Arizona republican., 1898-07-02

at which he had bought the beef, showing the bones to other unanatom- ical gentlemen, by whom the dog theory was strengthened and the corned beef trade wilted like a fat mans collar on July day in Arizona.
 The corpus delicti having been es- tablished. MT. Eckl5s threatened to bring a criminal action against the butcher for violating the pure food law. The bones were afterward shown to Dr. Norton. He felt in the re- cesses of his soul that they were rot constituent parts of any regularly formed dog, yet he was unable to say what kind of bones they were. He took them to the butcher shop where the corned beef had been prepared and the proprietor let him into manufacturing secret that all corned beef is not beef. He was furnished duplicates of the bone he brought with him. They were taken from the root of lambs tongue which some times enters into the construction Of the corned beef of commerce. The proprietor of the meat market offered another argument against Mr. Eckles dog theory which was even stronger than the ocular proof furnished by a duplicate set of bones from the tongue of another lamb. Corned beef, he said, is not composed of the choicest cuts. It is made of parts of beeves which do not come under the head of steaks. roasts or boiling pieces and which cannot have a value of more than cents a pound. Now an expert could not skin and prepare for the manufacture of corned beef more than a pound of dogs feet in a day. The services of an expert in this sort of work could not be ob- tained for less than $2 day So it ! would be more profitable to build up eorned beef on the ruin of porter house | steaks. The dog theory is clearly untenable.
 No man other than a distinguished naturalist like Agassiz is warranted in constructing the skeleton of an an ima1 out Of a few isolated bones. This recalls a serious mistake made at | Solomonville less than a year ago. One day a dog brought into town a fragment of what the scientists Of Solomonville pronounced to be a human hand and a fragment of the forearm. Even George H. Kelly was deceived and he published a column hint of mysterious murder A man had suddenly disappeared from that comNunity and his mother thought she recognized a mark cn the brown tanned hand. Everybody in Solomon ville except the founder of it. I. E.
 Solomon, neglected the affairs oi every day life, and tramped over the
 hills and valley in search of the res
 of the body. The hunt was continued
 day after day with unabated zaal One day man who knew somethins about bones drifted into town while
 the excitement was at it's height. He
 was proudly shown the hand of tht
 missing citizen by an old man who
 was too infirm to join in the searcI
 and had been left behind to entertain
 strangers with the story of the trag5dy
 The visitor did not think it looked like hand and he proposed to dis.
 sect it, first explaining that if th5 bones were found to be straight hf would embrace the popular theory.
 curved it would be conclusiveiy showI
 that the hand was that of some anima
 which nature had made to rend it: ; prey or dig in the ground. The bone;
 were found to be very much curved
 and pronounced by the stranger to It
 parts of the paw of a wild beast, prob ably a mountain lion. Couriers wsr: sent out over the hills to call the peo
 pie of Solomonville back to their daii;
 avocations.
 It would be only the performance
 of a duty for the Gazette to restore
 to its readers their appetite for cornet
 beef and to remove a stigma from al the butcher shops in town by publish ! ing tomorrow morning complete re port of yesterdays investigation:
 utterly eliminating the dog from the1l products.