Show Madsen Sends Men and Dogs to to I c. c Wipe I Out Utah Mountain Lio Lions Lions' I s' s sc Four mountain lions are playing havoc with the deer on the Mount Nebo Nebo forest reserve and D. D H. H Madsen Mad Mad- sen state fish and game commissioner commissioner commissioner commis commis- is arranging for a party to togo togo togo go from Nephi with a pack of dogs dogg and run the animals to earth During the recent elk hunt Governor GovernOr Gov Coy George H. H Dern and his party ran onto fresh tracks of mountain HonS Ilona and close examination disclosed disclosed disclosed dis dis- closed that there were several lions together Efforts were ma made e to run them down but without avail After Arter the hunt for tor elk was concluded concluded con con- eluded Joseph Allen of Springville Ernest Clyde of Heber and E. E D. D Park of Nephi weer delegated b by Commissioner Madsen to trail the animals In the tho Nebo forest reserve Soon after Its start the party ran across several carcasses of buck deer which the lions had slain Two of the lions were tracked Into a tt rocky canyon and killed As one of ot the tr tro lo of ot hunters slid down the snowbank to where the two lions which had been shot lay on the tho lodge ledge another Hon lion leaped over his head hed In his dash for or liberty the lion Uon was wounded but got away Inspection of the ledge found the lair of the animals and the dead dealt ones were found to be cubs about the th-e size of a Newfoundland dog It was vas the mother of the cubs that had been wounded Further inspection also disclosed the fact that t. t the beasts had been fed upon porcupines the mother lion managing to kill the porcupines by grabbing grabing them under the stomach stomach ach Rn and l killing them without getting getting getting get get- ting hurt by the quills of the poT por porcupines and there were no quills In the two cubs that had been killed In that t a mountain lion Is a alty 11 destructive to livestock and wild animals Commissioner MadSen Madsen Mad Mad- sen is anxious to have ha them killed hence the preparations being made to run them down |