Show TIlE RATTLE SNAKE TERROR A DomcitiCJited King Snake Presented Pre-sented to the JUe crct ITIusoum Mr R M Ford curator of the Deseret Museum was met on the street this morning carrying coiled about his arm a fivefoot King snake This terror to rattlesnakes I rat-tlesnakes was caught in one of the near canyons by a prospector and presented yesterday to Mr Ford In color it resembles re-sembles the native rattler and has the sharpest of teeth but its head is long and narrow and its tail tapers to a line point Two days handling has made it perfectly perfect-ly tame in the hands of Mr Ford who wraps it around his neck and by pinching its tail it immediately uncoils without any further demonstrations By taking it into a rattlesnake neighborhood it will enter their dens and make a killing attack at-tack by biting and coiling around the enemy If bitten in turn by a rattler no effect whatever is produced on the King terror of rattlesnakes |