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Show ticular spot? These are the questions of interest to the number of visitors who come to see them. Tho strange part of tho story is that dogs have boen recognized recog-nized that came to the place from some far distant part of the city, ostensibly for the purpose of dying, as they were seen to stagger through the yard, dis- appear and be seen no more until their moldi'ring remains were pulled, out from under the house. From time to time complaints have been made at the health office of the stench arising from the place, andAl-pers, andAl-pers, tho dead dog man, has been notified noti-fied and requested to remove them. On one occasion he removed twelve in one batch. Newfoundlands, shepherd dogs, bulldogs, curs and even one or two fancy strains of dogs were discovered to have come to this strangely selected spot to foregather with their kin. After this Alpers refused to proceed further in the matter, declaring that he did not have to remove the dogs dying upon private premises, and so the accumulation has gono on until the condition is intolerable. , A search was instituted by Dr. Furlong, of the health office, and it was discovered that once more the pluce was filled with dogs newly dead. The search resulted in the announcement announce-ment that tho number of dogs that had died under those walls could not bo ascertained as-certained until the floors were taken up. A feature tliat seems almost supernatural supernat-ural is the intelligence that characterizes character-izes the dogs' death. Every new animal as he comes to the place to die crawls back us far as ho can get beneath the house and gets close against tbe hist dog that died, as if to make room for the next that comes; a fact that Supervisor Super-visor Barry pronounced the most touch-ingly touch-ingly pathetic unselfishness he had ever known. The scores of dogs that have died have come without noise, as testified by the lady of the house, and died without noise. They come almost at the moment of death, crawl beneath tho house and join tho majority without a whimper. What the mysterious attraction is is something beyond human knowledge and may never to fathomed. No one seems to dare to advance a theory on the eerie subject, and yet every one was willing to admit that there really seemed to be an understanding or death compact between tho dogs, but how, when or where made, if at all, seemed to be simply sim-ply a controversion of all of nature's known laws. San Francisco Examiner. DOGS GO THERE TO DIE. Scores of Ailing Canlnr Seem Attracted to an Old House. The mystery surrounding tho conduct of tho scores of dogs that have crawled j under the eaves of houses Nos. 2 and 8 ! on City Hall avenue is still tho absorbing absorb-ing topic around the new city hall. All efforts to fathom tho mysterious attractions havo been unavailing. The fact remains, however, that under these two houses scores of dogs havo crawled and died. Not ordinary dogs, but sick dogs; dogs that were on the verge of deuth. Twenty-six carcasses have been removed from beneath the old houses already, al-ready, including dogs of all degrees, from the beautiful and intelligent setter set-ter to the measly little terrier who yelped his farewell to earth in the presence of scores of his dad and better kind. Whence come these dogs? Why do they go there to die in such large uum-banaud uum-banaud whvda.tiwx Select this. Jiars |