| Show BOUGHT BIRO BIRD SCALPS boys deliver their dead sparrows COUNTY PAYS FOR THEM clerk stanton hiis has his first inning with the slaughterers Slaughter ers of the tha birds and collectors of the tha egre cost the county 2384 12 1 2 yesterday county treasurer lynn makes his report ot of receipts and expenses tor for july select P ft drainage route eoute that will empty all the lakes aises li the county ot of salt lake yesterday purchased 2184 worth of sparrow heads and eggs and consigned the same sam to the city crematory they were paid for at the rate of oc I 1 cent a piece apiece tor for the heads and 3 cents per dozen for the eggs this was the result of the first days proceedings under the county ordinance levying a bounty upon sparrows and eggs as provided tor for by the state law hoys boys and cds ads began trI bringing nging in the th heads and ei cess s at 10 and kept the county clerks force pretty busy from that time until 3 in the afternoon when the bounty business was vas suspended until next saturday during the same hours clerk stanton had prep prepared axed for an onslaught lit had bad a galvanize galvo alze I 1 iron tank built with a hinged lid that locks with a padlock the tank holds about as much as an ordinary whisky barrel and was designed as it a receptacle for the sparrow heads and eggs it was placed pl icel at the cast door ot of the joint building and eda edwin in entwistle wa put in charge of it TAKING IN THE SCALPS when the eggs and heads were pre rented edited he would count them throw them in his big tank and issue to the owner a certificate showing the number this certificate Is in the following form salt lake I ako utah 1338 2338 to the county clerk I 1 hereby certify that john re doe has haa this day d to salt sail lelko lake county dozen english sparrow eres eggs and english sparrow heads for w u inch atch ho he Is entitled to compensation as allowed by liw irr air Ent entwistle would attach his signature to this and the boy or girl receiving it would repair to the th county clerks office here the certificate certin cate was attached to a regulation blank tor for all claims against the county sworn to by the party pree presenting enting it and lied filed with tho the county auditor the boys boya and girls were then told to come friday for or their money as the warrants cannot be issued su ed until the appropriation Is made by the county commissioners some of the boys did not like alk to part with their certificates without getting it a quid pro quo and eyed clerk stanton ly as he filed died away the only evidence evl dence they had of their delivery ot of eggs or heads but after remaining rome few minutes even the doubters concluded that the clerk was not trying any confidence game with alth them and departed happy in the cons consciousness clou aneas ot of having money coming SMALL AND LARGE CLAIMS the smallest claim filed was as 12 cents for tour four dozen eggs and the largest 3 10 tor for sparrow heads R H fischer was the th boy who got the 13 3 10 certificate lie he haa the heads packed it way in falt fait and front from the odor they emitted had haa evidently been some time in them those who brought over a dollars worth were as follows ollow fl R H fischer Fl 1310 3 10 ernest toronto daniel spencer 1 57 elmer and lester north henry cooke ha 1 41 george whipple 1 02 thomas alston all told thie were thirty eight different claims blied flied and the total bounty thereon amounts to 23 84 shortly after 3 mr entwistle loaded his tank on a wagon and drove drova out to tho the city crematory to destroy the contents during its five lv hours be avico the tank had taken on an aji aroma that seemed it a combination of glue factory tanning and soap works atmosphere and when mr entwistle drove oft off all the lies flies in that part of the city buzzed after him as an all escort |
