The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-19
tn. NED GRAY WITH FRIGHT
Ike Frazier's Cat Chan eel His Coat Ate
Passing sudden Danger.

IKE Frazier's Cat Chan eel His Coat Afte
Passing "a sudden Danger.
Seabury Dispatch to New York SIM.
something has happened to Ike Fra
zler s OLD cat Tom which is beyond the
ken or the wisest Settlementars. and
the IKE OF which the oldest persons
mere do not remember having heard Of.
let alone know about it, The simple
statement of facts, as given by Lem
Lawson, Ike Frazier and several other
reputable citizens, is to the effect That
the cat was carried away by a large
plro, the species of which Is not known
Tor certain, but presumably a snowy
owl, on last Thursday night, Just as the
several witnesses who were ,yoing home
from the postoffice were opposite Ike
Frazier's.
The cat was a large, glossy. black
one, with wealth of tail and thick fur.
whose pelt would have been worth %
cents 10 any fur buyer, and only a week
ago Ike had an offer of q dollar ten for
II. He almost wishes he had taken il
now. 1t was fighter too, with a long
INST or victories, from Lem Lawson's
yellow and white dog down to weasels
ana DUCK rabbits, its ordinary food.
Last summer it ate a part of Miss
Laura B. Lavigna's pug. The young lady
was summer boarder from Brook
iyn, and the woodsmen all said she was
prettler than ever after two days Weep
ing for the pug. The cat liked fish
would even lie i'm wait for club on n
log half In the creek. It's dexterity at
htting three-inch minnow from the
water with a paw was wonderful to
the wood folk.
Its one blemish was a gone eve. The
cat had once endeavored to rob a rcd
headed woodpecker's nest in a stump.
ana was attacked by both parent birds.
one of which pecked out the cats left
eye. Still the woodsmen did not
consider that a blemish, but rather a
heightening of its intellectual appear
ance. Ike says that in all of his fights
since 1t kept one paw spread over the
remaining eye to protect it from pos
sible injury. but only a few here be-
lieved that
On Thursday night the cat was seen
on the snow to the right of the road.
walking leisurely along on the light
crust of snow, when with an almost in
audible whirr bird, which the observ-
ers agree was at least FIVE feet from
wing tip to wing tip. swept down and,
without pausing in its fight, rose up
with the screaming cat in it's talons.
and soon disappeared in the haze. Had
the cat never been seen again no one
here would have thought more about
1t, except Ike, who would have contin-
ued to mourn the 81 10 he had refused
for the cats fur; but yesterday the cat
returned. The beast walked into the
Kitchen, changed remarkably in ap-
perance, but with the oId-time suuint
or its dead eye intact. Ike sat working
at a fish rod, when on glancing I'D he
saw the cat. Then, with a shrek that
brought i'm Bill Borson. who happened
to be passing, Ike leaped from his chair
and dashed through the front door in
time to meet Bill. who was coming in
on the double quick. Bill is Is pounds
heavier than old Ike, but Ike's momen-
tum was so much greater that both
men went into the path together, with
Bill on his back and Ike atop, and both
faces full of snow. When Ike got so he
could see he said:
THAT you. Bill. Where's th-the
ghost?"
What ghost?" asked Bill.
why, Toms. He came in the hind
door ez came out"
Did he? I'll go and see." and Bill
entered.
Lying at full length under the stove
was q. white cat. with two inches of its
big tail as black as ever. On awaken
ing il the cat was seen to be Tom In
his back were eight wounds such as
birds talons might have made. The
woodsmen believe that, being carried
high above the ground scared the cat
white. and they explain the black tail
tip by saying that the tail wasn't
scared. Attempts to follow the cats
trail were futile. The oldest fact Of all
to the woodsmen's minds is that the
animals eye. which was normally vel
lowish green, is now light pink, and IL
is believed by some here that albinos I'm
bird and animal life are the result OF
fear.