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Show . . , , Almost a, Fire. i ' ' x I Thedangciouromhjhationof clii'dien and .matches came nearly causing n ' i ' ' ' i -1 t " disnsterou.s fiie on Fridav morning. I j Some children of Bishop Cutlet'H went into his correl near the lithiuc ottice and started a fire in pome hay in an old sleigh under the shed, Kveiything was dry ah tinder and the jinnies hoon hhot up, hut Fran'' Uhodes and Win. Vatighan saw the blaye ahd rushed in and Fooii had it quenched, but only juFt in time, for if it had gpt a few minutes start tho she'ds and ' buildings in the1 vicinity would soon have gone up in smoke. , ' It in stated that thy new Calilornia beet sugar and, lefinery company is o erect a factory at Crockett, Contia Costa Co, Cal. and that it will hImmoh-vert hImmoh-vert into a mgnr factory Ua'jUi'iont ktock yard plant at Kodeo,. Cal', w'lliclT onginully cost one iiilion dollars, but which lias been standing idle for five ' yeaiH. The erockett plant is tb be"1 adapted t- i (dining 1 lavvaiian cane sugar as'w flints' the manufacture df beet sugar, fiie contpuny hopes to handle considei-1 able Hawaiian sugar when the contract, between the island' planters ami tlie sugar trust expires in Opctmhuj-. |