report of the fire chief the fire department of logan has made a splendid fi r ecord out of three fires during the list last six where the loss might have gone into the thousands but bot for the prompt work of our cirei firemen nen the actual loss logs has been less than two hundred dollars dollar R the report covers the six ex months beginning january and ending july let lat 1896 there was wag no alarm until may syd at p in A fire broke out in the barn aedo and hay of thomae J smith in the ath ward the loss was about ten dollars with no insurance the calese cause of the fire was the combination of children eh ildren and matches the next alarm was sounded may lay at 1130 a no at P A nielsena Niel hena hons place in the let ast ward there was no loss losh of property pro perty on the ath of june at uon noon a fire broke out in the ath ward in the empty of torval larsen when discovered the flames flame were bursting through the roof it was a story etory and a half house the loss lose was thought ht to be considerable at first but upon adjust adjustment me it was found not to exceed which was fully covered by ansur ance we congratulate the department upon this showing and the c hief chief C B robbins robbing upon report renor