Show FIREBUG STARTED FLAMES portland ore sept 2 the oregon railroad navigation company havn reason to believe that the costly dock fires yesterday wore purposely set A man believed to be the incendiary was seen by a small boy just before the fire under the portion 0 the dock jn which the fire originated the apy says that the man carried an armful of papers and in a threatening manner ordered him to clear out no locomotive had passed the docks for about an hour and no fires were kept in the dock these facts together with the circumstances that this was the third mysterious fire to occur in portland within ten days warrants the company in assorting that it was caused by a firebug |