Show I DOG D S d T By Dy ELMO SCOTT WATSON are ar dog doe days das n I that period In the tho months or of ol July and August when ben SI Sl tho the dog doc star rl rn- rn and set sets is with Ith the sun Bun un andt and nn It t Is the time when hen unless the weather Is unusually man cnn cart ex cx expect pest the warmest weather during the whole sear But for the th dog doc every e cry ery diy day In Inthe inthe the year Is a Q dog doe Ilo day dart marLed marked b bj the warmth of his affection for the animal which I Is traditionally known se mm man s a best friend That man mun ree recognizes thIs till fact Is 1 shown sho hown bf b the It 4 numerous Instances In which he lie has hns ld honor to certain Ind 1 1 of this till race of what Is often so Inappropriately referred to as a dumb animals There Thero Is the tho case of Sergeant Ir ant Major JI the mascot of the United States marine corps who ho died on 0 of this year yar and woe was burl burled d with Ith full military honors bv hr his friends who ar are proud to call cill s 's de devil de ll II dogs There Thero Is s the case cace of Stubbs the In famous mascot of the theA theA theA A E D F of four major en wearer r of one wound stripe and an recipient of numerous as als and decorations who also died re re re- recently but who has been ben mounted and en given en a place of honor In the Amerl AmerIcan can ned fled Cross Crocs museum at Washington There Is Rufus the e hero who ho accompanied Lou Jou Wescott eccott neck Beck tho the Samaritan of Death al alley al alley ley y on ill all of or hi his errands of merc Into merc Into that Inferno to rescue prospectors perishing from thirst and thirst who Is honored with his hi master since their deaths with a monument In the city of ot Los Angeles ho ll ho has bas ha forgotten Balto nalto the Alas Lm Lan husks husk who won fame In his dash h dashto to toome ome Nome t two tO O years ago aco as the leader e of a dog doc team tam bearing the diphtheria serum to the plague stricken city Ac According cording to press pre s dispatches dl patches Halto Balto Isto is Ie isto to have hn a perman permanent nt home In n th the Cle Cleveland zoo for tor the rest ret of his life lite instead od of leading the wandering life ot of a 1 aude t vaudeville trouper or a ft exhibit nut Hut monuments are not the only en enduring during memorials memorial to the dog doe doss s to rain man Another memorial memorIa and per pr perhaps hAp the most mot famous t of ot all Is the pul once pronounced by Senator eorge orge G est 1 est of Missouri which de 1 ered bof re a jury In that state famous for Its hound dog dogs does has been reprinted In ne newspapers and ond repeated as s a popular bit of American oratory more times since It was uttered fifty t J J j years fears ago OJO than Ulon any ony other speech of Its 11 kind Famous as Is this eulogy there hn has gathered around It a ft cloud doud of myth end nd tr tradition which has obscured the facts of ot the case coe and ond the th circum circumstances stances under which It was uttered The true story ston of the lawsuit oser 0 er the killing kUlIng of ot Old Drum the houn dog made famous bv by est est s eulogy was made public by W Ill ill C a I J er errill rill editor of or the Rocky Mountain Her lIer II a d at Denser Der D Den er er Colo who was waa a nephew phew of ot the t two 0 litigants In the case cne and ond who ho Is s therefore In a n post poston on on to know the thi facts fact Mr Ir Terrill s satory atory follows follow ThIs Till hound enee cm e seems ms to be b develop In ing developing In the Ea East Eart t Into all as much of ILon IL a on With th as those exaggerated rat l d tAI tales of Jesse e Jame James Th The litigants litIgant In this thi CUSP cash cu were ere two uncles s of mine There Ther have he been many version of the th narrative n but the th Inside ln ld family story tory is 1 I that the tho killing of Old Drum reilly n w was An nn ac eident nt the th result of an nn overcharge 0 of b Deane tan ne In a shotgun which was plant planted planted planted ed to tt Gh glue el e him a rood good scare near If It prop er proper r explanations explanation tlona had been offered the th whole affair might have hav b been n settled amicably but Jut the th explanations w were re neglected and as aa a a 8 result two to families were vere er ln involved In hed In a bitter biller court feud ar and d the hound h und case car bream became b came ramous famous 1 Ore roe came Into public notice nolle I t conidas Hornsby my mother e a brott Burden for 1 aas a aa accused by Charle Charles Bur den who wh had lad tit married my mother ash a 81 tr ter r of ha ir VIlS g killed fa II a ta orlle I dog de Drum Both famines were well wll to do or th the orth orthe i case cae n never ver would I have hav been tried again Cain and again aRaIn and