The Indianapolis journal., 1891-01-12

Incident i'm q Minnesota Hotel Cited .
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Kan sas City Star
At the Box Hotel in Crookston, Minn.,
some SIX years ago my attention was more
than once called to two dogs that were
allowed to loiter about the hotel Office.
These dogs were the greatest of friends; in
fact. so ''chummy" as TO call forth admira-
tiOn from the various hotel guests.
One afternoon one of the dogs which had
been basking in the sun on the floor of the
office. suddenly gave a bound and started
for the door. j Immediately stepped to
passed out, going In the direction of
the Manitoba depot, where / OBJ
served some ten or twenty other dogs
holding pow-wow. Then 1 closed the
door and resumed my seat. Immediately /
heard q terrible commotion in the direction
in which the dog had gone. Stepping to
the door observed that full-fedged dog
fight had begun. Arriving at the scene of
the battle l found that my dog friend of q
few minutes previous was the under brute
in big fracas- He was bowling with
pain, while big Newfoundland dog stood
over him making the fur fiy. A blow On
the cannes Uranium from ball club in
the hands of q small urchin who stood hard
by soon put q stop to the Newfoundland's
ferocity. The under brute started for
home pell nell, and when / arrived at the
hotel found the poor brute at the Office
door bleeding and bruised awaiting in
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the Office. the dog following me.
Lying on the floor in close proximity to
the office stove reposed the sleeping carcass
of my little bested friends companion. He
was a large brute of the mongrel species-a
cross between bull dog and q mastiff.
The poor, conquered brute, upon entering
the Office proceeded IN the direction in
which his dog friend lay stretched upon
the floor, and going mp to him commenced
TO smell him from head TO foot. Presently
the sleeping dog rose to sitting position.
and gazing at his conquered friend some
two or three minutes, seemed to take in the
situation at once-that his dogship had but
lately received terrible whipping. After
little more smelling on the part of the
conquered brute, both dogs started
toward the, door. l stepped to the
door, opened it, and the dogs passed
out. Both dogs started in the direc-
tlon OF the depot platform. some four
hundred or five hrncred feet south
of the hotel, where they espied several
dogs, among their number being the big
Newfoundland, the object of their venge-
ance. Gong up to the big Newfoundland
dog my little conquered friend curled up
his tail and commenced TO growl. the big
Newfoundland doing likewise, each dog
going round and round In a circutous
routea while thus parleying, the big hotel
dog In the meantime standing hard by
watching proceedings. Presently the big
hotel dog gave spring and landed a good
hold on the jaw of his opponent Both dogs
reared in the air, the Newfoundland COM
ing down the under dog. and the chewing
he received in that fracas i suppose he
never forgot. my little conquered friend
nipping the big rascal from behind at every
chance presenting itself. To be candid
about it. the hair from the hide of that poor
martyred Newfoundland actually filled the
air, and a worse whipped dog never SUNK
from the field Of battle.