Show WITH BEAU BEAR AND RATTLER BATTLER i iA A Californian Had Them as Uncomfortably Uncomfortably Close Companions San o Call Shut un in an old steam st m boiler with witha a bear bet and a rattlesnake That was the experience of Jake ake Aldrich AMrich a few days dais age and he says 9 Is the tightest box he be ever eer ev got gut into inta and he has bes 1 been in a good many Jake Sake is a prospector r who for over a a year ear been working out in the tM mountains a few mllE from Diamond Springs El EI Dorado Decade county Near where Jake Take has been working is isan isan isan an abandoned engine with all the ma mil machinery chinery rr including ng the boiler The house that the machinery has all been blown blovin down so that tle tere boiler stands out in the open air The boiler is 16 one of the kind with without without without out flues Early m in the year it struck Jake ake that this fuis boiler would be a pretty good place to sleep s in jn as it was warm and dry and impervious to the heavy rains So he took out the manhole hole gasket at the end of the boNer boHer closed the bottom and moved in He found it was j t what he be had been looking for fur Dark of course CO but butas as aa warm werm as us a house By knocking off a steam pipe connection at the other en enof enc of the boiler tile the ventilation was per pa perfect feet and no danger anger of getting wet For months Jake Joke enjoyed enjo d his sleeping apartment in the boiler boller and was the envy eny of all the miners tor miles around But last Monday night there was trouble wen then the bear and the snake got in At least when the bear got in When the snake got in is isa isa isa a mystery It may have bave been under unda Jakes ake e blankets all winter for all aU he be j knows but he does know that it there test last st Monday algaL Jake went to bed at his usual time t about dark and as S the night was as a lit little littie tie tle warm decided d d to t leave the manhole He went to sleep instantly bi b some hours later was awaken awak i i que sound at the end of She Uhe LiL Rising In bib hie Jake r for his miners riches matches Tt eQ the kind that win will burn several Striking one on he lie h was wa for a blinded by b the glare Then it t tand and went out Before he cou could eo n another Jake ke became conscious AT Of sniffling down at the far fac end a boiler boer Then Th n he got t d of or o when he reached re for Ia Ms his mat bat bl find it He felt here hae and t all the time conscious eon that the en n was coming his way ay Cold sw out all over Oer him and aad Dei a frenz him hits He wanted to mak maka a rj rush rurh h f t the but fear held hint him j snot BOOt W Then he felt for Ms his match 1 and time he be put pDt his hand n n them Striking one his bin horror n a is i creased Before Bolero him hint stood ODd a b 1 t tAt At sight of the light the bear b ban u frightened and went back to ti th t of the boiler Jakes akeS first imp t to ro draw his revolver and ad ne lire b h h he had hd a 8 Lear fear f that ht he be might m ht mitt mt ma ih th thor lJ or o not nt bit hit a vital sj S snot ot and ant so na s j i a t his hs matches m burning hi in i order J the bear b at bay b until he b orP cot cou Ct k out a pl of l t While l tn u 1 thou tion ton wt was at its it most moat mt strain 1 n Sakes Jakes aes blo blood almost I froze for t tA u cn Vp irr of a rattlesnake e struck k his b h ear earin r J 9 in the th holler boiler bUe right in fron frn tn and a between him h and a the t o aa ea Il e first move mave was made by the th W u tr r ir jr jf the te manhole i This aroused ao Jake ae to o his ii sei sen S1 Th rh match mah had ha almost a burned bUr h hh s nl n eer when his hi nerve ne came c hack back bk aia artl h 1 tout toot tOk J careful aim over oyer the eights of o i am t eg L s re revolver rt revolver volver and a blew the te head hed b off 0 tr tn t r tie I ISke snake just jut as a it I was WR poised p to t s r rk ke Victory now nw aroused aou Jake Jae i rt man mn blood b He wanted D the th IK i 1 Climbing out as 8 quickly as a h I u he saw bruin brain brn sitting on hIs has hi haur au t a few feet from the holler boiler t At fe fm th bie L f fae Jake ae he turned to run rn hut but bt a 1 ba bali baa i caught him ht between the t should and an stopped him mm He decided to ht t fight f Jat Tike and a made me a fierce fier attack madd k khe as he was w by b the pain of Ids his woun WUl As A the bear br come came c near n Jake Jap i 4 the trigger of his revolver bi tiu te hi c t t cartridge cde 1 fire fre The Th i bear ear a r r au ad 4 a jump and a knocked hint him over oe but bl t be before b fore foe he reached rehe the t ground Jak had haj hd put a bullet ballet in the ponderous a bulet i th heart hert This Ti ended en th the fight Then Ten lake Jake Jae crawled back into his boner boiler bk int hi out ut the tue te dead dea snake and a o went to t |