Show MOUNTAIN LON UVOURS A BABE Huge Beast Carries Off a Child Near Casper LITTLE ONE HAD JITTLE TODDLED TO A SPRING A Fruitless Search Made for the Savage Beast Supposed That the Child Was Carried Car-ried to a Den of Four Lions That Is Known to Exist I That Vicin ity Tracks of he Child and the Lion Found Near the Spring Special to The Herald Casper Wyo Ausr 27All is excitement excite-ment in Casper over the loss of a 2 vearold child that was carried away by a mountain lion on Casper mountain moun-tain yesterday morning A fruitless search was made by herders herd-ers of flocks and miners all day yesterday yes-terday and 40 men searched all last night in vain to find the babe The number of those in search is constantly swelling and the search is kept up without rest or sleep The little one is 0 orphan whose mother tied last year and whose father had put it in the care and keeping of a family by the name of Henderson who are herding sheep ten miles from Cae at the head of C Yo can ronAt At daylight yesterday morning Mr Henderson arose and followed his flock leaving his wife and the orphan cages cage-s in camp When he returned at 8 oclock for breakfast the woman was still fast asleep and the babe was gone I had awoke and toddled off in its night dress A search was at onco made for the little one and its bare feet track was found leading to a spring nearly a mile away Near the spring and near the babes tracks was found also a fresh track of a huge mountain lion and the fate of the little one was thus known No other trace of the babe has been I found There is a den of four lions on Casper I mountain and their tracks have been seen reTieajtedlv by an old miner by the name of J B Smith who has a copper I I property in the neighborhood There ar two old ones and two young Hons in the bunch as the miner has learned from couaUrler the tracks heretofore lf No hboes are entertained of eve finding the babe Alive but those in search are eager to find theden and I ther find the bones and little dress o I I the unfortunate babe |