THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL — AUGUST 01, 1896
TACOMA FISHERMEN PROVE THE MONSTER IS NOT A MYTH ♢ Tacoma Fishermen Prove the Monster is Not a Myth ♢ THEY CAUGHT IT ALIVE ♢ Has a Bulldog’s Head, a Tiger’s Fangs, a Snake’s Body, a Fish’s Fins and a Pugilist’s Neck.
That the West is rapidly assuming many of the sacred prerogatives of the East was clearly demonstrated the other day by the news from Tacoma, Wn., that there had been captured in Hood’s Canal, Puget Sound, two sea serpents.
Heretofore the East has monopolized the sea serpent industry, but in its bravest days it never ventured the claim of having seen two sea serpents at the one time, let alone capturing them. In fact, heretofore the East contented itself by thrilling reports’ from time to time by its sea captains, of the magnitude of the sea serpents which had been sighted. Sometimes these sea serpents were only sixty feet long, and again they reached the stupendous length of 600 feet. One captain of an excursion barge which was kept out all night in Long Island Sound, so that the manager of the bar on board could sell all of his beer to the thirsty passengers, reported passing a sea serpent 1,000 feet long, and some of the passengers were quite sure it was 2,000 feet long. It is necessary to state that this sea serpent was sighted after every drop of beer and whisky on board had been consumed.
The Tacoma sea serpents, as far as length go, are very mild in comparison with their Eastern brothers and sisters. One measured ten feet and the other eight feet. This, of
