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Show mum ruiL The Robert's Stables Sta-bles Burn Down, The Tramp Fiend Again Gets His Work In. Painful Delay Getting the Engine on the Ground- The Hotel Roberts and the Sutherland Mansion Endangered- About nine o'clock, Monday night, a (ire broke out in the W. D. lioberts barn, immediately west of the Hotel lioberts. The fire bell was in a short time set in motion, and in a few minutes the boys witli the hose cart appeared. They had thej10.se strung out and e mpled, ahdTtheji awailed the coming of Ihe steam engine. It was a most painful wait. The shingles shot into the air and landed on the j roots of the surrounding buildings. ; ao one knew but what the Hotel l'obcrts or the George Sutherland resi deuce would be wrapt in llames. Had Hps occuired. no help could have been rendered. The lire boys were powerless power-less without the engine. No one knew what was the matter. The minutes seemed like hours. At last, after thirty-two minutes after the alarm had been uiven, the engine came dashing around the corner, stopping on the wagon bridge over the factory race. But even now the water could not be sF.cured. "What is the mattery" was the exclamation of the inpatient throng. An investigation developed the fact that steam was not j up. and that the engineer had to bor-I bor-I row coal in order to keep the fire go-I go-I tug. Finally the water came", and a stream was directed on the now pile i of embers. The cause of the delay of the engine ! was due to the fact that the key te the j stable in which the horses are kept, j was hanging in the City Marshal's j olfice, which happened to be locked at j the time, llather than wait to get the j key, the stable was broken open, and the team secured, lint tiie horses were j almost unmanageable. What with the excited crowd, the yells and the ding-dong ding-dong of the-fire bell, it was several minutes before the team wes harnessed ' to the engine. Then, again. Engineer Ilatton, who is night watchman also, happened at the time of the lire to Ije or. his 'beat," in the neighborhood if the postollice. Every thing helped to make the delay very painuil. The origin of the lire is traced to the incendiary work of the tramp. One of Judge Dusenberry"s boys happened to be in close proximity to the barn at the time, ami saw a man go to the northwest-comer, with a lighted rag in his hand, which appeared to b saturated with oil. and throw it into the hay and then run away. Immediately Imme-diately the place was wrapt in llames. The boys cried "fire,' and the alarm was given. The man was discribed to the oftlcers, and a man whom the police have been shadowing for seyeral days answered the description. Th. fellow was arrested ar-rested and tiie City Marshal spent all night with him trying to mke him squeal."" Uut it was no go. He told a very crooked story, but yet led the officer to have a doubt as to his guilt. He was accordingly released. Herb Pyne recognized the description of the man, and said that he entered the drugstore the afternoon of the day of the fire and bought some turpentine which was put in a can. Tie tramp look the turpentine from the boy, placed it in a gunnysack. and left. The loss is estimated by Mr. lioberts at $1400. It was fortunate that there were no horses in the stables at the time. There happened to be carriages iu there butready hands had them out before the lire got too fierce |