Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1893-03-10

GIL, ono dAy ne put MA nnssr
on it's mouth whsn 1t didn't hap
pen to fesl good -natursd, and it
sent it's teeth to the bone. It's jaws
closed down like 4 viss, and the
rnen in the saloon couldn't pry
them open 1t just sat there and
blinksd its wicked little eyes at
them and held on, sad they
had to cut its neck off before
they could make it let go. That
poor fellows arm soon began to
swsll, and he suffered intense pain
in his arm and bead and in his
back. And after q while the flesh
began to shrlvel and the muscles to
become weak, and inside Of three
months the whsls arm, from the
shoulder down, was ss shrivelsd
and helpless a. q Psrslytics. That
was some four or five years ago,
but his arm remains in that condi
ton TO this day, and thsrs is no
prospect that he'll ever have the
uss Of it. There was no psrman-
emily i'll effect, nothing but the
temporary pain, in any other part
Of his body.
There was a fatal csss at q little
town On my ranch only few
weeks ago. A menstsr was conhn-
ed In box, axd vsquero came up
and began teasing it and swapping
bis fingers at it through the slats in
the top of the box, He angsres ths
reptile, and presently it bit him and
in half an hour he was
dead
Then there was the case of Wal
ter Vale, ons Of the wealthisst and
beat knows cattlsmen in Arizops.
He saw q big Gils monster when
he was out horseback, and thought
he would captars it as pressnt
for friend. He beat it over the
hesd until he thought he had kill
cd it, and then strapped it on be-
hind his saddle But these reptiles
are as hard to kill as cat. They
have a qussr habit OF coming to
life again after you are perfectly
sure you have killed them. That
is what this one did. BY the time
Vale got homo be had forgotten all
about the Gila behind bis saddle.
He put bis hand back to dismount,
and the things jaws cloasd down
upon his fore finger. he called to
some Of his men, and they ran to
him and tried to pry the monsters
Jaws opsz, bat they couldn't make
it let 60, and finally they had TO
cut its head off and pry its mouth
open with iron spikes.
"Ths frst thing Mr.. Vale did,
even before he got bis finger loose,
was to send one of bis msA on a
fresh horse to Psntsao, the nearest
railroad town, so miles away, to
telegraph to Tucson for physi-
eIau to come on g special engine to
Pantano, where he himself would |
meet him. Thsn he bound hls
wrist and finger With leather thongs I
and with his penkrits cot the flesh
around the bite. by that tll-s
fresh horse bad bssn saddlsa for
him and he lsapsd upon its back
and darted OF on that terrible 30
Isils ride tor bic hfs. He rode tss
whols distance at a hreak-neck gal
lop, suffering mush all The time
from the tightly tied thoEgs.
lie hat r.; gone more shan
halt tie distance IsfHs the
poissn began to make iis,lf felt.
D.tiipg pans shol all through his
body, hs fsit sore sHd Essry. and
the paias IA bis back soon bscains
s1crvsissisg Bet bs haally reach +
% Panisno, snd the doctor was
onlysfsr minutes later lila first
question vas Have you tsfsn
any ~bisksyg and -bsn Vale said
be tad Dot tie doctor assured lin
tisst be -osld pol him through
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