Show ML M L V SMITH AND HIS ALASKAN DOG OUTFIT c RUN AFOUL OF A TEAM IN SALT LAKE CITY CI Y I 4 i 4 q 4 i 4 4 c 4 S SS S i is s S SS 5 5 4 5 S ft ftc S c S S SS SS SS 0 4 S S 57 S S 5 44 4 S S c S S SS SS Sr SS r S S S S a For five performance extending over overa a period of four our days dayl duy tho people ot g t f Unit Malt I Lake have seen ami and enjoyed Tha Alas Alaskan Al Alkan kan The dramatic editor lete leth tet the nature faker In to say sa ay this much with Ith him that tha the show Is 15 good food Whether the show how la III i good lood or bad matter now no Th show how ha been here and had record houses bouce nearly very vory night It U t Is gone and all that goes with It is 10 gone and the bad feature In the show arc aro twelve dogs from Alaska They are the property of ot M X L LV LV LV V Smith who Is s with them on the tho tour They are not performing dope dogs as UI that designation usually is applied but they are working dogs do and they work every 0 minute of ot the day da If It they are given ehen th the chance The dors came caine from the tim north on Au August Augu gust gu t 7 They were transported across the tha th continent In cars loaded with Ice tee and although they the suffered from the heat In New Now York being a hardy hard lot let never nevera a one die Smith is now taking the dogs doge through with no ice at all but he is i care careful careful ful ml to give them all the cold air that Is le leat at large Mr 1 lr Smith has been in the freighting t and mall mail service in Alaska for ten years he and his dogs He Be Ie owns own of the animals whose value ranges from 50 to The most valuable dog Smith owns Is Coon Coen which in spite of ot his hla name is the real essence of ot dog doC Coon CoonIs Is not with Smith now because Coon Coonis is too valuable a dog to take chances on onby onby by 1 bringing him away off oft to the States Once when Smith was making the trip t from Nome to Unalakleet a distance of 51 miles over mer the salt water Ice of Ber Bering BerIng ing Coon saved his life Ufe The fact Is IsIas Smith Coon has saved my m life two or three times On the particular occasion to which reference is made Smith was driving his dogs over oer the Ice when they encountered a n breaking section the salt water ice Is always treacherous and It is especial especially ly dangerous when there is s a tide For Forthe Forthe Forthe the protection of himself Smith had at attached attached attached to his wrist the tho cord attached to the spike or lead dog the wise guy guI of the bunch The Ice broke under Smith The spike dog knew there was something wrong wron and employing his dog Intuition and his hs dog doS instincts Instinct and his dog common sense senses he turned his outfit toward safe ground or rather safe ice pulled Smith out of the water and turned a tragedy into a mere mishap F Yesterday there came near being a dis disaster disaster disaster aster of proportions that threatened to put Smith his and his Huskies out of business for good and all time The catastrophe occurred on Brigham street between Main and State Smith was ex exercising exercising I his dogs as It t Is his custom to do with the sleigh to which the tIle dogs are harnessed The sled without a lead foad leadIs Is a thing of Joy for tor the dogs in spite of the fact that people say that it is isa Isa isa a shame to make the poor brutes drag that awful scratchy thing over the pay paving pavIng payIng ing and constantly advise Smith to put wheels on his sled especially In summer summertime summertime summertime time My gracious exclaims Smith If lf I put wheels after atter those dogs I It never would stop going A small load for eleven eleen of ot them is 2600 pounds in front of which J I have seen een them chase ground squirrels rIght merrily merrih Smith and his hili outfit of dogs do s were driving drivIng ing along Brigham street when the dogs took it into their heads at least leat the spike dog did to go home and for home they made mad There was a coal wagon In Inthe inthe inthe the way but that didn t make any an dif difference difference difference ference to the and the Huskies The most direct line lino for tor them was be between between between tween the horses and the front wheels of the wagon and this line they the took Nearly all of them except the had made the passage a e in yelping Joyful Joyfulness joyfulness ness when one of the horses began to kick The hors horse kicked at the dogs dog do 3 but It failed of Its Us aim It planted its black hoofs squarely in Smiths fine Alaskan sled Bled however and nw there any anymore anymore anymore more sled Smith escaped un unhurt unhurt unhurt hurt Smith hopes to have repairs made In Ogden Olden Monday Monda sufficient to permit the sleighs appearance In the show the corn com company pany lays off In Ogden on that day da And AndI Andr I r paid one hundred and eighty dollars for tor that sleigh too said Smith rue ruefully ruefully ruefully fully a bad lot for tor fun fn when they get started Yesterdays mishap says Smith Is the first he has had since he brought his dogs ou out of Alaska on July 7 1 In