The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-09-21
J0CK0, The MONK,
HAD Them GUESSING
Objected to- Being Transported
in a Sack and Makes
Escape.
FLY COP TO THE RESCUE
He Failed to Make Good and Then Mn
Sailorman Gets Into the
Came and Effects
Capture.
FLY COP TO THE RESCUE
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The point Of this story is that un-
less you want to get your name IN ths
paper, If you ever ave to take TWO
monkeys across the Brooklyn bridge
you must keep 'eln in a crate and nos
put 'em in a gunnysack. Or. y. u,
Archer. the veterinarian Of Bostocks'
show tried the gunnybag method a NJ
tie after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The monkeys got out of the a when
DR.. Archer reached an appropriate
place. One, q fine moss monkey from
Ceylon, promptly jumped into the East
river, and the last seen of him he was
going up the river on the tide. Inc
other, a longtail from Natal, caVorteo
the bridge under the promenade
for an hour; when a Jack tar 1f ron,
and started for Coney Island with HIM.
Archer went to Boston to get the
monkeys, with special orders TO pc
careful of them, he says. They came
in a crate, but he put them in a bag,
He got as far as a Coney Island car
at the New York entrance to the bridge
and hoped aboard. The SET
up a screeching.
neutrality-suspicious." growled The
m~otorman.
@olllN u pdlf Ol lIiollheSS, SoAo eAS
truthful doctor.
Skiddoo," said the motorman, n the
conductor said the same. SO did the in
spector, and DR.. Archer saw ahead OF
him not only a walk across the bridge
but the possibility of a longer one to
Coney Island. 1t was %dreadfully hot.
He got as far as the first bench beyond
the New York tower and sat down to-
mediate on the cruel ways of B. r. 7.
men.
Contents Of the Bag.
IT might "a told EN-" he said, that
I had half a bushel OF potatoes, put
potatoes don't squeal."
While Dr. Archer was sitting there
the monkeys got into a debate In the
bag. The doctor says he knows only
a few words Of money talk, but he is
| quite sure the Natal monkey told the
5eylon monkey ne was no gentleman
and that the Ceylon monkey said he
would not associate with such a rude
thing. Thereupon he chewed a hole in
the bag and popped out.
Hi, there!" said DR.. Archer, as the
| ceylon monkey dashed across to the
roadway on the south side. The Cey--
ON monkey gave one look back
grinned and made sorce motions with
mis- hands-anyhow, the doctor swore
at him for it and the Ceylon monkey
gave a Jump into the swirling tide, just
ike a bridge jumper suicide or museum
freak, and went circling over and over
and shot into the water. Archer
watched him come up and then ran
to Patrolman Patrick Heating, who
saws he has been twenty years on the
bridge and never has had his name in
he Heating declined to
give his name to the reporters, saying:
'If | can't get my name printed in
any other way, I'll be blamed if | want
At mixed With a measly monkey"
Well, Archer ran to Heating and
shouted: ~
II just lost a monkey; he j%lllused1
over the bridge"
"Gwan," said Heating. as any re-
spectacle member of the force would
say under similar circumstances.
Just Their the Natal monkey hopped
out of the bag.
by gum, yer right" said Heating
Come back here, We sphalpeen!"
The Natal monkey initiated the dele
gate from Ceylon and made some dis
respectful gestures.
TN fan We for that" said Heating,
If / ever get ye." n
Anaoi.y the Bridge Stays.
Down among the braces and cables
under the promenade climbed Jocko-
that's as good a name for him as any
9ther-and DR.. Archer bewailed his
tate, knowing that the press agent
would see to it that the news reached,
the newspaper offices on schedule time.
Jocko pranced and chartered along
Scores of p~romenaders stopped, and
Don the report spread that a man hadN
jumped off the bridge. Then it was a
make that had got away and finally it
was a lion. That caused some folks to
hurry along. 'BliIne me- said DR.
Archer, the next time Mr.. Bostocls
wants me to carry monkeys across tho.
bridge he'll get somebody else. What
DO you think that bobby said? He told
ne to go about me business and to
Gwan.' l can't get that monkey, and
I'll have to hurry to Coney to show
en- that I'm not tight. Here, Jocko
Jocko.""-
But Jocko capered and capered and
chartered and pranced along the ca
bles. Occasionally he took an excur-
sion toward the third rail but lodged,
ap and SO did the bridge cars. B. r. II
employees We're hustling around trying.
20 find things to throw. Then the lack
ar came along n climbed down. 1--WE
got a monkey on the ship he said
and | guess ] car catch him" Back
md forth Jack and the monkey went
along those cables from the middle Of
he bridge to the New York tower and
inally Jack cornered Jocko up against
the tower and nabbed him.
Heating hadn't the heart to fan the
monkey. Jack rolled off toward Coney
sland with u tight grip on the hole in
The bag and the trains again began to
run at full speed.
Were in the Same Boat.
From the Pittsburg Post.
At a recent dinner which was at
tended by a number of ~clergylnen
President Buchham of the University
IF Vermont TOLD the following of Bish-
y 1n Hall nf tho Epi-nn,o1 I;n,o,. "a