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Show BILL PROVIDES FOR BOUN- TIES ON FARMERS' PESTS Salt I.ako City, Feb. 1. To encourage encour-age tho extermination of squirrels, gophers, go-phers, rnbblts, chipmunks, muskrnts, and other farmers' pests, a bill appropriating ap-propriating $10,000 was Introduced In tho lower houso yesterday by Representative Repre-sentative Jncob II. Langston of Mil-lard Mil-lard county . Tho bill provides that the stato shall offer a reward of 5 cents per head for tho extermination of squirrels nnd 2 cents n head for gohpers, ground squirrels, rnbblts and chipmunks. In order to receive tho reward, nny person who shall kill nny of thoso nn-imals nn-imals shall present to tho county clerk of his respective county tho ears of all rabbits killed, tho head and enrs of ground snulrrels, gophers nnd chipmunks nnd Too tails of musk-nits musk-nits and squirrels. Any person who shnll mnko n false claim for bounty shnll bo deemed guilty guil-ty of n mlsdcmcnno. md may bo pun-ishod pun-ishod by h flno of not moro 'linn ?200 or by Imprisonment In tho count 1nll for not moro than 200 d.vS. |