Elephants Made Cranbrook Famous

from _The Cranbrook Courier_, September 30, 1926 (p1)

ELEPHANTS MADE CRANBROOK FAMOUS - Former Resident States that Eastern
people are Highly Interested
The following excerpt from a letter written by B.E. Howard, formerly
manager of the Imperial Bank here, to a Cranbrook friend, indicates that
eastern people feverishly followed the news dealing with the recent chase
of the escaped Sells-Floto elephants. Here is what Mr. Howard has to say
of the publicity into which Cranbrook has been thrust -
"The elephant jungles around Cranbrook have become quite famous in
the East, and some of our best hunters were thinking of going there for the
fall shoot. However that is all off now. I see by the morning papers that
Tommy Roberts captured the last of the herd and treated him to champagne.
I might say that the latter part of that story is not altogether given
credence. Some people say that the bottle Mr. Roberts used on the elephant
was empty; but be that as it may, the elephants are gone and unless someone
can assure our hunters with regard to the champagne - what they wish to
know is that the bottles are not empty - there will be no exodus of Ontario
sportsmen to the Cranbrook woods this year."
Mr. Howard is now resident in Toronto. Having been more or less out
of touch with matters here for some time he expresses astonishment at the
phenomenal growth of Kimberley and the growing commercial importance of the
district generally.