Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-09-21
HOW JOCkO, 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
Game and Effects
Capture.
From the New YORK sun.

FROM the new 1OTh Sdh. #
The point of this story is that I'M
less you want to get your name In the
paper, If you ever nave to take W
monkeys across the Brooklyn bridge
you must keep EN- In a crate and not
put 'em in a g~unnysack. DR.. y. J.
Archer, the veterinarian of Bostocks
show. tried the %gunnybag method a lit
tie after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The monkeys got out OF the sack when
DR.. Archer reached an appropriate
place. One, a 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. Ine
other, a longtail from Natal, cavorted
around the bridge under the promenade
for an hour. when a jack tar from
the cruiser West Virginia caught him
and started for Coney Island with him.
Archer went to Boston to get the
monkeys, with special orders to be
careful Of them, he says. They cams
in a crate, but he put them In a Dag,
He got as far as a Coney Island car
at the New York entrance to the bridge
and hoped aboard. h monkeys set
up a ~screeching.
"Wotchergotthere?" growled the
motorman.
only a pair Of monkeys" said h
truthful doctor.
S%kiddoo." said the motorman. and the
conductor said the same. So did the in
spector, and DR.. Archer saw ahead or
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. X. I.
men.
Contents of the BAD.
II might "a told EN-" he said. that
I had half a bushel OF potatoes, but
potatoes don't squeal."
While DR.. Archer was sitting there
the monkeys got into a debate In the
bag. TIL doctor says he Knows only
a few words Of money talk. but he IN
quite sure the Natal monkey told the
Ceylon monkey he was no gentleman
and thai 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 DIR. Archer, as the
-eylon monkey dashed across to the
roadway on the south side. The Cey-
.on monkey gave one look back.
grinned and made some motions with
nis hands-anyhow, the doctor sWcre
at him for 1t n the Ceylon monkey
gave a jump into the swirling tide, just
like a bridge jumper suicide or museum
.reak, and went circling over and over
and shot into the water. Archer
watched him come up and then ran
to Patrolman Patrick Heating, who
a he has been twenty a on the
bridge and never has had his name In
The newspapers. 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 IL l want
1t mixed with a measly monkey"
Well Archer ran to keat1ng and
shouted:
: Il just lost a monkey; he jumped
over the bridge"
"Gwan," said Heating. as any re-
spectacle member of the force would
say under similar circumstances.
Just then the Natal monkey hoped
out Of h bag.
by gum, yer right" said Heating
Come pack here, we s~phalpeeu!"
The Natal monkey initiated the dele
gate from Ceylon n made some dis
respectful gestures.
"IIl fan we for that" said Heating.
If / ever get ye."
Among the Bridge Stays.
Down among the braces and cables
that's as good a name for him as any
other-and DIR. Archer bewailed his
fate, knowing that the press agent
would see to 1T that the news reached
the newspaper offices ON schedule time,
Jocko pranced and chartered along
Scores of promenaders stopped, and
soon the report spread that a man had
Jumped off the bridge. Then ii was a
snake that had got away and finally ii
was a lion. That caused some folks to
hurry along. "Blime me-" said DR.
Archer, the next time Mr.. Bostock
wants me to carry monkeys across the
bridge he'll get somebody else. What
a.. 800. th;nlr thnt hnhhN oof1o IL taII
ne to go about me business and to
Gwan.' / ant get that monkey, and
I'll have to hurry to Coney TO show
EN- hat 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
t every time. The trolley cars slowed
up and so did the bridge cars. b. r. II
employees were hustling around trying
20 find things to throw. Then the Jack
ar came along and climbed down. I'VE
got a monkey on the ship" he said,
and / guess / can 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
donkey. Jack rolled off toward Coney
sland with a tight grip on the hole liz
he bag and the trains again began to
run at full speed.