The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-08-06


X%XN8b since 1903. 1t is supposed to be some
SSH2k3M sort Of a dinosaur. Iasmuch the
SOAN dinosaur is hfty-foot lizard that
dates back to the age Of Reptiles"
which antedates man this earth by anywhere
from 60 to GOO millions of years. The scientists are
naturally saying, with the country boy at the cir
Gus Mt sight Of his first hippopotamus. Gosh there
amt no sich anlme"
|. Still there such animal once. And
people are saying they have seen such animal
now. Hence Captain Stevens expedition to
Africa.
The earlier reports have been corroborated by
two Belgian big-game hunters, who report sighting
a huge beast of terrifying proportions and at
tributes. Mr.. Gapelle one Of the Belgians says
his party caught glimpse of huge beast rending
his way through the Jungle verdure which defed
geological analogy. He says 1t was in the general
shape of a lizard. probably fifty feet long, with
a thick tall like a kangaroo's, hump its back
and a terrifying horn Its snout. The monster
was covered with scales, which were colored with
great blood-red spots from which radiated pale
green stripes
A well-known English naturalist and collector
has written to the press that there is every reason
to believe there is such animal living in the
heart OF the UNEMPLOYED jungles, II not great num-
bers OF them. During his stay In Africa he heard
the story from many different sources, he says,
that he Is convinced there Is some truth In 1t.
Fifteen years ago. when collecting In the
TransvaaI, heard an interesting story of mon
ster half snake half beast My informant, OF the
RhodesIan police, who patrolled Barotseland.
said he had approached within hundred yards
OF 1t while 1t was lying asleep on the border Of a
swamp. 1t was he declared. a hundred feet long
and Its strange appearance so frightened him that
1t awakened and glided into the swamp before he
could raise his gun. 1t Travelled noiselessly and
with great speed
1.-THE country round about was quite unex-
plored. My friend told that l was the first
70 fhn,, hr had ~
afraid to tell his comrades because they would
have laughed at him.
Once again when was on the French Kongo
seaboard heard fearful stories from the native
hunters OF the monster. ! also heard the same
stories on the way to the Belgian Kongo where
the present so-called brontosaurus is supposed to
have been seen. When you hear stories from three
or four widely different sources believe there Is
some truth In them You must remember that II
you travel to Feman Faz and Settle Cana and 20
up into the Interior most of the country has never
been explored. What creatures live in its vast
mysteries We do not know Whether the socalled
brontosaurus Is a prehistoric survival or not
WOULD not care to say. firmly believe the crea-
ture exists, but believe 1t is unknown creature
of more modern descent
THE brontosaurus, whatever the strange
creature Is makes of Its legs and Its body
it glides. / should imagine 1t is very dangerous
creature. But that 1t is not all fairy-tale am
certain. have been there, and have talked with
natives who will not pass a certain boundary into
an EVIL land because of the huge monsters which
live In It's remote solitudes."
Walter Winans, American living In Lon
don. the pistol champion and big game hunter
also believes In the existence of this creature.
"The late Carl Hagenbeck told me before the
war;" Mr. Winans said. that two Of his travellers
on different expeditions and in different years.
had the brontosaurus In swamps in central
Africa. / do not think It is impossible that some
~ V-<or ole,
several explorers have seen glimpses of what they
think must be such animals they are most prob
ably right. 1t Is not as II some one not used TO
recognizing them instantly saw wild animals for
the first time. These are always on the
lookout for new species and know all the animals
by sight.
ut is possible that the sea-serpent is one Of
these so-caled extinct reptiles and that the dodo
may still exist somewhere not yet explored The
quagga too which existed until a few years aoo
may still live In some unexplored part of Africa
and the mammoth and the cave bear still wander
In Siberia"
Mr. winans went further to satisfy the Eng
fish public and drew outline Of what this AMI
NAL probably looks like. With that picture which
appeared In the Evening News, he appended this
bit Of descriptive argument:
1.-The scientists draw this beast standing on ,ts
legs mammal would. Now no mammalian
animal has the combined heavy tail and long nect
this animal has. kangaroo hns the heavy raj,
but 1t is built very light in front with only short
rudimentary legs. 1t uses It's tail as third leg
in combination with Its two hind legs and works
on tripod formed. The giraffe has long
neck. but it is built light behind and its tail ia
30 light that 1t practically has weight in COM
parison. The giraffe carries It's head high SO
as not TO put leverage on II.
NOW the brontosaurus is heavy both in the
tail and the neck which, besides are both yery
long. If II stood the scientists draw IT, the tail
md neck would overbalanas Y and a slight pun