The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-29
CRIME IN HALEY.
The Great Fire Believed to be the
Result Of lncendiar1sm
Arrest Of q Man and Woman
Suspected OF tho Crime.
Rebuilding the BURT District of
Fire-PrOOf Material.
Correspondence of the MINER.

Special Corresponds ace of the MINER.
HALEY, /. T., Sept, Is.
Our prosperous camp has met with
a calamity which has cast a gloom
upon the entire community and well
nigh paralyzed every branch of bust
ne.s. On Monday morning about 3
o'clock the fire fend took possession
Of the town and held full sway until
the principal business portion of the
city was laid in ashes. TIE fire
originated in the lodging house of
MIS-. E. M. SlGesen, and destroyed
business houses on both sides to the
value of between So, 900 and 500, zoo.
Two men who opened the street
door of the lodging house immedi-
ately after the alarm was given, say
that the odor of coal oil was very
strong in the house, and that they
suspected a. once that the place had
been Intentionally set on fire. LOdg-
ers in the house say thatthe fire broke
out at the same time in two rooms,
the one q front room aud the other u
back room. Upon these suspicious
facts Mrs. E. M. Slossen was arrested
this morning, together with WIN. u.
Seamands, with whom she ~ very
intimate, and who is suspected Of
completely with her. Since the ar-
rests it has transpired that Mrs. Sea-
mands was burned out twice
in the Black Hills, and
that an insurance agent
here refused to issue q policy to ner
but procured 81 500 insurance for her
in nj hAp 0.e.uns, Tho oh APiff n1o~>
discovered two trunks, one large box,
a laundry basket, agunny sack and y
valise filled with goods. The sack
contained q handsome new saddle
which had been lost by a lodger in
the house a couple Of days before the
fire. The valise contained a lot Of
jewelry and fancy goods, and one oil
the trunks and the basket were full Of
wearing apparel belonging to Mrs.
box contained some clothes and
things belonging to Wi liam Sea-
mands. These articles were discOv-
cred in q small house in the neigh
borhoOd and the driver of the wagon
upon which the articles we're hauled
from the lodging house says that Mrs.
SlOs~on told him to avoid the main
street aud ''be very quiet about it,"
Mrs. SIOssen says she is Innocent
of incendiarism; that she was awak-
en.d by the cry Of fire and barely es-
capped with her life. She claims to
have lost 5 $500, while her insurance
was only $1,000. seamands says he
knows nothing about the matter,
and that he took his things out of
the house preparatory to starting for
Lost River The general opinion is
that the evidence is very black
against the parties under arrest.
Our enterPrising citizens do not
pro. ose to I've baked by the calamity
which has 0vertaken them, and the
smolderlng e'nbers Of the great fire
wer still burning when several Of
the sufferers had begun making ar
raneements to rebuild. About half
the numrer of owners have already
expressed an intention to rebuild,
aud all Doubtless would if building
were abundant, and they
wnuld build fire-proof structures.
Only zoo. COO brick are at present
in the city, but it is believed
a special rate will be obtained from
the Union Pacific r. r which will
owners to bring brick from
Omaha and Ogden, but several par
ties will rebuild of stone, a very fine
quality of which abounds in Che Inn
mediate neighborhcod of HALEY.
All the new buildings will be better
than tt old ones, and the fire will
have been q benefit to that extent.
RAMBLER.