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Show TEX RICKARD GETS MAN-EATING SHARK Mining Promoter Tells of Hooking Savage Sav-age of the Deep While on Hamburg-American Liner. Since sharks have been creating such a disturbance oil" the dcrscv coast, "Tex" Kickard. otherwise C.U. Rick-ard, Rick-ard, the well-known promoter and min-j min-j ing man, who is well known in Salt i Lake anil the west, tells tho New York Herald of one he caught. Jn its stom-: stom-: ach were found human bones and two pairs of shoos, ho said. Relating the yarn to the New York I reporter, ''Tex" said he was a passen-! passen-! ger on a Hamburg-American liner oft' Pernnmbuco, Krnzil, two years ago; how a sailor baited a hook nearly as big as an anchor for him, attached it to a stout line and began trolling for the man-eater. "The vessel was moving at about , thirteen knots, ' ' said Mr. Kickard. ; ' ' When 1 got a strike 1 nearly wont overside before 1 could let go. The line and the shark hold, ami, after more than an hour's work, a lot of cs got the shark half way out of the water. Then ' we hoisted him on deck with si block" and tackle. This photograph taken of ; ; that shr.rk shows what a m:i n-enter look's ; like. It made me shiver .just to look at him dead, with his big, thick head j and ugly mouth. 1 ' ' We proved that one was n man-eater man-eater bv performing an nutnnsv. In the stomach were human hor.es ami a jair of man 's shoe. A shark might pick up one shoe, thinking it was good to cat, bur no shark ever got a pair that were mates ex. -opt with the feet in them. "Pictures of shark;- said to bo man-eaters man-eaters which I ha ve seen published in newspapers here since the fatal attacks on bathers of the Jersey coast recently do not look: like any man-eating sharks I hao seen in iropical places. Xo man-eating man-eating shark has a Mitall head. That is what everybodv snys in the lands where tho mnn-cating shark i? a real menace to men in t h" water. ' ' |