The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1907-08-24
NATURE STORIES BY SAILORS.
Snake that Killed n Monkey and
Lived In Vfcffmss skull


Lived In Victims skull.
President Roosevelts attacks upon |
the authenticity OF other persons ma
lure stories and the men who tell them
may lead to international complications !
II continued. for to-day several new
brands Of anecdotes Of animals came to |
town, and the authors are ready to
stand up for their rights and their YER
acity.
On board the British freight steam
ship Indrapura. in port from Japan and
India, is Chow, chow dog. Chow
would rather fight than eat, and he
demonstrated his predominating desire
on several occasions during the 10000
mile journey that the Indrapura, under
Captain Kelway's command, ended
upon her arrival In New York. Be
sides Chow. the Indrapura boasts Of
Tyser, a wire-halred Irish terrier, and
Pickles, a gamecock. Said Mr.. Vain
wright, first officer of the Indrapura:
"All this talk about nature taking is
rot, for l can tell you things that hap
pened on this ship that neither Presi-
dent Roosevelt, DR.. Long, Mr.. Roberts,
nor Chauncey NJ. Depew has ever seen.
You wouldn't believe. for instance, that
the gamecock can clean the deck In
ten seconds OF every living thing And
Mr.. Roosevelt would perhaps not be-
lieve that Pickles has a habit OF jump
Ing on the back of Chow. digging his
spurs into the Chinese dogs hide, and
then calmly attempting to pick Chow's
eyes out. The last time we rescued the
dog it took the entire crew of forty-sev-
en- Iascars to get Pickles from his back.
We tried to clip Pickles spurs, but they
resisted the sharpest knife, and finally
the smith shaped some metal caps, nice
ly rounded, so as to make the spurs
harmless
Next day Pickles began picking the
dog In the port side with bis beak He
:, kept 1t up every day for a week, and
then he switched TO the starboard side.
Finally one day the bowls OF the chow
dog again resounded through the steam.
ship. Pickles was in his accustomed
place, his capped spurs dug deep into
holes which he had picked. and he was
again trying to pick out Chow's eyes
Vivian Tuthill, the Tndrapura's third
officer, told a nature story about q
snake and a monkey which he got al
Singapore and which fought a battle
to the death. The snake was a beauti
the monkey was a bushy-faced LITTLE
fellow of sweet temper and great agil
ity. One morning the snake and mon
key were found in deadly battle. Th'
monkey was killed and the snake crawl
ed into it's skull and circed about II
it, entering in at one eye and out o
another. Finally he got all knotted VI
and died Mr.. Tuthill dried the outfi
: under the fierce tropical sun In the Re-
Sea and to-day he shows his friend
the fantastic souvenir of the bleache'
3 monkeys skull with the little snake
practically petrifed. still entwiue
g through the monkeys head
Second Engineer Fraser. of th
I freighter Indravelli. lying almost alonl
: side the Indrapura at the Bush store
: in South Brooklyn. told of battle b.
q tween a cheetah on board the Indri
velli and a bulldog in this harbor.
e Roosevelt decides against the cheeta
j as an easy victor over a bulldog he wi
have to do so over the words OF seve
= British marines, stanch and true.
l The cheetah was chained to the POI
J rail on the sun deck and was uncol
cernedly washing his face as the tw
men discussed him.
u 1--WE got a dog that can do that CT
h In about two minutes" said the loni
= shoreman.
i Bring along the dog" said the stew
dore.
J. The cheetah paid no particular ate
!, ton to the dog when the latter was
20 and made for the chained amino
1t went calmly on wiping its face In
morning ablutions. The dog was wit
= In a foot of the cheetah when the latt
" suddenly raised both his front paw
" caught the bulldog between them
n the neck and in twinkling ripped hi
Of open. The cheetah then continued /
" washing exercises as II nothing hi
rt happened.-New York Evening Te
is gram.