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Show RAIN KILLS SQUIRRELS Stockton, Cal., Jan 23. Rain and 1 high water it was estimated here to-1 day, has resulted in the death of ' 10,000 ground squirrels in the vicinity vicin-ity of Avena. Farmers, who regard I squirrels as crop pests, as well as conveyors of bubonic plague germs, . turned out with clubs and as the rodents ro-dents caught in the flood swam I ashore they were slaughtered by I thousands At one ranch employes say they killed more than 5000 Thousands of squirrels were drowned drown-ed in their holes |