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Show I A FIREBUG IN THE EAST. Eighteen months ago Ogden liad a firebug who delighted In seeing the names attack isolated buildings which were large and would hum with 1 taculfcr tongues of tin-. Uig sheds, barns and old warehouses were s ni up In smoke and for a time there was considerable alarm. Hut. us suddenly as the fellow with the torch appear! I, the menace passed and Ogden had al most forgotten Its experience when the dispatches told of the lirebug in Fayette City, I'm., whr: sr.ixi, in property has been destroyed. State troops have been called and Payette is having n su H of nerves I The eastern firebug is mere ihorough than the Ogden offender. ;'.s he blocks the roadway to the scene of his deviltry devil-try with barrels and other obstructions, obstruc-tions, so that when the tire fighters answer the alarm they are delayed by j a barricade. Only a man or boy of unbalanced J mind can be responsible tor such wan-1 ion destruction 01 L: per,; In Ogden there was no apparent mo live for the lire:; ether than the satisfying sat-isfying of a mania. f.r |