Show TELEGRAPH TIDINGS hy by vi telegraph to the destruction in denver col jan 10 the fire tuesday tho the buildings owned by li hallock allock bros occupied by jensen bliss co a hardware store and McCar mccarthys thys drugstore tho the loss on iho the building I is about F out thirty thousand jenson blis s co 00 as s loss on the stock is is about forty thousand zand osborn mccarthys McCar thys loss on stock is 13 thirty thousand tho the in insurance covers tho the entire loss jolin john townsend was killed by a fal lingwall the fire was calls caused e d by an explosion in the drug store fire los ANGELES jan 10 A fire broke put ut in the esperanza restaurant tins tills morning spreading to the adjoining buildings burning the occidental restaurant tau rant tho the stores stores of vi gnolfo harper Itcy co nagle boben saloon the united hotel was considerably damaged dam aeed the losa loss is estimated at on buildings and stocks the tho insurance is about this is the largest fire that ever occurred in the city arctic affairs CH chicalo ICAco jan 10 charles F putnam a graduate of the annapolis naval academy in 1873 who joined the united states steamship rodgers in search of the jeannelle Jean neUe tle writes an interesting letter to hia his mother in th s city the first section ortho of the letter is steamship Rodg JI odgers erf arctic ocean august 20 1881 in anit it lie speaks of being at st michaels in the pacific ocean from august sd to lith and hearing learing nothing of tho the jean ette or her party and on tho the alth sailing for P plover over ba bay on the siberian siberia coas coast t th this I contrata cont contradicts raTi acts the statement of M Soul in a recent dispatch that the changur met the tile rodgers on the oth of august and that the tile rod gers rs was steering for herald I island E in point of fact the chasseur Chas could not at that time have been in the arctic and the rodgers which ce certainly had not A was aas as steering not for herald island but for plover bay the rodgers reached plover bay on the irth of august and master putnam says did not find the russian man of war St relock and therein he lie again contradicts M 31 Soul that vessel he ile says had left on the leaving word it would meet the rodgers at st lawrence bay th they e did meet the St relock on the lathan and on the passed through bearings Beh rings straits in company with lier into tile arctic ocean master putnam bays wa we bave heard of several M med sledge parties both on the northern coast of siberia and on thelt the toast near point barrows and somo some think it may turn out that some of the rean nelles party left and started back by sledge wo we shall investigate these stories first goins goinz to cape berdge camen on the north coast of siberia and thence to alie eastward where wo will find the whalers chalers and learn from them what they have heard he speaks speak of tho the fine herthe thermometer being forty all day with no ice any w where here the Jl odgers was pre prepared to remain two years rs lie bays y to find the jeannette but ga ut lie ae expects ethber t they will bo in san Franci francisco scoby by october on the tho they had lost sight ht of the on september he lie writes we have red wran gall i land and are no now w abai about ut to start north r th looking for more land where the jeannette Jeann ede may Ios possibly sibly be found on sept he lie writes that their work for the year is about finis finished lied and they are going to st lawrence bay dav to winter he ile refers to a party varty to be left at cape north in siberia to make sledge journeys along the coast it was putnam himself who was left in charge of the part subsequently |