Show GOPHERS CHARGED WITH SPREADING DISEASE Report port on Spotted Fever Epidemic in Bitter Ditter Root Valley WASHINGTON Aug 26 The 6 The marine hospital In it its health report publishes an interesting Interesting- report from Surgeon J. J 0 O. Cobb on an Investigation In estl alion a- a I lion tion nJ e h by him Into tho the so-called so spotted fever Cever of oC the Rocky mountains moun moun- a new disease In the Bitter Diller Root Hoot valley of oC Montana and severa several other othel places t Dr Cobb attributes this disease disease disease dis dis- ease to the bite of ticks licks that Ulal Infest the locality oca Ill These ticks carry corry a a. parasite which conveys 5 the tho germs elms of or the fever It was found that the gopher of or thil section IB la Infest Infested d with ticks find and ItIs Itis it itIs Is well veil known that this animal will I not cross class water except under extraordinary circumstances circumstance This being being- true truc I It would give gl the necessary hi tion why the thc disease was as confined to such a small locality The gopher of this particular section has In me wn way become Infected with fever tC organism and has acquired or ot In Inherited In- In Immunity An n Intra-corpus- Intra cular organism m has been found in the blood of some 0 of the from Crom that locality o allt while the organism has not been observed in the blood of or those those f I animals obtained elsewhere or even cven evenI I from those Just across a small river |