Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-09-07
CAT CASE
HAS REACHED
HEADQUARTERS
FORMAL COMPLAINT LAID
BEFORE GENERAL AGENT
Up to Mr koontz 10 UnravtI
Complications Of the Episode
Ct the Feline, the Shot Ctr,
and Old Mr., Stanton,

The celebrated black cat case o.
Abajo, has reached Santa Fe system
headquarters.
The Justly famous affair of old mar
Stanton. the shotgun, the twice killed
feline, the remaining seven lives, the
station force at AbaJo, the slaughter
ed chickens, Charlie Whiting, ct al.
and the retreat of the battle Scared
veteran of Chickamauga from the
scene OF operations below his city 10
california-ali are matters of local
history given to the public through
the medium of the Morning Journal.
Hence, the following from a Topeka
paper viii be of unusual interest:
When the Santa Fe inaugurated it's
publicity department in Topeka il
didn't plan on giving out information
pertaining TO black cats. The road
didn't hire Frank FARRELL, head of the
publicity bureau, to run down the
life history OF q feline in New Mexico
and no thought was given TO the fact
that Supervisor Koontz would receive
in his office in due form a formal
complaint relating to the troubles or
a Santa Fe office force, an old soldier.
a shotgun and an innocent black cat
that had a cultivated taste for chick
ems.
But this was the case-and the rec
ords of Santa Fe Us. Black Cat, ct al
are on exhibition ut the office OF J., X.
Hoontz. general freight agent of the
Santa Fe and supervisor Of the bureau
of publicity.
The Santa Zee in this serious case is
represented by the division superin-
tendent. Il. l.. Myers. with h~eadquar.
ters in san Marcial; William Balfour.
agent at AbaJo; Charles Whiting, yard
at AbaJo: J. r. Galusha. a spe-
clal agent of the road, and Louis
a car clerk IN Abajo. Were
the black cat alive the Santa Fe
would have additional evidence In this
rase that has caused CONSERVATION IN
Mexico.
Against the Santa Fe Is one A, ID.
an old soldier, a man who
cats. a man who handles his
like the days of old n who has
daughters who become insulted at
conversations over the telephone. This
s what the Santa Fe has to deal with
una the mtttSl mas progressed 10
Iuch an extent that the brass collars"
ire using up stationery in it's behalf.
Here Is the story-the story that
las been boiled down from page after
of manuscript and from a COM
'lete revision of the ideas OF others:
One day not long & a black cat
trolled into the Santa Fe station al
Ibajo. 1t was a hungry cat with a
.ungrv eye and eve the soft purr that
somewhere from its system APP 4
called to the employees OF the station
Zach man made a rush for his din |
err bucket and in a few moments the z
lack cat YVES %devouring the greatest [
ZEAL Ia its history. I
But the meal was the cause Of the {
ats downfall The appetite acquired I
the course of the banquet ruined c
$ former satisfaction. Every day the
anita Fe boys set aside a part OF :
heir meals for the cat-and every
az the cat sat aside enough time to
Dnsume these meals.
one day the railroad men we're busvi
nd forgot 70 feed their dark pet.,Ths
line hung around the station until
nngcr put rash thoughts into its o
-ain and sauntering out through the b