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Show oo ft . MAKING A RAID ON RATS. There are rats in Ogden, but they i i are not numerous. They came in from Salt Lake about three years ago and i began colonizing in the wajte heaps m the southwestern and southeastern I part of the city. Lately they have in I vaded the sewers down in the railroad Hi districts and are being .ecognlzed as a ! pest. The sanitary' department is lu boring with this problem and a campaign cam-paign of poisoning has been on which I promises results. But Ogden's troubles trou-bles with rodents are mild an com- II pared with coast cities such as San Francisco, or even Chicago. In Chi. '! cago there Is alarm over the appear- ij ance of bubonic plague in the interior cities of the country, and a Chicago paper gives this account of an organ Ized effort to reduce the menace: I The Boy Scouts have rallied to ' ( the aid of Chicago's hard pressed j eats, and some much dreaded in !j fectiouB diseases, including the bu- i bonic plague. An intensive cam- I I paign for the extermination of rats and ground squirrels will be launched by the scouts. Eight thousand scouts, taking with tbem some hundreds of rat terriers, will go forth in search of the rodents Tho most energetic boyi nrd the best trained terriers will lurk about South Water street, wh re the biggest rats are to be found. A bulletin is on the way to each of the seven field executives Of tho Boy Scouts, announcing the opening open-ing of the rodent drive and an educational edu-cational campaign to show the importance im-portance of ridding the ciiv of rats will bo started In the B00U1 mam zine, Chicago Scoutcraff. The bubonic plague, against which the Ulionis department of health is taking preventive measures, mea-sures, Is spread by infected rate and ground squirrels. Tho media of Infection are thni-- fleas with which the bodies of these ro-lentd are infected The flea feeds on the body of Its infected rat and thus becomes an infected carrier. Formerly, the disease was con fined west of the Rocky moun tains, but within the last three months it has made Its appearance In several widely separated por I tions of the United Statc3, accord ing to the health department. In the Intermountain district the flea is not to he found, and, therefore while the rat in this region fa destructive destruc-tive he Is not the source ot danger to health as in San Francisco wheie fleas and rats are everywhere. I |