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Show OtJ RESTAURANT MAN BURNED TO DEATH Twin Falls, Idaho, Nov. 2D. Martin Martinez, a negro restaurant keeper In Rogerson, died at a local hospital last night from burns received in an explosion of gasoline in his restaurant restaur-ant Monday night. While filling a gasoline lamp he spilled oil on his clothing and on the lamp. When he applied a match to tho lamp it exploded and he became a flaming torch. Men rushed in, threw blankets over him and quenched the flames, but not until he was terribly terri-bly burned from head to foot. The restaurant was not damaged, but during dur-ing the excitement the cash, register wag robbed of a considerable sum of .money. ( |