Show STRANGER SET SEI mm HAMPA ON FIRE Lighted the Fuse of a Bomb in ina ina ina a Small Store Crowded With Fireworks BLOCK BURNED AS T LOSS INSURANCE HALF THAT AMOUNT Special to The Herald Nampa Ida July 4 Ill Just jut set let this thia thing off and start the Fourth Fould of ed July celebration said saki a stranger who looked like a tramp in John Arnolds Arnold ArnoldI I cigar store Saturday afternoon He lighted the fuse of a bomb and set Nt the thing on the counter It exploded tearing out part of the front of the small store and setting off the fireworks with which the place had bad been stored The best business block in the town was destroyed including two botean hotels bote and an several mercantile establishments For a time the entire place was threat threatened threatened ened cued and would have been destroyed but for the timely arrival of a portion of the Boise fire department It was sent ent over at the request of Mayor Dewey of Nampa on a special that made the twenty miles in I minutes The Boise firemen confined I the can to the block that was w burned Several times all allaround allaround allaround around it including the Dewey Palace hotel caught fire tire The loss is III estimated at with Insurance at half that amount Losses and Insurance The following is I a statement of losses Loss Lees las Ins Blue Eye building U 11 8 Noble building if 2100 Bank of Nampa Nam JM M MC 1 1000 C R Hickey JUg 1 1111 L LJ J M X Bray c W lZ S Partridge A i Brace Emerson Emer on building UN Robb store M 11 1000 Commercial hotel 5 Grand hotel g L Elver Clothing company y 11 LOSS Dunnuck Bros III Nampa Record MS building MJ LOSS Walling Millinery Fisher Fi ber company Roberts Dry Goods E R Brace 2000 A H Badger Furniture Co 11 Scales Sea building Partridge Brant Brent A t Brace MW Exchange building M 1 Aggregates bf small losses ID Blanks are used where I Insurance ce if any is not known |