Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1915 — VICIOUS DEER TRAPPED WHILE KILLING SNAKE [ARTICLE]

VICIOUS DEER TRAPPED WHILE KILLING SNAKE

Battle Between Big Buck and Rattler Attracts Texas Stockman to the Scene. Breckenridge, Texas.—While J.’ F. Parkhill, a prominent stockman of Breckenridge was out hunting his cows on the Hubbard River, in the northern part of this county, his attention was attracted to a vacant yanchhonsa by some violent disturbance going on witihn. Upon approaching the building he beheld a buck deer on the inside engaged in killing a large rattlesnake. Suddenly the deer made a break for the door, but was fought back by Mr. Parkhill with a scantling until he could barricade the entrance. The next day Mr. Parkhill, along with County Clerk J. A. Ault, CoL Warner Parkhill and J. L. Griffith, went to the vacant house and hauled the deer home in a wagon. The deer was a vicious animal and Mr. Parkhill was severely cut and bruised by the deer while trying to keep it in the ranchhouse until the door was barricaded. v