Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1915 — Wonder of Golden West Is Found in Los Angeles [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Wonder of Golden West Is Found in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES. —One wonder of the Golden West was discovered in Los Angeles one morning recently by Arthur-J. Reed, a tripper from Denver, as he was enjoying his first night’s sleep in California. Reed went to a

movie show on Sunday night. He saw a jungle film. Giraffes, tigers, Hons and elephants frisked across the screen, charged, slew and gobbled their prey. His back hair bristled as he later pulled the covers up to his nose and sank back into his pillow. Horrible dreams outdid the movie’s flickering films. Reed was being pursued by countless “denizens of the Impenetrable jungle fastnesses.” The climax came at last. A huge African elephant cornered Reed. On

one side was a cliff a mile high, on the other a bottomless cave. The G. O. P. trade-mark came steaming up to Reed. He felt its hot breath as its prehensile proboscis probed his person. The elephant stepped in to deliver the coup-de-grace. Raising its trunk until it touched Reed’s hands it forced down his guard and, leaning over Bit him on the left shoulder! I ! ! ! In frightful agony Reed woke, threw on his clothes and charged out onto Main street. There was a policeman, so he felt sure of protection. “Where’s the nearest hospital?” begged Reed. ‘Tve just been bitted on the shoulder by an elephant.” ' At the receiving hospital Dr. Louis M. Kane heard Reed’s story in all its awing details. On Reed’s left shoulder was a red spot the size of a jitney bus fare. “Are you a stranger here?” asked the surgeon. “Yessir,” moaned Reed. t ‘ “That explains it,” concluded the doctor. “You were bitten not by an elephant, but “By a ferocious flea!”