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Show BRINGS PEST FROM PANAMA. Arkansas Engineer Makes Himself Unpopular on R-eturn. CRAWFORD. Ark . May 13 R. S. Evans, who Is spending his vacation at his home here, on his return from duties du-ties In connection with the United States engineering corps on the Isthmus Isth-mus of Panama, is not the most popular popu-lar man in town right now Several weeks ago when Evans returned re-turned he brought with him a tropical menagerie and collection of inse ts. including in-cluding many flying ants. The ants escaped es-caped and have increased in population to such an extent, with the coming of wai'm weather. that a crisis was reached und tho warm about town grew in numbers until merchants were forced to shut tip shon. The Panama ants .Hfier, according to local opinion, from the ordinary American Amer-ican insects. Inasmuch as their bite Is poisonous, several citizens having t" n bitten. |