carried to the th Su Supreme r preme m court of In lengthy I and seen v vs v litigation Drum was wa aa as aa a popular at the th place In Johnston county Missouri all ae ait Al at lt Burden the tho th farm of at his hie master maiter Charles Charle Bur Sur Buren den en who lived nearby Drum would go 10 over orr to the th oB and during those visits was wai ott often n used u ed by Uncle Lon Ion and others other for tor hunting Cam Game was ae then abundant In that part of 1111 Sll Mi l I 1 lad ad been much desolated ty the CI ll Cl II war ar 5 me me animal wild or tam tame tamo was wag die dle th the pans pana of milk at the Horns b ba Hornsb finally It 1 ma nag aa dl cover d that Drum ma wan aa the on one uncle Lon Lonas Lona as a I have heard he rd the s II or ory told 1011 or aug ce td to one or of o the th tb younger members member ot of f the family that he h load a shotgun y Ith Lein and pepper old Drum with witha a ot f-ot ot of It St no so happer happe ed d that the tho th shot shotgun gun cun was wn 0 overloaded o or tIe the range too loo dosE close e and 1111 ln t nd ot of t tl gh Drum a rood good peppering tl tI e a hound wa was wan l killed There Ther WAS no Intention at all t according to this thia story lory to kill kUl Drum This Thill tory about a 8 poor man losing his hili hl favorite ta hound through the th wIcked d act ot of f another is 1 Pastern myth mth fI t the fht mistake MAS aas that a Uncle Cle Charley j t was 81 not Informed of ot the tho th accidental C r 3 Lt er ere e t tx x 4 y yr I r a J v n vY Y T 1 r ra f ff f r is iset et r Yr i Z i v Jv a i 0 tart C J S 'S L r a ara m r Z t t r r rant ant ra f tiC tiCk 1 k ro f I y I c Ie r killIng of Drum The Th body of Drum nas as hid and later found and as a no n explanation was wa made mad the th legal row began The Th Hornsby were wr from Ten Ten- Ten and North orth Carolina and the Burdens Durden from tram Kentucky and V Both aides were stubborn Burden Durden sued r O N ember emb r 8 t 10 1889 b beor rare for Justice of the th Peace Pac O TP Nor hors Norman man mon The Th Jury hung The Th case coe cai wag tried again acain and ond again the th Jury hung bung hungAt At another r hearing In Ia January 1870 Burden obtained d a verdict of ua against Hornsby In a Jury trial Horn by appealed to the th Court of Common Pleas where here th the Jury gave a verdict In his hi favor On May Hay 2 S 1870 a motion for tor a new trial was wall granted The original claim by Burden Durden for dam dam- damages dam dam-af ages agea nee wai na 50 10 and In the th new nw trial inthe In Inthe lath the Circuit court Burden was wa given elv n a Jury verdict for GO as 81 a was wall first ds- ds demanded d and Drum the th old bound hound won It was wai In this later latr litigation that the big bir local legal gun cum appear appeared d Undo Lon Hormby Hornsby employed Crittenden to 4 Cockrell and Lade Charley Charity retained Phillips est tt eat and Elliott 8 Blodgett This Was as wa Col Thomas Thoma T Crittenden later governor of and Colonel Col n Cockrell later United States State senator tram from Blodgett Blodcett tt became becam general gen gen- general c ceral eral eral solicitor of f the th hirth l Missouri railroad afterward atter of t the th A system Elliott 1 sae wa 1111 ale also an eminent lawyer Phillips and eat t were wr dl Cul gul l ed In their profession and later prominent In the th public service John JohnF F 11 Phillips became becam b United States Statu Stat judge ot at Kansas Kan City and George 0 1 eat set United States Stale from rm Missouri Such was the th array of f learned counsel 1 when hen the th cage COlli c was wall wa tried before a Jury September 23 28 3 1870 Judge Foster Foter P Wright was Willi the th presiding Judge Bled Blod Blodgett gett opened for tor Drum followed by Crittenden and then tha Cockrell In all three thre making brilliant speeches Oratory ran high Then The Thet est t spoke pok and wn on on the th case car for tor the hound for by this th time the th Interest centered more nor i-nor In Drum than uncle Charley the th plaintiff or Uncle Lon the th defendant eat a speech Ipe ch has hae ha become a a on the th dog doc In American literature In inthe lah the oe osee of old Drum who wh was wa acct acet dentally shot ht with an overcharge of beans when be h was wai disturbing the tb pans pane pan of milk at the old home horn place of omy r my grandfather Brinkley Uncle Lon app appealed to the th Supreme m court of or Missouri So much for tor the th tact fact In tb lb the myth story atory torr IO ao o often told as all to f the th parties partie involved Involve 1 the tho th story etory tory of the th poor frIend trl lees leae man whose who hound was wall wa killed and the remarkable statement that the plaintiff demanded d 20 for tor f r th the death of Drum and the th Jury awarded hIm |