Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-10-29

| bio combce. and when he could not get Ut
| a row in that way he would plunge into
1 the BRACES river and slap tie jaws of the
niger eating alliSatOrs. People who arc
! familiar with tho career Of Moses would
/ not be at all astoHishcd If they should hear
that he lad swuri out into the gulf OF
| Mexico ard tackled n zyhalo. When only u
| boy, he broke wildcats neck with his
| fist, and only n short time ago he lassoed
! PANTHER. With all these achievements to
| his credit, however, Moses was not happy.
| His Unsuitable ambition was to be show
| man.
Recently, according 20 n Caldwell CORE
, spondent CT the ST. Louis Globe Democrat,
Moses ambition was suddenly and com
pletely realized. The very biggest elephant
in the United States, an animal with n
very bad reputation, WAS found to be
quietly engaged in eating hay in his horse
lot. The monster elephant that Nose Ryan
was about to halter with his ravhide lariat
belonged to frank Lemons the Snowman.
Lemons mcnaSerie had showed in the
town OF Caldwell, Tex, on the previous
day and late in the evening a very large
elephant named Rajah began to manifest
his ugly temper. Nearly every one con-
nectod with the show was afraid of this
monster animal. He had killed two poo
pie in India and two moro in the United
States.
at TIE town OF Caldwell just little be-
fore dark Rajah snapped his chains, threw
the mahout 80 feet away and walked out
into the street believing furiously and
threatening to attack every living thing he
cav.
Nose Ryan not only roped his elephant,
but after feeding him apples, potatoes and
everything else that he could think of he
got q ladder and crawlcd upon his back
Later on he induced Betsy and Souser to
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the Brazos river, where he drank until the
sand bars began to show above the falling
waters, ald he acted at one time as if he
had half q mind to swim across to the
other shore.
Entering the town, Rajah took posses
sion of a fruit stand, and after throwing
the dago up on the roof he devoured the
bewildeied foreigners whole stock before
the man had tiIre TO enter a protest In
stantly the news spread over town that
the mad elephant was loose in the streets,
killing every living thing he met. This
added rev clement of terror to the stu
ation. Merchants attempted to close their
stores, but the frightened people crowded
through the doors as If certain death were
ut their heels. The house tops were COW
cred with people who feared that elephants |
and in all that mass of humanity there |
was but one man whose mind was not at |
all disturbed That man was Nose.
~fani q born Snowman he said, "and /
am regarded in the bottoms as the best !
judge of a show IN Texas I know all I
about varnints, and especially elephants |
Why, when ] was boy, the bottoms was
chuck full of wild elephants. have seen
whole droves of theiH swimming the -Brazos !
river. 1 used tosatch young elephants md Z
carry them to tie house in my bosom, and /
tame them, and break them to ride. One /
time had more than 500 saddle elephants. |
live TO be about !, ZOO years old.
One time caught an cid coon elephant
thai had Adam brand and picture of
The garden Of Eden or t.s.r side She was I
the best ln.:Aer / ever saw She'd give
Jour or FIVE barrels OF milk a day and it 4
vas just all cream. z used TO lean Up |
against tie fence and look at cid GRANDPA
her Adams BRAID on her hide AID laugh
lntil I'd nearly split my sid=s. You see,
{ was 50 funny for NE TO think, Here
,In n drinking the sarYe milk and sucking
he s3I1c bosom, as 1t Were. that nOurislsG
,ur Grst parents IN the garden Of Esvs... .