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Show RABID COYOTES IN m VALLEY lcs lllllcn bj Cojoicst Hlto Other Animals rnustngr Doalh. About fifty men nrc working under Government dlicctlons, killing rabid coyocs that threaten to do great damage In the northwestern part of the state. aJnics Chamberlain of Cedar Ced-ar Fort wiltes the state Hoard of Health thatr nbld coyotes have made their appearance In Cedar Valley. Mr. Chamberlain said a coyoto which acted strangely had followed Into Pah county a band of sheep returning return-ing from the winter rnngo In Nevada and had bitten a dog owned by a man nam) (I Hen. Ho said the dog later began to act strangely, Hint It bit (four sheep, which later died and several sev-eral othT dog's which have also begun be-gun to show rnhles symptoms. After biting tho dog Chamberlain said tho coyote made Its escape Into the Rush Valley country nnd on Its wny stopped to bite n number of rhlckens. Teh Allen dog he said has been killed kill-ed and the eatcass burned. As the heads of none of tho anlmnls bitten ,hnfi been sent in for n test Dr. Ilcntty ,nlil it will not be possible to dctor-mlno dctor-mlno whether tho coyote had rabies, but he had little doubt in Ills mind that the animals were rabid and he cars the disease has now obtained n ,flrm bold In tho county. Dr. Hentty will undertake at once a thorough Investigation and will attempt to ln-yiucc ln-yiucc the Utah county authorities to 'take somo action. . 'Tho circumstances should hno boon "repotted to this ofllco sooner so that some action could have been taken before be-fore tho disease had a chanco to ispread as it has undoubtedly done mow," snld Dr. Hentty. "Whonevcr an animal acts qeerly as did thoso In Utah county and If rabies Is feared Its brain should bo immediately sent to tho state bacteriologist for analy sis. Hy such an examination It Is possible pos-sible to determine for eertnln whether wheth-er the nnlmal was rabid." It would be well for everybody who has an animal suspected of rabies to send Its head to tho secretary or tho Mate board of health soon as tho nnl-mal nnl-mal Is bitten. . o |