Show IN BOX ELDER Tho FlamM consume ho of a junction bulley from junction dalfey box elder co the les cret ams learns that a fire of incendiary origin on the of bruther john lind a resident of that place on the evening of the alt which con his ligoure furniture grain and other provision a quantity of machinery bedding clothing and nearly all the household glodd brother lind happened to be tway from home at the time attending to some business in oden and the person who set the place on fire must have bean aware of his absence and well acquainted with the premises his primary object was evidently theft the araon being secondary and perhaps mainly lor thep of covering up the oher crime an outhouse waa being used aa a kitchen and the family was occupying it at the time of the are there was a strong smell of coal oil when the fire was disco ered which would indicate that the incendiary had used of that fluid to start the blaze sister lind succeeded at considerable personal riak in getting ne trunk which was nearest the door out of the house after the fire was discovered and found that it had been broken open and that about in cash and some postage stamps had been taken out of it about in cash left in care of the family by a friend had been in the box shortly and it is likely that the thiril had hopes of petting that but the owner had called and taken it away brother lind was formerly a resident of grantsville Grants ville and removed to the north two yeara ago last spring as the pioneer settler of the place where he now resides by dint of toil and frugality he had just got a fair start towards making u comfortable living when the disaster di raster mentioned overtook him which leavea himself wife and family of seven small children an fn a destitute condition not only stripped of what they had but in debt for machinery wh ch he had purchased and which was consumed to the amuiel of it is a cae that ought to call forth sympathy from those especially who are acquainted with the family and are able to help them in their present extremity |