The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
TRAGIC DAYS THESE
CONSERVATION Reigns Among Dogs
Who Have No Muzzles.
CANINE BoGEY MAN STARTS OUT
First Executions Are Due to Take
Place Tomorrow Mt the
Pound.

Dog catchers yesterday commenced the
prodigious task of gathering together and
disposing of the 5000 ownerless. worth
less and dangerous CANNES which Mayor
Ames says are running at large. The dog
wagon started out about 9 o'clock, with
two attendants. Three hours later Levi
German, who is the general in charge,
reported to the mayor that ten ours had
been captured and taken/tO the pound
at Seventeenth avenue N and the river.
The wagon then started out on another
tour. All Of the principal down town
streets. including busy and crowded
Nicollet and Hennepin avenues, were
traversed by theavigilant wagon men and
whenever dog that had forlorn look
in his eye was espied, one of the men
would leap from the wagon and give
chase. 1
1t was laughable sight to see the dog
man, wire lasso in hand, pursuing the
scurrying CANNES. At Fifth and Nicollet
crowd Of rather soc1able ours had gath
cred and were enjoying the spring day
and their freedom from the muzzles which
adorned the more aristocratic dogs, when
the dog wagon noiselessly rolled up. W..
H Sherman one Of the dog men, jumped
down from the wagon and into the midst
of the gathering. He cast the moose over
the head of the most available canine and
threw him into the wagon without the
loss OF second. He turned to ensnare
the others, but they were seen escaping
swiftly. Most of them took refuge in in
accessible holes back of stores, in alleys
and elsewhere. The wagon continued on
its tour up the avenue, with several i'm
prisoned dogs yelping and bowling most
pitifully. and eliciting expressions Of
sympathy from more than one person who
heard them. ,.a....-. .....
There was a busy scene at the pound.
The doors Of the apartments in the little
shack on the river bank were thrown
open and the, homeless dogs were given
placerto stay, for awhile at least. There
was, OF course, crowd. of curious boys
in the neighborhood when the first con-
stgnment of ours arrived, and they had
no end OF sport over the noisy spectacle.
Mayor Ames says that only those dogs
that have some redeeming feature of ap-
pearance will be kept for redemption. So
II you have a homely, mongrel cur that
you value, and he is missing from his
accustomed place in the woodshed or ken
mel tonight, you had best look him up at
the, pound or the chances are that he will
meet an untimely end tomorrow morn
Ing little after sunrise. Levi German
has provided crate, device very like
the old-fashioned ducking stools, in which
witches in the staid old New England
colonies were 'ducked." In these crates
the dogs are to- be placed, and then i'm
mersed in the cruel waters of the Mis-
sissippi. They will be kept under water
until life is extinct, and then, it is prob
able, furriers and glovers will be after
the skins for use in their business. No
dogs were drowned to-day. s
One of the first tragedies of the muz-
cling regime took place yesterday on Hen
rnepin avenue. A large, handsome dog
was lying in the street paving at muz-
zle which fitted badly and worried him.
He was so 4engrossed in this work that
he was oblivious to all else and was run
over and killed by passing dray.,