Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-16
MARROW ESCAPE FROM WILD.
 ANIMAL
Father of c. E, Rinehart Almost Loses His Life While Out Hunting-Attac Is Made by Mountain Lion.

Seldom is it allowed to a man to suffer the narrow escape which fell to E. W. Rinehart, father of the local druggist. and live to tell the tale. After a hunting trip to the mountains of Mexico the elder Rinehart returned to the city bearing the marks of the claws of monster mountain lion, which attacked him and left him for dead.
 E. W. Rinehart, father of c. E. 'Rine- hart arrived in the city shortly before Christmas from his home in Indiana, to spend the holidays with his son and become acquainted with the Warren district
 Having heard of the comparatively fine shooting opportunities to be found in the mountains of Mexico, where deer are plentiful. the old gen. tlaman decided that he would Ii make a trip to the hills, and have the experience of real hunt in wild country.
 Deferring to the wishes of his father, C. E. Rinehart arranged trip to the Patica mountains. lying sixty miles southwest of Agua Prieta, and was joined in the party by pr. B. Douthitt, W. M. Nichols and W. s. Nyhart, all of Douglas.
 The party left for the mountains on January 5, and made camp in the mountainous recesses on the third night On the morning after making camp the elder Rinehart was not feel ing very well, but decided to ride a short distance from camp and wait for a shot at a deer. He was sitting on one side of & ravine when he noticed in the distance, about GOO yards away fine big buck. Taking careful aim l the old gentleman, who is an excellent l shot fired, piercing the heart of the l animal, and saw it fall. Feeling sure Of his game he mounted his horse l and rode leisurely down through the | ravine and up the other bank, to dis l cover that the carcass was too heavy 1 to swing into the saddle, and he pre- l pared to rope it to his saddle and drat it into camp. He had taken one turI of the rope around the pommel of hii saddle, after slipping the moose ovel the head of the deer, and had one foo in the stirrup, ready to mount. wheI ' hind him, and at the same instant re ceived a blow on the head, the fore fo which threw him twenty feet dowl the side of the ravine. The horse took fright and bolted, and when tn old gentleman was able to turn arount he saw a full grown mountain lion dis appearing over the hill. His gun wa
 several rods away from him, and be fore he could secure it the animal wa out of sight.
 He went back to the spot where hi
 horse had stood, and directly back 0
 that spot found large flat boulder
 on the top of which the wild anima
 had evidently been awaiting its prey
 which the sportsman was about to haU
 off. In springing the animal plante
 one of it's enormous paws on the oi gentleman's head, the claws scrapin , to the skull. - O..
 Although he was only two mile
 from camp, the injured man was s
 weakened from loss of bloodthat , took him three hours to walk the di!
 tance, and on arriving there he e,
 plained the circumstances to the re:
 of the party, who at once went to tE
 scene of the encounter, to find th
 rocks covered with blood.
 The best hurried treatment possibl l was given to the old gentleman, an g the party at once started for Agu l. Prieta, where medical assistance migl e be secured.
 : Why the animal did not stay an 2 finish the work which he had starte can only be ascribed to the fact that ' was frightened off by the horse.