Show TIGER KILLS PYTHON IN DEADLY BATTLE Bad Storm at Sea Is Means of Furnishing Fur-nishing Big Cat with a I j I Snake Dinner 1 New York Any ono who has never j seen tho biggest python over brought I to this country can find that snake onboard on-board the steamship Indrasamha which arrived hero tho other day from Yokohama Singapore and other ports cast of Suez Captain Wilkes master says the snake is 27 feet long and 3 feet in I circumference No one took tho trou i p 4 i htj a k l l 17117A I Irt F I 1L I f a A I The Tiger Kept His Pawn rs Busy as < I Joe Gans I bio to measure him but ho looks I every Inch of tho size tho captain gave There were four other big pythons when tho Indrasamha sailed from I I I Singapore besides a royal Bengal I tiger that was the champion man eater in those parts before ho was captured and sold Ho looks still as If his appetite might be good If ho only had a chance to spread himself If It hadnt been for tho tiger the five pythons would havo arrived intact In-tact The tiger killed one of them i after a terrific battle Each of tho pythons was In a separate I sep-arate box on the main deck amidships j I and the tiger was in his cago not faraway I far-away Ono day tho Indrnsamlm ran I into a hurricane It wasnt an everyday every-day affair by any means but ono of i those that sailors toll about for years afterward the kind where the seas tower mountain high on tho weather bow and ttnn tho decks Into a regular Niagara when they break and spill their tons of green water on tho quivering quiv-ering fabric as the labors barely able < < I to keep her head to the sea the kind that sweep aft carrying everything movable before them and end up by going overboard astern In a swirl that resembles the weeks wash In a balling ball-ing caldron of soapsuds Anyway It was blowing some and j 1 tho seas did come aboard There was ono particularly tall grayheaded fellow i fel-low that got over tho side and kicked up old Nick This sea hit tho box of ono of tho pythons and tho box turned over Tho Weight of the python did d tho rest and before any ono know Just what had happened there was some 20 foot of snake at liberty > Now the python didnt seem to know just what to do under tho circumstances cir-cumstances There were other waves coming along and while perhaps ho did not have hydrophobia ho was averse to a wetting Tho nearest place j of safety seemed to be the tigers J cage and the python made for that Of course there wero members of 2 tho crew who could havo told him but tho crow was busy doing other 1 things just at that time There arc always things a well ordered crew may find to do when there Is 20 feet j more or less of snako crawling about tho decks and the seas are rolling aboard mountain high But tho royal Bengal didnt Ilko tho interloper and as tho pythons head caino through tho bars ho swatted It Tho python came to In a mlnuto or so and started for tho tiger Tho I tiger kept his port and starboard forward for-ward paws ap busy as Joo Gang and It wasnt long before the python was 4 i out Then the tiger pulled him Into tho cage and made his dinner on about six and a half feet of tho snake j |