| Show LIONS BAGGED BY government HUNTER ILLIS 4 sears bears af willis government trapper of this district ono one of the tore fore most hunters of 0 the state and who has a record ot of sixty eight llona ilona to hla his credit hing having killed nine of at these within the last two months brought one of his biggest kills into panguitch tuesday evening after a hard which was very disagreeable on account of a wind coming from the south which he and his party had bad to face while following the lion the hunting crew consisted of mr willis dr hugh burgess of 0 st george eye kenneth lynu lynn government trapper jesse cherrington and arlo davenport all of whom were hunting tor for the aport yport of it the lion which was waa shot by dr burgess was a male measuring tea feet train from tip to tip weighed close to hundred pounds and accord ng to mr willis best judgment was bout about tour four years old ia lynn Cb errington and davenport became separated from dr burgess and willis so were not in at the kill dr burgess showed allowed much nerve 11 1 going within six elx feet of the lion which had taken refuge in some bome rocky ledges ra ot the head ot of wilson canyon seven miles south houth of 0 rod red canyon and taking several snap elota of 0 it two ot of willis dogs were scratched by to but not seriously mr willis maintained his splendid record by bringing in two more mora ot of the big cats the next afternoon dr burgess who also killed these two was able to obtain more pictures before the animals the last two lions ilona wore were not as large as the first one but were good specimens and wore were a male and fe fen nalo anale about seven feet from tip to tip arnd weighed about one hundred pounds and were about two years old the first lion was treed about three and a halt miles south ot of red canyon and the second about a quarter of r ei mils mile norh of the mouth of red canyon mr lynn accompanied dr burgess Burge and mr willis on the last hunt mr air willis arm a very tine fine string ot at dogs especially moose the leader ot of the pack the lions were very hard to track on art account ot of the wind drift ing ine the tracks full of 0 snow the snow la in thra section is about sixteen inches on the south slopes and about two and one halt half feet on the north slopes tho the farmers and liv livestock estok mon mom in chrt vicinity no doubt feel somewhat relieved to know that wisa th animals arp cleaned out thereby them considerable loss lose in lives 11 garfield Gartl eld county news |
