Alaska sentinel., 1907-10-10
NATURE STORIES BY SAILORS
Snake that Killed Monkey and
 Lived in victims Skull.

Lived in Nictim's Skull. President Rooseyelts attacks upon the authenticity of other persons ma ture stories and the men who tell them may lead to international complications If continued, for today 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 predominatlng desire on several occasions during the 3OOO0- mile journey that the Indrapura, under ! Captain kelway's command, ended upon her arrival In New York. Be- sides Chow, the In1rapura boasts of Tyser, wire-haired Irish terrier, and Pickles, a gamecOck. Said Mr. Vain wright first officer of the Indrapura i All this talk about nature faking Is rot for I can tell you things that hap pened on this ship that neither Pres- dent Roosevelt Dr. Long, MT. Roberts, nor Chauncey M. Depew has ever seen. 1 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- lieye that Pickles has 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 Lascars 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 10 make the spurs harmless.
 1 Next day Pickles began picking the dog in the port side with his beak. He kept 1t up every day for week. and then he switched to the starboard side. Finally one day the hoWls 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 Tuthll, the Indrapuras third officer, told q nature story about snake and q monkey which he got at Singapore and which fought a battle to the death. The snake was a beauti- full reptile of the garter variety, and the monkey was bushy-faced little 2 ity. One morning the snake and mon- key were found in deadly battle. The monkey was killed and the snake crawl ed Into Its skull and cIrcled about In It. entering in at one eye and out of another. Finally he got all knotted up and died Mir. Tuthill dried the outfit under the fierce tropical sun in the Red Sea and to-day he shows his friends the fantastic souvenir of the bleached monkeys skull with the little snake, practically petrfied, still entwined through the monkeys head
 Second Engineer Fraser. of the freighter Tndra~lli, lying almost along side the Indrnpura at the Bush stores l in South Brooklyn, told of battle be- l tween cheetah on board the Indra- velll and bulldog In th!s harbor If Roosevelt decides against the cheetah as an easy victor over bulldog he will 1 have to do so over the words of seven ! British marines, stanch and true. ] The cheetah was chained to the port rail on the sun deck and was uncon- ! cernedly washing his face as the two men discussed him.
 I've got a dog that can do that cat | In about two minutes said the long shoreman.
 Bring along the dog" said the steve dore.
 ! The cheetah paid no particular atten- ton to the dog when the latter was let go and made for the chained animal. It went calmly on wIping its face in It's morning ablutions. The dog was with In foot of the cheetah when the latter suddenly raised both his front paws, caught the bulldog between them at the neck and in a twinkling ripped him open. The cheetah then continued his washing exercises as if nothing had [ happened.-New York Evening Tele- gram.