STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 136, 11 February 1915, Page 2

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

WAR ON MOUNTAIN LIONS. ,' Since 1007, mountain lieu;'. have been killed in California, according to a statement by the State Fish and Game Commission. The State pays a bounty of 2Gdol. for each lion killed. The total cost of Killing liens has been 41.080d01. DANCiNG FOR CHURCH GOERS. At Grand Rapids, Mich., the Rev. Edward K. Bishop, of the Park Congregational Church, in an effort to attach young' persons to his fold, will see that a dancing floor is put in the new parish house which is now being built. "Young people will dance anyway," he says. "It is recognised that the good or evil of dancing depends almost entirely upon circumstances. Therefore, I believe dancing should be permitted under religious auspices."

A BLUNDERING WILLIAM TELL

Albe:t Brand, working with his chum, Vv. J. Campbell, bragged cf his markmanship. "1 could shcot a pipe out ot your mouth and you would hardly notice it at all/' he said. "Try it," said Camr-bell. They borrowed a rifle, and Brand .shot hi c comrane in the temple. Campbell dying from the wound. JUSTIFIABLE PARRICIDE, The coroner's jury in the case of Francisco Asaro, who was shot and killed by his son, Guissepi, in San Francisco, on November 22, returned a veclict cf justifiable homicide. Guissepi Asaro followed his father to California from Italy, where, the bey said, the mother had been deserted by his father, it developed in the testimony that there had been many quarrels between father and son en November 22nd, and that the father had drawn a revolver on the boy. The.son finally secured possession of the weapon and shot his father.