Show A TALL TREE FOR harrington daniel harrington the well known salt lake engineer had a thrilling experience with a lioness in emery county recently while doing some professional work for the milner estate this is not a teddy bear story and yet mr harrington will have a more thrilling adventure to relate to his friends than any which so far has ha S befallen b our ex president in africa the advocate of price utah gives the following details regarding the encounter accompanied by william kendrick of car ca bonville he was in coal creek canyon last friday and this was the scene of the hair raising encounter kendrick who was some distance ds tance ahead espied two cubs and ex called Harring tons attention to them harrington ran a few hundred yards to the top of a hill and as he caught sight of one of the cubs old mother bear caught sight also of harrington and immediately made for the two men both were unarmed and the only thing to do was to pick out a tree apiece which they lost no tame in doing however before harrington had ascended ase ended more than ten feet from the ground the bear was at the tree very much to the discomfiture of the civil engineer recollections of what transpired during the next few minutes are rather hazy to harrington he recollects he says of kicking the bear in the snout several times with his heavy boots and knocking the old girl down the tree next he fell from the tree on top of the bear and rolled with the an mal some distance down the hill finally stopping by contact with a large pine the bear kept on going and neither harrington nor kendrick remained long enough in the neighborhood nel to find out anything about her subsequent movements move mets beyond a hair raising scare and numerous scratches about the legs the civil engineer is none the worse for his experience kendrick received an upper cut about the head from the paw of the mother of 4 cubs and is short ia a handful of hair more or less harrington says that the bear looked as bilg big as an elephant to him but probably weighed not over two hun hundred dried pounds and was of a dirty yellow color |