Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1912 — WOMAN KILLS BIG COUGAR [ARTICLE]

WOMAN KILLS BIG COUGAR

Rancher’s Wife Fired In the Dark With Two Shining Eyes to Guide Her Aim. Boundary. Wash.—With only a pair of shining eyes showing in the black darkness to guide her, Mrs. Alvin Thurston, a rancher’s wife, shot and killed a gigantic cougar. She was not sure she had killed the animal or what kind of a beast it was until her husband came home and lighted the lamps. Mr. Thurston had gone to town for supplies. At nightfall he had not returned and Mrs. Thurston sat in the doorway watching the trail. Hearing a noise behind her, she turned and saw two shining eyes. Her hnsband’s heavy rifle hong above the door near where she sat She took it down and fired into the dark room. Bhe heard the fall of a body, bat she was too frightened to move. Thurston arrived a few minutes later to find her huddled beside the door and a big cougar dead Inside. It weighed 300 pounds and six feet long from Up to Up.