Richfield Reaper | 1915-11-11 | Page 6 | Desert Wrecks a Minstrel

DESERT WRECKS A MINSTREL mule and trained dogs with one man show perish of thirst pomona cal hitched to a light wagon in the place of a faithful mule which perished in the desert william green an old animal trainer from froin new orleans arrived here and appealed to mayor vandergrift for aid he was sick and penniless green left new orleans last march headed tor for the san francisco exposition he had a show wagon drawn by the mule in the wagon were 18 performing dogs green himself was once a leading light of minstrelsy the wandering minstrel raked in the money till he struck the desert in arizona and then his fortune faded his mule died of thirst he bought a horse and it perished on the desert his intelligent dogs some som e of which were valued at dropped off one by one he says aid given by passengers of an overland train enabled him to get out of the desert with his own life