A Catless City.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4525, 29 November 1884, Page 4

A Catless City.

One of the queerest of the many queer things about " this here mining camp 'I aa most of the natives still call Leadville (Colorado), is that in all the length and breadth thereof there lives not a single cat Oats have been imported here by the hundred and in all varieties of colour, breedin* and size, but not ono has pvor survived the second weok of residence. The roidnioht serenade, the backyard clawing contost, and the bootjack act are alike unknown to the Leadyilhan, and his nightly slumber ia sound and mveot—a calm and undisturbed repose. The healthiest, sleekest- cat, if taken to Leadville, would lose 'air interest rnii.o the moment it reaches there, and after moping in a sickly and disconsolate way for a few days, would resignedly have a M and give upthe ghost. A saloonkeeper brought a big, strong Maltese from Denever hoping the animal would survive the fits long enough to be acclimatised, but it was n! use. The cat had a fit the first day, two or three the second, and then the numbe? of attacks increased in a geometrical ,prbgreeW until, as the saloon, man S I T/ere were more fits than cat, and the cat hao\to, give in." However, as there are no « jf or« m' o?.in Q*ssH there lis no real i°yt^ fi:f* B., a«d.it makes little1 difference ; wKethor they livq or die: , The thin A tmos $4re at thjs altitude {.10,200 ft)J ii ar fatif ■ to.fluJ yermin asio thei^e, find the Vhab. jiftntaare thus .thercjfaa/; spared the .irifficV