Show k 14 M M U lobass lp this weeks story is that at of hunter who baited izee aa without a sir and who rose to the ul est paid executive in the united states in his chosen line back in 1881 in the little township of hornitos Hor in mariposa county california was born a boy whom his parents named jay bruce Hor hornitos Horni toB boasted inhabitants all farmers and all poor two months a year a traveling teacher v v ted the village and gave ins action but jays family were too poor to be able to spare him even for that short period and what education he gained was at his mothers knee and by the light of a log fire most of his boyhood was spent tn in the vicinity of the yosemite Valle yana the mariposa big trees when he was nineteen he became a pump i hand in the yosemite mines lived in a company shack and save saved devery every dollar he earned nine years later he started a sawmill business operating two mills which he designed and built himself an accident resulted in blood poisoning his business failed and he was wiped out he was waa married and had three small children but no home or job thereafter he tried his hia hand at eleven kinds of work and failed each time mrs bruce with starvation facing the family urged him to turn lion hunter the california fish and game commission was offering twenty dollars tor for each mountain lion killed so cp H DL bruce became a hunter by br necessity borrowed books informed him of the habitz habits of lions and their retreats and before that winter to had passed he had shot 81 of them and been raid paid 1100 tho th following spring he no was wag appointed official state mountain lion hunter at a salary of a year since then his salary has beal been trebled and because his expenses are few his hia bank banh account has mounted in the past eight years ta i six figures and he la is a 4 ro authority on liona |