Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-05-19 | Page 3 | Skull in Snake Den

SKULL IN SNAKE DEN1L I Party of Idaho Hunters Make M 1 Gruesome Discovery I HAD BATTLE WITH REPTILES Killed a Number of Rattlers When Skull Was Seen I There Wero What Appeared to B Two Bullet Holes in ItNo Solution of Find Know I Boise Idaho May 13While engaged j In a pitched battle with a den of rattlesnakes i j rattle-snakes C J Matthews and some fellow workmen discovered the skull of a human hu-man skeleton on Black creek Q few 1 miles from Boise 1 BATTLE WITH SNAKES I The men have been engaged In shearIng shear-Ing sheep and while hunting they ran across the rattlers They killed a number 1 num-ber o the snakes and finally one of tho party threw a rock nl t a snake a short I distance off It struck something which i gave forth a peculiar hollow sound HUMAN SKULL FOUND lOn l-On Investigation this proved to be nj < human skull which had been yellowed i j by age There were what appeared to i be two bullet holes In It No solutIons I of the mysterious find Is known i