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Show Fire Destroys 2,000 ; ; Acres of Timberj .; BURLINGTON", Iowa. Mar. IS. Aft-j or battling all day and well into the! '( F night, farmers have checked the fire ! Miat has destroyed 2,000 acres of llm-; llm-; ber and damaged some of the best i , 'arms In Henderson county, Illinois. according to "word received from' t Oquawka, Illinois, by tho Burlington ; Ilawkeye late tonight. The fire start-, t ed on the Hannah and Hodson ranch i B Tuesday and spread rapidly. Back i fires and plow farrows Avere use'd suc-i cessfully in saving farm houses nndl school houses. |