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Show More Lions Bagged In A. F. Canyon A three month search for mountain moun-tain lions winch have been slaying deer in American Fork canyon, resulted re-sulted in four of them being killed by Thomas Walker, United States park ranger, stationed at Timpan-ogos Timpan-ogos Cave, assisted by Rodney and Rex Moyle of Alpine and their pack of hunting dogs. The animals, which axe thought to have been responsible for the disappearance of six deer from the herd of 35 which fed daily at the cave were captured Thursday and Friday in Swinging Bridge and Tank canyons of American Fork canyon. The first lion, a young animal measuring about six feet from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, was shot by Mr. Walker Thursday Thurs-day and the other three animals, a mother and two cubs, were shot Friday- Five dogs, four of which belonged to the Moyle brothers and the fifth to Mr- Walker, were used in treeing the animals. Two of the lions were shot by Mr. Walker, the other two by the Moyle brothers- A pistol was used by Mr. Walker and the Moj'le brothers used a rifle. The pistol proved the best weapon weap-on on the hunt, as the rifles knocked knock-ed the lions out of the trees- When shot with the pistol the big cats clung to the branches until practically prac-tically dead. When the oats were knocked out of the trees by the rifle bullets, the dogs would rush in, and the hunters had a hard time to keep the wounded and infuriated in-furiated lions from - injuring the hounds- The mother lion was the largest of the four, measuring more than seven feet from tip to tip end weighing approximately 125 pounds. It Is thought that several other lions are roaming the canyon and the hunt will continue until as many as possible are killed, Mr. Walker said. During this week the hunt has-continued in the canyon-It canyon-It Is the first time in many years that mountain lions have been seen in American Fork canyon. ------"------------ --"------- |