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Show jlfi oo DOSS5! DANIELS BUILDING SJmC ,s AGAIN SCORCHED J f x tfld f Salt Lake, July S. Following the TvW I fifth fire since lac-t October In the K F bulId,nrr nt 35 South State street, gal l owned by Max Daniels, thct police and tglfll fire d)2partinents made, an Investiga- lNI ,,on yesteiday. but no arrosts followed. tBl ax Danltls himself is In the north- wst. but his wife, brother, A Daniels, OSm f and Milton Steinfeldt wore examined. iJH A?l denied knowledge of the origin ot (m the fire. Qf The fire department was calltd out S8k at ' o'clck yesterday morning by w , HMBHH an alarm from the Daniels building. The fire was started by an Incendiary with a newspaper and kerosene-soaked excelsior, in the gallery of the moving picture theater used by the machine operator. The blaze was quickly extinguished. ex-tinguished. Two hundred dollars damage dam-age was done to the building and ?400 to the Bungalow rooming house up- stairs. Investigation showed that some of last Saturday's newspapers had been stuffed between the walls to aid the firo. t Just a week before, on June 27th, fire broke out in the rear of the building, build-ing, which the officials say was also of incendiary origin About ?7.000 damage was done to the building, theater thea-ter and stock of goods. W. S. Rand, who leases the theater from Max Daniels, said he saw Daniels' Dan-iels' brother and Mrs Daniels leave the building about 11 o'clock last night. They told Police Chief Sam Barlow that they had gone into the building to see if everything was locked up before they went home Both the store and the theater have been closed since the fire of last week. Tuesday. The rooming house above is using those rooms which have not thus far been damaged by fire. |