Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-11-16
SNAKE STORIES
BOB UP IN
pHnENIY
IbULIEIEt
Rather Gets Into House Mys-
teriously-Boa Constructor
Swallows Man Whole Down
On ISthmus of Panama.

times, in the opinion Of writer on
the Arizona Republican, is the de-
preciating morality Of the Arizona rat
tlesnake, which has always been re
ferred TO heretofore as a dead game
sport It has been proverbial that
the RATHER gives warning before en-
gaging in combat with any foe, but
recently there have been instances
reported where he slipped upon the
enemy like the willy Japs upon the
Russians at Port Arthur. IL appears
also, that the rattlers are deteriorat-
ing morally in other ways. They seek
to take strategic advantage OF an ad
versary in the most unexpected ways.
Until recently rattlesnakes were new
er found except where they had a
right to be- Now they are liable to-
turn up anywhere and make their
homes wherever their hats are OF,
regardless of time-honored usage or
the eternal fitness of things.
The Republican cites an instance.
The other day a neighbor called on
Eliot Evans, who lives near Alhambra.
and asked to use the telephone The
mouse is a wooden structure ana sets
up eighteen inches above the ground.
MIR. Evans directed the gentleman to
the next room, where he would find
the telephone. Though it was broad
daylight, with the curtains of the
room drawn. il was quite dark in that
apartment. No sooner had the strang-
er passed into the dark. than Mr.. Ev-
ans heard him yell. He ran to his
assistance, not approaching what
could have happened, but realizing
that whatever it YVES it must be SER
ious. The neighbor had already
passed through into the next room
and was peeping back through the
I doorway. As Mr.. Evans entered the
room he heard buzz.ng that sounded
odd and unexplainable. but he had TO
wait until it was repeated two or
three times and until his eyes grew
! accustomed to the darkness, though
| he had instinctively moved over to
| the other side of the room. Then he
! discerned the graceful lines of mon
| ster rattIesnake, coiled up on the floor
| in front of the fireplace. Retreating
/ through another door he secured his
shotgun and dispatched the reptile in
/ short order. 1t had eleven ratties.
Mr.. Evans, in relating the incident,
| generally produces a laugh, but he
! insists that there was nothing funny
about it, He is still nervous and says
he would rather have q thousand dol
lars than to pass through that exper-
| fence again. When he first entered
the room he was within two feet OF
! the snake. He cannot figure out any
way in which the reptile could have
got INFO the room, except by climbing
to the roof and coming down the
chimney, or throwing his tail around
| the handle and opening the door. He
/ keeps the door TO that dark room
/ locked now, but he is worried to death
for fear the snakes all carry skeleton
kgFs.
But Arizona hasn't got all the big
snakes in the world There are
few OF them down on the isthmus thai
are worth while. A. F. Banta, an Arr
conan of the earliest vintage, has
been sojourning in the canal zone fo1
several months past. In letter to Z
L friend a few DAYS ago be said he was
waiting for the rainy season to end
when he intended to start on pros
pecung trip. In the letter he en-
i closed a clipping from the Panama
Journal under date Of October "a. i
/ tells the story OF a boa constructor
G~allowing a man In a province about
/ 1872 miles west of there. MIR. Bants
y L. The etnEu is -raliahle- one -anC
nor 3 newspaper yarn. He knows Of
the facts in the case. This is ths
story:
Correspondents from David bring
us news of the horrible death which
befell a laborer in the heights OF Ga
richie a few days ago.
The occurrence as related to us Is
as follows:
Twelve farmers with their respec
tive families, inhabitants of the fer
tile lands of Alto Gariche, were en-
gagged in the gathering of their abun
dant crops, when on the third day o
their labor, in the early hours Of tht
morning. Anselmo Cub,lla disappeared
from among his companions. At mid
day, the hour when all the farmers
should assemble together for break
fast, they were more alarmed yet b!
the absence OF Cubilla, and some o
them vent 70 the hut which was &C
cupief by Cubilla in search OF him
and to learn whether he had been III
They therefore went In search o
him throughout the farm, without find
ing the slightest indication of him, bu
at this moment they suddenly hear'
the barking of the dogs Of Cubilla
and they followed the direction wher'
they heard the mournful and persist
ent hcwlings Of the dogs, which the!
found at the foot of very iarg'
tree. One of the farmers very quick
" observed an enormous hole in thu
tree, from which two human leg
were projecting. They at once gav'
the alarm and the others OF the part.
assembled on the scene, and wer'
convinced that the owner was nom
other than cubilla- WithcSt delay !
was agreed upon that eight Of the par
ty return to their respective huts ans
bring with them their axes witt
which to fell the tree, whilst the othe
three go for guns
Having gathered themselves togeth
er AGAIN, ready to confront the dang
eT, they began the work Of telling tn
tree, which lasted four hours.
On the tree falling. It disclosed Z
the astonished farmers a serpen
which had swallowed Cubilla up q
his waist. not being able to swallow
the whole OF his body, owing to has
l<et which the victim had on his back
when he was caught. and whose wat
tells prevented the work OF swallowing
The farmers who we're armed a
once discharged several yolieys Int,
! the carcass Of the animal, until on
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