Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-27

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hsuss also yesterday and found thsl
lard In apparently the same condition
- upon his first visit. He said he
brought with him . bucket Of the lard
which he presented ana 1t was intro
duced In evidence. The bSclset bore
the label OF the company AZ Lard"
and the top Of the lard was nearly COW
cred with mice droppinss and dirt and
showed that It had been eaten into BY
mice.
Measured the Distances.
He said he measured the distance
to where the branch stream Joined the
main street and found It to be 1880
feet, or about one-half mile.
DR.. M. w. Smith was next called.
On Aug. 26 he went out with the state
chemist, the state bacteriologist and
Mr.. White. He found the yard had
been cleaned up Of dead chickens. the
floor Of the slaughter house had been
cleaned, although the slaughtering
tools had not been cleaned. The chute
had been cleaned and the hog hides
removed. He said they found animal
matter below the chute and took sam
pies Of water but this evidence was
not admitted.
He also went out the same evening
with Mr.. Wallis, Mr.. White, Mr.. Safely
and Mr.. Grow. The offal pile was In
the same condition except 1t had been
burned over little on top. They
found maggots and saw the chickens
eating the maggots. He said he dug
down into the hog vat and that time
and dug up hairs and animal refuse.
There were not as many flies that day
as there were on the former occasion.
The premises were about the same as
on the 18th except there had been no
killing done since and the slaughter
house had been generally slicked UP.
He gave evidence directly contra
dieting certain denials made by Mrs.
Bradford. declaring she had said she
had been trying to get feed for the
hogs and that she had had trouble to
get the meat company to move the
offal pile. She also said that the
meat company scraped the dirty part
off the lard cans. filled them up with
fresh lard and took them to town to
sell and she had seen them do 1t.
He said G. Lee French had not
emptied the water from the tub in the
cattle pen, as Mrs. Bradford had tes-
titled.
w, L. Hammond Called.
w. L. Hammond. city building in
spector. was called. He visited the
slaughter house yesterday. He visited
the offal pile. He found maggots
crawling through the offal and they
took a stick and put some of the offal
and maggots in bucket. He identi-
fled the bucket heretofore introduced
as the one containing the offal and
maggots.
He said they measured the distance
from the slaughter house to the mouth
of the branch Of the river and the dis
lance was 1856 feet. He told of the
condition of the lard in the lard house
with mice droppings and other dirt
and identified the bucket introduced.
He said the screen on the door was
broken and had holes through which
flies could enter. The conditions
around the bunk house were not good.
The hog yard had no grass whatever
in It. He said he went at the re-
quest Of Mr.. Veatch
l. A. Jarvis, a real estate dealer. was
called. He visited the slaughter house
yesterday. The offal pile was about
20 or % feet square and maybe 30
feet square. 1t had maggots in 1t. He
identified the bucket OF maggots in
troduced as bucket filled at that
time. The screen was partly off on
the south side of the lard house. He
told Of the condition Of the lard found
there. Some were fairly clean while
others were very dirty. He noticed
dead flies and mice refuse about the
lard house