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Show SKULL IN SNAKE DEN. Gruesome Discovery Made by a Party of Idaho Hunters. While engaged in a pitched battle with a den of rattlesnakes, C. J. Matthews Mat-thews and some fellow workmen dis- covered the skull of a human skeleton on Black creek, a few miles from Boise. The men have been engaged shearing shear-ing sheep, and while hunting they raa across the rattlers. They ki'led a number of the snakes and finally one of the party threw a rock at a snake a short distance off. It struc.K something some-thing which gave forth a peculiar hollow hol-low sound. On investigation tin's proved to be a human skull, which had been yellowed by age. There were what appeared to be two bullet holes in it. No solution of the mysterious find is known. |