Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-07
Cow Pony, Man and Lariat Com
bine to Conquer King
OF Beasts.
IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Owner of Pcit Invites the Dubious to
Look II Over for Traces of
Bullet Mark.

From southern Utah comes a noun
thrilling, too. although the details told
by the writer are given IN a manner too
simple to be overly vivid, and only
suggest the fierce picture that must have
been presented when a rancher with
only ~ pony and lasso, rode his
quiVering mount onto mountain lion,
lossood him andthcnslapped The spurs
into his horse and dragged the lion to
death.
There Is a classic grizzly story told
over and over again of the fight Ia
which the hunter asked the Lord to
stand aside and not help the bear, II
he wanted 10 see the prottiest fight on
record. This one only lacks a little
in vivid phrasaology to rank with II as
Il classic.
Hero IS the sale II is sent the News"
by John NJ, pulsipher of ST, George,
Utah, and Ia one reading the lead pencil
copy with It's dlrectness aud simplicity
OF dictlon, the conviction that the tale Is
true drives away any tndency 10
laugh down the incident as western
expansion story, despite the fac. chat 1t
- NhhNN nun Ipuli NulaNst
HUNT BEGINS.
Brooks Ranch Dee, /. l006.I Went
out this morning for n beef steer
ana followed a course NJ Coogcr can
yon. What did | find hut lion track
In the snow. the snow being from six
inches TO two feet deep in the drifts, so
! could easily track the lion, Then |
began TO wish for my gun. but / fol-
lowed along the track and In about "A
mile came 10 "A calf he had killed
about three days ago.
LOCATED DEAD GALE.
lie had just left this calf | could see,
on the run 50 went on after him at
sallop. IL was very rough country,
but in a mile | got sight of Mr.. Lion.
lie was eaping along, seeming 60 so
about 30 feet To q jump. Then down
came my lossQ and | began to flank my
horse With It.
PONY TREMBLED.
He had scented the lion and did not
want Ia face the music, but the laaso
and my spurs made him go on up to-
wards the lion When within about %
feet OF the Hon ! made Il throw with
the lasso and caught him fair around
the neck, then took my turns The lion
BlaDDed tue rope ~ MS teeth. but the
horse was Wild with fright and with
me giving him the rein and the spur
he made such a hot pace that lion never
gained his feet, and was turned end
over end SO he let loose of the lasso
and never let him get his feet again
until he was dead.
ROPE SHOWS TEETH MARK
The lasso has the teeth marks where
he grabbed It. Any one can search this
hide for bullet hole. If anyone thinks
| shot the animal will hold this hide
until the 18th of this month 20 let him
examine It, Then want TO sell H. The
head Is on, and the feet up
to its knees The lion was seven feet
from The tip of the nose To the tip OF
the tail, and stood three feet high
NJ. PULSlPHER.
Washington county.
Mr. Pulsipher Is a well known rauch-
er OF the southern country. 1t is not
probable that anyone viii be dubious
enough 10 want 10 search his lion pelt
for traces OF u bullet. one thing t.
certain about the tale II is the most
wonderful In Utah since the phenomi-
nal Kills mado year ago by the bounty
hunters who did business with the
county clerks Office