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Show NO COCK FIGHTS ON m CANAL Washington, Sept. 1. Cock fights, dog fights and bull fights, dear to the Latin American heart, will soon disappear dis-appear from the Panama canal zone. President Taft has issued an execu- tive order, effective September 4, f placing all contests between birds or g animals of any kind on the zone in K the same prohibited class as prlza I, fights between men, under pain of I fine or Imprisonment. I Col. Goethals, chairman of the Isth- . main commission, has issued an order J. proclaiming labor day, September 1, f, a holiday throughout the zone and j authorizing the suspension of all work " on the canal, but as the oxecutlve order becomes operative on that day, bird and animal fights will find no V place among amusements for pleasure ! seeking employes. V : |