Show IDAHOS BRAVE GIRL Another Chapter In the History the Heroine of Little Lost RiverA River-A year ago 3 wonderful story of the gallant fight of Theresa Tallert with mountain lions while defending her Sock of Angora goats on the Little Lost river was circulated far and wide in American and even French papers The story set forth how late one evening in her cabin in the foothills of Eastern Idaho she was awakened by animals racing around in the stockade adjoining ad-joining how she arose and with a hand axe and her dog Badger she stole out in the moonlight to find the lions in pursuit pur-suit of her goats how nothing daunted she attacked them and cut one to the bone with her axe injured others and causing the whole some six in all to flee over the stockade wall But the next morning the brave girl discovered that the throats of many of the herd had been cut for fifty of them lay dead on the ground Wel our girls been making another an-other record said A J Bruner of Houston Idaho to an Examiner man yesterday and she got in her work in fine style the usual way with her She never lets up on a job until it is completed com-pleted artistically Whats she been doing now Had another fight with mountain lions You see a year ago after Theresas fight with them D B Hawley Haw-ley and other raisers of Angora goats those who had suffered losses put their heads together and organized a posse to to kill them off They killed a great many and pretty well cleaned them ont I it was thought For some months thereafter there-after there were very few of them seen around and these were very wary Late ly however the lions have come to the front The foothills have seemed to be swarming with them i They again invaded the stockades and sucked the blood of the goats whose throats they cut Miss Taller Tal-ler who had lost some more of her flock and knew that the lions came j around quite often at night got a couple of Winchesters and loaded them with buckshot a few nights ago Then she I dug out the chinking between the logs on the side of her cabin next to the stockade and from this porthole she took up her station Well in five nights in this way I she killed thirteen mountain lions and I she says she is not through with them yet Her herd of goats comprises some 500 inall and perhaps thirty or fifty of I these have been killed in the last month or two Miss Tallert is a German girl who has been ranching on the Little Lost river for three or four years The country round there is good for Angora goats and she got her start by working first for wages for A J Bruner who is the biggest grower in that regionSan Francisco Examiner |