Show ADVENTURE A couple of young men exhibit hii and precision on saturday january at randolph utah embt mckinnon and john 6 spencer went to the mountain on tho east side of bear eiver for wood each taking his gun with him they had been at the cedars but a short time when robert mckinnon saw a large mountain lion goin direct for young spencer thinking to save his friend he got his ann a 45 70 browning and ared at the lion which was distant about yards hitting hiim near the root of the tail bul not low enough down to brealy the animal down the sting of the wound enraged the brute and seeing john P spencer about yards above with a howl of rage it went bounding up the mountain at him john P realizing his perilous position ran to a lodge of rocks near by ho was hardly in a good position when the lion was at tho ledge and within thirty feet it leaped on the first table rock and was preparing for another spring when it received a bullet in the breast from the rifle of young spencer this knocked the banto off the reels but nothing daunted it again leaped up to the same its sides with its long tail and howling with rage and pain again young spencer fired the second bullet also taking effect in the breast and down went the brute a second time this was repeated three times more the fifth shot inflicting a fatal the civo bullets had all entered the lions and plowed their way through the body s j hundred people took a look io sf the jacb eq being afraid togo near it its heads very laracy and long 5 it from theose to the feet fatur inches height bearly four feet abound the forearm fourteen oitt ail two 2 diesl |