Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-09-27 | Page 9 | Gallstones Used as Chinese Devil Chasers

k GALLSTONES USED AS CHINESE DEVIL CHASERS CHICAOO. Hept. 27. Tha market quotation quo-tation on gallstones la unchanged today at $100 a pound at the Union stock yards, where the article Is sold as Chinese Chi-nese "devil chaser." A. J. Utile, head of the selllns; department of one of the larffe meat parking firms, said his concern con-cern marketed about eight or nine pounds s year from the cattle slaughtered. Some of them are aa big aa walnuts, hut most ara no trigger than peas. Thiy are tight and few r-eves have any. All of them are bought by Japanese, who do not use them. They ship them back to Japan to he manufactured for the Chinese trade. The Chlneee beset by devfte carry a piece f carved gallstone - In their pockets. They believe no power rsn withstand the gallstone once It hat been fa h Ion ed Into a sufficiently terrible terri-ble shape.