Show rj r EX EX BRINGS YARN I i ABOUT I IH I II I H IT E B Maso Mason former Ogden resi resi- resi resident resident dent for tor the tho Lee Leei now flow traveling tr Hardware company of Sauna Salina gao Kan- Kannas ass nas was as an Ogden visitor for or a few tew I I hours Saturday while on his way tc Seattle Wash aoh Mr Mason Muon was waMIn wani I In Florida recently and returned with tales of the extremes to which the go In order to boost their state One of ot hi his stories stories lories an original one follows In Florida there Is consider coulder- considerable considerable able excitement over r the fact that thata thata a strange new y specie aperies eeles of a poison polson- poisonous polson-oua polson I ous oua snake wa wal recently found in inI Inthe inthe I the swamps here err er The rhe serpent Is declared to 10 be more deadly than the most virulent rattler or water moccasin and Is the most moat feared reptile In the southern peninsula While peninsula While I was wa In the state six ix wE-ek wE I SilO ago a farmer while hoeing h eing his garden arden came upon one of the rep rep- reptiles rep reptiles I tiles and In striking at t him It bit the hoe handle which Immediate immediate- Immediately I ly swelled up and was afterward cut Into cordwood They hav have found Immense trees in Florida that have been bitten billen several se times b by snakes and At this point his friends who had been enjoying the story re- re remembered re remembered they had other engage engage- engagement engagements ment ments menh and hurried thither lest they be Inveigled Into going to Florida l to erect sawmills with snakes snake and twigs as ns a nucleus to a fortune |