| Show HUNT FOR COUGAR PROVES successful slaying of beast winds up career of livestock slaughter in washington montesano wash A six year hunt for a cougar ended here the animal was treed and killed th slaying of this mountain cat ended a beast with a notorious reputation for destroying ying hogs sheep calves and in one or two instances cattle ranchers along north river have long attempted to end the career of this killer who two or three times each week would invade a farming center and malm and destroy live stock for the sake of slaughter A number of years ago in the dead of winter a cougar killed thirty sheep and three calves on one farm in a single night eating but little of one sheep from tracks left in the soft snow it was seen that each foot of the animal possessed but three instead of four toes every winter since this same cougar with the three toed feet has been accounted for in some locality up or cornered and killed down the north river easily tracked because of its deformity many huntera and trappers vainly sought to locate its lair this summer a government hunter from the rainier national forest reserve hearing of this cougar came and brought some trained dogs with him from the last scene of carnage the dogs tracked the cougar seven miles into a rock fastness of the ta range and he was cornered and killed on a slide of shale |
