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Show inn a-j Ducks Dying 4 W By Thousands. llre Jo3oph Jensen and J. 11. 0 Konnard visited the Bootho u Valley last Sunday in the int-Y int-Y 8 crest of that ward. Both going ,r and coining they wore surprised surpris-ed to see so many dead ducks the on tho edge of the lake. A re- inri cent issue of the Deseret News ,ta contained an article stating ,U1 that ducks were dying by the 1 .j; thousands from a contagious )Sl disease having made its appear- anco among the feathery tribe. Imi following are extracts from the oop article: ult "Ninety per cent of tho ducks N y j at the mouth of the Jordan 101.. river are dead," was the start- p ling statement made this morn- j' ing by Cashier 0.0. lice-be of 0 J the Zion's Saving Bank to Sm Trust company, wlio made a 11 special trip Friday down to gm Jordan to satisfy himself as to - the reported condition of tho p water fowl there. Mr. Beebe is a votoran sportsman, particular-. H ly in the water fowl, so he n. would not be apt to overstate matters. He says it made him Sav heart sick to see at least 10,000 line looking ducks strewn all 'I'g'j over the Hats. The custodian A. g of the New York Gun club told 3., j him that the other afternoon he it 15 and his boy gathered up 9051 1 at dead birds, and on the follow-ekll follow-ekll . ing day picked up 1,7(50, when iOui they got tired and quit." r sli "Tho presence of so many IRI thousand dead ducks must be irns i more or less of a menace to-'0 to-'0 at public health as they are all decaying de-caying under tho hot noonday thq sun, and Air. Boebe believed it would be woll for the lish and .. i game commissioners to issue a lL)er cautionary notice to spoTtsmen to give up tho idea of shooting 4 at tho opening of tho season as j there must bo many partially diseased ducks which would be 1 H shot and afterwards' eaten when Li their flesh was in no condition j - for eating." P "Fish and Gaino commission's commission-'s er Chambers has been actively I interesting himself in this un-fortunate un-fortunate conditions of affairs. "2 He says tho trouble is roup, I which attacks the livor of the M birds, just as Mr. Boobe said, rjjj and results in death." troe rlam 11 'pllonO"Uroa 00 Anderson. Mnnmr, |