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Show C1PI1 TO STAMP : OUT MEMf Assistant United States Biologist Bi-ologist and Dr. T. B. Beatty Confer.' SUGGESTIONS MADE Hunting of Coyotes, Muzzling Muz-zling of Dogs and Warnings Warn-ings to Humans Urged. Systematic hunting of coyotes, muz-zlinp muz-zlinp of all dos and warnings to human beings to submit at once to the Pasteur treatment if they are bitten by anj animal ani-mal whatsoever is the programme for a joint government and state campaign 'against rabies in Utah, outlined yester- day at a conference between S. E. Piper ' of Washington, D. C, assistant bic- gisi of the United State3 biological sJrVv-jvey, sJrVv-jvey, and Dr. T. B. Beatty, state health commissioner. Mr. Piper arrived here yesterday. While he declared that he had no v:- b to be sensational and that the situ .... a was not one calling for any hyi? a, Mr. Piper said that the menace of ra-:t was more serious than mo. t people appreciated. ap-preciated. Indeed, it was reported 10 the state board of health yesterday that a shepherd dog belonging to a U; -h j heepherder whose flocks are gr&2:r -in.-t acres the border in .Nevada wt: bitten -by a rabid coyote and had d:- . ' appeared. Kfiorts are now being made to capture the dog ad confine it where it can be observed. To Recruit Wardens. ; The biological survey, which has for its purpose the extermination of preda- - S tory wud animals, now has liiteen hun- .: . ters in the state, under the direction or George Hohnan, whose headquarters are In Provo. It is prcpoM to merge the govern- v ' ment force with a force "of twenty-rive hunters recruited from the deputies or the state fi-h and eame der artrent. a i systematically beat about the WTtc-rj. j and noTihern borders of Utah for coy-! coy-! oteSj-ki'ling every animal they can fed. i In order to deirav the srate's exrl?ne in this coyote head-hunting expeaition. J Health fTommissicner Beatty. wao is. ss i well, chairman cf the sreeial committee j named by Governor Wiiiiam Spry to j take charge of the state's campsxn j against rabies. Trill as"k the state board j of examiners to authorize special ex-i ex-i penditures from state fnnds. The goT-: goT-: ernment 'orTicials will also ure noon thi board the necessity for ti-is tang;o-e participation in -the ficht.. Kill Unmuzzled Dogs. . The state's scceial enm m it fe and Piper of the biological survey wii se : out an nreent request to every eiy an.i town in the state asking that all dc- be licensed and muzzled, and ail not so attended to be promptly Another request is that a"l hunters tt:.", , kill coyotes decat'itate -the animals an i .. i express the heads, packed in ice, to th-1 i state bacteriologist at the University of " jUtah. |