Show FIRE FIE PLAYS HAVOC HA WITH JAP RELICS RELI S Il Main Street Auction Store Scene of Sunday Afternoon Afternoon After After- Blaze noon J r COMMOTION ON STREET turl III ActivIty ct Il Results In lii Broken I Hack lack Madly cd ed Laundry Boy Hoy Fire was discovered In the tho lie auction store of A. A South Main street yesterday afternoon shortly shorty before 3 Departments No I 1 1 2 2 und and 3 responded to 0 the thc alarm and nOi extinguished the lie blaze blazo with sith wih chemical Although the lie damage by lire flo does docs nol hot appear to have been heavy on omi account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of the thc value of or the lie various brie bric- a brac and arid Japanese an art work vork the lo loss may reach rench several hundred dollars Tho Thu merchandise carried In stock Is that lint which vas wa-s on exhibition at tho the Lewis and Clarke exposition at Portland Portland Port Port- land anti and Is thc the finest work worl of or Japanese Japan Japan- ese craft 1 Much uch of or the tho silk Ilk hangings and draperies are completely ruined b by smoke A Attendant n mi t Gets Oets Excited Ono One of or the attendants at nt the lie establishment clah- clah stal e-stal- commenced to lo remove the he most costly cosily costy articles from lie Iho building as ns soon as he ho dl discovered the he fire fre B By Bythe Bythe the time the thc department arrived on the thc scene he lie hud had quite quie a valuable colI collection collection col col- I lection eton on the lie sidewalk and amid just jUll as the he firemen were ere about to enter the lie building with wih a line lne of hose he was wa carrying out a cabinet filled fled with the choicest chinaware and anti art pottery poter In Iii his excitement he tell fell fel to the thc sido- sido walk aIk an and amid broke every article artcle contained con con- amen In the cabinet The Thc collection was ivas worth nearly nealI As the thc lire fire apparatus was racing I down Main street bound for fol the thc fire l I at full ul speed speed the driver of a a street treet 1 hack became alarmed lest his vehicle should be hit by the truck In his efforts to lead head his horses hores off tho time street ol I he lie ran his lila rear wheel Into Inlo tho the curved gutter Autel at the corner o of Second South and Main streets The Thc horses gave a lurch and arid snapped tho the springs of oC the thc carriage Bystanders Bystander's secured the he horses hores and prevented pre a runaway Frightens Elderly Equine In front of the lie Kenyon hotel a small smal bo boy was riding an old bony family horse hore and was carrying in each i arm a large bundle of oC soiled oled linen t which he lie was taking home homo to beI bo be I laundered Ills His Ils horse suddenly be beI became he- he I came awakened to events taking place t In the vIcinity and anti gave a short quick I buck which landed the thc i boy on oil the pavement over the thc horses horse's head tho ne decrepit equine then lien Jumped over the tho youngster and amI galloped awa away down the thc street as he was wont vont to 10 do In imi his younger |