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Show REM! BREWERY ., DEWED BY FIRE Hexburg, Idaho, Jan. 13. Flro totally to-tally destroyed tho Hoxburg Browing Company's plant last, night. Tho loss is estimated nt ?75,000, with ?25,000 Insurance. Tho origin of tho fi:o Is bolleved to bo incendiary. Tho Rexburg brewery was cast o town and has boon In oporatlou fo. about fifteen years, furnishing cm ploytneut to about ten men. T. J., S heeler was the principal owner and tho heaviest loser. Tho blazo was discovered abdut 9 o'clock last night. A high wind was blowing and tho work of fighting was tho llames was further hampered by lnck of water, and what little thcro was avallablo was-frozen. In a short tlmo a largo crowd had gathered an'i offered to assist the members of thu flro department, who were early on tho scene, but all efforts were futllo to check tho flames. Tho work soon narrowed down to an effort to pro-vent pro-vent Injuries among tho oxcltod people, peo-ple, who attempted to enter tbo burning building to save somo of tho effects. 'In a short tlmqtho entire en-tire plant was a mass ot roaring, "crackling llames, lighting up tho country for many miles and flashing weird shadows across the snow. Tho efforts ot tbo flro fighters resulted In tio Injuries to anybody, and many ot tho crowd went to their homes before tho flro had spent ltsolt. It burnod all night, and this morning only tho, baro walls aro standing. A considerable consider-able portion of the loss was entailed in the destruction ot the largo Quantities Quan-tities of grain stored h tho building and In tho vats and.stpro rooms tho loss was heavy. Irou glrdiers, twisted; twist-ed; contorted machinery, and plleB of debris, surrounded by tho spectral walls, this morning mark tho sceno of tho flro. Thcro woro no nearby buildings, I no other property was damaged. I Mr. Wheeler has not expressed I himself as to whether or not ho con-I con-I templates rebuilding, but expressions I havo been made by others that ow lng to tho agitation In Idaho of tho 1 prohibition question, tho matter of ro-ostabllshlng a browery is Improbable, Improb-able, v" i |