The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-07
JERRY.
A Story that Seems to Lack Some of the
Internal Evidences of Truth,
but. Severtheless-.
Salt Lake Tribune.


Jerry made his appearance in Ivan
paugh district, in Arizona, very early in
its history. He was mule. Very pro-
nounced mule. Joe Singleton brought
him into the district. He said he gave
500 for him in California. He expect.
ed to get some work out of Jerry in the
mines. He didn't
Jerry was the color of a sunbeam buff
falo robe, large and angular, and knock
kneed before and behind-very, behind.
He had only one ear, the other had prob
ably been cut off by some man in a fit
of anger. 1t was, no doubt, the last
mules ear the man ever cut of. Jerry
was mule that would resent anything
| of that kind. When he was going to
sleep his surviving ear would nod and
nod, and sink lower and lower, and low
| er, until it hung down over his eyes.
Jerry was dreaming then of his child
hood days. He was an old mule, in
meanness.
Joe tried Jerry at different kinds of
work. Tried him at within for raising
ore. Jerry didn't work long until he
had misunderstanding with his driver.
He kicked the driver and drove him off
| the hill. Jerry was SO certain that no
miner would work in the shaft when he
was at the within. To do so would be
| taking chances with the ore bucket. He
was harneSsed to q water-cart, but kicked
| the head out OF the water barrel Next
| he was placed in a team. His habits
were demoraliZing 10 the other mules in
| the team, and he was removed from their
society One evening he and another
mule were tied together to keep them
| from wandering too far and turned out to
browse for the night. The next morn
ing one of them was dead. Jerry
4 Il - ~
wanted TO wander around and enjoy
| himself.
1t got so he had nearly all his time to
himself. He roamed about the camp and
vicinity. One day he fell into an aban-
doned shaft thirty feet deep. No one
| tried to get him out. 1t was thought he
nj ~ .ead his useless experieace in
there. He could be seen at the bottom
nodding. Finally, after he had been in
five days, Tom Karrigan took pity on
him. Tom was kind to animals. He
said Jerry was bad mule, but he ought
not 10 be allowed to starve. Tom rugged
ropes, got help and hoisted him out.
Then he went up to Jerry, and patting
him affectionately satd:
'Had poorly rough time. didn't you,
old boys
Tom disappeared in the shaft. Jerry
Acknowledgements out one of his hind legs
Tom was taken out very seriously injur-
ed He fingered between life and death
for long time. He had to have one OF
his legs amputated, and finally got up
with stiff arm. He is making his Inv.
ing as musician in San Francisco now
"a hand-organ.
Jerry did not have paint brush tail
His owners had always seemed to like
jus this natural tail. They loved life.
: Jerry was getting to be prominent In
Ivanpaugh. He was rising mule. Hi!
conduct, however, was beginning 10 tel
on his owner. Joe. Singleton had come
? into camp q steady young man, but ht
was getting little reckless and dissipat
ed. Trouble on his mind.
Joe was getting poorer, and he needed
his mules assistance. He tried JerrI
once more, drawing in and out of tn
tunnel Jerry drew the car out once il
: from the mouth of the tunnel to tn
face of it, big blast went off premature
, lys Outside parties went into the tuu
$ mel, peering anxiously through tn
smoke to see if the five men working d
g the face were injured. They were al
dead. Jerry was missing. The bias
had made an unexpected hole in tn
floor of this tunnel. When the snok
;, grew less dense. Jerry was discovere
1T the Ot
hurt, chewing "a piece of fuse. Jerr
5 would eat almost anything He wa
= partial to pieces of bacOn-rind, Wagon
covers, and collars. He could make
q comfortable meal on axle-greasc. 4
e one time he was stealing barley from
). sack. There were some giant cartridge
mixed in the barley. He picked up on
: of the cartridges. A number of me
were watching him, expecting him I
meet horrible death. They thought
would be a fit ending of his caree
Jerry chewed and the cartridge explode'
9 HIS tail made little tremulous move
3 that was all. He spit out the shell an
took another cartridge.
K A new man from California came ii
b to the camp. He recognized Jerry an
j. Joe. He said Joe had not given sic
v for the mule; that Jerry was from ii
San Joaquin valley, where he had bee
:, a prominent, leading mule, that thel
IL had been mass-meetings of the either
E there TO determine how to get rid of Je
ry.- lie was thinning out the farmIn
e community. That finally the count
d court of Monroe county, gave Joe Siugi
ton, who was passing through the cou
% ty, SO TO take the mule To Arizon
1t Joe's 500 dollar story was explode
st He was joked about 1t. He dram
lie harder.
d Jerry wandered farther and farth'
away from thecamp Joe bad dcsrairt
te Of him. Other mules would not assoc
4 ate with him. They felt constrained
e his presence. He disappeared.
8, One day an TvaDpaugh Indian can
~ into camp His band made their hea
quarters On a little creek twenty mil
- away He was in trouble. He wanti
:. to 90 10 Washington TO see the Gre
. Father He said: ME want TO talk
= Great Father Mclean man mean L
= mule go-mule eat tent, Papoose he /
: Mnle-mule kill papoose-kill squav
me big ehief-hit mule-mule hit me
u me big chief
OF 1t was Jerry.
y Joe Singleton died in the insane as