Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1913 — “Jagged” Elephant Terrorizes Live Stock Ship [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“Jagged” Elephant Terrorizes Live Stock Ship

NEW YORK.—Captain Kuhls of the live stock freighter Salamanca, known in shipping circles as "Noah’s ark,” brought a Bad story of a sea of troubles to port -with him the) other day. Aside from a thousand monkeys—ringtails, mandrils, rizus and just plain monkeyß—a zebra, ten lions and eight tigers, the ship had no passengers except nineteen elephants and nineteen honey bears. The honey bear is a capricious animal and* a poor sailor. Hans Tost, Karl kagenback’s traveling animal nurse, who had the whole shipload in <jharge, has found how to keep the honey bears quiet on board. He mixes whisky with boiled rice and keeps them drowsily “jagged” all the way across the Atlantic. The day before the ship arrived in port, while he was mixing up their sleeping potion, or meal, he sat down A pannikin containing a gallon of whisky beside the cages and went up stairs. Amy, the belle of the elephant herd, who was destined for the Chicago zoological gardens, reached out a thieving and prehensile trunk and

sucked all the whisky and let it run down her dry gullet. When Tost returned he knew the whisky was gone; it was not until an hour later that he found out where. Amy was scandalous. She winked flirtatiously at the zebra. She threw a loose link of hobble chain down into the hold among the monkeys. She indulged in jocose trumpeting. Not until early the next day did the exaltation at last pass from the big beast and she began to appreciate the inexorable visit of R. E. Morse, and they could think of nothing befcter than to rig a hose to one of the ship’s pumps to play cold salt water on her fevered brow. Amy was sleeping fitfully when the ship was warped into her berth.