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Show PACKAGE IS SUPPOSES TB HAVE DEEM FOR FIRE PURPOSES W. H. While, secretary of the Utan-Oregon Utan-Oregon Lumber company, reported to the police late last night that a suspicious sus-picious looking character had been prowling about, their yards carrying a bundle und( r hi. arm, and Stopping SVerj now .,nd again to look if any bod! following him Dctec'he i:ereit Noble and Riley Patton we.--rushed to the scene by Sergeant A. B. Jensen, but did not find the man. Thv did find a bundle of excelsior bound in a corrugated paper box with a stout rope Tho bundle was Btuffed under U pile of lumber at the east side of the. yard. It is the belief of the police that the bundle was "planted'' and was to be "touched off" later. Extra guards were placed on duty for the rest of the night. |