Show speaking of monsters from the ho hies files of the lie utah writers project whether from heritage or from over of hard liquor the mind of 0 man mail seems evory every once in a while to run to monsters and not all of 0 these are ot of the two logged MIMI tho the folklore of all lands Is replete with monsters ot of one kind or another and to adow that utah is lacking neither tho the monster nor laiose who believe in jilin him or her the utah writers project Troje ct otters the following excerpts from the lie file of tile the deseret deforet De soret nowa news july 25 1873 this morning mornin gawell a well known resident ol of this city andi and territory named edward II 11 walker now of the idith ward called upon us and mado the following extraordinary state chont wo we have no doubt Is the allam champion pion inako story of tile the season while telling elling timber on a thigh peak of dlack black rock hock a leer deer ran by where walker was working our informant snatched up lip hla his sharps rifle ride and started in pur pursuit sult when hortian continued the chase for about a mile ho he was startled by a loud barill S Bh rill whistle and alid hlas which he A at t first thought might be a signal from an indian I 1 lie turned andio biddi to oils horror he saw approaching him at a very ery rapid rate a serpent which he be judged was between thirty and forty foot feet langr boax and absie abott ten inches th tho body tae reptiles head was raised idilla six feet from the ground and aigid his jaws wor open fifteen or inches wide with fangs growing from both upper and lower jaw walker was almost petri petrified flod with foar fear but the hope of saving ihla his life mado made him start to run the serpent however was too 0 quick for or him and jumped aulm pod at and knocked hini down king jilin him an m the left Li houlder just below it the I 1 e doi blade going avei uv el him and down tile the mountain for foi a short lie he turned tinned and pursued walker who IN had ad risen anti abid with a speed inspired ly lly the deadliest fear was making his way to the top toil of bho ridge unfortunately for foi our informant he stumbled ana immediately inedia tely lie he foil felt the weight ot of lili ilia monsters mons teia presence pie Bence g gliding ovet it lila to body lie he gayo gave himself up lip tol toi to lost t then but it seems aliard to ti toll which was tho the most frightened tile tho man oil 01 the oho snake for jhb latter did nut lot seen seem disposed to run the rial blab of a contest and slid off 0 ot at it a rate towards the ridge ot of the mountain and across it to the east side the color of the reptile was mia yel low ow with a black mark ako a liale halt moon on oil each side of ills ino and what appeared to our oni informant to be it a shaped noaa mass on oil the llie top tt tit its ts head ills body was covered with scales six or eight inches longi long mr walker says lie has haa lieen been used to 0 mountain life tor years anil and never afraid of anything nut but nothing could persuade pei Suade him to go alone again into the right hand tork fork of coon coons I 1 s canyon well such 1 I la a the story of mr ir walker and the editor of bla ali news mown after poling feeling walkers pu pulse ise smelling hla his breath and examining the bruise on fill hla a shoulder concluded that the story etory was probably pio bably truo true the writ writers era project calls attention atto antion to the date of 0 the paper july 25 and wonders clr w ill ether e tb e r there were e snakes seen on holidays in tile the ao ala in the loos m |