Show PLEASANT THINGS IN ARIZONA poisonous skunks 9 savage ag rea 18 gua cus monsters scorpions and tarantulas arizona from the nature of its location is I 1 suppose the most peculiar country ia its animal insect and reptile life on the continent said C M bruce member of the legislature and one of the cattle kings of the southwest to a reporter for the san F francisco u examiner there are peccaries pec caries that are very savage in the high rincon aid chiricahua mauu mountains bains I 1 have heard it said that they have hoofs like mules but I 1 never saw any of that kind they are as big as a six months old shoat have a sharp back and long hair and emit a musk somei something hin like a skunk they are so savage they will attack you whether you attack th them em or not every once in awhile some of the boys get caught in the trees by these peccaries they have to take to the trees or get torn to pieces 1 I know a fellow in the rincon mountains who was kept up for several hours there was a large band of peccaries pec earles caries under the trees the tops of the rincon mountains are covered wit with live oak or what they call post oak balc and the peccaries pec caries feed on the acorns aboms they are simply a wild hog lam I 1 am confident our domestic hog I 1 Is is descended from them speaking of the peccaries pec caries earies throwing musk and the dangers from their teeth reminds me of the spotted black and white skunks whose bite down there is poisonous the skunks have bare rabies and a bite from them at such auch times is fatal they I 1 make for a man a as quick us as they seq see him and he has to be very very lively it he gets out of the way two vaqueros ros employed by the Critte crittenden fiden cattle company died from their bites last summer I 1 suppose if I 1 have known of one caseb case I 1 have known of twenty of this kind IS S weir 31 mitchell itchell now of the smithsonian institution but stationed for a long time at fort wingate an N M made them a special study he made the gila monsters centipedes eions tarantulas and all the animals of the desert the subject of special investigation ti while he was at fort as an officer r odthe of the united states army his investigations bear out allI all I 1 have said relative to the animals and reptiles of that region |