The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-05-28

:" sea THE DOG JAIL. eo.3sQ;ga<
HOW THE CANINE SPECIES ARE TAKEN IN AND DONE FOR;
HOW THE SAUSAGE FACTORIES ARE SUPPLIED.
On Broadway is large brown building, for
bidding in aspect, beastly in architecture, and
absolutely filthy inside, known as the County
Jail. Here the iniquitous, raked up from the
slums and dens. are piled in to fight the vermin.
wrestle with the rats, and breathe the foulest
of atmospheres. When they become irreclaim-
able, they are hung up with q rope and made
ready for Jimmy McGinn, the undertaken.
There is similar institution on Pine street,
q long ways out, almost under the shadow of
Lone Mountain, where dogs instead Of men
are picked up by heartless. mercenary pound
keeper and incarcerated. The pound is very
similar to the County Jail The iniquitous ca
nine, who becomes vagabond in the streets,
is taken in; the foolish lapdog who strays from
his mistress. never comes back to be petted,
and, in fact. any dog who is unable to prove his
identity and give proper account of himself,
is straightway taken before tho pound-master
and put in quod without trial. If he is not
claimed, he is privately executed in the sight Of
few officials and members of the press.
Between the dog-pound and the man-pound,
there is q wide difference. The men under ar
rest are treated in the worst manner possible,
put in filthy quarters and badly fed. The dogs
are kept in much better quarters, fed with
much better food, aud treated with more ven.
tillation and decency than the prisoners in the
County Jail Yesterday Stock Report repre-
sentative made an excursion to the pound and
took look at the dogs.
THE POUND.-Driving his buggy up to
barn.lke building. where the sand concealed
the bottom of the steps, he tied his restive
steed and banged away at the door. After con-
siderable pounding, youth in blue clothes and
frecklrd face appeared at the door.
Repcrtcr-Is my dog here'
Boy in bluc-Guess not.
Rep.-Guess not How do you know?
Boy-Have not seen any dog of that descrip
ton.
Rep-Of what description, you d-looney
Il did not describe any dog. '#s
Boy-That's so. Come in.
The reporter Immediately entered and was
at once tackled by bulldog weighing about so
pounds. '-
Rep-(Jumping about). Thunderl take
that beast off,
Boy-Oh yes! l forgot to tell you about him.
Thought he was chained-'pon my word did.
Git down you ---. 14
The huge brute immediately subsided and
the reporter passed on TO the interior room,
where the dogs were held in limbo. Here were
small stalls, where $50 dogs might be accom-
modated In nearly every stall was dog fast
ened by chain. They were mostly of the
worthless NANCY kind, and bit and snapped at
the legs Of the reporter as he passed. The fact
of their all being of worthless variety indi-
Gated that the best and costliest had all been
sold in the forenoon to some dog fancier. The
place was quite clean, we'll ventilated, and all
the poor dogs suffered, was for want of place
about the size of the city and county OF San
Francisco, to run about in and play. ..e.a
THE DEATH CHAMBER.-The spot where
dogs are executed, if not claimed after cer-
tain time, is sort of cage about sxfeet square
which will hold about thirty dogs, if said dogs
are piled in and stamped down. The top is
then closed, the cage is lowered, few yelps,
convnlsive struggles, and all is quiet while the
bubbles rise to the surface and tell of the souls
Of the poor dogs taking passage to the spirit
world. In FIVE minutes the cage is pulled up,
the limp, dripping corpses are taken out and
turned over to Chinaman in Butchertown.
THE END.-The Chinaman skins the brutes
and after selling the hides, retails the bodies
out to sausage makers in the city, to be served
up to q confding public. As ii
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