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Show HOTEL FIRE IffiTf cwiE m ) FIMIEF I With a fire declared to he of incen I diary origin at tho Central hotel last" evening at 9:21 o'clock, many Ogden!' citizens are today wondering whether I or not Ogden is due for the visit of f the "firebug" who spread terror In the i city during last summer. ' Tho fires of last night and the re- f ceding night are Bald to bear resem- ; bianco to those of last summer. While Inquiry at tho fire department was to I the effect that no cvidenco of incen- 1 diarism wns found at tho Denver & Rio Grando warehouse, the fire could ' havo easily lighted from within. While the supposition as to the origin of this ' fire is that sparks from a switch en- gine caused the blaze which resulted Ji in the loss of $10,000, workors in the V railroad yards declnrcd that no switch engine had been operating in the vi- jcinlty of the warehouse for several hours prior to the outbreak of the con flagration. Regarding the firo which occurred L last night, Fire Chief Graves has declared de-clared it to be of incendiary origin. At 1 the side of the old frame structure' be tween Lincoln and Wall avenue oa Twenty-fifth street a pile of paper and wood had been piled up. The fire department de-partment arrived in time to extin- guish the flames by means of chcml. f cals. h 00 r |