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Show IS KNOCKED DOWN BY MOUNTAIN LION j State Hunter Brings in His Eighty-seventh Pelt -VIH.MJA. M.. Jrm. !4. W.-. Bruce, official lion hunter for the California f and game commission, recently killed hix righty-wvent h mountain lion only afu-r h- had lin n k ncked to t he prround hv the teast nitd forced to fiKht for his life wn h tns tire hands against ttie Riant animal. Hruce . had l-en scouting the dense tinoerbrush f the Sequoia natimial prk'a more ri mote no thwui and had already ! lia.'Ked fur of the animals, which hsve I I .ceii more numerous this season than j for sever.tl yr.tr. In the vicinity of ; r r :a! a v along tlie famous lil.ick I 'iii; trail h-ading 1 hroutfh the Seuuota to the Jfiifr.il ;rant .trk, he came j upoft his fifth lion tti fourteen davs. , Kle ft hois, apparently directly into the , I e.id of tlie Iteast, hrir.ht no result. ' The h"n sprung at Urm-e, w ho wn kttoke'l to the frund ,y 1 he hJow, hut. j th.inlvn to lh- lion's fat eltlliR KtreiiR-rh ! from the fie well directed whot. w;in ! able to ward off the irr-;tt ja ws utttd I an asidstaet could strike the lion 'tofb I the face i:h u h-avy rock. AM t fre 1 himtwlf, Hrijce nueceedef) In reenvering j tos rifle and sent a sixth bullet into the j am ma Is hra 1 n. ftadly clawid and bleeding from a 'dozen wounds, the huntsman was still a hie to nhoot down m Mxt h I ton, ap-parently ap-parently ht ant;t:onist'a mate, before iamp was rach-a The hunter expreiwd the opinion that the lion of It'c p.trk region have now I wen 1 I anel out. He ha Lrufged MIX and three other wre k:l!d b muun-tainecrs. |