Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-08-21
A TRICKY ELEPHANT.
BOLIVAR AN EXPENSIVE ATTRAC-
TON TO CARRY ABOUT.

He Was Always Up to Some Antic, FIRE.
quentIy Amusiug and Almost Certain
to Be Expensive, uring His Trainers
Absence.
A big elephant in tantrum Is one OF
the most Objectionable features con-
nected with the management OF a CIR
Gus, according to veteran bandmaster
whose varied experiences with shows
gives him authority to speak upon the
subject intelligently.
1.-THE worst elephant connected with
any circus on the road" said the band
master, twas Bolivar, which Is now In
the Philadelphia Zoo. He was always
looking for trouble. Not vicious trou-
bic. but just mischief, and usually ex-
pensive mischief at that. He was afraid
of only one being on earth and that was
Johnson, his trainer. Every little while
when Bolivar seemed 10 be sleepy and
careless Johnson would slip out for a
look around the town. Just as often as
not that was the very thing that Boil
var hoped he would do. The big brute
would pull up the stake that he was
chained to and go wandering off across
the tent, taking along with him every
thing that his tackle caught in. The
only thing that anybody could do when
he was in one of those playful moods
was to yell johnson. Here he Is, john
son. Bolivar would take a quick look
around and sneak back to the place
where he had been chained and look in
nocent
Zone day when we were in Westerly,
r. l., johnson, who had some friends In
town, went out for an hour or so to see
them. He was hardly out Of the
grounds before Bolivar pulled up his
stake and struck for the highway. He
went up through the village until he
came DO the minister's cottage. The big
brute walked carefully in at the gate
and picked his way down into the vege-
table garden. In about three minutes
he had rooted up the peas and the tuck
ct corn and was making the pumpkin
vines into wreaths for his brow. There
wasn't anything worth pulling up left
In the garden, 80 he moseyed over to
the kitchen, which was built onto the
side of the house. He put up the win
dow and stuck his trunk inside to ex-
plore The first thing he reached was
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plant In about three minutes. There
were about 800 circus people and towns
people out In front of the house watch
ing him and he just stepped to the
front gate long enough to blow cloud
Of flour all over everybody within forty
feet. Then he went back and got his
snout into the flour barrel again just as
the minister heard the racket In the
kitchen and came In to see what was
doing
"What met him was a snow white
elephant with his head half through
the window, who let out cloud of flour
at him. The parson tainted and Boil
var gave him three or four more trunk
the front yard and began pulling up
shrubbery and busting himself off with
It. The canvasman who were there
yelled johnson until they were hoarse
but Bolivar paid no attention to them.
Nobody knew where Johnson was, but
Of sudden a plan came to me and l
called the band together. There was q
tune that we called the Bolivar March.
1t was kind of slow and ponderous and
1t was the only thing we ever played
while Bolivar was In the arena. We
lined up just inside the gate of the yard
and blew up the Bolivar March, AS
we did so, Bolivar pricked up his ears
and could see his mind was working.
He knew that tune had never been
played before when Johnson was not
around Johnson being his boss, he
supposed naturally enough that John
son bossed the whole show including
the band. The band, he reasoned,
wouldn't be out there playing its tricks
If Johnson was not around somewhere,
too. So ne came out and fell right In
behind the band and marched back to
the tents as meek as Mary's lamb and
we sat up there and played to the crit
ter for two hours until Johnson came
back.
"The minister took 500 damages, So
for his garden sass and SIS for his feel
ings. Bolivar cost so much in damages
that Mr.. Forepaugh gave him to the
Philadelphia Zoo"
Little Joker In - Lost Creek Epitaph
Here lies the clay of Mitchell Coots,
Whose feet yet occupy his boots:
His soul has gone--we know not where
1t landed. neither do we care
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