Show I CRUELTY TO HORSES I COMPLAINT MADE THAT THEY ARE BRUTALLY TREATED Officer Sperry Investigates Charges that Teamsters Overload Wagons Carrying University Material Several complaints have been received re-ceived at police headquarters that teamsters hauling sand and rock to the new University site on Thirteenth East have acquired the habit of overloading their wagons and forcing their horses to pull the heavy load up hill under the additional strain of whips clubs and curses Yesterday morning Dr Beatty notified noti-fied the police that such conduct was still very much in vogue among the haulers and Officer Sperry was sent out to Investigate One lady who lives near the grounds told the officer that sights of brutality were to be witnessed I I daily She said that only the day before I be-fore a teamster was pounding his Jaded horses with a neckyoke in cii effort to force them with a heavy loatl up the hill Unable to bear such 0 sight the lady said that she pulled the driver aside and ordered him to desist Sperry notified the haulers that they must take on smaller loads hereafter The names of several of the offenders are in the possession of Dr Beatty and I warrants for their arrest will probably prob-ably be sworn out today I |