Show SHEEP KILLING COUGAR CAUGHT IN OUR OUK CANYON what is believed to be the same big cougar which committed such buell depredation in jesse guymond Guy mons mono lambing lierd herd earlier in tile the season was killed in the canyon about five miles I 1 from here by jesse F lowder ithe idie other evening and mr BIT lowder did it in record time too the big cat was seen dossing crossing the road by walter C and ray mitchell Mj as they came down tile canyon in a car shortly after five in the afternoon they hurried to town and ray took mr air lowder and his veteran hound back to the place where they had seen the cougar and within fifteen minutes it was all over the old hound raced wildly back and forth fort it baying loudly through the trees and bushes and suddenly confining conf iliin his running to a very small email area indicating tatt he find any track beyond that point bowders Low ders experience told him that mr air cougar had sought safety in a tree and as he mentioned it to ray the latter looked over his shoulder and beheld the big cat in the top of the very quaking lu aking aspen under which he was standing it is reported that ray lose any time in gelling out ont from under that tree A shot from broin jesses gun gull which went through the lower jaw and into the shoulder started the cougar out ot of the tree arid and a second shot as he descended struck near the heart the animal lit running but fell dead within a few feet in less than two hours from the time it w was as first seen the hunter was lack back in ill town with it this makes thirty one cougars jesse has killed in this vicinity and a good goa many of them have been treed by the same old dog ilow how much this has hag saved the livestock men of this country not to mention the wild game resources may be approximated when it Is known that jesse guymon estimates his losses from cougars this spring at about one hundred lambs this one was killed right in the vicinity of where his heaviest losses occurred |