Show rattlesnakes prove fa menace to stock portsmouth tex tax rattie snakes in large numbers recent ly have been seen swimming in tile gulf guk 0 of mexico near the half moon aloon lighthouse seven miles from the mainland and four miles from the peninsula to the south according to tile the two men who keep the light it Is said three rattlers were killed on the lighthouse platform by the keepers er Ten tenants tints on property which JB formerly constituted the rancho g grande here report a pestilence g of rattlesnakes rattlesnake which they say are a menace to live stock how B ever it Is reported by a number of farmers that fat cattle bitten b by r rattlers do not die the polson poison on from the bite of one snake being insufficient to kit kill them a n |