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Show FIBEBUE IMS HI QFBULLETS Ogden Police Working on Theory That Gang of In- j cendiaries Is Operating. Special to The Tribune. OODE.V, Aug. 4. That the firebugs who set fire to the C. J. Humphries mill about ten days ago. the warehouse of the Walker Lumber company and the warehouse ware-house of the Ogden Furniture & Carpet I company, later, were the ones who started start-ed the conflagrations last night, is the I opinion of the members of the police and fire departments, and a dragnet has been set for the supposed leader of The gang. During the time the Ogden factory ol the Western .Macaroni company, at Nineteenth Nine-teenth street and Washington avenue, was burning at 11:15 o'clock last night, a man noticeable because of a white shirt and black slouch hat went to the rear of the American Can company and attempt- ed to set fire to the fence. Ernest Dowling, the night watchman, saw the firebug and started after him, at the same time some of the special guards in the district also joined in the j pursuit, and opened fire on him. The man made his escape toward the Ogden junk house, which occupies the old Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande freight station. Within ten minutes the junk house was in flames. At the time the junk house fire broke out, Detectives Grant Syphers, Ed Dut-terfield Dut-terfield and W. A. Taylor were near the shed. They saw a spark of fire in a piece of oily waste matter under the platform. ! Detective Syphers ran to the platform and looked under it and was startled to see the flame shoot along under the part of the platform as though following a streak of powder. In the next instant a mass of flames shot up the side of the building to the roof. The building was as dry as tinder and burned rapidly. Several barrels of gasoline gaso-line in the structure exploded and flames shot 2i0 feet high. The department worked on the fire for two hours before it was tinder control. The poliee investigation of the fire disclosed dis-closed the fa-'t that a man answering the same description as the one who was driven away from the can company's property purchased a gallon of gasoline at the Conoco oil station at the c'riipr of Twenry-first street and Washington avenue ave-nue at 9:S't o'clock. Heber Oborn, an employee em-ployee of the station, gave that informa-I informa-I tion to the poliee about twenty minutes after the macaroni factory fire. The hiss in the two firs is estimated at $ J'''."i' During the iime the junk house, ah -ut 4 feet wide and -t'ni feet long, was burn- j inc. it is estimated that .vTn.i spec ta tors gathered to wat ;h it. Washington avenue J for about six blocks near the fire was lined with automobiles on both sides of ! the street. I i |