Show BOY KILLED LION twelve w e year old nevada lad slays beast with small calibre rifle john hird a twelve year old child killed a mountain lion measuring ten feet from tip to tip near lamoille in the ruby mountains in buto elko county nevada the boy had been hunting with a small calber ca iber rifle and had tracked a deer doer in snow for some dis tance when he came in sight ot of the huge lion eating on the carcass of a fleer leer which it evidently had just killed the sight of the lion eating meat nearly overcame the boy with fright but undaunted he placed the muzzle of 0 his rifle on a boulder took aim and bred tred the animal couched and then roaring made several bounds toward him thinking he had only wounded the beast he started and ran meet ing ng several men who went back with him reaching Re achin the place they found the lion dead being shot through the heart |