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Show FIRE BLOTTED OUT EVIDENCE "Pcttibone Dope" Ignited in Safe and Burned Photographs Photo-graphs and Papers. One of the Dottles of Chemicals la Suppoted to Sprung a Leak and Set Fire to the Contents of a Ssfs In Pollution cf Mine Owners. Colorado Springs. Colo A tticlal to the OnliHe from Cripple Creek says: Through a lire, thought to have been caused by ' Ivttlbone dope," or "hell Are," a combustible ll'iuld, certain cer-tain documentary evidence, photo, graphs nnd olhtr valuable papers that were to bo used ns evidence agalntt Moyer, Haywood and ivttlbone. cm ccra of the Western federation of Miners, charged with complicity in the murder of Former (iovernor Steuncn-berg Steuncn-berg of Idaho, which had been placed In the safe ot the Mine Owners' association asso-ciation lu this city, are believed to have been destroyed At 1:45 o'clock Thursday afternoon smoko wns discovered emitting from the safe, In the rooms of the association associa-tion In the National hotel Small drops nt fire leaked out through n crack at tho bottom and falling on the lloor, burned holes In the linoleum. lino-leum. Tho lira department wns called, but, as thu lire was confined to tho safe, It Van shoved out onto tho sidewalk and alt Hie crevices were stopped up with put. It Is st tied that one or tnoro bottles of thu chimlcsl, which had been placed In tho safe, together with other valuable evidence lur safekeeping, tpruiiK a leak nnd set lire to the contents con-tents of the snfe The chemical on mo Into tho iop!un or the Mlno Owners' Own-ers' nssoclittlou tcvetal months ago It hnd been bulled In tho Crlpplo Creek district, ithd wtvtf found after Adams disclosed Us whereabouts, ThO liquid It Is snld win Ignite by ipontnnenu oonibuskiu If kept Ip a place free from air After Igniting It Is claimed that it will prodqeu nn In-tenio In-tenio heat This It Is believed, baa nffectod Hie 'combination uf tho'tafu,' tt it Is linpoaslblo to open It aud loam tho extent of the noniHE Tho safe1 still stands on the sidewalk In front, t .t(iU National hotel and Jt'bcln' guarded by prilcers |