Show or ta MH AMELM AFTER THE PESTS dally daily newspapers carried a small item a few day a ago 10 3 that escaped the attention of thousands yet which touched on a subject of vital interest to the whole country it was an item to the effect that senator of california had ad asked con congress 0 ress for an appropriation pria tion to fight rats in the cities about san francisco bay the fact that an appropriation for such purposes will even be considered is proof that conditions have changed 0 and that the people of this country realize they have before them a continuous fight upon pests the other day money was appropriated by a western state to fight fig ht a chick en pest in every case th the money for these things bilings comes out of the pockets of the people but the benefits they illey derive are far ta greater reater than they have any means of knowin knowing cr bubonic plague the most dreaded disease in the world can be carried from one country to another by rats that fairly swarm in the hull bull of big 0 steamships tuberculosis commonly called the groat white plague can be disseminated through sickly cows and so it goes there are plenty 0 01 pests in in the uintah basin no section of the united states is entire reason no section is wholly free from the dangerous diseases that they carry if we can hunu lq boj RUB jo baij sa s1 not have legislation in this state to rid us of pests then thed let us do the next best thing ady let us make an individual fi fight zda lit upon them each citizen waging battle on his own premises we will soon find that it will prove time well spent |