Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1917 — MONKEY HOLDS UP FAST TRAIN IN CALIFORNIA [ARTICLE]

MONKEY HOLDS UP FAST TRAIN IN CALIFORNIA

Engineer Stops When He Sees Animal on Track and Passengers Give Chase. Bishop, Cal.—Because a large monkey belonging to Miss Katherine Smith Was hot served breakfast at the usual hour the other morning he went on a widespread rampage and bit a young woman in the ankle, climbed all over a man he disliked, and finally held up a passenger train. The Southern Pacific Co., through its engineer and fireman, was astonished and frightened when the monkey, half standing in the middle of the narrow-gauge track and grimacing horribly, confronted the locomotive. The face was too much, for the engineer shut the throttle and threw on the brakes. The startled passengers got off and helped chase the chattering monkey away. The conductor delivered himself of an oration that wouldn’t have served as an eulogium at the mon key’s funeral. - As a climax the monkey got mixed up, scrambled-egg fashion, with a man named Monk, and scratched his face severely. The two-legged Monk objected, and when he could find a gun he pumped shot into the four-legged monk until he ceased to breathe. His mistress is disconsolate..