The Parker post., 1915-04-24
WILL TRAP MONKEYS
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Cunningham Pass to grind dimes
ont of those who had an appreciative
ear for music and a taste for monkey
shines. He left the landing at
the Bill Williams and started to walk
to the Pass, leading his monkeys ana
carrying his grind organ, an ola
Sharps rifle and a canteen OF water
He had either been i'll advised or mis-
calculated the distance and Ine
amount of water he would need en-
route. for he was never seen again
until his remains were found ABOUT
ten miles from Cullen's Wells (noW
kuown as Drew's Wells) lying beside
the grind organ, the rifle and an
empty canteen, having no doubt per-
ished from thirst. The name OF the
nan was learned from letters found
in his pocket. The monkeys nttle
chains and collars were also found on
the spot, which evidenced the fact
that when the grinder realized that
i was all off with him., he had turn
ed his pets loose in order to give
nem at least fighting chance Tor
their lives. The monkeys thus iber-
a,ed instinctively made their way to
water and have since been living and
propagating their species in that To-
cality, subsisting on mesquite beans,
prickley pears and various kinds OF
desert weeds.
The only appreciable difference
sad to xist between the Italian, S
, monkeys 2 those of today is that
the former were thumbless and had
long. prehensile tails, while the latter
have thumbs on their hands but are
minus the prehensory appendage;
aside from that, however, they are
identically alike and both undoubtedly
belong to the ''macacco" family OF
the genus quadrumana. If, however,
the physical difference is not due to
a mistake in the recollection of those
who have see, the Italians monkeys,
then the only plausible though pure
ly speculative solution of the matter
is that the physical defect was
wrought through natural transition
due to local conditions, agreeable to
the Darwinian theory of evolution in
the lower order of animals.
The gret es+ difficulty encountered
hy the m nkry hunters has been the
ievising o: su' ;1bie traps with which
to capture the monkeys without in
any way manning CT injuring them.
After much research they have finally
decided upon a very simple and in
expensive eXpedient, one said to be
used exclusively by monkey trappers
in South America and other tropical
climes. 1t is simply bottle, secure
ly fastened to a stake, with a mouth
and neck sufficiently large to admit
the open hand of a monkey, and a
nut is placed in the bottle as bait.
The monkey will thrust his hand in
to the bottle to get the nut but as
soon as his fist closes upon the nut
it cannot be withdrawn, and, monkey
like, he will never think of letting
go the nut to make his escape. Thus
he is held until net is thrown over
him and he is carried off a captive.
The company has secured all the
suitable bottles to be had at the City
Drug Store and if the experiment
works as it is expected to, they will
have large numbers of them made to
order.
The projectors are very sanguine of
success and declare that the time is
coming when monkey business" will
no more be a synonym for something
foolish or visionary but will be recog-
nized as one of the stable industries
of Yuma county and accorded it's
proper place at the right hand Of big
business in all that that term i'm
plies