| Show i carelessness AND STUPIDITY THE CAUSE OF destruction people who want to see the grass burn have started the fires through the carelessness of stroll ers and thoughtless people fires have been starter in the grass and underbrush on the foothills east of the atly that have stripped them of vegetation and left them black and uninviting the largest and most destructive blaze devastated ft tract of land between glenwood park and the sanitarium at ogden canyon sunday despite the atuk of the fire station and a luntzer lun teer corp land owners over whose property the fire raged someone started a patch of grass south of the pioneer power boube and before many minutes it had in the direction of ogden river where the brush la tangled and dry it took its course eastward and crackled and hissed ns willow patch and grass plot went down to shouldering ing stubs and charred ruins the alro department responded and by using a hose prevented the extensive destruction ot telephone transmission and trolley poles a number of which however damaged several hayfields were in danger and a number of fences were in part ruined it was not until evening that the fire was subdued when the cause of the original blaze wasy found to bo a match in the band of a curious person who wanted to see how fast abo dry grass would burn the alre department has been called out nine times within a month to fight fires in the vicinity of the hills without exception each fire has been traced to the work of people choso whoso taste for destruction haa caused the loss of esmeral hundred dollars worth of property in the una of poles fences and trees the uneasiness 0 property owners in the dry grass belt and additional work tor the fool killer sunday wa an exceptionally busy day and the department got in two runs the first of which was made to west twenty first street chero a number of houses were narrowly saved from a grass fire the county clerk issued marriage licenses to A J aged ac and mabel B mabby aged 19 both of ogden and frank blaar aged 21 and diana miller aged 22 the former ot the latter of ogden |
