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Show DOGS SAVE MISTER FROM JMAD CQYD1I Canines Badly Bitten to Take Pasteur Treatment With Shepherd. SPARED DEATH DECREE Rabid Animal Attacks Man on Desert and Collies Drive It Off. Regardless of expense, the United States government and the stato of Utah, through their public health ol'-f ficials, have joined efforts to save the lives of three Bhepherd dogs which bat 1 tied valiantly for their master's lifcj at the risk of their own, against a rullf coyote. Led bv a Scotch collie, the guardians of the flock fought off the mad coyote in a running fight three-quarters of a mile, until thoroughly exhausted. With his hand mangled by the teeth of the maddened beast, Eli Black of Coalville stumbled into his camp exhausted, whilo the faithful dogs stood off the invador as their master lay prostrate and defenseless. de-fenseless. Dogs Are Bitten. Tho dogs wore badly bitten on their muzzles, Dodies and logs. Their sentence sen-tence under the regulations of the health authorities was immediate death that they might not spread the dread disease. dis-ease. But when the sheep herder cama to Salt Lake for Pasteur specific treatment treat-ment furnished through the stato board of health and administered by Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the board, his story so gripped those who heard it that it was decided to add to the class of eight human beings dally taking tlie treatment tho three faithful canines. Dogs Take Treatment. For more than a score of days the defenders de-fenders of Black will take their treatment. treat-ment. Thoso interested in the itory of devotion and tho prompt and humane response of the Utah state officials, are outspoken in their hopo that the sacrifice sacri-fice of the animals may go down in tho records of tho humane socioties and that they .may be rewarded with suitable suit-able memorials for their stand between danger and their humble master. The attack occurred eight days ago near Lowe, a station on the Western Pacific in Tooele county. Coyote Makes Attack. Thia elapse of time between the at tack and the treatment, it is scientifi- cally known, will not militate against tho success of the treatment to the man and the dogs. Mr. Black tells his story as follows, -m I was walking toward camp hold- ing my hand to my face to keep off tho wind. I did not see the coyote, until within a few Bteps of it. It leaped at me and I threw it off with my arms. Then began tho running retreat with the dogs always al-ways trying to keep between mo and the beast. I fell outside the camp, and they circled about mo till the coyote disappenrcd. The animal was seen at other camps in the vicinity and I believo it was killed a few days lator. Daines Finds Rabies. Professor L. L. Daines, state bac-teroligist, bac-teroligist, with headquarters at the University of Utah, yesterday examined two heads which were submitted to aim for scientific investigation. He found positive evidences of the rabies in tho head of a dog which was sent to him from Brigham City by the sheriff of Boxelder county and which is said to have attacked a woman resident of that city. The head of a dog received from Eureka in Juab county did not show any positive evidences. |