Show rat bounty excites merriment seattle fearing the introduction of bubonic plague by rats has offered a bounty of ten cents a rat this moves tacoma safe from infection from the sea to raucous laughter and the ledger says that the bounty though not intended for rodents of tacoma everett bellingham and other populous and busy centers has been finding its way into the pockets of non residents of seattle for nonresident non resident rats but the joke would be on us if it were found that our rat population had found its way into tho the seattle seattie census |