Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-26
LIBEL SUIT Will
SOON Be PLACED
IN JURY'S HANDS

Presentation Of Evidence
Will Be Concluded Today
More Witnesses for the
Plaintiff Placed on Stand.
With probability that all the evil
dence in the libel suit Of the Central
Dressed Meat company againct the
Capital News in which $4,000 damages
is claimed by the plaintiff. will be pre-
scented to the jury by tonight and the
arguments made and the case submit
ted tomorrow. the plaintiff closed its
rebuttal this afternoon and the de-
PENDANT began the introduction OF evil
dence in sur-rebuttal.
w. r. Sanders was first called this
morning. He was one OF the committee
| consisting Of Bosworth, Ensign, East
man. himself and driver. who visited
| the slaughter house on AuC. II. He de-
scribed their visit Of inspection de-
claring that the floor was clean and
dry: that the hog vat had little water
in but there was no offensive odor; the
trough to the slough was clean and
Wye IV AAiCS az oil lu bhO 0Iau8utct
house and no bad smells. There was
a. barrel with grease or offal and when
the gunnysack covering It was lifted
there was a slight smell. He said he
also visited the lard house but there
was no offensive smell or odor and no
! flies at all. The offal pile was on fire.
| 1t was a pile 20 or 80 feet long and
| about IS inches high. 1t was not very
wide. 1t was nearly all on fire. he
said. but he did not get within 20 feet
of the fire but he detected a bad odor.
He noticed no bad or offensive doors
aside from the offal pile.
Bosworth. he said. had asked him
to go out to inspect the place. He said
the floor didn't look like 1t had been
used for six months. He saw two hogs
and two or three sheep near the
slaughter house. He didn't see any
knives or killing tools nor any clothing
around used in killing. He said the
dark room was referred to as a cooling
room and II the trough to the river
had ever been used 1t had been cleaned
out
He said the door at the hog vat was
| open wheE he was there.
Fire But no Blaze.
He merely glanced into the window
Of the bunk house, but only saw a bunk
in there. The offal pile was burning
the entire length OF 20 or 90 feet. There
was no blaze but a good fire. It could
breed maggots except for the fire
which was the only thing that would
prevent 1t. but he didn't know whether
maggots would breed there or not after
| the fire was out He saw no flies there
at all. There was an odor but 1t was
not offensive. He said Bosworth told
him the slaughter house was in the
same condition that 1t was in whca
the article complained Of was printed.
ID. H. Eastman was next called. He
was a member OF the inspection COM
mittee for the plaintiff. He said the
floor was very clean. There was a lit
tie water in a sheet iron hog vat but
there was no odor to speak Of. The
trough running the blood and waste
was clean. He saw a very few flies in
the slaughter house. There was Il bar
rel that had a little water In 1t but he
didn't see any covering over It.. The
yard was dry and clean without dead
chickens but there were some nice fat
| hogs in an enclosure.
The offal pile was about IS or 20 feet
long and looked as II It had been
burning long while. He said he could
only smell the smoke of the fire with
just a nth stencil of anything burning.
There were no flies about. lie didn't
get over the fence to go near the pie.
He detected no doors at the lard house.
There might have been slight door
such as Is noticed around slaughter
houses. The ofral pile was IS to 20 feet
long and about IL feet wide. He said
there was no appearance that anything
! had ever been run down the chute to
the river except there were blood
stains visible. He said he wouldn't say
that the floor had ever been cleaned
since Strengthening, but there were cor
ners not quite as clean as the rest. II
| supposed IL it had ever paen useA for
Strengthening 1t had been cleaned" He
said Bosworth employed MIN to take
the party out. He said he didn't go
into the cooling room.
Acting Manager on Stand.
M. T.. Bosworth, acting manager for
the company. was called and testified
that he went with the party on Aug.
| II to visit the slaughter house. He
said the floor was very clean and all
right but he didn't know whether 1t
was In the same condition as on Aug.
| 16 or not. It was not ordered to be
cleaned up by him or the company be-
tween Aug. 10 and Aug. II. There were
no offensive odors on this visit except
in barrel OF soap grease. There were
no more files in the slaughter house
than in any house. The yard was clean
and they went to the offal pile. He said
| he had to 60 and get Mrs. Bradford to
show him where the offal pile Is as he
couldn't find It. There was q fire on
one end with no offensive odor except
the smoke and burning and there were
no flies.
| He said that in the lard house was
| some rancid lard which he had sent
| down from the up town market. There
was no offensive Odlor In the lard house