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Show I -" . f COLFAX, Cnl., Sept. 17. Aviator Robert, C. Fowler expects to Mil meet, the sun Tuesday morning at the top of the "high Sierras, the first great natural obstacle in his attempted cross-continental flight j for the Hearst prize. His biplane, broken at Alta, Cnl., Tuesday, the i; day after he shifted from San Francisco, is complete tonight ex- ? cept for n rear rudder, expected tomorrow. The afternoon will be i spent ui tuning up the machine, he said tonight, and Tuesday morn- ing. while the eastern slope of the Sierras is still shaded, 'he will 5f soar up until the sun's rays tell him he is higher than the peaks over H ' winch they slant. ggt COLFAX, Sept. 17. One man Is So'esd, another hovers between life and death with both legs broken as a consequence con-sequence of his heroism and a third h y is missing Jas the result of a fire, prob-H prob-H s ably of incendiary origin which broke M i out here at 3 o'clock this morning on I the third floor of the Mountalnview I hotel and consumed a considerable I If part of the town before It finally burn-I burn-I ed Itself out against the brick walls of the Newman Grocery store.. The I loss is In the neighborhood of $20,-I $20,-I ; coo. I J The blaze was finally conquered by I T a brigade of volunteers composed of I ', practically the entire population. In H i the front ranks was Aviator Robert I I G. Fowler, who Is preparing to scale I the high Sierras tomorrow on the 1 'j third leg of his transcontinental aoro-I aoro-I 'i plane trip. I The Southern Pacific fire train -aft-I i er a rocord run from Blue Canyon, I 24 miles away, In 28 minutes, aided t In subduing the flames. j John Wesley Dugger, a gueBt of the hotel, failed to awaken and waG burned burn-ed to death. Henry Hust may be fatally Injur- ed. Hust was In front of the building whn the blaze broke out. He rushed Into the burning structure and pulled . guests out of bed on the second and ij third floors. Believing all were out J 9 of danger Hust started for the stairs, ! -K to find them enveloped In flames, jf '! He ran to the front of the bulld- E a Ing and plunged to the sidewalk, 25 P A feet below. He waG picked up with I ft both legs broken, 'and taken to a hoo- i -I pital at Auburn. I I Aviator Fowler was awakened by , his mother in his room at tho hotel lj jf shortly after the fire broke out and, U l dressing quickly, Joined the fire fight- B . oo |