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Show ' Fire nt Stockton. By Western Union telegraph wc learn that: At 12:30 p.m., yesterday, the business busi-ness and assay oQico attached to the Jacobs smelters was discovered to be on fire, and bv 1:30 was totally destroyed. des-troyed. Much was saved from the inside. The scales and safe were badly injured. Tho loss was about $2,000, tailing on Liilv, Lcisenring & Co. and the Chicago S. M. Co. The wind was blowing a perfect gale, ch-dangcrlng ch-dangcrlng the smelters, but through tho energy .of the citizens they were saved. |