Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1916 — BOY IS TREED BY RATTLER [ARTICLE]

BOY IS TREED BY RATTLER

Nine-Year-Old Son of a Stockman Spends Nine Hours in a Tree. v . Oakley, Kan.—Treed by rattlesnakes for nine hours, James Cardin, nine-year-old son of a stockman near here,* was finally released when cowboys killed 16 rattlers in the rocks under the tree where the boy was perched. The little lad was returning from schobl when he saw a big rattler across the path in front of him. Starting back along the path he saw two more snakes. Then he climbed a tree and waited for aid. Cowboys say the snakes were -making for the rocky bluff to hibernate for the winter.