A BIT OF MULE LORE
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

ce from the house in rear of a corral, locked in each others arms, and dead. In the right hand of each was a revolver, while a bullet hole through the heart of each, left no room for doubt as to the cause of death. They had evidently shot each other. A BIT OF MULE LORE The New Mexican has unearthed a bit of romantic history in connection with a Santa Fe mule, as follows: Between the years 1842 and 1852 Mr. Ferguson, or Don Benito Jueves, as the Mexicans call him, was a freighter over the Santa Fe trail from West Port, Mo., to this city and thence to the City of Mexico. In 1842 he eloped with a beautiful girl from the City of Durango. This girl was the daughter of a Mexi- can general. The girl disguised as a boy, was taken to Missouri when 12 years old. The mother of Mr. Ferguson raised and educated the girl, and when she was 16 she was married to Don Benito. In 1852 he sold his mule train to Mr. James Magoffin at Paso del Norte, Mexico. The train consisted of five wagons with ten mules each, and this vagrant gray mule was among them. At that time the animal was 5 years old. How he ever got back to Santa Fe is a mystery. Mr. Ferguson has fully identified him and vouches for the fact that he is fully 44 years old. LOSES EAR IN RUNAWAY