New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-09
The INDIAN MAN EATER.

DhfAn0 MhE4ty hH4 A12kU
| A Tiger of the Dangerous Sort De-
| scribed by Ex- Mayor Carter Har-
rison.
Chicago Mail.
In his letter from India, ex-Mayor
Carter Harrison tells Of the captured
man-eating tigers shown in cages in.
the public garden OF Jeypore. The
| man eaters do not seem to be disap-
pearlng as rapidly as might be expect
ed under English dominion in India.
and many thous ands of people are
annually made victims. The tigers
even Turk along the highways and de-
YOUR the native postmen. OF how
the dangerous beasts are sometimes
destroyed is told in the following &C.
count by a late writer the article hav-
ing a timely interest from the illusions
made in the ex-Mayor's letter:
While sitting in the little depot at
Jooa one afternoon, in conversation
with the station agent. freight No.
Is, from Madras, came in on to the
siding opposite to wait for the Bonn
bay express to pass. Attached to the
long train Of rice cars were several
flats, some with ''daks" on them
others with palanquins, and on the
hindermost q very odd-looking object
which at once attracted our atten-
tion-the more that there seemed to
be a man inside it.
''What have you got on that rear
car, Fales?' my friend, the agent call
ed out to the conductor OF the freight.
You've got me now" replied that
official with a laugh. That's a non
descript. No name on it. Billed to
Yuloodian. Walk up and see for
yourselves, gentlemen. That is the
shipper inside; name, Geeter Zoom
Joogr, by trade a tiger killer! But
you won't find him talkaitive.''
The "nondescript' was a round
cage-like structure, some twelve feet
in diameter by six or seven in height
The bottom was OF black timber, and
the flat top OF the same, but not quite
SO massive, while the sides were OF
thick, straight, brown bamboo rods
or bars. set upright like stanch1ons IN
the black bed pieces, with spaces be-
tWixt them four Or five inches wide.
In short, it was a, heavy round cage,
made years and years ago, and Of
curious workmanship.
But the cid native inside it was a
still greater curiosity. He was array
ed in a dirty blue cotton frock and
drawers OR trousers of the same stuff.
His feet were 'bare-such feet! They
were shrunken. bony and Of such
shiny, wine-brown hue as to give one
the idea that they had been calcined
over a. slow fire. The man was bare
headed, too, and what is not
common among Hindoos, his hair,
thin and in part gray. was
braided in a cue,d down his back. The
tightness of the skin across his brows
gave to his countenance a strangely
mummified expression, hardly relieved
by the deep, dull black eyes and
coarse, thin eyebrows, while the lower
| part OF his face was curiously marked
with still coarser, crinkled hairs, too
scattering to be termed beard.
His. general complexion was like an
old withered walnut. From the
elbow down his arms were bare, and
they seemed mere parcels OF bone and
sinew bound tightly up in sun-dried
hide, while his lean fingers, like claws,
terminated IN nails an inch or more
long. Indeed, in matter OF personal
appearance Mr.. Geeter Zoom Joogr
was ole of the very strangest, unhu-
! man human beings ever CHANGED to
meet IN any country.
Set against the side OF the cage were
two short spears or lances five Or six
feet in length with handles of some
black wood and their sharp, slender
points of bright steel, which shone like
silver. These blades or points were of
themselves nearly or quite two feet
lons-altogether very ugly looking ina-
| plernents.
A few stolid responses were all that
could elicit from the man by ques-
tioms. He said, or rather admitted,
that he was going to Yuloodian to
kill a tiger, and that killing man-eaters
was his business. Fifty rupees was
his price for killing a dangerous tiger.
lie had made this his business for
| twenty years since the Sepoy war. [
felt very curious to know how the old
man hnuted and asked permission to
go up to Yuloodian and participate in
! the hant. 10 this request he made
no reply for. awhile, but upon my urg-
ing it several times SIT length said,
1.-THE Sahab,ean suit himself"
just thenlthe express whistled in,
and as soon as it had passed the
freight, and with it old Geeter and his
cage, moved on.
Late In the afternoon after my
duties on the section were over for the
day, | went up on the way freight to
YuloodiaR, taking my Remington car
bine and stock, OF cartridges. It was
dusk and thethuts were closed, but by
dint of knocking, and shouting I learn
ed where the Tiger hunter had located
his cage. foundiit short distance
beyond the village. After some little