Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-25

meat into the cooling room and then
at night run It out into the daughter
room to stay all night and they went
after It about or o'clock next
morning. He said the blood was run
down the chute to the river back OF
the SLAUGHTER house. He said that
Deputy NJ s. Parker gave permission
to them to slaughter out Of hours pre-
scribed by law.
Arthur G. Winston was their next
witness. He lives five miles west OF
Boise. He was at the slaughter house
Aug, AZ and went through the yard.
he saw the offal pile which he said was
about s by 10 feet and IL to ID inches
deep. 1t was burning and he could not
notice any stencil and saw no flies. He
was within or 10 ,et Of 1t on foot
path. He walked through the yard and
noticed 1t was very clean with no dead
chickens or carcasses There were no
dead calves there The branch OF the
river at the slaughter house runs into
the south channel Of the river back of
H, d. Goodmans ranch and then
through the ranch OF witness and the
two channels came torether just below
Pierce park. He never noticed any
stencil at his place and no more green
flies than can be seen along the river
any where.
On cross examination he said there
were big green flies all up and down
the river but none at the offal pile He
said no one asked him to testify but
that. he came to listen to the testi
mony and was summoned as he arrived.
He first told d. II. Eastman about
what he knew Of the case. He said on
the offal pile there was nothing but a
few bones almost entirely burned. He
noticed no different odor in or about
the slaughter house premises than he
noticed elsewhere along the river out
side the burning bones. 1t was just as
sweet and free from odor as any other
place along the river aside from the
burning bones.
Stakeholder on Stand.
o. G. Gibson, a stakeholder and d.
rector Of the Central Dressed Meat
company. was the first witness this
morning. He said he took charge OF
the slaughter house on Aug. IL and was
there on Aug. 10 and threw out some
trash and burned It. He was there
again on Aug. IA and knew Of the kill
ing Of COW and calf. There was an
other COW to be killed, he said, after
| he left.
| On Aug. IL he said he found the
place cleaned up like 1t always Is. The
back door had a screen in a good con-
dition He didn't remember whether
the door from the killing hlatform was
open or shut. He sal id there was a hole
five or six inches from the bottom OF
the hog vat which made 1t impossible
to use It, He said there was little
water in the bottom Of the vat but he
didn't notice any bad smell. He said
there Was plank to close the bottom
| of a screen door and this board was
! taken up to sweep out offal and refuse
and the board Is then replaced. He said
there weren't any cracks in the slaugh-
| ter house which would admit flies
There were no offal piles in the slaugh-
ter house and he never saw any barrel
containing water or other substance or
| the twelfth but there wcs one there
on the fourteenth which contained tall
low to be used for soap grease. He said
he saw the butcher throw tallow into 1t
| The witness took IT out on the seven
| teenth and burned II up on the trash
pile.
| He described the dark or cooling
room in which the meat was run after
being dressed He said there were e
number of chickens kept at the place
but he didn't know where they would
get any maggots to eat and he didn'
see any dead chickens.
i The offal pile was burning on the
fourteenth he said. and was kept burn.
ing all the time and he smelled ne
stencil and he never saw any maggot:
but there were always some file!
j around.
There was no stencil or bad smell II
the lard house and no lard in there a
all, but there was some soap grease
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