Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1912 — LION BEATEN BY FAT MEN [ARTICLE]

LION BEATEN BY FAT MEN

California Sheriff and Companion, Who Went Hunting for Deer Only, Encounter Bigger Game. San Francisco.—Lost —two guns, five cigars, several pounds of flesh and the “wind” of two fat men. And all because a mountain lion, described as being the largest and most vicious on record, broke through the brush In Black gulch at the exact spot where Marin County Sheriff Jack Keating and S. K. Herzog were stalking deer. The guns, cigars, several pounds of flesh and. “wind” of the two fat men were all lost in their haste as they scaled a tall sycamore tree. From this vantage point the two treed hunters halloed and were presently rescued \.by Robert Pearson, Frank Rlede and Bill Jones—other members of the Victor Gun club —who frightened, the Hon away. At the foot of the tree the duo recovered guns and "wind” —but the cigars could not be located and it is believed that the Hon appropriated them. The flesh, the fat men hope, is lost forever.