Don S SS S 1 S S N j Smith with his dogs and sleigh Is I shown In the thc upper picture The Thc lower picture shows Whitey and her puppies I ver ser says Smith he was peacefully skid skidding skidding ding along behind his train when a hu humane humane humane mane society officer stopped him dogs look to be to be pretty hot and overheated Is that so said Smith Do you ou know anything about ab u the dog from Alaska No said sald the officer what about him 7 Well this is the dog from Alaska and all he knows is work He know what rest Is and want to Rest would be as fatal to him as the bite of a rattlesnake before time to UI a horse wrangler It Is true says sas Mr Ir Smith that the dogs have to be exercised constantly and they the have to be exercised strenuously we do Yellow said Smith af at affectionately affectionately patting a magnificent great dog fondly if we have our runs day The Alaska or Alaskan dog Smith says Is unquestionably mostly wolf He looks the part partIn In the face at least One of the dogs I have said Smith SmithIs Is wolf and the rest of them all have the strain in them strong Up north I drove three wolves In my team i for a R while and they the made fairly good but I had to keep them muzzled and It I I took a long time to train them They wont work as dogs do will I Does one of ot your our dogs ever get tired and quit like a Il sheep dog when he thinks I hes being overworked Ive been handling dogs for ten years ears and I 1 never neer knew one of ot them to quit yet et They are the gamest and arid the most willing and the most eager workers I ever saw In the animal line or I think that anybody else ever saw The best workers average about 82 pounds In weight and attain their best value at Urn age of ot about 2 years Smith says SaS the Alaska dog is I the ideal of ot affectionate gentleness That he is loving although disinterested and absolutely absolutely true to his hie hI trust He Is la not prone to lo fighting and will fight only with wild beasts or animals with which he is s not familiar Then he is vicious and effect effective effectIve ive lye He Hes is protected by a coat of fur so thick and so dense that a strong man get down to the skin with his fingers for ten minutes ae x ri The pet of the twelve Is Skinny Skinny may ma be an unromantic name but Smith or somebody gave some of the rest ot of them name enough to make up for Skin nys nR shortcomings in the name line All of the chorus girls love Skinny and yes yesterday yesterday one of them had her picture taken life size with Skinny in costume the girl of course Skinny is a pacer which are the bet better better better ter dogs for traveling Coon is i also a pacer and is Ia one Coon is i a n dog having been brought up at the end of a rubber tube by b a kindly woman in Alaska who afterwards got 50 51 q for him This was because Coons mother encountered a temperature of 61 67 degrees below zero when really rea II she ought to have been home and in bed Coon and Skinny are skilled in the art artof artof artof of leading a train It is on the leader that the driver places his dependence When we art are ar up against it says Smith we just leave leive It to the dogs Coon and ten companions once covered the distance be tween Nome and miles In hours There was wn wa no change of dogs It is i said to have been the best time ever made Smith says that he has driven Coon and some of his better dogs miles in fourteen and hours which Is going some says sas Smith and I didn t stop on Tuesday night to give them a bottle of ale as they the did on your racing Lusitania The twelve dogs In the Smith kennel are ore pretty prett well satisfied with their lot save that they got enough to do There are a few of them however that have a grievance against Smith or against the world in general and they cant well be blamed for their thir th lr grouch for they the have been saddled with the tho most ferocious names name that were ever sprung in since the days when hen the great convention was wag w held The ones one that have the kick coming are Ke ICe walik Kobuck Certainly it re requires requires requires quires a stretch of ot the Imagination to call softly Here here good The rest of ot the names in inthe Inthe inthe the bunch ore are easy They are Whitey Yellow Bud Fox For Frank and Jimmy The topic of ot chief conversation among the Alaskan company is s the good for fortune fortune fortune tune that has come to Whitey and through her to the company com pan for be it known that Whitey envious of seeing everywhere pictures of best crop undertook to enter Into the competition her To that end she displays to today toda today day da with pardonable pride seven of the finest Alaska puppies that were vere ever born In a window at the corner of State and First South Whitey jealously guards her family All of ot them are black save one that favors its mother So far as any person wised up on local dog lore knows the Alaska dogs brought by Smith and the Alaska puppies brought by b Whitey are the only animals of the breed that have ever been In n Salt Lake with th the execution cf re owned own by J Tod Goodwin |