Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, Idaho)
Saturday, November 18, 1899
CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS IN THE VICINITY OF PAYETTE
John Allen, aged 17 years, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun, while herding sheep for S. W. Woodland on Little Bear creek, about 20 miles from Payette on Thursday of last week.
Young Allen's body was found about 8 o'clock Friday morning by S. W. Woodland, George V. Nesbitt and George Dutton. The boy had walked about 150 feet from where his gun was found, and the position of the body indicated that he had laid down and that his last act was an effort to stanch the flow of blood from his wound as he had doubled one corner of his overcoat tightly together in his clenched hand and had it pressed against his right breast a little below the ghastly mark, the bullet having entered just above the nipple and came out near the shoulder blade. There were no indication of a struggle where the body lay and the presumption is that the poor boy did not long survive the deplorable accident.
Note: John Allen is buried at Riverside Cemetery, Payette in an unmarked grave. ch