Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-08-25
REPTILE AND BULL
TWIN TERRoRs OF YOUNG PENN.
sYLVANlA WOMAN.
PIucky Little Dog Comes to the Res,
cue Until other Members of the
Family Arrive at the
Scene.


Galeton, Pa.-To have been bittel
Dy rattlesnake and then chased b.
an infuriated bull was an experience
OF 17-year-old Sarah Brandt, daughte
of a farmer three miles south of thi
place. Miss Brandt had been on
visit to girl friend several miles
from her home, and was accompanied
by a fox terrier. Returning towart
evening, her attention was attracted
by a clump Of wild roses, from which
she was minded to pluck a. bouque
to carry home.
The flowers grew on an embank
ment almost as high as the girls head
and 1t was with considerable difficulty
that she gained a position from which
she was able to reach the coveted po
sizes. She was compelled to cling tc
an alder bush with her left hand as
she reached to pluck the blossoms
with her right.
The little dog ran up toward the
rose clump, gave queer little bark
and scampered back into the road.
The girl thought nothing of the dogs
unusual action, however, until an in.
stant later, when, without warning, a
big rattlesnake sprang from its posi-.
ton near the wild rosebush and sank
Its fangs into her bare arm an inch
or two above the wrist.
The girl was fully a mile from the
nearest house, and started on a run
to reach help before the poison be-
came scattered through her system.
A few rods farther on she came to
the meadow of neighbor, and by
crossing this field she could shorten
the distance by almost a quarter of
mile. She scaled the fence and had
gained portion of the distance across
when she heard the below of a bull
and, to her terror, found that she was
being pursued by the angry animal.
Her little terrier, however, saved the
day for her, as he ran toward the ad-
vancing bull and put up such a lively
bluff that the attention of the big ami
NAL was temporarily diverted from
the girl in an attack upon the dog. BY
this time the screams of Miss Brandt
had been heard at the farmhouse and
several members of the household ran
to the girls rescue, just as the bull
left off his unsuccessful attempt to
Impale the frisky little dog on his
horns and had returned to the pursuit
Of the girl
Fortunately for Miss Brandt, the
household In which she had sought
refuge was provided with a prepara-
ion to overcome the effects of
snakes bite, and the administration
If this saved her life, but she was
lreadfully sick for forty-eight hours.
Miss Brandt is peculiarly unfortun-
tie. She was with her brother on
leer hunt last fall when at a point in
he woods where he had stationed her
N runway" a good sized black bear
uddenly emerged from a thicket. She
ecame alarmed at the bear, fearing
o shoot lest she should but aggravate
and 1t should attack her. In scam
ering from the stump upon which
he was standing watch she fell and
a broken wrist, her rifle
aving fallen upon it with violent
orce as she pitched headlong to the
round.
In the meantime the bear had been
liking away through the thicket as
lst as his legs could carry him, and ,
lough crippled, Miss Brandt succeed
in firing the gun the given number t
times for the prearranged signal of !
stress, and her brother, who was {
'arcely quarter Of a mile below her {
/ another bench Of the ridge, started
find her. He came face to face with
r. Bear as the latter was streaking
r the tall timber, and one shot from
s rifle sent bruin to the dust =