The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-06-24
N THE ANS OF a oUTTlE FISH.
Ths siood cufdiise story o. d Gneisaf
81 Frisco ElrFi6sP.

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7- FRISCO Mariner.
Frol TIE san Fraarisoo Can.
"NO, devll hsh ain't pleasant 20
taoEle, said the mariner, On answer
% a Questiun calculated % bring hin
out, and this one. ain't oiFuum-
stance to some I've sean near Alaska.
The llfsl one ever taN killed Waa ca
Indian woman. ltte Wes lu 80. I
was skippsrufa little tradln' sehoOu-
ertlIsn, and every =pFing We used 10
load up with trnok' and make the
grand rounds from Frisco o. Alaska.
This season We name into q bay near
Bitka, and ell hands went Ashor8 toa
camp 90 Indians 10 get some samoa
and deer. Afber 1 got Whati wanted,
me and my mate went dawn b the
beach % look "a sOnle q their boats,
made out Of skin, aud while we were
looking them over to OF three wo-
men Watled out frOdl q point Of rocks
and began diElnl for shells--alabones
] reckon. Wedidn't pay much atten-
tentlOA % them, and were about
startin, for the boats when two Of the
lndlGns came rushing In, thfoWln'
the1 water this way and that,
aud making TIE greatest yslllni
you ever heard from q pair Of
mouths. At irst thought q shark
was chasing them. but on they came
screaming st a. and pointing at The
water. Amer q while we made out
that another woman had been carried
on In some way, 30 We made = Fuah
for the canoe that we'd been iOOkini
q. BY this time three or four men
heard the racket, and IN 9 minute we
had the erazy boat out, tumbled In
and showed OF. The women pointed
out the spot where they saw the
other one last, and ths men pulled for
Il, Onetakini y speer and stRndin' In
the bow. Not understandable their
gibbeflsh, me and my mate couldn't
make out what was the matter yet,
bus from their motions I calculated
that something had gpt the woman
for gOOd. We were soon over the
place In about six feet Of water, and
then the women began to scream aud
pointed down IN q way that wuuit
have 5keared q shark &c death. But
the indians knew what it all meant
and before long all hands BEGAN 10
yell and point down. A part Of them
held the boat Ia place while the har-
boomer falsed his weapon and hurried
& into what I took for q big rock %
The bottom, but the moment It struck
out shot 90 many arms and legs you'd
q thought they'd hit q ball Of snake.
and then the Work commenced. YOu
ne e WIS big octopus, aud the way
be hauled that boat RrOund was q ean-
don, Jerking the pole this way aud
.hat, up and down, sideways, and
pushing it back, all the time the
water getting ~ black ink and boil.
ng like ~ ifit Was set afire. The
hen were trying their best 70 get
ever on IL, and by and by they did,
BIZ pressing on &c. All at once the
Lish let 20 his hold cad all the handle
vent down IN heap together. and
he biggest, ugliest, npfa9linRest
lctopus FiI into. the air that mortal
nan ever looked at.
"FOF i've minutes. I reckon, there
wasn't 6 man that dared 10 raise his
read ahOse She rails fbr the arms thAt
we're flying about like Whip-lashes.
u looked more like = ball Of snakes
han anything ever saw before
he arIis Windln' "a and out and
lhOOtin' this way and that, the black
nix dTlppln' into the water. while the
DOdy changed color 30 faat- you could
rot follow t. Nov Il WIS notified
brown, now reddish, then black, and
o on 10 all colOrs. AiteE 3 spell, when
We see Il couldn't get on and come
lbOard, the men gOt Out q boat hook
md found the woman near BY and
lauled her in-dead.
"HoW did we get him In? Well,as
Don asthey took the woman Ia we
ashed the pole TO the thWariz and
With the sgulFmln' devil nsh - q bow
Iprit we pulled In and ran the canoe
u the beach. All hands had collect
4 there, aud the way they
yaded into the poor critter WAS = eau
ion, and wasn't long before Il was
,leaned out. / measured Il - Il lay
n the beach and Il had q spread,
when the legs were stretched out full
lie, Of nigh on 10 twenty-eight foot.
{ looked like this one, only the legs
ysre twelve and thirteen feet lcng.
me body was bag-shaped and little
Tiger than 3 name hand. The
ThOle critter would weigh, reckon.
rDm go 10 100 pounds, may be more.
that's the biggest one ever saw, and
hey run from that down 70 this.
we seen them IN Frisco markets
hat measured ten feet across. They
ell them 10 the French and Italians
$ well a. chinese, and / don't know
Ehy they amt good the meat looks
Ike chicken"