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Show SPIDERS OF COLORADO. tllg Ones Thai rionrtah In Ike BUS Cottonwood rnas, professor K. T. laughton has r turned lo his hum In Now York s pending th winter In exploring mountains near Huena Vista, Col.. Investigating the habit of a p" or monster spiders found In the mm Cottonwood Tans, aay the Washla ton. Star. I.lttle definite I knows the spiders, but around theui.s been gathered a mass of lni lnei and prospectors' yarns that rival Ikes ol Munchausen, Many years as these spiders lived In a cave esslf' reached by tourist. It was In vslle; two miles northeast from llirtard City, then a thriving mining camo eight miles west of llucna Vlata. is 1KS0, a man named Bhulti cut his war Into ths spiders' dn. II did sot return, re-turn, and a week later a searching party found hi body partly burled la th spiders' cava under a mass of fall- n rock. A It would have resiireo ; ronsldcrabl timbering at an eina i of several hundred dollar to recover th body, and a the man hsd no known rein I Ives, it was left undisturbed. undis-turbed. Hhultx's skeleton Is still In th cave, but Ihe spiders hive found soother so-other homo further backln tbeiatmn-tains. tbeiatmn-tains. Horns of the talcs snout these spider are given In an old letter which ha Just been round In Buena Vista. It says: "A short dlatar.es out of Huena Vletn there I a cava swsrm-Ing swsrm-Ing with spiders of Immense site, some of Ihem having lege four Inches In length and bodies a large aj that ot a canary bird. The cv wa discovered discov-ered In lS'iS and wa often visited by pioneer on their way to California, who obtained their weba for use In tha place ot thread. A number were cap Hired and lamed, and manifested gieat affection for all members of the family. fam-ily. They wero far superior lo a cat In exterminating ml and mire, following fol-lowing their prey Into the holes In tk walls nnd ceilings. Ons spider, ktpt a a pst by a Duena Vista lady, used to stay all nlRbt at the head of her bed acting a a sentinel." |