Attempt to get "Rattlesnakes" to pay for rattlesnake

PERKINS, SHOCKEY

Posted By: David W Sinclair (email)
Date: 3/2/2008 at 13:58:31

Killed a Rattler
"A" Perkins, who resides on the Frank Shockey farm near the Morris Bridge over in Decatur County, killed a big rattlesnake last week. The "rattlers" tail was adorned with four rattles which "A" proposed to send to the county clerk at Leon to secure the bounty of 50 cents provided for in an act passed by the last Iowa Legislature, but found that the law required that six inches of the tail as well as the rattles must be taken to the clerk and an affidavit setting forth the facts and place of the killing before the bounty could be paid. "A" was discouraged by the amount of red tape required to get his 50 cents and will kill no more "rattlers" except in self defense.

Lineville Tribune
Lineville, Wayne Co., Iowa
June 17, 1909
Austin & Forster, Publishers