Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-28
"INSPECTION OF
SLAUGHTER HOUSE
IS REVELATION
SPlace Kept by the Central Meat Mar
ket Closed by Order Of state
Health Authorities.

Health Authorities.
"Vith flies breeding and covering
almost everything in sight. with mag
cots working around in newly rendered
lard. with a pile of offaI three feet high
and 90 feet across the base, James II.
Wallis yesterday decided that the
slaughter house Of the Central Meat
Market was no place to kill meat that
is to be sold to Boise consumers anu
he closed the place down.
"Seals of the state were placed over
every door and on every vessel con-
tanning the lard, while nearly soVo
worth of newly cut beef was conls-
Gated and placed in cold storage until
the termination Of the case Wnlch tlie
1nspector started at once against the
company. A complaint was sworn OUT
charging. as the first count, that M. r.
Bosworth, manager of the place. hao
killed animals between the hours of 8
O'Clock and O'Clock.
.'rhe state inspector also charges the
market with keeping its stock in the
pen for more than IS hours without
food or water when the limit Is ~
hours. He charges them with main
thanking the offa according to law,
with running the blood and other ref
use of the animals into the river with
out legal right, and with violating the
pure food laws in many other ways.
Damaging to Pierce Park.
For 800 feet the waters of that
branch of the Boise river which flows
through Pierce park is contaminated
with blood of the animals slaughtered
nv the market. The water has a tinge
of red for that distance. The magnl1i-
cent specimen of flies and mosquitoes
that can always be found at pierce
mark in such abundance breed from
this place, the inspector thinks. He be
lieves that a beautiful pleasure ground
is being spoiled by the maintenance OF
the decidedly insanitary conditions that
he found on his inspection trip.
Large vessels of lard, rendered IN
place so dirty that a person shuddered
as he entered, were opened by the state
department and the maggots exposed.
They were crawling around over the
dingy white surface of the goods that
would have been, the inspector says. In
the homes of Boise within few hours.
But the filthy building in which the
insanitary conditions under which II
was prepared for market was only one
of the long string of grievances that
the state inspector has against the
company In the Strengthening room he
found piles of old offal covered with
flies and dirt and lying within just a
few fee OF the place where the butcher
was cleaning the newly killed animal
when the officer arrived. From the
gigantic otfal pile just outside the
building to this smaller one, lying on
the concrete floor of the slaughter
house and back to the rendering tank
and the lard cans is only short dis
tance for the armies of flies.
standing in their places as they
were watching the work, the inspectors
saw the blood and other refuse washed
down the chute into the branch of the
river that flows under the two bridges
in Pierce park. They discovered the
reason why the park Is always so in
Tested with flies and mosquitoes and
why 1t sometimes is the place where
disease begins. In the personal ex-
perience of nearly every one present at
the inspection, the great green flies
and mosquitoes have been seen down
the stream in the park.
Without Food or Water.
Locked in their pens without food
or water were found three or four hogs
and nearly dozen sheep. The com
panys MAJ admitted that he had
planned to kill the animals that night
which tic inspector says Is also against
the law. He declares that the law pro-
hibits the slaughter of animals that
have stood for 20 hours without water
or for slightly longer period without
food. 1t is claimed that animals
slaughtered at that time are in a few
erish condition and are absolutely unfit
for human use.
shut off from the rest of the world
by small forest along the bank of the
river and almost inaccessible except
for treacherous road out from the
bluff down to the bottoms. no one in
the party had ever discovered the
slaughs n house before. In the inspec-
ton party were James II. Wallis the
state inspector; DIR. NJ. w. Smith, Dep.
uty White and the Misses Irwin, state
human officers"
Answer Was Filed.
Without waiting the legal length oil
time In which to answer, the Capita
News instructed its attorneys to file ar
answer forthwith declaring that thu
article stated the truth. This was done
and the case was called Sept. 16 A
jury was quickly secured and the in.
PRODUCTION of evidence was begun and
continued until Sept rs, when the cas-,
was closed. The jury was then taker
to the slaughter house to see for-them.
selves In the light Of the evidence and
argument was heard and the case sub
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