Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1910 — Mosquitoes Kill Cattle. [ARTICLE]

Mosquitoes Kill Cattle.

Lake Charles, La.—Southwest Louisiana is in the grip of the mosquito plague. Thousands of cattle have been killed by the Insects. They hover in hordes over the fields and marsh lands. At night they fly into towns, making living conditions almost unbearable. It is impossible in some of the towns along the Southern Pacific railroad to go out of doors at night Persons eat dinner with their ankles swathed in protecting clothes; then they get beneath bars and netting, for it is impossible to keep the mosquitoes out of residences.