Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-06
INTREPID LION SLAYER GETS
 SCARED
Spends Night in Phoenix Hotel and Misses Hoot of the Owl. and SnarI of Wild Cat-Lost. In Hallway.

PHOENIX. Aug. 5.--Joseph H. Drew. better known as Joe Drew, the l lion hunter, came down from Pres colt and spent the day here on busi- ness and may go on to Fl Paso be- l fore returning home. unless he gets ! so mixed up on metropolitan life that he gets frightened and backs out. His
 natural habitat is in the mountains and gulches and he is little leery | of what he encounters on the busy streets.
 It 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. Mir 1 Hildreth took him to the Hotel Adams on the theory that 1t was as good as
 any place in town and nothing was
 too good for a Yavapai county man. 1 The place. however, looked httle suspicious to MT. Drew: It was too 1 large to suit him and one stairway 1 after another proved to be coniasins- | However, he registered and hireo d | guide to show him to his room Ihey 1 climbed up several flights, crept l precipices and finally stopped at an airy apartment up on the fourth or l fifth floor. As the guide left him 1 MT. Drew told him he had better | come and pilot him out in the morn l ing or he might never find his way l to inc street again The guide neg 1 lected to show him how to turn out l the light and he was up against It | for some time. He decided finally | that it was furnished by some new | fangled machine for illumination and there must be device somewhere for l putting it out as he could not con | ceive that Phoenix people had to nave
 a slight to sleep by. He turned the buttons and stop cocks on the wash bowl. bath tub, gas fixtures and every 1 ether contrivance he came in contact 1 with. and along toward morning he | hit upon the right one and got results. He woke up before the hotel guide get into action and decided to make an effort in finding his way down to lthe earth again. He hadn't slept very well as he had not heard the hoot oi single owl or the snarl ot an angry wild cat. It was yet dark when ne gIoped his way along what seemed to ! be a rockribber wall and finally dis l covered a sloping ledge that led do%h | to a lower shelf He followed II. carefully and after some further eA- ploration he found tralI mat leu deeper down into the gulch. By thunder this must be Burro creek can von !" he said to himself as he stum- blad alaag in the dark Presently the
 wal opened up on one side and he found himselfe in large apartment that he afterward learned was the par
 Tor on the second floor. little light
 peeDed in from the skylight Tn the
 rotunda. He couldn't find any desk
 there and it locked altogether differ
 ent from the place he had started
 from the night before, so he decided
 that he had taken the wrong trali,
 at some point in the journey and re
 tracting his steps he eventually found
 the right one. Reaching the lobby ne i
 foiInd a clerk stretched out on the set
 tee in the center of the floor. Just as I expected." he calculated, "one Of them pesky hydrophobia .skunks has
 come along and killed another fool tenderfoot: these eastern tourists | never will learn any sense" He went mn to the prostrate form and discoy-
 cred his mistake. It was only bell-l hon sleeping off a cigarette debaueh.
 By that time it was getting daylight
 and MT. Drew easily found his way
 out to the street where he began to | feel natural again.
 Asked about the lion crop. bir. Drew | said he hadn't paid much aientlon | to lions this season and hadn't killed one for a year. He suffered great | disappointment last spring when | President Roosevelt announced that i he would not visit Arizona this year
 Mir Archibald of Prescott. and MT. Drew, had been selected by the Roush | Rider. committee as guides for the president and they had made great preparations to entertain him. It was
 the plan to have him leave the train at Holbrook where they would meet him and go across country, through |, the MogoIlons. where they would fad | some real hunting There were to | be no newspaper reporters, animal fakirs or kodak ffends along, but they were to do real hunting, where it
 was necessary to shoot straight or dc some dextrous fo0twork. Mr. Drew had written to old man Ellison over
 in the upper Tonto country to get 8 | few bear located where he could put | his finger on them when he wanted them Mir. Ellison Is a specialist in | this fine. Last year he killed feuT-l teen bears and was after the fifteenth one when his horse fell on him and | broke his leg. He has had it fixed | up though and Is again ready for bus mess. When the president sent word that he could not come this year. Mir
 Drew lost heart and hasn't had any F appetite for hunting since But the | only time he was ever down on his l nerve was the other night in the Hotel Adams. when he thought for a
 while that he was really fpst and liable to meet bear or lion any time, and had no gun with him.