Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-01-16
ABCIT KArTLESNAkES.
sy An OBseRvANr WOooMAN WHO
LIVES AMONG THEM.

a H4med, tor the Dreaded Bite-Marke'
toi -DaKe skins aud Il ttIr~- iiaitieSnahe
K,.rs Consuni ptton Cure Popular
Superstition Antiduies
the spltting Of a live chicken and ap
plying the warm flesh to "a raitleShahe
bite. SAID back woods resident who hves
almost within gunshot OF ratlleshake
den on the Cpper Shoh1la creek. rs be
lie ved by nine out OF ten OF the OLD time
dveiIers among the mountains OF north
eastern Pennsy lvania to be never lallihg
extractor OF the venom OF that reptile
have never known personally of a case OF
fntal poisoning by rattlesnake bites III
human beings Ia fact, cannot remem
Der VI q Single person ever having been
bitten within my knowledge and | I'VE
within ten minutes walk OF place where
over POO rattiesnakes were captured by
one man In the spring of 1886 and where
can 20 any day and gather as many rat
tiers as a customer may desire WITHIN
The mast five years there has arisen craze
among city people who spend the summer
in the Pike county and other North Penn
sylvania mountains for specimens OF rat
tlesnake skins and rattles, and have my
self driven profitable business in supply
ing hides and buttons for that purpose
for three summers know one summer
boarding house keeper who buys these
things on speculation TO sell to his
boarlers furnished him more than
City big skins and as many sets OF rattles
last summer and have now contract tor
100 of the same this season | have known
as much as Sc 80 to be paid for one rattle
snake skin Some fauciers have the sky
stuffed and mounted, and others have
belts pocket books, card cases. cigar cases
and even slippers made from the SKINS
after a careful process of tanning by
which the colors and lustcr of the skin
are preserved as they arc when the snake
Is alive and ready to sink his fangs IN his
aesthetic utiizer
The person who caught the 200 rattle
snakes two years ago was Elijah Pelton.
bug double listed woodman lie kept
them ali alive without removing a fang
and was the only person | ever really
| knew to handle live, fang whole rattle
snakes with impunity He did this daily
nearly al! summer at Shohola Glen before
hundreds of New York people who visited
that place and always thought the per
| formuuce a singular one to be made an
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believe that the oil is infallble as an in
terual remedy in all kinds of fever and in
some places it is regarded as a never fail
inc cure fur fits II is on record that many
years ago over ia Sullivan county, the
settlers on the east branch of the Della
ware got together one fall and killed over
200 rattlosuakes at their dens for the
purpose of trying out the oil for bottling
But the uses of the live rattlesnake as
a medicinal agent are not so well known
The father Of one of my present neighbors