The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-07-30
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District, in .irizona, early III its hstor
He was Il mtlle-yery pronouncc&lly mul
Joe Singleton brought him into the distlic
He said lie gave one hundred dollars f
him III California He expected to z,
some work oat of Jerry in the mines. Il
didn't.
Jerry was tile color ola sunbeam buffal
robe, large and angular, and knock-knee
before and behind-very behind. He ha
only one ear. The other had probabl
been cut off by some one in a tit Of anger
1t was, no doubt, the last mules car tlla
that man ever cut off. Jerry was a mul
that would resent anything Of that kinC
/ When he was going to sleep his survivin
ear would nod and nod, and sink lower an
lower, until it hung down over his eyes
Jerry was dreaming then of his childhoot
days. He was an old mule--in meanness
Joe tried Jerry at various kinds of work
Tried him at a whim for raising ore. Jerr1
didn't work long until he had Il misuntler
/ standing with his driver. He kicked thu
driver and drove him off the hill. Jerry
was so certain that no miner would worl
III the shaft when he was at the whim II
do 50 would be taking chances with the ort
bucket. Hewas harneSsed to Water-car
but kicked the head out of the water-bar.
rel. Next he was placed in a team. His
habits were demoralizing to the other
mules il the team, aud he was removed
from their society. One evening he and
another mule were tied together to keeL
them from wandering too far. and turned
ont to browse for the night. The next
morning one of them was dead Jerry
wouldn't work at anything. He just
wanted to wander around and enjoy him.
self
He got 50 he had nearly all his time tc
himself. He roamed about the camp and
vicinity. One day he fel! down an aban-
doned shaft, thirty feet deep. No one tried
to get him out. 1t was thought he might
end his useless existence in there. He
could be seen at tie bottom nodding. Fin
ally, after lie had been in five days, Tom
kerrigan took pity OH hlm. Tom was
kind to animals. He said jerry was Il bad
mule, but he ought not to be allowed to
starve. Tom rugged ropes, got help, and
loisted him out Then he walked up TO
Jerry, and, patting him attcctionately,
said:
Had Il pooty rough time, didn't you,
old boy: -
Tom disappeared into the shaft Jerry
had Strengthened out one of his hind-legs
Tom was taken out very seriously injured.
He fingered between life and death for a
long time. lie had to have one of his legs
amputated, and finally got off with stiff
arm. He is making his living as musi-
clan in San Francisco now-a hand-orgail.
Jerry did not have :; paint-brush tail
His owners had always seemed to like his
natural tail. They loved life.
Jerry was getting to be prominent in
ivanpaugh. lie was a rising mule. His
conduct, however, was beginning to tell
on his owner. Joe Singleton had come
into camp Il steady young man, but lie was
getting Il little reckless aud dissipated
Trouble on his mind.
Joe was getting poorer, and he needed
bis mules assistance. He tried Jerry once
more, drawing the ear in and out once III q
kicking manner. Just as he returned from
the mouth OF the tunnel to the face of it, Il
big blast went OFT prellaturely. Outside
parties ran into the tunnel, pecring allx-
men working at the face were injured.
They We're all dead. Jerry was missing.
The blast had made an unexpected large
hole in the floor of the tunnel.
When the smoke grew less dense, Jerry
was discovered standing at the bottom of
this hole, unhurt, chewing piece Of fuse.
Jerry would eat almost anything. He was
partial to pieces of bacon-rind, Vagon-cov-
ers. and collars. He could make a com
Portable meal of aXle-grease. AT one time
he was stealing barley from u sack; there
were some giant cartridges mixed i'll with
the barley; he picked up one Of the car
tridges: anumber of men were watching
him, expecting to see him meet u horrible
death; they thought it would be a fit end
ing to his career. Jerry chewed and the
cartridge exploded. His tail made a little
tremuIons move-that was all. He spit out
the shell and took another cartridge.
A new man from California came into
the camp. He recognized jerry and Joe.
He said Joe had not given a hundred dol
lars for the mule. That Jerry was from
the San Joaquin Valley, where he had
been prominent, leading mule. That
there had been mass-meetings of the citi-
zens to determine how to get rid Of Jerry.
He was thinning out the farming commu-
nifty. That, finally, the County Court of
Merced County gave Joe Singleton, who
was passing through the county, zen dol
lars to take the mule to Arizona. Joe's
hundred-(o!Iar story was exploded, He
was ioked about it, He drank harder.
Jerry wandered further and further
away from the camp. Joe had despaired
Of him, Other mules would not associate
with him. They felt constrained in bis
presence. IIe disappeared.
One day an Ivanpaugh Indian came into
camp. His band made their headquarters
on a little creek twenty miles away. He
was in trouble. He wanted to go to Wash
ingtou To see the great father. He said:
Me want TO talk great father. MelicaE
man mean. Let mule go-mule eat tent
Papoose be hit mule--mule he kill papost
kill squaWs. Me big chief-hit mule
mule bit nle--he big chief
Il was Jerry.
Joe Singleton died in an insane asylum
HAes E4aasEnesG, Too.
The tthicf Of Police yesterday had Wis
lit from IN old farmer living ont ON ths
Center Line road, who had q story to tell
I After two OF three efforts, he began:
Il vhas goin' home last night When
#oyerrakes two men on der rOaut. DOS
fellers dey 1aft, nnd saidt would ] gif zen
la ride. | laft too, nnd say, shunp in"
es, [ understand.
/ ..PootF queek one feller Taft, md said
The likes Dutchmens, cause his uncle vha
ja Dutellmans. DotYhas all right, nnd $
II laft TOO. | yhas real @Iled, und
Asha!Ses al oafer.
Yes.''
Is IN. a leetlle- while one weller vhants m
TO shange a seyen-tlollar bill, SO as b
leelld gfEf some money 70 der orphan asy
Iinis, ilnd he iafts lla ha. ha! Dot tick
led me some more, und lafts too. De-
de odderfeller, he grabs me py der cola
q Il klE