People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — Wants to Give Gypsy to Cubans. [ARTICLE]

Wants to Give Gypsy to Cubans.

Gypsy, the bad, man killing elephant, is not to be killed by electricity. Her owner, W. H. Harris, sent a telegram to Senor Palma tendering her to the Cuban insurgents, and she is in her cage, on the Panhandle tracks, in Chicago, subject to the orders of the Cuban junta. Following is the telegram sent by Mr. Harris: Senor Palma, American Representative of Caban Insurgents; New York: I have Gypsy, large, man killing elephant, on track, awaiting to be killed, aa she ia too vicious for show purposes. She is a trained performer and will obey any command, and I think she would be serviceable in the rough country of Cuba, where it is, I am told, diffi*. cult to manipulate fieldpieoes. I want to dedicate her to the cause of humanity and liberty. Will ship at your expense to any American port and will agree to secure you animal man to go with her to Cuba. If Hnnnihqi found elephants useful in battle, why should not Gomes conquer with Gypsy f w. H.