Show A REAL QUEEN OF THE FOREST IT is de delightful delights lightf ua to the average youth to read stories of thrilling adventure in the wilds of the dark continent the courage displayed by and narrow escape of hunters of beasts of prey have for him a peculiar fascination even older people are not averse to perusing the sensational as it appears in works of travel and adventure on the alt we gave an account ot of an exciting incident in which john F spencer a young man of randolph utah I 1 dis displayed bayed remarkable bravery and steadiness steadiness ess of nerve when attacked in the mountains near that place by what was supposed to be a mountain lion alter after which having received a wound from a shot fired by robert mckinnon rushed toward its intended victim with with howls bowls of rage lashing his bis sides with his bis long lone tail repeated springs by the infuriated brute toward young oung spencer were met by shots from kis his trusty rifle the theli fifth fth bullet killing it t the animal was described as measuring from nose to the end of the tall tail seven feet four inches height nearly four feet around the for forearm earin fourteen inches across the toot foot six inches length of tail two feet eight inches weight pounds it was poor in flesh the proportions given were so much fin in excess of those of any beast of the mountain lion species we ever heard beard of that we could scarcely believe that it belonged to that class these doubts have been confirmed by a letter from john snowball of randolph by whom we are informed that it has been learned beyond doubt that the animal was a genuine gennine african lioness which escaped from green river city last year this being beine the case john P F spencer is a real lion killer and with the except exception io n of the wound inflicted by robert mckinnon which did not at all disable the beast performed the work at close quarters |