The Portland daily press., 1896-03-28
THE WEALTH HEST DOG.
Owner of $50, 0oo-He Is a Confirmed In
valid and is Unhappy.
(From the DENY er Republican. J

(From the DENY er Republican,
Perhaps the most distinguished party
of tourists the Brown Palace Hotel ever
gave shelter TO registered there yesterday
afternoon. All of its members did not
register, for one-and he the most distin-
guished of them all, in his way-cannot
form letter of the alphabet, let alone
write his name. The traveller is a fox
terrier, far advanced in years, and suffer-
ing from phthisis in its last stages.
But it is not to bis consumption. ig-
norance of chirography, or old age that
the Brown Palace Hotel fox terrier owes
his high distinction among CANNES, for
distinguished he is above all living and
dead mem hers Of the genus and species.
This dog is an eminently noteworthy ami
NAL because of the circumstance that
some time ago he became heir in his own
right to fortune of $50, 900. The money
was willed to him by his master, a
wealthy and aristocratic Philade1phian
ma med Davis. He is in Colorado by the
advice of his physician, a well-known
veterinarian of the Quaker city, who
hoped The mild climate and dry atmos-
phere would benefit the health of The opu-
lent canine invalid.
With the fox TERROR are the two Misses
Davis, daughters of the animals kind
hearted master; w. Il. Reynolds, friend
of the family, and maid, whose duties
are to nurse the dog, give him his cod
liver Oil, cough balsam, and other medi-
airings. They all-dog excepted, of
course-reglsteredf from Philadelphia, al
though that was not the point from which
they last started for Denver
Like many rich members of the human
family, wealth and ease have not brought
happiness TO the four-footed legatee OF
the $50 900 fortune. Day and night the
poor brute, if suoh term may be prop
erly applied to dog with big bank ac-
count. can be heard coughing in the most
dismal fashion. He has now been affiict-
ed with tuberculosis for morally year,
and Is steadily growing worse. Should
the balmy airs of the Rocky mountains
fall to bring him relief. it is highly
probable, though sad to contemplate,
will either go to buy him gravestoue.
or revert to tho state of Pennsylvania,
1t is understood that the fox terrier will
leave no heirs, and that Mr.. Davis OF
Philadelphia failed to make other provis-
ion in his will for the disposition of the
$50, 600 than that it should be expended
in caring for his commonplace pet.
Mr.. Davis is now dead. When in life
| and health he attached himself to the
terrier, then poverty stricken pup He
soon grew to love the little animal dearly
and in time they became constant COM
panions. In the service of his good mas
ter the fox terrier grew old. A t last the
death sickness came upon Mr.. Davis, and
with almost human prescience, the dog
came to recognize it. A Philadelphia
who claims to be acquainted with the
| facts Of the singular story. says that dur
| ing the last illness of his master the
faithful fox terrier neither ate, slept, nor
| ceased to whine mourntully. Doubtless
| it was during his dreary vigils and rigid
| fasting at that time that the fox terrier
laid in his system the seeds of lung dis
ease. Anyway, he was thin and poor
when his master at last passed away. AT
the funeral the dog is said to have been a
sincere mourner.