Show do losnie los and nil mountain cioll I 1 ion V 01 7 lit ap f old mountain lion lands stands up lor for last tim time to hey hay picture taken with dog dogs and hunters who ran him down in dry foik fork canyon pictured from irom left to right are bryce caldwell Cald wll george nay woodey B searle ernest caldwell und carl searle HUNTERS BAG MOUNTAIN LION IN DRY FORK CANYON FRIDAY A pound mountain mount linn lion was wits killed nt tit the tile mouth of brownies cunyon in lit dry fork last friday morning by a party of five vernal hunters in lit the tile alerc hattle that ensued three 0 of I 1 OW eight light hunting dogs were I 1 injured talks of tile animal were spotted on oil the rond road tour four milts miles above dry fork b by ernest caldwell and his son 13 dyca ace nt at about 1145 H 45 it tit us its they drove to work nt at their r caknip on brugh creek mountain returning to dry fork the tile two men put in lit a t call for assim tance which quickly brought G george gorge orge nay government trap P vir per curl carl searle arid woodey B S beirle drle to tit launt w with I 1 tit their d dogs ti s the ile dogs hit tit the tracks at 10 it ill aind 11 nd lind had tit taic screaming cut cat iti ill a pine tree within twenty minutes not riot mort than bards from iron the rond road the hunt erh rh knew long before they reach cd ed th tilt spot pot that the cat had been located t tit the hound of the dogs enikh us a alie tit anxious aril mals its lung bunked high into tit bran brunches clie of tit the tree to get at t the lion ill lie old cut was milk ing furious swipes ut at the blood with his murderous laws missing only by inch tilt mountain lion was dislodged from the tree limbs ill alie bogh and arid cat rolled down don a hill for or about fifty yards yard in tit it 11 large furry fiihr ball one dog log grasped tightly ill the tile paws paw ot of the tile vicious bittler ernest caldwell shot the cat with a it 22 pistol when it backed up tit against some small shrubs making its swipes count wi with it bloody gast gashes v in the dogs as its they corri carnen erd d him hirn it was tit the tenth mountain ii lion on to be killed in lit the uintah basin this winter and the tenth hunt this year for mr nay who has killed 10 cats since he started tr trapping a ing A pound lion w was as kp killed PI c d on red mountain december 6 four were killed at the Book cliffs one at hill creek and three at black trail mountain according to mr na before being employed as a government trapper mr N nay a y trapped privately and in his first year killed twenty cats one winter he fie killed a total of 20 26 1 eighteen of them in one month while the record wag was sixteen for alx six weeks he hag has been at vernal for or four years |