The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-14
"JOCK0 DE MONK"
UP In THE DOME
Queer Problem Which Con-
fronts Colonel Toler.
FREAK FROM TROPICS
Causes All Kinds of trouble
at the Auditorium.
HE CANNOT BE C0AXED
Talks Back and SWearS at His
PurSuerS.
He CANNOT BE COAXED

Col Toler Of the auditorium did one
mans share Of rubberknecking yester-
day and is liable to do some more today,
Way up in the dome of the opera house,
50 feet above the audience, is perched
a monkey-the pet monkey Of Miss Fuller
Of the D'Ormond-FuIer Dramatic SOM
panyc.
/ Last year a friend OF Miss Fuller's, a
jolly mariner who sails in the south seas,
! anchored his craft in New York after a
long journey to the tropics He brought
q monkey home with him and presented
it TO Miss Fuller. This monkey is named
Jocko and has ring tail. which he uses
in swinging from trees and things.
Since Miss Fuller became the owner OF
/ Jocko he has behaved himself very nicely
until night before last He was sleeping
near hot stove in Miss Fuller's dress
ing room when she came upon the stage.
lie was supposed 10 be tied up, but when
the curtain went UP on the first act Of
Monte Cristo the audience was astonished
| to see monkey climbing like one pos
/ sessed up the balcony rail He jumped 10
the rafters and climbed them like a sailor
on pirate craft.
''Jocko. Jocko! Here, Jocko." cried
Mr.. Toler. Come down from therer'
Jocko turned around. swung by his tan
from rafter and talked back TO Mr..
Toler in most shocking and disrespect-
full manner. He didn't have to come
down and he wouldn't.
Finally a plan was laid Col. Toler
knows very well the influence the stom-
ach yields over man and beast, as well
IS baby man and baby beast, and he sug-
gested the idea of coaxing Jocko down
with some favorite dish. The monkey
eyed the dish from afar but wouldn't
come down. He talked like a parrot and
Colonel Toler thinks he swore a little
but as TO that he is not certain, as he
does not pretend 10 be familiar with the
profanity of the South Sea islands.
Everybody thought that If they closed
the house and went away for a little
while that he would come down and they
could catch him.
They did so, but when they returned
Jocko had the favorite dish already
sulped down and was licking his chops
higher up than ever.
In the meantime COL Toler had TO turn
out the lights in the dome so the audi
ence could not see the monkey and hence
would look at the play. This worked all
right. Last night the monkey was still
perched on rafter. higher up than ever
before. and he seemed so perfectly con-
tented that he is liable to stay there for
month.
How to get Jocko down is q problem.
No one can climb up after him and II
it were possible. the uimble Jocko could
easily shift his position so as TO be out
Of reach. A tower can be built 10 the top
of the dome. but the same objection would
hold good. as it IS mighty hard to build
tower whose position can be shifted as
rapidly as the movements Of a monkey.
The most feasible solution OF the prob
lem is 70 starve Jocko into coming down.
This was tried yesterday, but Jocko
showed no signs Of hunger. lie may pos
sibly be in different mood today. but it
is donbtful Tt Is thought that he came
down last night and dined on the hulls Of
peanuts and Col. Toler is about TO issue
an order to prevent peanuts being used
in the house till Jocko comes down.
IN the meantime Miss Fuller is wor-
RED. Notwithstanding the conduct Of
Jocko, she still doesn't want 20 part with
him and she is afraid that in his perambu-
lations about the auditorium he viii take
a notion to twist his tail around live
wire i'm which event Jocko VIII come
down quicker than he went UP. but to rise
no more.
col. Toler wishes that Jocbo had never
been born.