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Show PORTLANDS BLAZE. rinanclal Loss Will Aggregate Four Hundred Thousand Dollars. Portland, Ore Ju, H A Bhlrn elarled eliortly before mldiilRlit lam nUht In the Phoenix Iron works fnrmerl th Wolff . Zwlcker plant, on !M Mmll son an! Kasi Water ntreetn I jrned for four hours an I destmlr, X hlorks of bulldliiR. nlued at JIMni.i The Ins ir-ance ir-ance amounted tn nhout jjMnnii tt B, lone arter dijlleht before the lire burned Itself out, and sefenl engines rem lined n?. lhf. ?'"' " .,Uf l"Aii ,n Prevent oTi2K.,r.n.m "pr'nglnir iip nKalri The follow Inn aio the principal lo-ers t..-. ci, . ,. !.os lneuranee fflt Hie Tainiber to ll'rteoi ssninn Phoenix Iron works snim ,.mw J II Johnson ship- 8r,'' . .Jon) town Portland Clti f, Ore Ron Hillnnv Co inoo yinm Mndhon Street hrldce ao.) I li of Portlmd load. wavs jnor) Stan laid nil i'o isiy.) Pirlln OrenrtorfT & '" , , Hon inmo Torpedo Saloon an! hotel ton.) Miscellaneous jnono The Plre deimrtnient was bally handl capped for want or water The rnclnes could not reach the rher nnd the main on Water siren helnK n small one made the supply of water enllrelv Inadequate jnere, was no means or naluinu the tiro from the west the illj not helnc pro Mled with a flrehint The three swim mlmr baths which won m ivred nt the Madison Street brllne were In Imminent dni'Ker when ihe lire broke nut hut a Iur towed them aniiv hiilldlnts d sirojed were woed.n Hruet ir except the warehouses of Hie Man lard Oil mm pan and Parlln Orcndorft At io, which were brick School riectlon In Lehl. l.ehl June -2 t the non partlsir, prlmarv held lw evenlne In th" Cential School hilltllnc an PBirertson delecatlou was elected lo the ( ount convention to bo held at Provn June is for the pur pose of nominating a countv school superintendent su-perintendent Kiev en delegates and five alternates were elected all of whom etc rept two ore known lo be for Prof I, K KgRcrtson to s leceed et ipt Krown n effort was made lo get more Brown delegates, dele-gates, but Ihe feellnR here seems to he lhat frown havhiR held the office for three successive terms, should nut ask for a continuance The delegation consists of (leorgc Webb, James II flarlner Moilah Kv ins 0 N rhlld, 8 W Itoss James H Oad. die Oeorpi Austin Marv llnne Julia Brown, lartha A Tavlnr nnd Uesy Aus. ln Alternates Josephine Hrown Mar) Webb Hirence Ohll I, Mtils Prlggs and Mrs M W Inrnlls Quite a spirited ronteit was on for a school trustee to succeed W S Kvans Oeorgn Kmlth. V S P.vans an 1 An drew Hell were put up hut after three ballots John r. Ross received Ihe nomination nom-ination Mr Hom Is a sthonl teacher of twentv eare experience In the public schools of l.ehl nnd as no oilier nominating1 nominat-ing1 convention will le called, he will, no doubt, lo lleclfil |
