Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-28 | Page 8 | Fire at State Fair Grounds

FIRE AT STATE ' FAIR GROUNDS Salt Lake, Jan. 2S. Robert Ellison, alias Robert Knur, 57 years of age, a cook and former convict, Is held at the city jail on a charge of arson. A complaint charging Ellison with " ' II J ONE arson in tho second degree was ihh '& fot;vdaaCtern0011 by thVcSun yUatd T orney The man ij charged with hnv- i; ? ng set fire to the horticultural uM- 'ng at the state fair grounds The fEd complain is sworn to bV C v" PnS. I-- bor?, the officer who arrested the sel -" confessed incendiary. f jg ttJV Qi McDonild, president of the flfih Utah state Fair association, has in ? SrintTS81011 the Signed nfesslon 8- rurferasf " SA Knur set rire (o the horticultural IB. mornta! "SK? n10 0'c,ock SS?y 7 morning; The flames were sonn rii i ,V- covered and the alarm turned ?n out S ho long run to the fair grounds iravo W rs i blT,lr3F K K-- a I-stTtirlyonm! ! M fnterior damS5e Was done to the ' M President McDonald estimates thP $t 70S00nanSC thU0ildng itae" abot? ; I' lLnu , th0 loss on o various 2 booths showcases and the other in- ' F0UI ler??t furnishings at about $4000 The 8S building is fully protected by insur. f ance, but tho interior property ? T SrT strove belong to tho varloScountfnt I SP represented in the last state exhtbi- -' &L- tlon in the building and there fa no 'c M insurance to cover this loss. i SM Knur was arrested near the soon f 2 of the fire while the Tiremen were : SK busy fighting the flames. r$?