Show I 1 BIG GOPHER SNAKE PUTS ON cita 11 AIRS don searie searle came in forenoon to say that a large coph er snake was on the street a big fellow about five feet long which was mine for the taking but I 1 did in n t have any box or means of keep ing so I 1 couldn coulden t go tor for it the snake had drifted into town and was on the streets probably followed the water in which this week ek has just come into the town canals last week my family saw one the same size out by heibe helbe s as the water there was a week or more earlier than in town and we botic ed too that the quimpo were quite plentiful right here in town ton as our cat is bringing in one two three and even up to five quimpo a day to her kittens the quimpo be ng thick rig right lit in the vacant lot beside our house so evidently mister snake has moved to town and Is putting on oil urban polish nose in air and rath r high brewing browing us poor don said the snake was wrapped around a ford wheel over on dark clark street and had bad sought refuge up on the axle as much out of ight as possible when approached too close ly well anyway he chose a good cai cat even it was a model T these gopher snakes are good mousers no users help kill qu mp and should not be killed they are perfectly I 1 armless A rattler was killed sunday up on the river near the diversion dam quimpo are quite a pest this year and plentiful so snakes of all k dds rattlers and others will be monor moi less common ig their food going it is even it if in town th s is a reverse of the back to the farm movement he can go back with permission of many in fact is wai ted back and may be kill ed before he gets back |