Show THE DUCK DISEASES Ogden Sportsmen Find the Cause of the Contagion Among the Birds Diseased Birds Were Found Ne Sewer Outlets Clubs May Get New N w Grounds of or Sportsmen all over the state Utah have anxiously awaiting wailing something official on tha duck sit situation something that thal would either cither confirm of or deny den deu rumors that thu tho leathered tribe va exterminated ed ett by lIr a mysterious malady that wiped out ol ot the daily Jail Reports from sections of or northern Utah during luring the early earl tari palL part of the week had hod It IL that all au the ducks of tho tue state were infected and that they thoy tho would be all nil dead before tho thu season 8 or that the tho food Id dairy would put pill a aban aban aban ban on 01 the sale or eating ealing of the thc game anie 1 Jo rumors as Is 13 l usual with most had some hut but as ai ail lo l the case caRe of every ever other othel rumor I I hey grew JIOW to such exaggerated pro proPOrtionS POrtionS that flint none norie knew but bitt that the tue wild ducks and tho ito fascinating sport of ol shooting them would soon soan be o as ash unheard of as na Is the olden buffalo lab hunts The truth of the story stor l 1 5 ad as fol follows I lows bows There Thur IB lu i an nn Infection of the ducks clucks and anil an rin alarming too teo among those tho c that make tho the Jordan river near noar its mouth their feeding place Ducks Ducles are dying dIng bv by b scores In hi that flint while hundreds upon hun hundreds hundreds are aro infected infect 1 with the tue disease Scientific men have hae termed it dys Ilg dysentery eatery brought about by br the thu stagnant condition of oC the and the rIv rIver cr or itself I from the heavy liea pouring of JC sewerage cwern e water Into the stream from nom Salt SaIL Lake City s Ducks affected with this disease have ha been heen found on Promontory Point Several were dead while others were sick In the last stages sta es of their but bat I I tIe tle u with the disease dise se Jt It Is believed that those these birds flew straight t from the Jordan rivet river district dl where they tho contracted the disease A committee of or Investigation from front this city made the trip trill to the tue Jordan river flats fiats yesterday and anel brought lIrou ht eight of the sick birds back with them thorn for examination The Thc party con consisted consisted of Mr Bigelow Dr Baker Willard Hansen Hanson state stale food and anti dal inspector John Browning Francis Thomas William Matheis the UI Plain PIn In City naturalist and Game Gamo Warden J JS JS JS S Carver and 0 O B D Madson Madsen Iad on onTI The TI party part after n 0 careful investigation gation of the conditions prevailing at the mouth of oC the tIle Jordan lordan and in inthe Inthe the vicinity reports leports that 90 per cent of oC the th ducks In that thai section are arc in with the sickness or have died diell from front It h and that scores of birds ml mi migrating grating there from other points have fallen alien before the tho scourge Eight of the stricken birds were wem brought back hack to 10 Ogden Ono One of oC these was wn so far along In the tue con contagion contagion that it died eliell before reaching here Another one on was as killed anti and dissected by lI Dr Baker Baiter who deter eleter determined determine mined mine to find out for himself tho Iho na an nature antune tune ture of the disease After ACter an exam examination examination ho lie reached the conclusion that the birds suffered stiffened from dysentery and that thai the disease was wal caught from feeding in the sewer water of the thc Jordan flats Mr Carver Caner took the remaining six birds to his home heme and fed them gen generously with bird food and anel gave them thema a liberal supply of clear fresh water The Tue ducks soon soun revived and at last accounts were flapping thou their wings as active as any barn yard fowl A I thorough Inspection of the con prevailing on OTt the thc Jordan Jor an river will be iC 1 made mad by iii In state food 1001 and health officials The state stale chemist will an analyze analyze the water of ot the stream and sporting clubs of Salt Lake will do tb everything in lii their rower power to banish the sickness that threatens to spoil such a n popular sport It was suggested by lI Salt Lakers that the river r el should hould be he channeled right to and anel out into the tue lake bake and that the sloughs neat near the mouth be Intel lined with canals and arni channels that might alight draw off the sewer sewel hut but this Is considered impracticable by local beau people The Tue only on I feasible solution so far 01 is the removal of the tue duck duckI clubs of that section to some borne other othel healthful section the abandonment of or the upkeep of the feeding ceding grounds there thore anti and a 1111 the thorough of tho swamps or the extension of the tho OWer Lewer pipes well weil out Into the tho inky It Is not ex expected 1 that Hint the disease e will m affect feeding grounds rounds In Weber Webert county Bounty t anti and the shore shor line tine nearby nearh rho Tho duct duck clubs ClUiS near neni Ogden n all report that lint conditions this year rear are re about the same as they thoy were a year ago and that the mortality rate ale Is no tin higher titan than in ill former years I I Browning is reported as say sa lug ing that there is nothing out of the ordinary In iu the lh duck ditch situation at City CUr and the mouth of tho the Bear B ar ilver William Mathers a t naturalist of ty and ancl a member Of the Lake Lak Shore Gun club also a samo garno commissioner reports that the tito ducks on ott the grounds ground of the club near nelll Ogden O are arc ar entirely free rom tho the epidemic that has affected Jordan iIer S U lie Ho says that th P pros poets this M season 1 at his club clu are ar bet ter than ever eer Mr Mi lis hitch of the lie Rudy Duck club on the that lie Ill win Riv S son OO to the lite that i nin man mati can cai mo dead i ducks on the lIte Rudy club grounds an alit the Sr grounds cf f lC the thi two clubs lubs ad Jo ii lug to Lo Harry HarO Anderson John Sharp A anti a score f of other local be the hol hi 1 trouble scents s 1 to lo be oc wm with the lie city cf w r Lale LolIC as It ii r the th waTerS Wel Of f he the Jor JOP I dnn and Indeed tf U goIng golm from iu its outlet to deep water vater Jn In the I lake bake This opinion Is shared 11 lt b State uZ Fold Co ll fEl ncr ner WIllard Hansen who suid t bl his that at In his lii I the power oer Is to blame nl ul ho was wu a Judging Jud IlS only from re o the l c situation I Harry r Anderson says ara that If tin tue Aphis surplus canal waters aler ar au turned Into Int Int IntI the river at the right point thc thu sit situatIon I nation may yet be saved |