiser of west Socorro county, while hunting geese near Bakersfield, California, the other day, met with a serious accident that resulted in the amputa- tion of his left arm. He had leaned his shot-gun against a tree and mounting a horse, reached over to take it. It seems his hand grabbed the lock, and the force caused the charge of one barrel to go off, shattering the arm. He was taken back to the city and the doctors attend- ing concluded that amputation was necessary to save his life.