Eureka Reporter | 1905-09-15 | Page 6 | Senator Crane's Farmer at a Fire

senator crane e farmer at a fire senator crane tells this one farm er hockridge Dock ridge was hastily awakened la the dead of night by alt the hired who told him the barn was on fire instructing alt to blindfold the horses and lead them out he hurried ly donned his trousers and rushed in to the summer kitchen grabbed s screw driver and ran out to the barn the root was burning fiercely but he dashed into the barn and began with frantic haste to unscrew the hinges of door alt had succeed ed in getting the horses out safely but the farmer stuck to the job and finally emerged with the doors just as the roof fell in that s a good deal of risk to take for a bit of firewood said a neigh bor who had come over to see what he could do firewood said the farmer point ing to pencil marks on the door see them well them s my busl ness accounts for six years and worth more than the hull darn barn