Williams news., 1922-06-09
ACQUISITION OF AvolRDUPoIs

"We hesitate to speak of It lest be con- utation of a contemporary for veracity. But as a matter of interest to those concerned in the l f 4I +b W1iaros Nea contains story of citizen who killed 1900 pound grizzly and of "a lady of Williams who killed three lions at gle shot. The bear, the News admits, not weighed but photograph of it leaves no doubt that the 1900 pound estimate conservative. victims were counted. 1t was, after all, not a perfect shot, One lion escaped. Arizona Re publican"
 As near as we can gather from the foregoing which appeared recently in the Republican, the ed to the limit in believing two incidents neither of them particularly remarkable in Coconino county, which were related in a recent issue of the News. As for the fifteen-hundred pound bear, there is doubt that the editor of the Re publican would have raised that estimate fully thousand pounds had he stood, on certain occa- sion few months earlier in the tracks of the hunter who eventually killed the grizzly. It is related that Lucas had gone out for small descended about half way down into the Syca- more Canyon when he came suddenly upon this bear sleeping peacefully in some heavy bushes. Lucas was but lightly armed having only 3O 30, brace of six-shooters and few big knives
 nent of the creature, he concluded that it would be great breach of jungle etiquette to disturb ly backed his way out of that brush. His confer ence with the slumber-bound monarch>was post suitably outftted with artillery befitting the rank of the bear. The meeting came off in due time under favorable circumstances and the pelt of the huge p1antigrade adorns the walls of Joe Lucas hunting lodge, but that is aside from the question. Had the editor of the Republican stood in Joe Lucas shoes and surveyed that snoozing hulk of potential energy, he would have declared 25OO conservative estimate of bruins avoirdupois. However, securely ensconc- ed in easy chair safely out reach of the ven geance of the saber claws of the family of the deceased he has the temerity to indulge in dep- recatory remarks regarding the magnitude of the physical existence that belonged to that beast
 As for the lions, we'll, it is little hard on our favorlte after-dinner sport of lion hunting to have the lives of three of the big snufed out at single shot, It is particularly regrettable when you think of the countless thrills which these felines might have furnished city hunts men who sometimes dare to penetrate into our wild forests. However, Mrs. Foster who killed the three lions in question, promises that she will be content with one lion at each shot, henceforth Then, too, there is the mitigating circumstance that she really shot at but of the big cats, the other two insisting upon getting in the way of the charge from the gun. Such being the case we believe she is quite excusa ble.
 As for the editor of the Republican and his skeptlca1 1nclnatlons, we suggest that he take a trip to the Sycamore this summer and measure 1 some of the tracks made by the dead bear (then alive) and which the rains have not vet succeed ed in effacing. Ii he find any artillery heavy enough he might venture on lion hunt while on h1s tour Of investigation, to provide few thrills on the side. But he would better take Ambrose i a body guard. He should keep in mind the fate 1 of the hunter who shot big grizzly down in the Sycamore number of years ago. Some time later the man and the bear were found lying side by side, the man hugged to death and the bear with big bullet hole thru his heart.