Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-20

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| doctors head off his body.
"After that they cut his tusks of
short, and 1t seemed to break his
heart. They were fitted with iror
sockets to screw on again, but he
ad no confidence in them as wesp
hons to kill anything with; appear
ed to know they were no longer 4
part of him, but just an attachment
| and he never was the same proud
elephant again. His keeper used to
keep his money in the hollow of the
socket of one of the tusks, safer
place than a bank as long as TippOo
lived, for even if he had lost most
of his nerve when his tusks were cut
off, he still was elephant enough to
be likely to kill a stranger when he
got a good chance; and even if he
wouldn't, thieves wouldn't be likely
to trust his good nature.
'But even with the tusks off he
was regarded as dangerous. He
would roll his trunk up into a close
roll, like coiling up spring. and
then flip it out, and whatever he
| struck that way, was gone. l be-
lieve he could have knocked down
hippOtamus with one crack of that
trunk. Sometimes pigs would come
around him while he was eating. He
wouldn't appear to pay any atten-
tion until one would get close
enough; then a tap would be given
by that monster trunk and the life
be fairly knocked out of piggy. He
would reach for the pig, make a
sure job OF it by standing on him a
moment, then toss the shapeless car
cass behind him, and go on eating
as placidly as ever.
"In Somerset, Ohio, think it was,
he got stubborn, and struck at every
body that came near him, and, in
fear of what he might do if he got
fairly started, they killed him-shot
him i'll the eye with a very large
rife bali. and settled him. l was
not with the company then, and did
not see him killed, but saw Canada
killed, and desperate job it was.
Canada was big ugly devil of
an elephant belonging to Maybie's
combination, when was with them.
We had trouble first with him in
Chicago, where we were showing in
an iron building near the court
house. He had one of his tantrums,
but before he got thoroughly start
ed and went to breaking things, they
tripped him with ropes, threw him
down, and beat him until he 'holler-
ed which is the token of submis-
sion. But the fit came on him sud
denly a few days afterward, and be
opened the proceedings by knocking
down one end of his barn, and walk
ing out into the street. He wander
ed about doing as much mischief
as a tOrnadO-tossing hacks intothe
air, flirting stoops across the street,
tearing down signs and lamp posts,
and playing the deuce generally.
But he didn't kill anybody. Not
that the citizens Of Chicago gave
him much chance, for about all he
could get to see of them was coat
tails disappearing up stairways or
vanishing in the distance. And they
turned the bridges to keep him from
getting over to the north or west
sides of the town. Finally the
keeper got him under control.
"Then they sent him up to Mr..
Maybie's farm at DelaVan, Wis,
with the rest of the menagerie, to
winter, and that was where he play
ed the last act of his life. Father
and l were training our horses there
at the time, and Canada's keeper
was endeay0ring to break him for
some ring performance. One day
the brute got one of his spells upon
him, rushed from the ring out into
the stable yard, and began an indis-
criminate slaughter of the animals
of that enclosure. In a few min
utes he had killed two buffaloes, a
sacred COW, sacred OK, couple of
elks, three or four horses and ponies,
and white camel. He would seize
an animal, toss it up in the air, catch
1t on his tusks as it came down, and
then either jam or trample the life
out of it. When he had killed
everything in sight, he sailed out
for down town. The alarm had
gone ahead of him, and the popular
excitement was past description. A
trap was set with long chain and
an enormous block of stone, to en-
tangle his legs aud hold him. The
chain was as thick as any log chain
and the stone-which had been in
tended for corner stone or some
thing of the sort, and had a large |
iron ring in twas as big as 6u!
reau. When the trap was set man
ran out in sight of Canada, and the |
who would rather kill a |
man than anything else, took after |
him. The trap was successful, so |
far as making the chain and stone
fast to him, but he kept right on and |
would have caught the man, who |
was fast runner, if both bad been |
kept to the level road. But the man
jumped down into an unfinished Gel
lar of a new house, and ran up a mar
row flight of steps on the opposite
side. The elephant jumped down
after him, springing off and aHght-
ing as easily as a dog would, with
the big stone Gathering behind him.
Fortunately the stone was too large
to pass up the flight of steps, and
there stuck wedged against the stone
walls on each side. Canada was fast
at last, but it was mighty close call |
for the man. While the savage
brute was still straining at the chain
10 get up the steps, they managed |
to get more chains and ropes on him,
so that they threw HIM down. They |
then went to work to conquer him. |
They wore out big clubs on him,
fired loads of buck shot into his trunk |
and fanks and ears, jabbed pitch
forks into his trunk until it was so |
that he could not bend it;
beat and tortured him for many |
hours until he was literally exhaust |