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with a gun. And at one time in his teaching career he was
offered to switch over to the Leland Stanford University for
a yearly salary of $15,000, no meager sum for those days, . but
he declined.

Dyche went on from this point to accomplish many things
for the University, science and himself. His death still
retains a questionable note in it. He died on January 20th
1915. Two weeks before his death he was bitten by one of the
pet gila monsters in the State House in Topeka. This occurred
when he was showing the sluggish traits of the reptile to the
Governor,

About a week after this incident he was taken ill with
an attack of heart disease and was sick for only one week
before his death. Physicians didn't attribute the cause of
death to the bite of the gila monster, though many other

skeptics believe that that was the cause of his death.