Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-24

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! French, was called IN testgfv. 13e ac-
companied his son to the premises of
| the slaughter house on Aug. IA. He Is
not employed by the pure food DEPART
ment He said he saw no water in and
ABOUT the stock pens. but was not al
lowed 70 tell what he was told as to
this. He went INTO the slaughter house
wnIle inc nutcner was az work. Theree
slauyhter honsa ,,;.h .h,,. &c. 49,,
R,on.1 va. .tca,,o,n. o,,t Nv, ~. s,cs-
and Tho r,;es r,ara si,.tro .r.,,,,5 ~.
sa "a no ala pot 90 c,osa - ~ nyn, III,
outside tive s.ench ,,,.s v.rnne, 80 ~
d,d not "a 70 ~ oo close 10 a. Ia oo,,,d
SEQ borr. boors artroi,s, ora r,tt,r
refuge There waro doaa ch,oLans
| around tho yard ora ~. .acar., ~
pesrance was not tidv
The h,ood ,va. o,,owa5 q, IN, ,,,,or o.,
! floor but no d,dnt 90 =, tho ro,r ~ ~,
nlacc ana didp.t knew .,,ot disno,i,io,,
! was made of tho h,ood Tbo ,n;r,,I,
In the mems lool, cd ca,nt ana ,varo 80
less The lard ho,se door ,ya. s.,,,oa
and bo or,,, loo,,aa II t,,r,,,,,, ~
screen door He s.ia tbern Xvnre f,;as
| al, about the nlace Int bc didn.t notico
particular,v what KIND of fl,e. tha,,
were
W. VI .'.ee uea" c,i'che''s
""o -" 't' '"'u "'Ja
~ '.u must re SUI
III. n. 80 ~, w - W wy o',.'
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| 1onn \. white test'f'ss.
! John X. White was the next witness
| called. He has been deputy for Mr..
Wallis since last April He visited the
slaughter house on Aug. 13, with Wallis
| and others. There were two cows and
\ three hogs in pens. but saw no sheep.
There was no water for them as he
could see. He described the visit on
Aug. 10. They made a general inspec-
ton. Going into the slaughter house
they found it not properly screened; the
floor was dirty; the tools were not
clean; there was dirty water in the hog
vat; no adequate protection against
flies. The dirty condition OF the tools
impressed him. he said. the teeth of the
saws being filled with decayed flesh
and the knives being greasy and dirty
DIR. Smith dug up lot of bad smelling
refuse from the hog vat and the floor
was dirty, with blood clots on 1t, left
there and not cleaned up. The chute
was covered with dry blood and other
dirt and refuse. On the outside there
were dead chickens and on kicking one
of these over number of flies flew
out. and he saw maggots. There were
lots of flies in the slaughter house-it
was full Of them, practically speaking
They were large green blow" flies.
| The sense Of smell led to the offal
pile. The outside of this. was cal;ed
over. but digging down into 1t. IL was
found to be alive with maggots crawl
ing and working about.
1 He described the lard house as here
tofore described. The rendering kettle
had cracklings in the bottom and pos
sibly some lard settings of previous
renderings. Some of the lard was COW
cred and some was not 1t was very
dirty, had mouse droppings and
scratches showing where the mice had
been, flies and bugs, dead and alive.
The buckets in which the lard was
found had the appearance of being new
and were labeled with blue label
marked Pure Lard.
In the slaughter house there was a
barrel or tub having dirty water or
other substance. Just outside was a
barrel or tub containing a substance
that looked like blood. 1t was clotted
and very offensive in smell.
He made another inspection on the
next day. The butcher was in the act
of dressing beef just killed. The
slaughter house was in about the same
condition as on the day before except
there We're piles of offal lying near ana
that from the COW just being dressed
; was living lust under 1t. lie took the
knife he was using and stuck II INFO
! the paunch. The gases escaped up INTO
the animal he was dressing and
through the slaughter house. lie wiped
the knife off OH his breeches and went
ahead dressing the beef with the same
knife The flies were swarminS all
over the beef. the heart. paunch and
Iintestines of the animal. and the blood.
manure and refuse was flowing across