Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-06-07

One OF the artists in BILLY" Young's
tonsorial parlor on Dearborn street is
a nephew of Ex-Governor Rusk, OF
Wisconsin, now al the head OF the
new department in the cabinet, and,
though he bears the same name as the
Wisconsin man, there are those who
think he should be called Schehere-
zade, the tabled queen. who saved her
life by telling the king. her husband.
such monstrous stories. Mr. Rusk
may not be worse barber than many
others, but for fear his razor may not
be in perfect shape, and TO avoid any
possibility of those whose temerity
leads them TO intrust their lives in his
hands making any sort OF kick, he
| is wont TO beguile them with stories of
remarkable experiences that would
put Baron Munchausen to the blush
One day recently he had pa
| tent in his chair whom he at once
recognized as being extremely nervous,
and he at once proceeded to soothe
| him by relating how man who has q
| large stock farm down in the southern
| part of Kansas was continually miss
ing cattle from his herds, but for q
| long time was unable TO discover what
| became Of them Close watching,
however, proved that it was only when
| the cattle went near lake or an i'm
I mense slough for drink that the dis
appearances took place. The affair
] might have forever remained a mys-
/ terry had it not been for the overcon-
fidence and perhaps extreme hunger
4 Of the cattle thief 1t had been noticed
that only the smaller cattle We're
/ missed. One day a watcher who
CHANGED TO be near the lake saw a
great commotlon III the water, as
though some terrible struggle was GO
ing on beneath the surface. 1t lasted
only short time, and then the whole
mystery was explained. Out of the
water came most astonishing object.
II looked like the body of a gigantic
serpent writing and twisting in a
horrible manner, its mammoth
jaws opening and shutting with in
tense vicousness. About where the
neck should be two large horns were
seen protruding, and as the new ar
rival reached shallow water the hoofs
and part of the legs of a steer could be
seen slowly and laborious walking to
dry land.
The Jig was up" The serpent had
been before content TO attack small
game that it could easily swallow. but
this time it found lis master iii the big
Texan The steer had evidently been
swallowed at the first gtllp, but had
struggled so Iiercely that he had poked
. his horns through above and kicked
> holes through below with his feet, and
had thus managed TO reach the shore,
only, however, To die from suIfocatiou
and exhaustion, buried i'll its loathsome
prison.
Another tale this imaginative bar
Der loves to tell is that when he wa:
out west he one day fell into an ole
? abandoned mine. After going down
5 ever so many hundred feet he LANDED
? upon bed composed of millions OF
black snakes. Finding himself unhurt
, he at once began devising means o
t escape A happy thought came Il
r him. He seized one OF the squirmins
reptiles and started 1t up the shaft; h
I had second one seize the first by tn
, tail, and so on until the first was sect
+ disappearing at the opening. Keepin:
r fast hold of the tail OF the last one, h
! was drawn safely out to the open ali
: With such yarns does Mr. Rusk max
his patients forget the tortures the.
!, may be undergoing Chicago Herald