Arizona republican., 1896-02-28
LORD COKER, THE ARTIST
A Phoenix Boys Eleva-
 tiOn to Fame.
He Will Become the Com
 panion of Lord Douglas.
The Two Will Write Book Oh "What We Don't Know About
 Riding BurroS.''

Cooker, the irrepressble, is winning
 fame for himself through his intimacy
 with my Lord Sholto Douglas, who first gained notoriety through wedding
 concert hall singer Coker is known
 to everybody in Phoenix as a jolly young Englishman who scorned the value of money and amused himself
 and the public by wonderful adapta-
 tion for sketching fierce looking cow
 boys and fiery steeds which found
 their way into The Riata, periodical
 he was connected with for a time.
 Coker is a hail fellow we'll met, whose peculiarities are not of this country, but were decided diversion ! to the monotonOus western ways.
 In spite of his harmless idiosyncra- ] sies, which were amusing, Cooker was not without talent and in addition to being clever artist is a catchy"
 writer as we'll. After spending sev-
 eral months in Phoenix Coker found the field too small for his talent, so acting on the advice of Horace Greeley,
 ''Go west, young man," he went as, far | as it was possible without stepping into the ocean. Coker had not tarried i long in Los Angeles before he was at i tracted to a fellow countryman in dis tress, Lord Douglas. My lord recog- nized friendly face and Wept silently on Coker's immaculate shirt front. Coker is a sympathetic fellow and Douglas outburst found ready re- sponse from the artist. Coker had
 wonderful fund of Arizona traditional
 lore treasured up which probably had irth stumbled up against the Casa Grande
 ruins. Wierd tales did Coker relate
 to his new found friend about this country and of his personal adven- lures. Lord Douglas grew enthusias-
 tic to such degree that he proposed
 the two make trip across the Arizona ! wilds on the backs of Arizona canary | birds, (burros) he, Douglas) to do the | writing and Coker furnish the artistic flourishes. The scheme broadened and | now the two strangely drawn together
 are making preparations for a thou sand miles journey through Arizona
 and Mexico. Coker will be of valuable assistance to his lordship, for with his | extensive knowledge of Arizona he will | be able to distinguish a Gila monster
 from prairie dog.
 Cooker has earned the title of Lord
 Coker, which the following interesting item from the Los Angeles Record would indicate:
 | Lady Sholto Douglas will arrive from the north this afternoon, and
 will reside here, while her noble hus- band and Lord Coker, the equally no- ble journalist who is now engaged on
 a morning paper, make their exp1ora- tions preliminary to writing their lordships' book, "A Thousand Miles on
 3 Burro." Lady Douglas has aban- doned the stage while her husband learns the authors art, under the
 guidance of Lord Coker, who, by the 1 way, is the only newspaper man in the state who wears 2 monocle. Lord Douglas is now in receipt of an allow
 ance of $1, 300 year from his father, ] Queensberry, so he can well afford to
 indulge in the luxury of writing books. | The many friends of Lord Douglas
 will be glad to learn that his wife is
 not accompanied by her mother, Mrs.
 Mooney, who made things lively for the young man some time ago."