The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-15
CIT IN EWS.
LONE MU'sKRAT
CREATED PANIC II
CAT SHOW EXHIBITORS FLED IN
WILD ALARM.
High Bred Felines Make Their Debut
at 1.-THE Poultry Show Which Has
Now Reached the Apex of Interest
Homing Pigeons Start for Ne
braska

| One lone muskrat almost broke up
the cat department of the poultry
4 show this morning and his adventures
during brief but lively half hour in
the old city council chamber will
a probably give him food for reflection.
for many days to come.
Il Inc innocent cause is credited at
the exhibit with being tame, trained
and generally dofnesticated, altho it
stood against him that he had once
lElived. at Keegan,s lake.
For the past three days he has de-
Emurely occupiedsa small cage in.the
Eroom where the cat showGopened this
i morning and some twenty-five aides
whose pet felines We're being prepared
for exhibition were 1p1s the floor when
the muskrat, came out OF his cage and
started to investigate,
A muskrat is only a ;mnskrat, but
rats rat,aand the ladies preparing
the Angoras, Tables, blues, tortoise
htbition, took just one look at the Wis
1tor and deserted the scene at the rate
| of a mile a minute.
small boy rushed down the three
flights of stairs. and gave Secretary
George 10th ito understand that the
building was on fire, some one had
been killed or that there: had been a
terrible disaster of some sort. When
the secretary arrived on the, scene, he
found the twenty-five ladies crowded
in the courtroom of the council cham
ber-which under ordinary conditions
will hold about six people-and a bad
1y scared muskrat trying to hide un-
der a gasolene stove.
This little incident did not, however,
materially delay the opening Of the
cat show and there are now on exhi-
bition several dozen of the finest
orange kittens" 'blue-eyed whites
"silver Kittens drown Tables"
white maltese, black -Angoras and
cats of many sorts are attracting hun.
dreds of visitors to the old city hall
! building. 2';'Es
Most Of the cats are of royal blood,
while all of them have pedigrees
going back into ancient; history. Paris
H., SON of Paris l.; Perry, the white
Angora; Captain Bell, Dolly Warden,
the only Spanish haired tortoise
shell in this country: Mrs. George Pea
vey's brown tabby, Prince Teddy, and
! the latter's son, Alvin Joslin,-. belong
ing to N. D. hammers of saltwater,
are among the prize cats whose, names
and flames are familiar to all cat
/ fanciers. fg2 "a
! There gre exhibits from: Chicago
and many other cities, while Mime
apolis is well represented by, the cats
exhibited by Mrs. r.. M. Sloggy,~ Will
liam r. H. Sibnett, Mrs. Peavey, Miss
Edna Charlotte Miller, Mrs. A. M.
Roberts and others.
! , iAngoras predominant altho there
are cats of all kinds. Then there is a
tlittIe four eared kitten, a queerly-
marked cat whose father and mother
were born in the@Phiiinpines, two little
Eskimo, toy dogs: and in the midst Of
it all the Wallace Evans aviary, CON
tanning what i undoubtedly " tbs fin; fin.
ever shown in the northwest. :. - -
Two homing pigeons; were released
at S2lo'clock this afternoon and are
now speeding toward Hastings, Neb;z
Eight roosters have lost their voices
growing, the. ducks were given a cold
bath to-day and one Of the Wyan-
dotte hens borrowed comb from her
! husband and has not yet returned it.