Arizona republican., 1908-09-23
DESIGNATION
 OF THE FIRE
But Kelvin Even In Ruins
 is Not Discouraged
Two Arson Suspects Held to the Grand Jury--KelVin and Ray Gossip.

Kelvin, Sept 22.-(Special Corre- spondence of The Republican, )-Kelvin has now settled down to it's normal condition. The smouldering embers of the recent conflagration nave been en- tirely eNtinguished and all that re- mains of the once large and spacious Pinal Mercantile store is a mass Of ruins and the four stout adobe walls The ruins are intact and a watchman watches them all the time so that the insurance adjusters will have a plain case when they arrive. Numerous Mexican children are to be seen rum maging among the ruins of the Gem saloon looking for money etc. Just as soon as one discovers a piece of money he stops and rush to the store to spend it.
 The heavy loss of the fire is to be regretted very much and everybody sympathizes with the owners. Fortu- nately for the town there was no wind blowing or else the loss would have been much greater, in fact the chances fors saving the town looked very slim several times. The flames were SO high that it was only a miracle that the ad- joining buildings and Henness and Griffin Mercantile company were say ed. Numerous Ray people were down to see the ruins on Sunday.
 Mir Jenkins, manager of the former Pinal Mercantile store. had quite an exciting experience at the fire. Mir Jenkins at the time was sleeping in the rear of the store and when the alarm was heard he woke up very much bewildered. He had gone to bed tired and had slept very sound, but when fully awake he was all activity in a moment He grabbed a pair of trousers, which unfortunately happen ed to be a pair without .suspenders, and rushed to the safe sand opened it and showed in a few important articles. and then proceeded to look after the work of saving stock. All this time he was much handicapped by his trousers coming down and no doubt could have crammed a few more things in his pockets had he had suspenders on.
 One sad occurrence. was the death of Fitz, the pet bull dog, MT. Jenkins kept in the store as a watchdog. It is surmised that he was startled by the breaking in of both doors and that he took refuge in the office and was unable to get out.
 Mrs. Henness has returned home af- ter spending few days in Phoenix and Congress. She called on Mrs Brown and spent a very pleasant time with her talking over the good times they had together at Kelvin. Mrs. Henness likes the Congress country very much but says she was glad to get home again. While there she drove all over the surrounding coun- try.
 Maud Grizzille was a visitor to Kel- win from Ray for a few days. She stopped at the residence of MT. and Mrs. Ira White. Maud is a very pleas ing young lady and while she was here she kept things moving It was noticed that several of the young men here stepped lively when she was around Miss GriZZille has several stunning frOcks and cut a very flashing figure when she donned her complete outfit of brown. She is to be complimented on her taste.
 Last week L. Franco, an elderly Mexican about 65 years of age passed quietly away. He was a resident of Kelvin for the last few years, and has worked with the Ray Copper company. the Sultana-Arizona Copper company and has done considerable mining
 business for himself. He raised large