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Show BOY KILLED LION. Twelve-Year-Old Nevada Lad Slays Beast With Small Calibre Rifle. John Hlrtl, a twelve-year old child, killed a mountain Hon measuring ten feet from tip to tip, near Ijimollle, In tho Ruby mountains, in Elko county, Nevada. Tho hoy had been hunting with a small-cailber rifle, and had tracked a deer In snow for some distance, dis-tance, when ho camo In bight of tho huge lion eating on tho carcass of a deer which It evidently had just killed. Tho sight of the Hon eating meat nearly overcame tho boy with fright, hut undaunted he placed the muzzle of his rifle cm a boulder, took aim, and fired. Tho animal couched antl then, roaring, made several bounds toward him. Thinking ho had only wounded tho beast ho started and ran, meeting meet-ing several men, who went back with him. Renchlng tho place they found tho Hon dead, being shot through tlio heart. |