Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-06-30
TIE INDIAN MAN EATER.

are sometimes destroyed Is told in the fol lowing account by late writer.
 While sitting in the little depot at Jooa one afternoon. in conversation with the station agent, Freight No. 13." from Madras, came in on the siding opposite to wait for the Bombay 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 a very odd looking object which at once attracted our attention the more that there seemed to be man inside it.
 What have you got on that rear car, Fales7" my friend. tho agent, called out to the conductor of the freight.
 You've got me now," replied that official with laugh. That's non descript. No name on it. Billed to Yuloodian Walk up and see for your selves, gentlemen. That is the shipper inside, name. Geeter Zoom Joogr. by trade tiger killer, But you won't find him talllstive."
 The ''nondescript" was round, cage like structure. some 12 feet in diameter by or 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 stanchions in the black bed pieces. with spaces betwixt them or inches wide. In short. it was a heavy round cage. made years and years ago, and of curious work manship
 But the old native inside it was a still greater curiosity He was arrayed in 0 dirty blue cotton frock and drawers or trousers of the same stuff His feet were bare-such feetl 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 barehcaded, too. and what is not common among Hindoos. his hair thin and in part | gray. was braided in a cue down his back. | The tightness of the skin across his brows gave to his countenance a strangely mum riiied expression, hardly relieved by the deep. dull black eyes and coarse, thin eye. brows. 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 w!thered walnut From the elbow down bis 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 Mir. Geeter Zoom Joogr was one of the very strangest,
 unhuman human beings l have ever chanced 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 long-altogether
 very ugly looking implements
 A few stohd responses were all that could elicit from the man by questions He said. or rather admitted, that he was
 going to Yuloodian to kill tiger, anc that killing man eaters was his business Fifty rupees was iis price for killing
 dangerous tiger.
 : He had made this his business fo
 twenty years since the Sepoy war. fel
 very curious to know how the old mai
 hunted. and asked permission to go up t,
 Yuloodian and participate in the hunt
 To this request he made no reply fo
 awhile, but upon my urging it severa times at length said: "The sahib can sui
 himself"
 Just then the express whistled in, an as soon as it had passed the freight, an
 with it old Geeter and his cage. moved on
 Late in the afternoon. after my dutic . on the section were over for the day.
 went up on the way freight to Yuloodiar
 taking my Remington carbine and stoc b If cartridges. It was dusk and the hut z were closed. but by dint of knocking an : shouting learned where the tiger hunte . had located his cage. found it a shor a distance beyond the village. After som I barley l was admitted through littl f trap door in the top. which was securel Il fastened again. but my reception was n most ungracious one. He grumblc ,. ominously in the native tongue of n Ss disturbing the night and breaking tl 1. spells.
 Besides our two selves In the cage thel was the carcass of goat to attract th
 tiger -Four after hour of the daml ,r warm. dark night we sat crouched motion r. less there Old Geeter neither spoke nt It moved. but could hear him breath Y Once we heard q short. querulous roa II which l supposed to be thnt of tiger '. distance. but no tiger came near tn: e night The next night l took bird ca y with me had intended to initiate u bieatlng of kid. thinking thus to attra " Y, the tiger, but re1ecting after few tria n. that this was tiger with taste f, Z. human flesh. began to counterfeit u - crying of child, which found no diff 10 cult matter when once had got the rigl n key for it. l said nothing to old Geet a. of my trick when l reached Yuloodis Of that evening. but joined him as before. n The night was very still Several tim " the weird cry of devotee in the distal a .. village of Razotpore came faintly to oI 2, ears over many miles. The stars shol ie down with misty luster. It was vel h, damp, yet warm.
 m Once a cloud of green. sparkling fl i'd flies Ame, and drifting in betwixt il
 stout bars of the cage. fairly lighted
 with their glinting fires. Later dol - fully bowling pack of jackals swept pa z us. eight or ten rushing up to sniff | Il goats blood. There were other sound 2. Like wall from dead, misguided millioi ., came the melancholy cry of the devot isE in his solitary and painful vigil. and n S' long after we heard the gruff bark
 grunt of proving tiger from across t Is "sarkee."
 - With that softly drew out my ''Sal