Show small blaze menaces gintic tintic mercantile store 0 A small blaze in the ware room of the mintlo tintic mercantile store which occurred shortly short after 7 30 last wed evening brought out the tire fire department and a thousand or two people when the alarm was souria ed smoke was pouring from the rear end of the store building and the situation looked rather serious the flames had made but little headway however and it was the work of but a few minutes to check the blaze which Is thought to have started in a large hot box which was used tor for rub bish it has been the custom of clerks to dump refuse matter in this box when the evening clean cleanup up of the store was made one of the deliverymen to haul this rubbish away each morning just how the fire started Is more or less a mystery but fortunately the almage was held down to the minimum the fire did not reach any of the merchandise but smoke and water caused BOW loss had the blaze started some hours later when the business dis brict was deserted it might have had an entirely different and more serious ending |