Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1915 — Where Rattle Snakes Are Thick and Bronchos Vicious [ARTICLE]

Where Rattle Snakes Are Thick and Bronchos Vicious

Lewis Alter was in from Carpenter township today and reports that his son Lewis, who was formerly in the picture show business in Remington, who is now in Nebraska, had, written him an interesting letter last week. Lewis, Jr., recently undertook to break a broncho and the animal almost broke him. He was kicked in the breast and was in bed about a month. One day last week he had gone out into his yard and heard the jingle of a rattlesnake’s tail and he- got busy with a club and killed three of the rattlers in his yard. Then he organized a small crowd- of exterminators and in a few hours had killed 93 ratalers, II blue racers and a number of other varieties. They got., 20 snakes out of one “dog” hole. If Lewis does not try to break any more bronchos he will doubtless be able to do as much for Nebraska in snake.elimination as St. Patrick did for Ireland. Potatoes are a mammoth crop in Nebraska and the consequence is a very low price. They are getting 22 cents a bushel on board cars. During the last Cleveland administration the price sank to 12 cents in that country and it is hard to say what mignt have happened this year if there had been no foreign war.