The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-31


collection OF geological freaks on the
face of the earth. Morilet's truthful
tale was that he found an old man down
there who had spent all his life in coll
lecting and breeding puzzles for the
natural history classifiers.
Jose says that the old man had three
headed ella monsters, horned toads
with seven legs. steer with a head on
each end and no tail, dogs with snakes
heads, sheep with five legs and va
riety of other hideous surprises on ma
ture entirely too numerous and in many
cases too horrible to mention. And this
five horned sheep being duplicate and
not very awful specimen at worst,
the old fend let him have him.
The bulldog was famous not only in
Maricopa county, but all over the terri
tory. He was probably the ugliest look
ing brute in any two judicial districts
and had got his teeth into the entrails
OF more than one bear in his time. A
bulldogs teeth are hooked, and when on
duty i'm the mouth of a full grown and
full blooded proprietor they have the
power to tear things asunder in most
pitiless fashion.
Some of the Phenix sports had an
idea they would like to see Tigers hooks
come together on the throat of Jose's
five horned pet, not because they had
anything in particular against the pet
mo one had-but because Jose used to
blow so much about the fighting quail
ties of him. 50 they tried several times
to arrange a match between the two
brutes. but when IL came to the scratch
Jose proved bashful and would not al
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making a good thing by exhibiting his
freak at 10 cents look, with a fondle
or two and the privilege OF feeding him
peanuts thrown in, and he protested
that he didn't want to make his pet un
popular by having him officiate as exe-
cutioner OF the most popular bulldog IL
the county.
OF course the sports swore that Jose
was afraid to lose his freak. and there
the matter rested for month or two.
and people began to lose interest in the
strange animal.
Jose left Phenix and took his mas
cot along with him, and this is proba-
bly, the only thing he did take except
his trousers, shirt, sombrero. blankets
and boots. They were good boots, and
he had use for them.
When near the Gila Bend. the mas
cot and the Mexican came up with
Hake and Tiger. The meeting was
somewhat unexpected. and Tiger was
loose. So was the sheep.
All at once Tiger spied the freak and
began to sniff the air. Jose and his pet
came forward quite peacefully. The
freak is a very mild looking beast. with
face as bland as the face of All Sin.
Only his queer horns have an ugly look.
but at the same time they are SO pom
derous in appearance that one would
expect TO find them rather an incum-
brance in battle.
Well. the distance shortened between
the approaching parties. Then sudden
ly there was streak of dust about 10e
feet long stretching from Hake Nelson
to the mascot. In much less than anoth-
er second there was a bunch of dust
where the mascot had stood, and when
the dust had cleared away a little Hake
and Jose could see-and alas that the
Phenix sports could not!-a big black
and white bulldog, almost limp and
nearly dead. hanging by the neck be-
tween the two lower horns on the left
side of the freaks head.
How the thing happened no one will
ever know TO a nicely. but there was
the dog dying. and there was the freak.
painting. but still mild and bland. On
OF the antlers had penetrated and torn
the flesh of poor Tiger; but, although
the wound pled freely, it was not sufii'
cient to have caused the death that very
shortly ensued Hake and Jose held an
inquest then and there. and their unan-
imous verdict was that Tiger came TO
his end by strangulation at the hands
or, rather, at the horns-of the queer
est animal ever seen in Moricopa coun'
ty. The jurors also exonerated the
freak. They could have done no less,
for he was surely not the attacking
party. :
The dogs neck was wedged in tightly.
so taat he could only be extracted by
main force. II the FIVE horned freak
ever goes back to Phenix the boys VIII
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