Show HOW HOT A MIGHTY MI HUNTER MET HIS 1118 WATERLOO Y A Eureka correspondent of The Her Herald Herald ald aid tells of the downfall q Qt gL a hunter of jf that net long since The Theman Theman Theman man who came to grief was Vas C J Balch who once onee upon a time tinsa would rather rath kill mountain none lions and nd bear than to tot eat t pie and Ice tee cream The Th story of Mr Waterloo runs about like this Not long since he went on a 3 pros pro prospecting prospecting peeling expedition with F P C Jennings too the pair pah camped in a In Park Valley Box Bo Elder county They had not nest been there long when one day Jennings came into camp and an announced that he be had seen reM tha the tracks of a big mountain n lion In the snow not far tar away Why Wh you trail bruit him inquired Balch Jennings answered that he care to take any chances with the beast bea t tin in the thick timber Well Wen saia sa d Balch Baich BalchI BaichI I 1 would just like to run across his tracks trucks in the snow SIlO once onee and have a good Winchester In my hands as you had today Mr Cat wouldn t last long longI I can sen tell tellOo you 1 I am a cat ott myself when it comes to to trailing lions or bear boar and I always get them This rather roused Jennings Jenning blood He Ho proposed that the pair take their rifles and go on a chase after the lion that had started the argument Balch Belch consented and so 50 bright and early the next morning the chase was w begun The hunters had gone but a short distance over the steep hills when tracks of the lion were discovered They led directly toward a thick clump of or timber and Jennings experience told him that the varmint would be found in tn there He sj s ge ge ted that Balch Belch stay on ott one side ot uie ne clump while he went wont around to the other in order that If the lion Hon attempted to escape one of the men would lie be sure to get a shot at It U The plan was adopted and Jennings started around Balch walked gingerly up to the edge of the timber r and suddenly noticed a bit of snow snowfall fall front from one ne of the footprints made by the lion Jion By B this he knew that the beast beat must I certainly be In the clump so he yelled to Jennings to look out When Jen Jon I nines flings heard Balch Baich yell it occurred to him that the noise neise would sowe e the lion out ao iso he began running In order I to reach a point where he could see aee the animal in case it ran out on his side Belch Balch Bal h saw s w Jennings start and Jumped at the conclusion that his comrade would head the lion back his way He care are to meet m t the brute on the level so he hastily selected a small tree tle and climbed quickly up leaving his hia rifle on the ground In Itt the meanwhile Jennings J saw next so the Ule big cat and got a allot at it He H only wounded the emil ani animal mal though thou h and it ran rail back scream screamIng screamIng screamIng Ing with pain Straight for ibm the tree Balch was In la lathe Inthe Inthe the animal made It was so Su anxious to escape from Jennings that It never noticed yells yeats for help but started climbing up toward the mighty hunter Balch climbed higher as je e eat eat at approached but he soon reached r the he tri tot of the tree and the lion kepi kent kepin k pt Ja n 1 coming The mighty Nimrod th tha u began shouting in good hard earnest Jennings hurried up and took in the tile situation With a single si le shot he killed hilled the lion and aDd when Balch Baich sew saw that it Wag was thoroughly deed dead he ventured down from O his perch Bright and early next morning Balch Belch arranged ed a pair patr oC of runners under his trunk and sledded it to the nearest noore t camp where w ere he secured a a wagon and anti hustled bustled back to tb He says rays one dote dole tics of hem treed with a mountain lion Hon was enough for him and hell nev am never never er em trail another Box Elder beast as aslone long lone l as he be lives |