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Show Rat Bounty Excites Merriment. Seattle, fearing tho Introduction of bubonic plnguo by rats, has offored a bounty of ton cents n rat. This moves Tacoma, safo from Infection from tho sea, to raucous laughter, and tho Ledger Led-ger says that tho bounty, "though not intended for rodents of Tacoma, Everett, Bolllngham and other populous popu-lous nnd busy centers, hns been finding find-ing its way into tho pockets of nonresidents non-residents of Seattle for non-resident rats. But the Joko would bo on us If It wero found that our rat population popula-tion had found its way into tho Seattle Seat-tle census." |