Show HIS OWN MENAGERIE Strange Tenants in a Cellar of a Dwelling House San Francisco May 4The dellar of a house inhabited by human beings is a strange place for wild beasts to make their homes yet this has happened far back in the hills near Sunol Alameda county where Antonio Ziincz a farmer far-mer lives with his family Antonio is thrifty and Industrious and has prospered Two weks ago he moved from his old home into another house that had not yet been occupied For several days after Antonio and his family moved into their new home they heard strange sounds coming apparently ap-parently from the cellar As Antonio was busy with his farm work and those at the house were engaged in setting things to rights no effort was made to ascertain the cause of the sounds but as day after day passed and the noise from the cellar did not cease Xunez determined to make an investigation Though courageous Antonio is uiscreet and he called in a few friends to his assistance Armed with shotguns they had hardly reached the side of the stone wall place when from the space beneath the stairway bounded a splendid splen-did specimen of a California lioness Before a shot could be fired the animal escaped through an open door A second sec-ond later and the lion a big ugly beast made a jump for the stairway But this time Antonio was ready and killed the animal at the first shot While his friends stood guard at the doorway Antonio made a search underneath un-derneath the stairway and found four cubs They were as comfortable as kittens having an old coat and a quilt for a bed Nunez took the bitinir and scratching cubs upstairs and for the rest of the day and far into the night waited for the lioness to return t the brute did not come back Xunez is going to try and raise the subs |