Salt Lake Herald | 1896-11-17 | Page 2 | Coyotl Scalps

COYOTlJj SCALPS I They Cause n Deal of Trouble in f California I Sacramento Nov 16VThere was no I meeting of the state board of examiners examin-ers today owing to the absence of Governor Budd and Attorney General II Fitzgerald and a a sequence the aggravatdng question of making a recommendation corcening an appropriation I appro-priation for paying 0 certified coyote 1 siP claims is still unsettled Secretary Markley has however completed his report on the list of I counties whk the board consider doubfuL I of State Brown has Secretary 1s contended con-tended all along thait recommendations I recommenda-tions favorable to paying off unccm tested cams 0 those to which no doubt exisits of ir doubt s their justness should be made Ln t or3 > 2 t that people who have acted in gad fa3th will retain I their uaims and know that the same will be pa d as soon as a appropriation appropria-tion for the purpose becccnes available I avail-able SeT Markley says The act fixing a bounty on coyote scalps was apprved March 31 1891 and repealed Jan 24 1F95 As near a I can ascertain t the number of scalps for which cJoVns were approved by t he supervisors of the various risors vrious counties coun-ties 92431 the 462155 was aggregating sum of i The number of unpaid scalps for whxCi certificEffes have been issued 615 is 57523 aggregating the sum of 287 615In In every county organized prior to that datte there was a gradual falling off in the number of certificates issued in 1893 a compared with the number issued In 1892 In the year 1894 CCiere was Q Jarge increase in the number o certificates Issued as compared wiDth 1893 and especially es-pecially the last quarter of 1894 and the 24 in in the days 1895 te following ccjtries xres The total number of scalps for which certificates were issued in these nine counties for the last three months In 1894 and 24 days in January Janu-ary 1S95 was 13196 aggregating the sum of 65980 I