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Show ELEP11 001 OF THE ZI ZOO At the city commission's meeting Monday night, while the city solons were discussing tho desire for a zoo, as reported yesterday by Tho Standard, Stan-dard, a Salt Lako reporter volunteered volunteer-ed a suggestion that iho Salt Lake zoo might bo willing .to donato ono large and festive elephant. The commissioners com-missioners solemnly pondered the ldeat how to obtain an elephant, the nucleus of the desired zoo. Donkeys and monkeys are plentiful, but Jungle-land Jungle-land is distant and elephants arc scarce. Yesterday afternoon, as if hoaring the rumor, Princess Alice, tho pachyderm pachy-derm quoen of the Zlon zoo, suddenly went on a terrific rampage, plunging through barns, sheds and over ditches like a British "tank, dashed through yards, mowed down fences, trees and shrubbery, threateningly swinging hor prehensile proboscis and trumpeting in thunder, tones her defiance of the Democrats and all mankind, terrorizing terroriz-ing the people and escaping to Big Cottonwood canyon, where she was hailed by an insurniduhtablc precipice and had to surrender to Harry Petch-ell, Petch-ell, her former circus trainer, who mounted her head and roue ner back to the park in triumph. The elephant's legs and trunk were badly lacerated by contact with barbed barb-ed wire Tenses, buildings and other obstructions. ob-structions. Throughout her furious rampage the princess was followed at a Bafe distance dis-tance by hundreds of men and boys and a multitude of yelping dogs. The elephant's exploit has emphasized empha-sized the idea of obtaining her as a gift as "Exhibit A" rof the Ogden zoo. She's a perfectly good elephant, 'tis said, though a trifle temperamental. |