Death Through A Tarantula

One of the quickest and most complete and justifiable killings that ever I saw carne about through a tarántula. It was at a mine camp, and the camp bnlly had a tarántula impaled ou a stick. A man newly arrived f rom the east stood gazing, fascinated with horror, at the squirming reptile, working its black fangs in the effort to reach something that it could fasteu them into. Suddenly, without warning, the bully thrust the tarántula straight into the tenderfoot's face. His whiskers saved him from the fangs, but he let out a yell as if he had actually been bitten and jumped back, I fully believe, ten feet Then, as the fellow came ing the tarántula toward him agam, tne tenderfoot drew his revolver and turned loose on his tormentor. His first shot would have been enough, as it went straight through the fellow's body, but the tenderfoot had his excitement to work off, and he never stopped shooting nntil his revolver had been emptied and the man with the tarántula was a sieve. "Served him right, " was the verdict of the coroner's iurv, and the case never went to court f or trial. -