The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-06
INCEND1ARIsM.
DiabOlical Attempt to Fire a
 Building.
Marrow Escape of the Busiaess Part of the City-Arrest of the
 Supposed lncendiarIes.

Last night, tor the secoLd time in the history of Tombstone, the incendiary's torch was applied with the view of work. ing destruction to the property of the owner, and as necessary sequence, that of his neighbors. The circumstances sur. rounding this last act. unlike those of the first, are devoid of the least show of justi. fication, supposing there could be any jus. tification for 80 diabolical an act. The circumstances of the first were briefly these: A man and his wife living in the sparsely populated region west of the Vizina mine, and being at outs with each other, the man, to settle the question of a division of household goods, set fire to the cabin, and burned it and all it's contents. The isolation of the cabin was such that there little or no risk of the fire spreading beyond it's walls, which it fortunately did not. Great and justly deserved indigna. tion prevailed at that time at the atroclty of the act.
 The deed of last night, viewed in any light that 1t may be presented, is simply damnable. Notice had been published in the EPITAPH that the water in the mains of the Tombstone Water, Mill & Lumber company would be turned off from to 12 o'clock, which act woald leave the fire. department comparatively powerless. We now come to the incendiary act. Somewhere about month ago one b. Calishcr, owning store and doing busi- ness on the north side of Allen street near the center of the block bounded by Allen, Fremont, Fifth and Sixth streets, made an assignment of his stock tor the benefit of his creditors, and said stock had been nearly all closed out at private sale, by the assigned. Last night between 10 and Ii o'clock Policemen Kinney and Poynton were coming down the street past the store of CalIsher, ~hen they saw smoke coming out of the front of the building and fire burning inside near the rear of the store. They instantly gave the alarm, and made dash at the doors and broke them in and rushed to the scene of the blaze which was climbing up the shelving to the ceiling on the east side of the store. They were not one minute too soon, as it had got good headway and in moment more the pine ceiling, as we'll as the shelv- ing would have been one sheet of flame. The dre department were out in force s few minutes later, and with the aid of the hooks the shelving was torn down and the flames extinguished. The policemen and fire department are deserving of great credit far their prompt action, for had their movements been delayed for five minutes the whole block would have been at the mercy of the flames, for the req. son there was no water in the hy. drants with which to extlngulsh them. Now for the evidence of tba c--.,I1e. The policemen foaRddpaper foasRd paper saturated with s.. osene on the board shelf from which the shelving is built up, and on the floor be- meath the fire was coal oil can with the top cut off and stuffed with saturated news paper with about one inch of oil in the bottom. Nothing could be more conclu. sive of the origin of the fire except it were the catching the fiend who touched the match to the torch in the very act The indignation of the ropulace who were called to the ire by the alarm, was intense, and more than one voice cried out, "Lynch him hang him" The feeling was SO strong that Mir. Calisher sought the pro- lection of the officers and at half past elev- en he was arrested and lodged in the coun. ty jail. The building was insured for $1, 400 and the fixtures for $400. The little shoe shop adjoining the store on the upper side, and which belonged to Calishcr, was insured for $200 additional, and the shoe stock, with which he had nothing to do. for $6O0 The loss to the companies, if anything, will be merely nominal.
 The examination of M. Calisher, charged with aron, was set for hearing at 10o'clock to morrow morning, and the pris oner, in default of $1000O bail, was com mitted to jail.