Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-20
EXHIBIT 25OO EARS OF
 RABBITS
Supervisors at Phoenix Have Not Time to Count Trophies of Salt River Valley Rabbit Drive.

PHOENIX. July 19.-w 4. Hood and F. A. Woolsey, respectively presi- dent and secretary of the Salt River Valley Rabbit Drivers association. appeared at the office of the board of supervisors yesterday saying that they had brought to town the ears of 2456 rabbits the result of the gather ing the day before near Peoria. The supervisors were busy al the time, sitting as a board of equalization and could not then undertake the official count. President Hood and Secreta- " Woolsey then said that they would leave the ears at the Dublin corral under a strong guard and would bring them to the office at 4 o'clock for the counting
 Some surprise was expressed at the number of the ears. There had been an impression that not nearly so many rabbits had been killed. The number slaughtered had been esti- mated at from fifty to not more than zoo. Messrs Hood and Woolsey said that they had killed great many more rabbits than they had ears for; that the night before their stock of ears had been raided and several hun dred have been carried off. They said that they expected that the sto- len ears would later be brought to the board for the bounty by the thieves.
 The supervisors demurred to the counting of so many ears; the job was a most unpleasant one, and had not been contemplated by them when they were running for office About that time Judge Phillips who was still laboring under the popular i'm pression regarding the number of rabbits killed the day before, came in and he was asked if he would count the ears. He said it would be a short job Finally. he said that he would count them if there were more than 500; then he backed out, and was asked if he would count them if there were more than 2000, he said he would He got the job. The associa- ton received a little more than $121. The populace is not prepared to be- lieve that this thing is exactly straight, not withstanding the record. The ears were there all right. but some doubt is expressed as to wheth- CT they are genuine and whether or not there is not somewhere in the vicinity of Peoria plant where rab- bits ears are manufactured iii large commercial quantities. The thousand
 who attended the sO-c2.ed rabbit drive on Friday are willing to swear that so many rabbits could not have been killed without somebody getting an inkling of the slaughter. The only reconcilable theory is that the visit ors must have been chloroformed while the killing was going on.
 There was another transaction in rabbit ears at the office of the board yesterday. A small boy brought in four Clerk Thomas told him that a settlement of his claim against the county would involve too much trOu- i ble for the size of it and advised him l to keep his ears until he could get enough of them together to make it worth while The boy was departing sOrrowfully, when Supervisor HOghe. who had overheard part of the con- yersatiOn called him back and told | him that he would make a personal matter of it. He would buy the ears as a private citizen at the regular county price of five cents. He gave the boy twenty cents and the youth ! departed
 After he had gone, it was brought
 to the attention of Mir. Hoghe that he had sprung" the price. It also | turned out then that MT Hoghe had
 been so engrossed in the equalizing of taxable property that he had thought that each ear represented a rabbit