Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-03

neither resist nor even move. others
we're too sick to do anything but lie in
the NTH and await death. In one COR
ner OF the most crowded pen dead dogs
and live dogs were heaped upon one
another
These conditions lasted for three
weeks The collection had been
stopped. awaiting developments Then
the dogs were removed to
the steep. bare rock Of Okla
in the Sea of Marmora. This UNI
inhabited island and its small fiat
neighbor Plat or Bulwers Island,
are visible from tho city. BulWers Use
land. by the way. was the notorious
habitation OF the signer Of the clayton
Bulwer treaty. ana the ruins of his
fine castle are still there
BARE. HOT ISLAND.
Okla is effectively described by Lew
Wallace In the second chapter of The
Prince Of India as seeming In the
summer ever ready for spontaneous
combustion, so holly does the sun ro-
diate from its bare surface. And this
Is the place. without water or shade,
and indeed without even space To lie
sharp It's surfaces where the dogs are
today dying By hundreds. The cleans
ing of the city has been allowed 10
continue In spite OF violent protests.
The inhabitants Of the summcr-Icsort
Princes Islands, and of the capital
In general have been wrought up over
the danger of disease from the dying
animals Even Il this danger is eN-
aggerated or groundloss the smell from
the carcasses at okla Is carried out to
sea for a mile or two with enough
soldity to strike terror to any passing
vessel.
Photographs Of the dogs at Okla
have recently been published, but
these pictures give no idea Of the state
OF the animals The Constantinople
street dog. in spite of many dctractors
who think chiefly ~ him as under foot
by day and as barking by night. is
an amiable animal at least at the mo-
ment when he responds 90 "a friendly
word or makes an eXpectant appeal
for bread When the photographer
stood in front II the dogs at Okla, even
out Of their horrible misery they as
sumed momentaiN expression ~
question and hone that does not seem
To require great pity In reality the
conditions Of the dogs az Okla would
move the heart OF one naturally In
different to the worst animal suffering
The supply of bread and the little wa
ter brought daily TO tho island only
prolong unpardonable misery But
as IL is starvation and thirst shorten
the period Of suffering for many Of
the dogs, Disease, toe, Is helping to-
wards the relief Of death.
BRUTAL DOG CATCHERS.
The collection and transportation of
the dogs. more over Is done la "a bru-
tai way They are collected az night
by men armed with long iron tongs
curved at the end Tho dog-catchcrs
clamp tho tongs about the animals
launches and heave the crying beasts
into wooden crates. | have seen crates
filled with dogs as though they were
so many cavcasses. And the removal
from the crates to the deep black
barges that transport the dogs 10
Okla. was sickening sight In most
parts 81 the world the crates would
have been lowered into the barge. tho
cover opened ana the dogs forced out
Not so here Grabhed by the iron
tongs. each helpless animal was lift-
cd yelping from the cage. slammed Co
the ground. grabbed in the visclikc grip
OF another pair OF tongs, dragged ON
his back across rough wharf, swung
into the air and finally dropped into
the barge During this process IL
seemed as n some Infatuated dogs
would bite Ion two the iron tongs that
held them by the launches.
with tho inability 90 do things taor-
mghly Characteristic OF this part NJ