Show BOY KILLED LION twelve old nevada lad slays beast with small calibre rifle john hird a twelve year old child killed hilled a mountain lion measuring ten feet from tip to up tip near lamoille Lamol lle in the ruby mountains in eiko elko county nevada the boy had bad been hunting with a email small cadder rifle 1 and had tracked a deer in enow snow for some distance when ho he came in eight sight of the huge lion eating on the carcass 0 of a deer which it evidently had bad just killed the sight of nt the lion eating meat nearly overcame the boy with fright but undaunted he placed the muzzle of hia bin rifle on t boulder took aim and fired the primal couched and then roaring made several bounds toward him thinking be he had only aou wounded the beant he started and ran meet ing several men who went back with him reaching the place they found the lion dead being shot through h the heart |