Arizona republican., 1896-05-23

Desma owed Porterie $10, that was loaned him to gamble with, but as time passed and the Indian showed no disposition to repay the loan it van shed from lPorterie's mind. One time the scout drifted into Phoenix leading an old dromedary that had seen years of service on the burning deserts of Egypt The scout had come across the animal and as it had not quite returned to the wild state he was easily cap tured. In those days once in great | while a circus used to pass through here and the astute Indian saw a. pos sible chance for gain by capturing the animal and selling him at profit to a circus. The scout and his prize ere a!ted great surprise when the grand en- trance was made into Phoenix and sev eral dunaways was the first thing on the programme.
 The scout found out that camels were not wanted and as a circus might not come through for some months he was | in quandry as to what disposition to make of the beast, besides camels as general rule are blessed with excellent | capacities which did not at all cores 1 pond to La Desma's idea. He hap pened to run across Porteriel and it re- minded him of the gambling debt. He saw chance to repay the coin and preached Porterie on the subject The latter was willing to call the debt square and so took possession of the | camel.
 It was not many days before Joe came to the conclusion that he had a camel on his hands, so to speak. He I kept it tied up for awhile near Lount's 1 place, but had to remove him on ac- count of horses becoming frightened He next placed him in a pasture, but 1 the strange beast scared all the stock on the place until they broke down the 1 fences and scattered. Joe had to re- move the camel again and placed him | in a corral which stood on the site of | the Fleming block. The cameps stay was short there also and the owner in despair was on the point of killing it when saloon keeper thought it night | be good advertisement to place the beast on exhibition in the rear of his place of business. Joe was glad to get rid of the camel and readily loaned it to the saloon man. The curiosity did not prove to be much of an attraction and only resided a few days in the rear of the saloon. One day a man got too attentive to the beast, who resented the familiarity by nearly kicking the man I into the next county and almost kill | ing him. The saloon keeper told Por- terie to take charge of the animal, but the latter had all the circus he wanted, so turned the beast loose to roam whither his fancy took him.
 The camel walked leisurely west ward out of town, but had not pro- ceeded far when it overlook a farmer driving couple of mules with load of hay. The mules saw the apparition and started on the run and their wild course was cut short by the outfit fall | ing into the Maricopa canal, but the driver was left somewhere by the road side.
 | Totally unconcerned at the sensation the dromedary pursued the even tenor of his way and had not proceeded much 1 farther before a large drove of hogs hove in sight. The porkers, like the mules, did not take kindly to the native Of Africa and scattered all over the country and the drovers never did sue ceed in rounding them all up That was the last seen of the camel for some time, but those who Suffered by runa- ways, etc., tried to bring damages against Porterie, but that individua, was insolvent.
 At the time the camel was in Phoe- nix there was 8. Greek here named Hi Jolly, who pronounced the beast to be one of the original herd brought from Syria. Jolly was one of crowd that
 brought 150 of the beasts from that place in the eos to Los Angeles for the government for use on the Mohave desert, the government thinking that they could be proftab,y used for freighting. The venture proved a
 failure and the camels were sold at auction, but several of them were never rounded up and took to the desert.
 Jolly was in Los Angeles during the
 Franco-Prussian war and when the
 news of the downfall, of Paris reached
 that place the Germans of the city hell
 a big picnic short distance out of
 town. Jolly was a sympathizer of the
 French cause and the jo.lification of
 the Germans greatly enraged him. He
 hitched up couple of the old camels