Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-07-30
HIGHLANDER PASSED
A NERVOUS NIGHT
Joe Drew, the Lion Hunter, Narrowly
Escaped Being HopeIessIy Lost in
The Wilderness.

Joseph II. Drew, better known as
Joe Drew the lion hunter, came down
from Prescott Sunday, spent yesterday
here on business and may go on to FL
Paso before returning home. unless he
gets so mixed NJ on metropolitan life
that he gets frightened and backs out.
His natural habitat is in the noun
tains and gulches and he is a little
leery of what he encounters on the
busy streets.
Ii is his first visit to Phoenix since
the day the railroad reached here from
the north. eleven years ago, and he
notes a number of changes but has
found a few people he knew up north.
Among them is Fen Hildreth. Mr.. Hill
dreth took him to the Hotel Adams.
on the theory that il was as good as
any place in town and nothing was
too good for a Yavapai county man.
The place, however, looked a little
suspicious to Mr.. Drew. IT. was too
large to suit him and one stairway
after another proved to be confusing.
However. he registered and hired a
guide to show him to his room. They
climbed up several flights. crept
among corridors and near to deep
precipices and finally stopped at an
airy apartment up on the fourth or
fifth floor. As the guide left him Mr..
Drew told him he had better come and
pilot him out in the morning or he
might never find his way to the street
again. The guide neglected TO show
him how to turn out the light and he
was up against 1t for some time He
decided finally that it was furnished
by some new tangled machine for IL
Elimination and there must be a device
somewhere for putting II out, as he
could not conceive that Phoenix people
had to have light to sleep by. He
turned the buttons and stop cocks on
the wash bowl. bath tub, gas fixtures
and every other contrivance he came
in contact with, and along toward
morning he hit upon the right one and
got results.
He woke up before the hotel guide
got into action and decided TO make
an effort in finding his way down 10
the earth again. He hadn't slept very
well as he had not heard the boot of a
single owl or the snarl of an angry
wild cat. II was yet dark when he
CROPPED his way along what seemed to
he a rock-ribbed wall and finally dis
covered sloping ledge that led down
to a lower shelf. He followed il care
fully and after some further explora-
ton he found trail that led deeper
down into-the gulch. BY thunder
this must be Burro creek canyon" he
said TO himself as he stumbled along
in the dark. Presently the wall opened
up on one side and he found himself
in a large apartment that he after
ward learned was the parlor on the
second floor. A little light peeDed in
from the skylight of the rotunda. He
couldn't find any desk there and it
looked altogether different from the
place he had started from the night
before, so he decided that he had
taken the wrong trail at some point in
the journey, and retracing his steps
he eventually found the right one.
Reaching the lobby he saw clerk
stretched out on the settce in the CEN
ter of the floor. Just as expected"
he CALCULATED. "one of them pesky hy-
drophobia skunks has come along and
killed another fool tenderfoot: these