The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-07

wars, when this oasis in the desert wa!
the rendezvous of the army. He is still
| there. as great a man as ever
| DISCOVERED A MINE.
| When he had no further care with the
| camels. but was nomad on the desert. Hi
| Jolly turned his attention to prospecting
| About twenty years or so ago the course
| of his life was turned into new channels
when he discovered rich mine near Tomb
| stone. He developed It and sold It fol
| $1,000.
Then he began to feel the loneliness OF
his state. Senorita Teresa Ruiz. a pretty
Mexican girl. maybe heightened Hijoly g
feeling of loneliness.
He offered to share his fortune with her
he a Mohammedan. she Catholic-and she
accepted. They were married by l.. F.
Bradshaw. Justice of the Peace at Tyson's
Wells. Hijoly resigned his position as Gov
eminent caretaker of camels. and. with his
bride and his fortune. went to Turkey.
His story is like that of thousand and
one prospectors who have struck 1t rich.
The fortune didn't last long. and the wifes
affections expired when the purse was
empty.
They never did know in Arizona what be-
came Of Nine Hijoly. Some think that she
remained in Paris.
But Hijoly returned. His occupation was
gone.
The Government had no camels to be
herded and wanted none, and the herder
had forfeited his contract. Hjoly attempted
to capture one of the few camels that were
running near Harquahala, but never found
one to take the place of his bull.
Fortune never again smiled on him. but he
lived in a mixture of frontier and Oriental
comfort in his cabin. near Quartzite. main
tanning himself by freighting and doing odd
jobs for the men of the mines and the
desert.
None knew the Territory better
He had trave-sed every corner of the des-
erts and the mountains and valleys.
He knew natures moods in the vast will
derness of sand. and how to take advantage
OF every circumstance, where other men
would be daunted.
He hired out as a Government packer and
went with the army to the Philippines, but
the climate affected his health and he soon
returned to Arizona.
General Miles was one Of Hi1olys stanch-
est friends.
The commander of the army Endorsed a
petition for a pension for the camel driver,
and, 1t was intended had he lived, that
bill should be introduced in Congress ask
ing for a special pension appropriation for
Hitoly.
Among the few worlds goods that he
owned, those that he treasured most were
letters from General Miles, General Law
ton and General Shafter. He served under
General Crook, and from that commander
also had tokens of remembrance.
HAPPY DAYS RECALLED.
On his deathbed Hijoly became reminis-
cent.
He retained a clear mind to the last. In
Spanish, which he spoke more fiuently than
English, he told of his early life on the des
ert. dwelling with peculiar pleasure on the
time intervening between the abandonment
of the camels by the army and when he
made his stake.
'.They evidently were the happy days Of
his life. He told of how the Mexfcans were
frightened at his big bull camel. which he
would ride into the pueblos and drive out
the inhabitants.
one Of his stories was that once he rode
I'D softly behind an old woman who was en-