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Show M- IS FULL' Of CARCASSES tain and the manager "of the football team. High jlnka will be the order of the nlg-bt. Bow. wow fanciers will meet tonight In the office of Dr. W. M. Waddell Temple-ton Temple-ton building, and transact matters per-talnlng per-talnlng to the proposed Jbench show. Eugene F. Bert -has resigned as president presi-dent of the Pacific Coast Baseball league, and will remove to Chicago, where he will try to throw tha hooks Into a number of his lawyer friends. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien Is side-stepping- Hugo Kelly, the huky bunch of spaghetti who threw a kink into the Quaker lad not loig ago. Kelly Is willing will-ing to fight O'Brien at any time, winner to take all. . One side of the articles between Mike Schxeck and Tommy Burns has been signed and that's the So h reek side. Tommy hasn't been heard from as yet. Mike gels the hot end of it. but he's wlllln' so long as he can get a chance at a good one. Who's who? That's what fight fans are asking themselves as they read that Tommy Sullivan claims the light-weight championship, and aa they also read that Abe Attell does the same thing. The thing Is likely to be settled soon by a match between the two lads. Sullivan put Attell away In October, 1904 the only time Attell was knocked out. Here's a regular village cut-up. P. J. Bltterman of Indiana, and nowhere else, is out with a challenge to any dancer In the world for a two-step contest. John J. Maroney of Indianapolis preferred. Now, girls, here's your chance! Fudge e.ham- f ilons and champion gum-chewers are ikely to be the next thing on the bill of fare. ; "' Death in an unknown, 'mysterious f fornr haa come to thousands of wild docks at the month of the Jordan rtr-r. rtr-r. ,The ground la covered In tome placea two and three deep with the carcasses of plnheads, redheads, freen-heads, freen-heads, mallards, teal and other kinds of docks. On the water of the river noat-taf; noat-taf; Tarl-colored feathered forms in hundreds give ennte evidence of destruction. de-struction. Brports of the withering blast which has brought death to thousands of the wild docks of Utah have been prevalent preva-lent here for the past two or three days, but confirmation was lacking until Ilof-Unz Ilof-Unz and Ure, members of the New State Gun club, arrived here yesterday after a visit to the mouth of the river. Both men sadly asserted that no exaggeration ex-aggeration has been made of the tales concerning conditions at the point where the river empties into the lake. They brought in with them six dead ducks and twenty live ones. "All we had to do," said Hofling, "was to reach out and pick up dead docks by the hundred. And the live ones are just as easy to capture. "Something is killing them off by thousands. They seem to be paralysed. They can't fly. When we came up some of them tried to rise in the air, but they only wobbled a bit, and fell to the ground, where it was no trouble for os to pick them op." Theories as to the cause of the devastation devas-tation are many, but many of them are considered untenable. Several of the carcasses were taken to Herman Harms, City Chemist. late today he said that while his investigations in-vestigations were not yet completed, he believed that the water of the river had been poisoned In some manner. "I do not wsnt to be quoted as saying say-ing positively that the birds died from drinking the water of the Jordan, be- Pe 1 have not as yet completed my vsis either of the water or of th uses. But one can hardly refrain : looking to the water as the cause rholesale slaughter, for the reason that the figh, too. are dying by hundreds hun-dreds in the vicinity," said he. Searching analyses will b made today to-day of the water from the Jordan and of the bodies of the ducks, and a report re-port will be handed to the city authorities au-thorities by City Chemist Harms. Residue from the smelters contaminating contami-nating river water, smoke from the smelters poisoning the air, starvation and an unknown plague these are some of the theories advanced as to the cause of the death of the wild ducks. None of these theories has as yet been proven. In certain Eastern .localities thousands thou-sands of fine fish have been killed b waste water from strawboard and paint works, and for a time people in that section were unable to understand the cause of death, "ben it was learned that the water ha't been poisoned, authorities au-thorities quickly put a stop to the practice prac-tice of emptying contaminating waste into public streams. |
