The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-15
LADY MAGG|E'S TRAVELS
Was Blown Up in the Union
Pacific Wreck.
AND THE DOG CAME HOME
After Wandering Aimlessly About on
Wyoming Prairies-Tte Cowboys
Secured the Plains and
Found Her.

Colonel L. S. Hatch has recovered his
valuable cocker spaniel, Lady Maggie.
This intelligent canine will tell her de-
scendants an interesting story, in dog
lingo-the story of a thrilling expert
ence. She was in the westbound Union
Pacific express car which was blown
up by bandits on the End of last June.
She has wandered aimlessly through
Wyoming ever since. The express COM
pany officials have secured the country
in search of the missing Lady Maggie.
The famous mater was born in the
Hampstead kennel, Long Island, five
years ago. Colonel Hatch purchased
her when she was a yearling. She is
the winner of sweepstake prizes at the
New York, Boston and Philadelphia
bench shows, after which she was
shipped to the coloners kennels in Des
Moines Iowa.
Fate seemed to have conspired to
send Maggie westward on the Inflated
train. Late in May the colonel, at the
urgent request of his wife, sent orders
90 have the dog shipped to Butte. The
foreman of the kennels went to a car
penter shop and had a crate made for
Maggie. All was in readiness to place
the dog in the car the day before Deco
ration day-all but the crate-it was too
small. The foreman fastened to the
carpenter shop to have the crate alter
ed, which was done. The next day, be-
ing Decoration day, the express office
was closed, so passage for Maggie was
not engaged until the following day, the
31st. Once aboard, all the foreman had
to do was to telegraph to the colonel,
and this he did, saying: Lady Maggie
left this day for Butte
On the day that Maggie should have
arrived here the colonel called at the
express office to inquire if the dog had
arrived After a moments mental CAL
culation the agent responded with:
by the way, colonel, l figure it that
DE- she left Des Moines on the 31st of
May she was in the car that was blown
up"
The colonel threw up his hands and
exclaimed:
It's all off"
He wrote at once to the general agent
of the express company at Omaha and
in due time received a reply to the eff
feet that the crate in which the spaniel
was shipped had been blown to splin-
tiers. But this shattering intelligence
was supplemented by the hopeful intel
hgence that the dog had been seen by
some of the passengers as she emerged
from the wreck.
month later the same official re-
piled to another inquiry stating that the
company had engaged the services Of
two cowboys, who were securing the
country for Lady Maggie. She had
been seen. Yesterday, while the colonel
was sitting in the back room of his
laboratory thinking of his lost Lady
Maggie and contemplating while he
meditated, who should come but the
express messenger. This worthy broke
the colonePs reverie in seven places
when he asked in tones indicative of
fatigue:
Where do We want this dog?"
Lady Maggie recognized her owner
and with look of genuine gratitude in
her face she seemed to say:
Take me; am yours Do not leave
me again.
The colonel was delighted. AS soon
as possible he took the spaniel to his
room. where Mrs. Hatch, who was not
feeling well, was reclining on the sofa.
AS soon as the door was opened the
dog gave one bound and landed upon
the sofa and displaying world of af-
lection, cuddled her head under her
mistress arm.
And the dog came home. She was
found at a farm house 60 miles from
the scene Of the holdup.