Arizona republican., 1904-01-09
HAPPY HOOLIGAN'S LUCK
He is at Last the Leading Figure in a
 Successful Enterprise.

l For once Happy Hooligan has struck ! it rich. For once an enterprise en- gazing his attention has turned out 1 successfully. But the Happy HOoligan referred to is not the ragged Happy with the tin can on his head. He is ' just plain dog. And not so very plain either for his personal appear ance is so freakishly- ugly that he is positively captivating.
 Happy HOoligan is an Indian dog. He was stolen from a native chief who came tO town for a stock of provisions by a member of the Phoenix volunteer ] fire department. who dragged him frcnl beneath the Indians wagon first just to get a good look at him. He was SO hideOusly handsome the fireman de- cided to appropriate him as one of the collection of nlascots kept at the en- zine house from time to time. He was christened Happy Hooligan. which
 is taken from the Indian tongue and which translated means Spotted Cur HoOligan has four feet and a tail. all of them being white. His .nuzzle is also white hut his body is coal black and a spot about the size of a beef steak. on one side of the head and including one eye. is also black His | n Nlir-fAl clAAAf- Mil-ll ul-tONtTtO DN CIVIL zation was ragged and tattered but altogether sublimely picturesque. Soon after. the dog crop of the city became white for the harvest and Hooligan found himself in the tolls Of the dog catcher. He was being fitted for the sacrifcial altar when the firemen in- terceded and saved his life Then they were moved by pity and began to put him on porterhouse diet as they do all department pets. and Hooligan adjusting himself to circumstances. attached himself to the fire and police forces as regular extra man. Fear ing that the dog catcher who still nursed grievance might some day get him again. Hooiigan's friends tried Co induce him to leave for his own and the cOunty's good. Time and again he was given to one mining man or another and sent up the road on q
 train but always to return in a day or two.
 Not long ago a lady from Cali
 fornia. who was visiting here. ap-
 piled Co the police saying she wanted
 Co get a Cocker Spaniel. She was re
 ferred to the flremen who told her they
 did not have any of that brand of
 dogs on hand at the present time but
 they did have fine Russian Shepherd
 dog. the only one of the kind in the
 west. She was introduced to Hooligan
 whose intoxicating ugliness at once
 impressed her. She was certain she
 had never seen that kind of a dog be-
 fore, and she was probably right.
 Neither had anybody else.
 HOoiigau became very much at
 tached Co his new mistress, as long as
 the rope held. but one day it broke
 and he came back to the engine house.
 The telephone rang before the dog got
 there and he was welcomed and pro-
 vided for most bounteously for two or
 three days when the lady decided to re-
 turn Co California. She would perhaps
 hnve remained till spring but she was
 fearful that some one would steal
 Hosiigan before she got him out Of the
 country. Beside the engine house"
 anbit had been SO firmly established
 is his life she feared it would become
 a passion with him and that he would
 refuse co stay in California. So about
 "a week ago she left for home Hooli-
 gnH weUt to the depot in hack and
 he left town in as much style as ever
 a dog could hope to. The rest of his hie will be a poem, marred only bv
 the fact that he will never know it all
 because he's a Russian Shepherd dog.