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Show Just finished loading 5,000 cases of salmon at Inverness cannery when flames burst from the engine room. Fifty passengers and the boat's crew were safely landed an the wharf and the boat was cue adrift to save the cannery from the blaze. She washed ashore a mill below and tonight Is still burning. Seven thousand cases of salmon,- fully Insured, are also a total loss. I STEAMER VENTURE DESTROYED BY FIRE Vancouver, B. C , Jan. 25. The ! steamer Venture, owned by the Bos-cowttz Bos-cowttz Steam;.hip company of Victoria and worth more than ?100,000, was d-stroyed d-stroyed by f lr j this morning shortly after starting from Prince Rupert on her way to Vancouver Tho vessel, which was a first class freighter, had j |