The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-03
CANINE CONVENTION.
Action Tag<en by the Tribe OF Tray 10
Protest Against the Action OF
tho city Council in Offer.
Ing Them "DOsed"
Sausage.

AT 4 meeting oil the dogs of Dallas, held
yesterday ut Bow-wow hall, for the purpose
of taking action on the resolution of the cit,
council consigning them to the mercie, G.
the police, who are to DO furnished with one
hundred gut sausages each per week to dis.
tribute, poisoned, among tho CANNES Of the
city, Major Rome Helm was called to tho
chair, and Messrs. Sport Murphy and Tip
Kea!on were appointed secrolariea, and
Misses Fay Tempeton Eblen and Kate Glenn
ems sergeant and assistant sergeant at
afms.
Mr.. Chiquiti Walter, in n few impassioned
rebarks, stated the object of tho meeting,
which WAS to protest against the massacre
proposed, comparing it 10 the slaughter of
the innocents, and denouncing the author of
tho resolution as y modern Horod. He said
if an attempt was made TO enforce the reso-
luton, they would make Rome howl; tha.
he would sooner go without sausage than
crafty the dog'goned assassins; would sooner
emlgrate TO tho bone-ysrd ; sooner leave off
bowling at night and worrying cats; in fact
he declared himself regular sooner dog.
Miss Fly Long suggested that they need
mol cat the sausage unless they chose to-
Mr.. Wade Hampton Ruff wanted to know
what would become of their friends from the
country who did not know of the resolution.
Mr.. Jack Bogel remarked that it was only
intended for dogs who had no tax tag on. and
10 msn should have dog who wasn't able TO
purchase tag.
Mr.. Joe Ayres suggested that such logic
would suit dogs whose masters were tso
vendors, but it wasn't "the cheese" for him
and that many dog with tae on would
bouuco II smaller 0na who had secured A
sausage and got the piaon himself.
Mr.. Spider Cade bow-wowed The idea of
any dog declining fresh saugage, but
asserted thst Councilman Keller was acting
Ia the interest of the sausage marko!--hopinS
not only TO profit by the sale of thousands
OF tho saussges to the city Tor their daboli-
cal plot, but, also to increase their raw
metcrial by the carca,ses of his slaughtered
fellow dogs.
MIR. Smoke Cauthorn suggested that no
dog whose reason WAS not dis,empered
doubted the magnitude of tho opposed
wrong, but wanted to know what was the
best way to smell out of it.
4 telegram was here read from Mr..
Chrome Finley, from the Toxs, Il Pacific
frontier. who expressed his appreciation of
the resolution in the most express terms and
suggested the purchase by the club of
ssusag-omstcr to tcst and anslizs ever
sausage found lying in the streets.
Mr.. Jack Leonard said hs never liked
sausage nohow, and would confne himself in
future TO the regular menu of ths Grand
Windsor, but no was on all fours with his
brethren in any measure they might adopt to
remedy the evil.
Mr.. Fetch Furst said no was candy.ed
enough to say he despised sausage. Candy
aud cake were good enough for him,
whereapon a brindle dog with bucket
bend, nsmo unknown, grOwled out that
If MIR. Furst INDUCED in such tatfy he would
soon be candidate.
Mr.. Bones johnson suggested tho cultiya
,iou of closer and mere friendly relations
with the police.
Mr.. Bull Lenwoy said Lao felt no appre.
hension whatever; that he was convinced the
cops on his Jeat would scatter no esu.nges
except among the mombars of their own i'm
m3jiate fsmil o.
Mr., Jot Keller expressed surprise that tho
aosd OF his family should evinco 80 hostile
disposition toward his race, but so far as he
VAS individually concerned, 10 would use
his psss on the street railways and never FREQ.
l0nch by the waysido.
MIR. Dan Bower lowed he was not
ciuzen of the city, and labored under the
disability of being attached to largo flock,
but promised active Corporation in msnipu-
la'inG the convention to proper sonse of
their duty.
AT this iancture the police appearing, the
meeting adjourned after ordering the soCrela.
ry ioprint tho proceedings in tho daily
papers, and FASTENED 10 cat barbecue in tho
neshhorhood, for the purpose of sQuelchiug
" lively riot that seemed to b. in progress.