Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1914 — “PEACE BOND” FOR MOSQUITO [ARTICLE]

“PEACE BOND” FOR MOSQUITO

Customs Officials Hold Up 600 Insdcts From Panama—To Be Bent to Germany. New York.—Six hundred moequitoes ranging in else from a gnat to a pterodactyl, were held up here when the Carl Bchurz docked because the customs officials could not find the duty on mosquitoes. The mosquitoes, which were accompanied by Dr. Emilio Martine, from the Isthmuß of Panama, were admitted finally under bond to keep the peace. They will start for German? on the first ship, to be studied by scientists there. Lucius Ford, a fellow, passenger with Doctor Martine, said that outside th 6 canal sone mosquitoes sometimes appealed in such thick clouds the light was shut out He said, that a mosquito cloud last summer darkened Puerto Cahello fbr three days. But Mr. Ford ls.-not a scientist. He. however, agreed with .Debtor Martine that the pests have been practically eliminated from the canal zone. - r