Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-02-26
Some Kinds Of Beasts That Have
Never Been Gagged.
Zoos Intensely EnKer to Secure Speed
meas of Certain NesNIy-DIscov-
cred Creatures OF Foreign
% - Chimes.

oh. there arc q good many ami
mails that are still to be caught and
exhibited in the mcnageries." said tie
old animal man. according to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer. reaching into the
cage and scratching the head OF a
)aSuar. Il can run OF quite a list
without stopping I % think.
"Al tho ZOOS are crazy now for an
okapi. That's the strange prehis-
toric beast that Sir Harry Johnston
found alive in Eastern Africa. It's
n cross between n giraffe and Il horse.
apparently. and 4 mighty big animal.
Iherell be big money for the circus
that gets the first example. and there
are some plucky and smart men in
Uganda ut this very looking
for the brute.
Nobody has been lucky enough or
smart enough To catch a kadiak
bear alive and carry him to civIliza-
ton. There's something like q beast
FOR you-big as n calf. SO that he'd
make n roaring Rocky mountain
grizzly look like n little brown bcar
alongside OF him.
Down in South America. some
where bcA nd the northeastern side OF
the Andes, a little north OF the
equator. Is n beast hat Is the big
gest rodent in the world. Travellers
have seen pieces OF It's hide and its
bones. and n few have EliInpsed II as
II sped through the dark primeval for
ests. II il n true rodent like the rat,
but II Is Us big rs a Newfoundland
lA.y TEa, ,,-..II
a geological garden.
Another ine prize Is down there
In South America. II Is n new species
OF jaSuar. quite different from any
that has ever been exhibited in the
shows In any part OF the world. It's
n big black fellow. and tremendously
fierce. Nobody has ever taken one
alive.
Then In the forests OF the Amazon
arc two birds that would make their
captor a famous man among zoolo-
Gists. They are the bell bird, which
has 4 voice exactly like y clear. ring
ing bell. n the Los; Soul which
has q cry that makes the shivcrs creep
along n mans backbone when he hears
II In those dark. mysterious. silent
~forbidding woods.
I'm Burmah somewhere Is a rhi-
nocerOs that has n black hide and big
tufted ears. The hide has beer seen
by white men lots Of times. but they
haven't ever seen n living animal.
Up in the Himalayas n man has
been looking for years fOr-wha, 90
you suppose? y unicorn. Ha may
be crazy-he may be right He .ays
h q no has heard so many tales from
the native hunters up there OF the cx-
istence OF q ono-hoTned antelOpe-
horse that he is bound to try and get
ono. | don't thin% Their" ia any such
thing myself. but then | didn't take
much stock in the discovery Of a
primitive wild horse in Central Asia,
either. and now the geological gardens
OF Hamburg and New TOr,; both have
living specimens OF these horses
funny. big-hcaded little brutes that
are representatives OF some type OF
horse that must be hundreds Of thou
sands OF years old.
Down in Now Zealand,
lively small as the lane Ia. there are
many animal INC bird mysteries still.
AAASJ % 1AhN IN a. IL Ic"-
that is. now to tho world-type OF ami
NAL on tho order OF the duck bill
down there yet. Darwin always
thought hat some day n veritable liz
ard-bird mot a flying lizard. but n true
missing link between the birds md
tho reptiles) might be found there.
"One explorer followed mysterious
footprints in the NOW Of the high
mountains of New Zcaland. but never
came up with the hi; that had made
II. But they were yuch range foot
prints that other scientists agreed
with him that the thing TINT made
them was quite unknown TO the world.
and must be n wonderful thing.
so. you go. there Is nl"rtv Of work
still for us wild animal catchers. We
haven't soon everything thai thsre is
"a be SUsn. ~ q foa9 ehQAfessSa