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Show AUTO MOKE IS CAUSE J ALARM Attracted by a murky haze inside the automobile garage of L. H. Be-craft Be-craft on Grant avenue a large crowd gathered at about 7 o'clock last night before tho garago and someoue becoming be-coming excited sent in an alarm from tho box at Grant Avenue and Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street. Tho entire apparatus of the fire department turned out, but after chief Palno and Mr. Becraft had mads u thorough inspection of tho premises and no trace of fire could be found the conclusion was reached that someone had entered to take care his car and after filling the place with 6mokc locked the doors without allowing It to escape I. T. Alvord, who keeps the secondhand second-hand etore next to the garage, was the first to discover tho smoke in the place and called up the firo department. depart-ment. A few minutes later some one turned in an alarm and the department depart-ment Immediately responded. |