The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-10-29
JUMBO'S SUCCESSORS.

Big, Bad and Dead E~Iephants-the Disci-
pline Administered to Several Refracto-
~ Ones.
Only a few years have elapsed since
The London Spectacle declared it quite
likely that if Jumbo attained the nat
lral limit of his life, $50 years, he
night be the last OF his race on the
Globe. The production of the 1.2OO,-
300 pounds Of ivory used in England
llone every yearnecessitates the death
ST 10000 elephants, andfrom various
,ause the annual death rate of this
most interesting of quadrupeds is es-
simated at not less than 100, 900.
Breeding in captivity must, then, be
depended on eventually to propagate
;he species, and how far successful
this has been may be inferred from
The general rejoicing among show peo-
ole when at rare intervals q baby ele-
3hant is born.
In death Jumbo, by his tusks alone.
proves his immense value. Ivory at
liverpool has brought as high as e.
200 eton. In 1879 it went down to
600 a ton, but has since advanced
nearly a hundred per cent. The dead
nammoth's tusks entitle him to the
:ank accorded him of prominence in
size over any elephent ever brought to
America. There is agreat beast which
las for nine years never left his prison
pen at Moscow which is twelve inches
higher than Jumbo was. There are
timber toters" among the draught
elephants on the banks of the Ganges
thirteen feet high, and from whose
number a greater Jumbo might readily
De procured. But there will never be
smore docile, and consequently aside
rom his size, less interesting elephant
IN exhibition.
Bad elephants, elephants on their
travels, and dead elephants are the
most interesting, by all odds, except,
If course, the intelligent beasts which
Are paraded in Sunday school books
Ind first readers for the delectation of
;he young, and which haveno existence
anywhere else.
The fish-eating ELEPHANT is considered
n India the most vicious ofhis species.
In the Himalayas each variety of the
semi-sacred beast has q name. The
,rab-lover is called Hinaxat, and turns
ieadilyto aman-eater. Anothermon-
,ter, which eats so much fish that his
hide becomes scaly, is called Bek. But
The famous mad elephant of Munda is
conceded to be the worst ever known.
For years he had been in the stud of
The East India Company. One night
ne became possessed of a demon, and
,he next morning broke loose and
led to the woods. For weeks
hat whole province was terror
stricken. With a cunning which
:ould never be anticipated, the mad
elephant set hundreds of hunters at
defiance, and, creeping on unprotected
7illages, smashed the huts and tram
9led the women and children. He had
destroyed thirty-fve lives when killed.
When Jumbo first came over here
The London Times commiserated his
unhappy lot, but said it IA better
after all than the treatment the trib-
1te elephants sent from 3Iurmah to
Pekin get when they misbs,>ave. They
are blinded and tumbled into q great
Dit to starve.
When the Emperor of Brazil came
20 Philadelphia in 1876 q newly ar
lived elephant at the Zoo was named
Dom, after him. When Dom became
nsubordinate hundreds of people
vent out to see first one foot chained
and then another, until each OF the
our was fast to a CABLE running I'VE
4 pully wheel, when with a single pull
Dom's legs were stretched out, and he
vas reduced gradually to subsection.
Dom had to be punished this way
when he was ten years old!
Barnum's big Pilot had to be
y disciplined once for engaging in a
regular prize fight with a fellow mann
nal. Pilots morning cocktail of
;wenty-seven gallons of water didn't
cool his coppers d one occasion, SO
he deliberately kicked out and black
I'd a companions eye. The rough
and-tumble fight which ensued was *
citing. But no elephant is W so
wicked as when he is travelling. In1S9O
John Robinson's Chief, with the cir
,us at Charlotte, n. c., instantly kill
III Ills hccpGI, COII AllS, NIi4C lhO
after, in the presence OF a large crowd,
vas endeavoring to show how the
BEAST climed into his special railway
,ar. The comedy became q tragedy
when Chief seized King by the waist
Ind dashed him to instant death
against the side of thecar. Thecrowd
Of North Carolinians become SO N
ragged that, until the absurdity OF the
Thing dawned upon them, there was
actually serious talk OF tryingto lynch
Chief.
The first modern instance of devil
Try on an elephants travels was the
murder by the Duke of EdiAburg's
Tom OF his keeper en- routefrom Plym-
outh to London. Tom had been
brought from India in 1870 in III. r.
IFS yacht Galatea, and trumpeted
frantic protests when put on the cars.
A few minutes afterward he reared
ind crushed William Patton, his keep
sr, against the partition.
But the most ferocious elephant spree
On record is that Of Barnum's Emper-
or in Troy, N. Y, when in company
With Jumbo, the attempt was made
50 drive him through the streets to
The train for Gloversville. Emperor
lid not want to travel. He first ran
through the street to Erastus Corn