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Show WORK OF FIRE BUGS. Courthouse and Jail in New Colorado County Burns All tlie Records Rec-ords Destroyed. Brighton. Col., Jan. SO. Tho Adams county coun-ty courthouse and Jail burned to the ground today. The actual loss 13 nearly SI0.0CO, and, owing to the fact that the assessment as-sessment rolls were burned up, an additional addi-tional loss of JflO.OCO may be sustained by the county, a-s it is not determined whether wheth-er or not it is constitutional to make another an-other assessment list after one has been duly approved. All the records of the county were lost. Tho now county Jnll In the rear of the courthouse building had just been completed. com-pleted. The fire la believed to have been of Incendiary origin. Adams county was formed a year ago by the division of Arapahoe county, which Includes Denver. |