The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-12-22
DEWEY IS
TALKED ABOUT
TACOMA PAPER WANTS ID KNEW
Tx Purchased by Local Order Causes
Discussion by Newspaper That
Pcrtencnt Questions.


AS love laughs at locksmiths. SO
Toes park board and an Elks lodge
1ugh at the game laws and a citv
ordinance, when the board wants to
sell and the lodge wants to buy. A.
! result North Yakima gets the borns,
hide and hoofs of the big elk at Pon,
Defiance park and the park boa rd
gets the money. incidentally. Al q
Barnes. a wild animal trainer. gets
40 carcass at rs cents a pound. In
act. the several portions of Dewey"
contracted for long before his death
nave now been delivered, according
TO Marshall X. Smell. clerk of the Met.
ropolitian Park board.
Dewey" disappeared some time
turing the early morning hours yes
.erday Whether he was killed out
right no one seems to know except
ne Clark Smell, and even he is reti-
cent about making a positive STATE
ment. If he was killed. as is a natural
to presume, who did the Job? Also.
where did it take place and when'
There is only one thing that Superin-
tendent j. II Hadkinson of the park
system is positive of, and that is tina
Dewey" had vanished when Mr.
Hadkfnson visited the stcckade yes
terday morning is trile disgruntlcd.
knowing that it would be violh-
ton of the game laws to kill the ELK
during this season of the year, the
park board. ever since it passed the
death sentence on Dewey" has been
trying to figure out some way of evad-
ing the statute. When the hide
horns hnnfS ho1 hnnn 70 he
Elks lodge at North Yakima and the
carcass promised to Barnes, the vau-
deville animal performer. the board
asked Fred Edwards. a Tacoma tax
idermist, to prepare the elk for
mounting. Edwards refused saying
he feared prosecution should he viz
late the game laws. When asked
about the matter, Clerk Smell declared
he could not see why Edwards had
refused to slaughter the animal as ha
had agreed to do the work Edwards,
with reference to this remark from
Smell, said he told the park board
clerk that he would do the killing IT,
author lied by some authority higher
than the park board.
Did Yakima Man DO 1t?
Then the next report that reached
the ears Of some down town folk yes.
terday morning was that the elk was
no more. Now, who killed "Dewev'"
Clerk Smell says the deed was dom"
by a representative of the North
Yakima lodge of IIlks
But what is the name of the fellow
who did the job?" Smell was asked
THAT | will never tell" he replied,
In fact" he said, on second thought
Il don't know Just who he was. All
know is that the elk is out of the wav
The lodge at North Yakima probably
has his hide. horns and hoofs nv this
time
"Will the vaudeville actor get the
meat" he was asked.
Yes. / guess he will
"As to the time this took place." hr
continued. Il guess 1t happened just
as the sun peeped over the eastern
horizon Sunday morning. The toh
was done well; there is not a trace
Of that ugly elk at the park.
Il wrote the North Yakima lodge
and fully explained the situa ton re-
garding the game laws prohibiting the
slaughter of the animal at this time
of year. I told them they would have
to get the elk themselves. So thew
sent their agent to the park yester-
day morning. 1 guess. and he settled
the controversy"
Superintendent 'Tn the Dark"
81 knew nothing of what had hap
pened until | went to 'Dewey's' stock
AIDE and found the elk missing" said
superintendent Hadkinson. There
were few patches of blood on the
ground. ont aside from that there
was no trace of the fine animal. I
have communicated with none of the
park board members and have not the
slightest idea as to how the animal
was spirited away. 7 do not know
whether or not any OF the men knew
of 1t; 1 have not questioned them re-
garding the affair"