Show UNDERTAKERS RON They Are Having a Merry Time Over Paupers Bodies Kansas City Jan 25Across the line in Kansas City Kas at the county poor farm the pauper dead is playing an important part in a merry war new going on between the local undertakers Recently the Sawyer Undertaking company was awarded the sole contract con-tract of burying the countys poor and as a result the other competitors have declared rather than allow this that they will do the work for nothing They have already assumed a warlike attitude toward the favored company and body snatching they declare will until peace is declared be the order of the day Before the present differences arose the competing undertakers made each paupers death the cause for a fight racing for and at times snatching the bodies from one another dn their eagerness eager-ness to get the S10 forburyingit A tug of war with a cadaver as tlie object ob-ject of contention was no uncommon sight at the poor farm and not until one avaricious under taker was luckless to get away with but the liead an armor arm-or a leg and his opponent securing the larger portion of the bodydid the disgraceful proceedings cease But it only ceased until some other poor victim vic-tim diedj when the contest was repeated re-peated with all the eagerness of the previous one To put < v stop to such work Coroner Stevens opened ibids for taking care of the bodies the lowest bidder to receive the contract When Sawyer Co was given tho contract the firms set up a claim of fraud asserting as-serting that the companys bid was not the lowest and that It received preferment prefer-ment over them Until the difficulty is amicably settled the dead pauper must naturally prove to be an important impor-tant adjunct much sought by many and a source of scandal to the county |