Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-20
FAKE SKINS TO ORDER.
John Wards splendid Specimen
OF Mountain Lions Hide.

To make n Utah mountain llon-take
n coyote skin and strip II TO the width
Of three inches connecting the tail ANA
head Don't waste the cut-awuy por-
tion, az an that win be useful In max
ing thongs 10 pull through the punch
holes made by the county clerks. Then
operate the slln as coyote TIL at
last through years Of punching the
cars become exhausted, despite the Of
forts Of the careless clerk, who is only
guilty Of "carelessness." Then with a
hot iron burn the remnants into the
pointed tips Of a mountain Hon, chop
off the coyote tan, and sew on the tail
Of an ordinary kitchen house cat-then
behold a mountain lion In all its bounty
getting splendor
II Inc described method isn't quite
clear call at the ghcrlffg office and see
If you can recognize your family cat
tail in the skin made up Just so, that
was captured among the effects Of John
Ward
John Ward was John Ward In Salt
Lake. AZ was suspected from the first
II Is now coming 10 light tina the boun-
" swindling game was played by a
small ring, who worked under a large
number Of aliases John Word In Salt
Lake IL identified as Jones In ogden
ana scott In poGatello, where he recent
~ tapped the treasury for a large
amount.
The culpabllty Of The county clerks,
and the extent Of their connivance IN
the fraud, viii be determined largely, II
now appears, by the confessions Ward
makes, M 10 his method Of carrying on
the skin game, and as 10 the extent he
was helped by inside influence and the
extent to which he duped everybody,
A BELATED FAKE CLAIM
Last night another detachment OF bad
looking papers were received by the au-
dilor's oiice-this time from Davis
county Deputy Clork Tingay recely-
cd them bat didn't pass them In as
usual Instead he took them down TO
The sheriff, FOR further Investigation,
ana query was sent 10 the Davis
county Office as 10 their genuneness.
The batch Of claims II was thought rep
resented the bolated effort Of some
bounty jumpers to get a last grab at
the bounty pot before the lid was lock-
"a down by legislation.
Tho house Of representatives. was
AFRAID TO repeal the bounty law, be-
cause the country members claimed TO
see tho spook ahead.
The debate ended IN making every.
BODY record himself on rollcall vote,
as pledged TO make "A new bounty law
when the present one Is dead and gone,
IN the senate II was different. The
older men I'm the science OF law build
ing were not so particular that new
law be made Offering It's due proportion
of protection, as they were that the
present enc be stopped, 50 that the
treasury might have q breathing spell.
THE NEED FOR A NEW LAW.
How badly does Utah need new
bounty law What restrictions should
be thrown about II to protect II from
grafters2 Would her cattlemen Kill the
Wild animals anyhow for their protec-
tIon and the value Of their pelts2 Would
a cattIeman ever miss a chance for q
shot anyhow as "A matter Of sport? And
finally is II wise that Utah should
make the killing Of Wild animals her
most expensive duty, with the national
guard perishing for lack OF an armory,
and the University Of Utah sadly In
need OF q gymnasium whore her stu
dents could maintain their health and
graduate without an accompaniment Of
weak knees and pale eyebrows2
These queries We're yesterday put 10
the members OF the senate with a view
20 ascertainng the feeling In their vari-
Gus counties as to the need OF a further
bounty law.
Senator Loose had evidently thought
much upon the problem and he had sew
eral novelties I'm bounty legislation up
his sleeve, zone thing" he said. 1--WE
don't want TO offer more than any other
state hereabouts-and while we don't
want TO be stlngy stlll ] wouldn't OBJ
ject 10 paying just little less, you
understand? Seriously speaking, a new
law should have many more restrictions