Arizona republican., 1899-07-05

haFe wifi be 2 mistake in tha mater Joe PcTter4e h2steHs to announce IGal
 ne was the unfortunate cv1sr of the 1 tast -carf=l. CT moIa properly speaking. dTCmeiary. He relates nI1 expsTisnca i -z--tl he an.mal-
 A MezlCan captured 1t Jn the desert near the Harqua Halas back in 'S8. | He hsaTd that a circus was coming to
 Phoenix and he brought his property
 here in the hope of selling it. In those
 days there was no Tail-Oad between l here and Maricopa and fragments of
 the shows came over in wagons. This particular circus was not favorab bly,
 impressed with the facilities for gaC- 1 ting here and abandoned it's engage
 nent.
 That dromedary had keen aDpe- tite, requiring one bale of hay per day, and the MeX.c3n soon tired of keeping it. He remembered that hs owed Joe Porter.e %1O. 2 d1Ibt of long standing. he went to Joe one day say
 ing he wanted to pay his debts, bIi
 Was broke and would part with the
 dr0msdary in full payment of h:s Obli-
 gation. Mir. Porterie accepted the an--
 maj for speculative purpOess, think
 ing also that he could sell it to a cir GUS. After it had ''eaten it's head off
 he concluded to dispose of i1. The horses and even burros which passed the dr0medary were greatly fright ene1. and Frank Trott, then city mar
 shal, ordered it out of the city. M~. Porte-fe mt it on pasture at the ranch
 of M. B. Mognett. The first day it was there it did about $500 worth of dam age soaring a bunch Of mules, all of which were badly Iacerst.cd on the barbed wire fences in an attempt to escape from the agsd and uns. ghtly creature.
 MT. M0gnett notified the owner that the presence elf his animal was no longer desired. MT. Polteries saw Tom Brown. who Lad a saloon where is a5 present. He said I the dromedary was put in the back yard it would be a great attraction. At i considerable expense a place Was fixed and a stack of hay was furnished The | drOmedary was offended 2t having to | be encircleli by a, fence ana il did not | eat anything for a w6-k at the end of | which time it did not stop eating unt-i | the whole sack of hay disapp l. i Then Tom Brown was uneasy. He wanted to get rid of the ship Of the ! desert" as he was afraid it would i gv,1mp his finances but the owner would net tage it back so it was turnad loose. It started up the alley and never stepped it's pace until it had gotten well down the Yuma road It approached @ load of hay driven by Mexican with the result that the two mules pulling the load parted ea1d the hay and one mule were dumped into he canal. The canal was blocked and flooded the neighbOrh00d. A littie ,3rther down the road and a large herd 2f hogs owned by the Fowler Bros vas frightened. The owners were hrea days in collecting the remain Ter of the herd, a good proportion laving escaped. Both the damaged parties came to town to enter suit for damages, but everybody disclaimed ownership of the dromeCary. The last # the dromedary was in the White Tanks mountains. IL lived in the -sse1rt a day or two after it's escape .ntil finally it Fn-oyed the Il- ians So much that they killed it.
 Not long after this circumstance, avs Mr Forter:e, the legislature ,assed a law protecting the csmels, \ ut there were no camels in AIizona. [