Show N eded Citronella Recent threat of the zoo keeper at gardens to turn the animals loose for or lack of of water brings to nind an incident some 32 years ears ago h n several wild animals escaped a circus in the process of load load- ng in the railroad yards ards The ani- ani including a mountain lion took o the hills north of the city and so soar ar as as known were nev r recapS recap Considerable ado was made the matter in the papers and persons living out around Springs began to report raids n n their chicken pens and dogs with their heads hat half torn f a s state o of general alarm devel aped ped among residents or of North SaIl rake Lake Night men at the old incinerator tor plan just north of Warm Springs reported that the lion Would appear nearly every night around midnight on a knoll about halt half way up the mountain and sit and cry like a baby then meander down to an old slaughter ter ter house and feast on anything to Ho D lound any ani mals that might be Dein in the pen Reported depredations or of the lion more bold So some of the younger and more venturesome members of oC the local newspaper taUs decided to seek undying fame u 45 big game hunters and make themselves them them- selves heroes in the eyes of fright fright- ned coed residents by putting pulling an end to the big cat Mounted on horses hired from rom the old McCoy stables back of the Cullen hotel and armed with rifles ri- ri fles borrowed from the reserve arsenal are ar- senal at the police station a party comp composed ed of Eugene B B. B Palmer Alan Lovey Lavey noted cartoonist Al Dutton Harry Morrison George A. A White now v adjutant general of the Oregon guard and the writer left our respective reo re- local rooms a little before midnight climbed awkwardly aboard our steeds and with high hopes and unsteady seats seals set forth for or the fra fray We tied our horses at the incinerator plant and had the lions lion's favorite knoll pointed out to us Then the hunters went up the mountain to see what they could see sec Squatted on the sIde of a draw where we could get geta I a good bead on the lions lion's lair we sat fingers on triggers tensely nervously nervous nervous- ly Iy listening for baby crIes or the dark clark form lorm of a lion to loom agaInst the Ule rising moon We waited and waited the i monotony broken only by continuous con con- j. j slapping at hungry mos that rou sought ht to feast on our our la laces and h hands The hours hourc wore ore on until the first signs of dawn began to break over the mountains Ban Bang rang out a shot The spot from which I had shift shift- td cd but a moment before sent a of rocks and dirt into the theair air a as a bullet plowed into the hillside Harry Morrison had made a particularly vicious slap at a particularly vicious mos mos- Quito The exertion accidentally discharged his rifle rille and came 1 near ending my career We decIded def de- de f it was an omen to call the hunt Ihunt of off i DOw own we scrambled into the back backard backard ard of the slaughterhouse right Into a general assembly ot of an at 1 Conference ot of the worlds world's bIggest and hungriest mosquitoes In a flash fr eyes our ears our mouths were ed they streamed down the in- in alde of our our collars up our sleeves and pants legs The faster we ran band and the more m mosquitoes we ran Way from the more we ran into The esky insects pursued us us to the in in- plant and kept up the chase until our trusty steeds carried us way from Irom the hungry hordes horde The morning we all had to sneak neak Into our offices by the back way to toI I prevent Doc Paul and his health Inspectors from quarantining us as SUSpected measles or smallpox pa pa- en is Corless former Democratic herlt broke the jinx and won three terms but the wise ones point out ut that at that time the tenure of office fcc was only two years ears wl le now 4 t Is lour four Mr Corl Corless however apPears ape ap- Pears to be without superstition and is 13 informing friends that he Is 15 out lor o a comeback and a fourth term tongues are wagging about ut the prospects of Alonzo Ma Mac Mac- kiT r present count county clerk who is 18 talked ot of as a candidate for t R Republican nomination for commissioner Some cas who have tried this detour lle third term jinx are dering if iC Mr Mackay also will w Washout on the delour |