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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 Led-ger says that the bounty, "though not intended for rodents of Tacoma, Everett, Bellingham and other populous popu-lous and busy centers, has been finding find-ing its way into the pockets of nonresidents non-residents of Seattle for non-resident rats. But the joke would be on us if it were found that our rat population popula-tion had found its way into the Seattle Seat-tle census." |