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Show RATTLER' BITES A MAN AVhllo experimenting with a rattlesnake rattle-snake at O'Neill'g camp in Ogden con-yon con-yon ill 1 3 moriing, Bert Herrick, was severely bitten and It becamo ncocs. sarv to get tho aid of a physician to save tho young man. As soon as tho snako bit Mr. Herrick, Her-rick, ho ran to the sanitarium whero about a pint of whiskey was administered admin-istered Not waiting for a car. Hor-rlck Hor-rlck ran all the way to the city and to a doctor's office, where he had tho wound lanced and dressed Bert Is an athletic young man and he Bays ho ran cery foot of tho way from tho sanitarium. He was quite exhausted ex-hausted whon he reached the physician's physi-cian's office, 'but the doctor says that the whiskey and the rapid exerciso did much to counteract the effect of tho snako poison. - mi ihe nnt has been ven-turesomo ven-turesomo in handling snakes. This e i.v, i au across a largo rattler and, realizing that a circus will be here tomorrow, thought he would capture cap-ture the reptile, extract Us fangs and soil It to tho manager of tho menagerie menag-erie Ho caught tho snako by tho back of the neck and had succeeded, he thought, In removing tho fangs with his pockot knife. He was rather carelessly holding tho head of tho snako downward to let the blood from tho lanced blood vessels drop to tho ground when tho reptile twisted itself it-self from his grasp and sank Its fangs into tho fore finger of tho right hand. Tho young man has suffered much pain. Not being a user of whiskey, ho hag been in an Intoxicated condition condi-tion since he arrived in tho city Tho doctor says ho is out of danger, but that ho will kept under the Influence of liquor during the afternoon. |