Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-02-26
A REAL LION ROMANCE.
THE BRAVE EXPLOITS OF TWO
COLORADO HEROlNES.
Afraid Of Mice hut Not Of Ii0ns-Facetious
Account Of tho Nerve OF Two Western
Damsels-The Skin Now Worn
as Boa.

The occurrence under consideration
took place near Pueblo, COL. toward
the head waters OF Bob creek, says a
writer in the New York Tribune. We
need not remind the reader OK the
dangerous character Of the upper Bob
creek neighborhood. It is only sur
passed by the same region along Bitter
creek The condition OF both localities
may be graphically, albeit figurative-
~. described by saying that in each
the old giascutus sharpens his langs
| on the bones OF his dead. Carrie and
Maude Eames. aged respectively IL
and 20 years, lived with their parents
on a ranch. Their father, Jim Eames.
was away on the grand jury. leaving
them in charge Of the stock. What |
was their surprise the next morning |
after their fathers departure to find
that some animal had leaped the ten
foot fence around the horse corral and
killed and half devoured a large Nor
man stallion. weighing some LOO
pounds. The next morning the man
gled carcass of another horse was
found in the corral. This was not to
be endured. Shouldering their trusty
repeating rifles, Carrie and Maid
Games started up the lonely canyon OF
the roaring and raging Bob creek
They followed the animals trail east
ly by his tracks. which were six
inches in diameter and pressed deep
in the hard soil. S metimes they
would notice where he had switched
his tail and cut off sapling or shat
tered rock. Still they pressed on.
At last. in the afternoon, they were in
the ominous neighborhood where Bob
creek comes out OF the ground. The
wind moaned and sobbcd in the pines.
They could hear band OF Ute Indians
|, holding a dance two miles tho other
, side of the ridge. The sky was over
cast and snow flakes foated in the air.
They pressed on. In ten minutes they
came TO an immense hole in the ground.
down which the tracks led. 1t was
forbidding Maude seized u large
= stone and threw it down the hole. 1t
struck the bottom with crash. In
- stantly there came from the cave a
piercing shrek, half human, half de-
moniac We've found him!" cried
= Maude gayly. Carrie grasped her gun
:. firmly and started to decend, like Gen
,. eral Putnam of old, and dislodge the
beast. AS she did so. a common field
mouse, aroused by the stone, ran out
= of the hole. Both girls screamed,
gathered their skirts about their
ankles and mounted convenient
y stumps. 'If the horrid place is full
= OF mice l am not going into it," said
Carrie. Neither am l." answered
% Maude. The mouse having disap-
. peared they determined on new plan.
Securing a fir pole twenty feet Ions
:, they lowered it into the hole.
:, 1t did not touch the bottom, but
:. Maude had thoughtfully brought g
" rawhide lariat, and tying this to the
- end OF the pole, they paid out thirty
:, feet of it, making fifty in all. At this
:" depth they felt something clutch The
~ pole. They knew that they had got ;
~ bite, and began to haul in. Thei
y catch was game and chung to the side
of the hole desperate. and constant.
20 emitted ear-piercing, almost huma'
% cries. They feared that their linz
u would break, but fortunately it di'
20 not At last they grasped the uppe
~ end OF the pole and gradually bega
O. to haul that into sight The maddene
;" monster still continues to struggl
- and fight at the other end. At las
10 they saw his eyeballs cleaning dow
o. in the darkness. Leaving Maud
land the beast Carrie seized her rife
Mad gave one mighty pull aud h
,'o terrible head appeared above tn
nc opening. Instantly the crack {
y" Carries rifle awakened the hidin
''o echoes of Bob creek canyon. Anothe
wv pull by Maude and the dead body {
>. tho monster lay at their feet. 1
teeth had been SO firmly embedded
~ the end of the pole that it could nj
no let go. 1t was an immense panthe
or American tiger, more common
" called mountain lion, and weighed u
'"o ward OF 600 pounds. Tying the lar
@" around its neck the young iadi
dragged it home behind them, whe
A they arrived in time to round up Il
.Iy stock and make everything snug +
~ the night. When the writer call'
the next day he found Carrie embroi
'"o ering a table scarf for a Christm
APP -, Ill M.,a, co, q, w-;t;,
Vu' desk, busy at u poem which she
Ivy tended to submit to Harper's.
oo' manicure set and IA navy revolver L
''h near at hand.
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