The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-17
A PET ND "A. 4 NUISANCE
socko IN oIsaEPUTs WITH THE
NEW aoRk HEALTH BOARD.

ti.e. Pick. Patty Ou, Of skyIight and
Z G<eals F'enni-. and sIiIk. -! I
For two wears now Jocko has been
having things pretty much his own way
IN q back yard in East Fourth street.
But at last he has run up against a snae.
Doubtless if Jocko had been content
with his own back yard and had not
gone about prowling for new back yards
to conquer. his name today would not
Be ON the blotter of the health boards
kig book At the weekly meeting Of the
board it viii be decided whether he may
keep up his nomadic proclivities nm
molested ,or whether in the future hesis
TO be chained to ring in the area steps,
Jocko is che pet monkey of Josef Hoff-
mann. who does brisk business in the
basement at 81 East Fourth street. A
go captain; who had come home from
voyage to South America for cocoanuts
brought back Jocko with him. and gave
the animal to Mr.. Hoffman,. IF Jocko
had stuck his long. sharp claws into Mr.
Hoffman's heart he couldn't have secured
n deeper hold OH that portion of the lat
ter's anatomy than he did on the first
t1ay Of his installment in the basement
in East Fourth street.
Every twenty-four hours which have
passed since then have only soldered
more firmly the ties between the monkey
and his master So fond. indeed, has
his owner become of the curious little
animal that he has never had the heart
30 correct him in any way. The result
was the usual one. Jocko was spoiled
JoCKo AND THE cLoTHEsLINE-
So one day. rs Jocko was sitting rumi-
mating in the back yard. with leg
swung about the trellis and his tail
wound around the grape vine, he spied
Mrs Kaufman. of the third floor. back
Hanging her washing out TO dry
Mrs Kaufman closed the window.
leaving her linen. which she had got up
1t 9 o'clock to wash, hanging in the sun.
Jocko waited whole minute after he
heard the sash hang. Then, with a cat
like movement, he gained the top Of the
high back fence, scampered up the fire
escape of an adjoining building. made a
well calculated leap of three feet and
landed on the nearest point of vantage
OF the taut ropes Of Mrs. Kaufman's
,-clothesline
Like a tightrope walker. Jocko tripped
along the line. He put mp one paw to
his whisker, just as the real performer
: does when he smirks and throws the in
imitable kiss TO the, audience Then
9ocko began his aerial feats in earnest.
When Mrs. Kaufman went to haul in
her lines that evening she stood as one
amazed. Her stockings strewed the
ground below like the fallen leaves of
n Vallambrosa. Her tablecloths and sheets.
where they were not torn in places, were
tracked in a pattern in which the chief
figure was the imprint of muddy paw.
Some of her linen was actually missing.
Mrs. Kaufman had to get up early the
next morning again, pull out her thread
and needle. and. after mending for al
most an hour. do her whole wash over
But Jocko never ran aInuck among
Mrs Kaufman's wash any more. He
had experienced a new sensation, and
having once satisfied himself with that
he began to cast about for fresh fields
and pastures new OF course, If he
wanted to make use of Mrs. Kaufman's
or any other persons convenient lines.
Jocko never hesitated to use them as a
public thoroughfare. But as a diversion
clotheslines had lost their seductive
charms for the monkey. El
THE HALTER PROTESTS
~ Wilt tOOhAuS tAnObACI
ing for something new and strange" he
clambered up ON to the roof of the ex
tension built out from a hat store on the
Bowery The skyEght was open and
Jocko began dropping odd bits which he
picked up off the roof down into the
room below His Simian Majesty wa,
scared away,
Then Jocko's instructive feeling of dis
20
The next day and the next Jocko quietly
perched himself on the rim of the sky
light over the extension of the hattel
and began picking away the putty abou
the panes But Jocko had not progressed
far in his operations before he was founC
cut Then Mr.. Hyman's patience CAV,
out. for he saw his living apartment
threatened with a leak. He was not a
complacent as his neighbor, Mrs. Kauf
man, who satisfied her grievance b,
shouting out vengeance from her bacl
windows upon the monkey. The latte
went right down to the board of healtl
and lodged a complaint against MI
Hoffmann's pet.
One of Jockos tricks is TO go out earl
IN the morning and steal the pennie
which are placed in milk pitchers, an
another is to gather up letters which tn
postman leaves under the basement gate
near the monkeys home. Whether b
views the Italian at the corner with IL
stinctive hatred or as natural friend
is impossible to say. but sure it is thu
when Jocko wants peanut or a fig t
makes no scruple of bagging Sae frol
the stand Another one of Jocko's cul
ming ways is to stick his snout into an
inviting bottle of milk or dish of put
ding that is set out of a back window
cool. and then make his escape with b
stomach full Of the delicacy.
Pending the result of the inquiry M
.Hoffmann is little anxious for fear Z