Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-08-20

of glowing green eyes and great teeth with
the flash of red tongue writhing between. A zebra
switched the reporter with his tail and he turned
only to jump almost out of his skin as elephant
touched him the other shoulder with his trunk
He was hardly over his when. zip. leopard
ached out after his coat tail.
In way this lower deck section
good place to visit the joy relief being able
to leave it furnished the biggest and absorb
ing sensations that this monotonous world has
held for the reporter in the last few months at
least.
BarteIs & Co.. the largest dealers wild
beasts in this country
"A large wild animal DEALER said our inform
ant imports considerably more than hundred
large wild animals each year. For instance, our
record for one year which 1 happen to have at
hand, shows that imported in that period 20
elephants, IS camels 20 tigers lions, 45 leopards,
20 pumas, is panthers and hundreds birds and
monkeys and small things. Cubs-lion and tiger
and bear cubs-are in special demand by wealthy
families They are reared and petted like kittens,
but in the end they outgrow their playfulness and
the families who bought them from only
TOO willing to pay us to come and take them away
when they attain any sort of growth We have
received many orders for hippopotami, but the
beasts are hard to capture and ninetynine times
out of a hundred they do not live through the
voyage. In fact, menageries throughout the
try nave to depend of late years upon the progeny
of the hippopotami in Central Park, New York,
for specimens.
Like all animal dealers, we maintain expert
these men who fill the ships which arrive here.
The Hagenbecks have two collecting stations,
one in Calcutta and the other in Aden Arabia From
this point the animal catchers go forth and spend
months in the wilds, returning the stations
their scatch.ESFe Ourselves send cafchers direct
from this country-at present have men in
South America, the hot sands of Africa in the
Himalayas, and elsewhere, filling orders. One
of them recently in Arabia a camel hunt
two now in the East Indies trapping tigers
and SO they spread about in places where wild
beasts abide.
Sometimes receive order for large
number of elephants We telegraph this order
catchers in the elephant country, who, after
organizing the natives into "a hunting band, pro-
coed to collect the desired number A huge in
closure is built in of the main elephant paths,
and night when the big animals come to feed
they driven into the Enclosure keddah by
means of fires and shouts and the firing of guns.
Beaters tame elephants then ride into the
closure and rope the beasts, and in short time
they become accustomed to being led about. Ele-
plants naturally mild, and this the
they never could be captured, because of
their great hulking strength
The natives also captured elephants in pits,
a barbarously cruel method in which
SO per cent. killed by the fall The animal
catchers take tigers and lions In pits also They
dig hole, cover it with mating and place this
mating dead goat. At night the lion tiger
steals from his lair, the goat and springs
upon it, The mating, of course. gives way and
down into the pit goes the roaring beast Then the
catchers run up and throw into the pit and
the struggling animal becomes hopelessly en-
tangled. Moses then lowered into the pit and
the beast is dragged out to the cage Six of
every killed in this process. Leopards
jaguars and the smaller animals caught in