The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-17
THIRD FIRE IN WILLIAMS HOME
 IN LOVETOWN
SELECTMEN AND TOWN CLERK COMPARE TAX BOOK DISCRE- RANCHES AND EXPECT TO FIND MORE.

Louis Gros Badly Injured by Run 1 away Horse He Tried to Stop .MoIIldy Corn the Ear Brings Double Price-Other News of Red- ding.
 Bedding, March 17-There was a slight fire Saturday afternoon at the
 residence of Albert Williams in Love l town. It caught from the chimney
 and had probably been smoldering for
 some time in the wood work of the
 first floor partitions before being dis covered. MT. Williams assisted by some of the neighbors. cut through | tho clustering and put out the blaze before much damage was done. Had the fire developed in the night the con-
 sequences would probably have been serious. This is the third time the house has been endangered by chim- ney fire.
 First Selectman Sanford and Town Clerk Nickerson made comparison last
 Saturday between the tax rate books
 for two years and the tax lien records for the same period. The entries did not match up at all well. There were found a number of liens still holding for taxes which appeared by entries in the rate books to have been paid. Other liens had been released as paid, which, according to the rate book
 showing, are still due. Whether the
 town clerk or the collectors, or both,
 
 does not yet appear. The town clerk
 is confident that he released no liens
 except on proper information that they
 had been paid and thinks that the oth-
 CT class of defects in the record is due
 to the neglect of the tax collectors to
 give him the proper notice All this
 will be threshed out more fully later
 on It is expected that further er-
 TOTS will be disclosed when two other
 rate books come to be compared. The
 selectmen will hold another special
 Co& lF3xr n1 fo fITT--
 ther examine and weigh up the town
 accounts.
 G. Fred Nickerson, who removed from this town to the Pacific coast
 about a year ago and is now a super
 visor of agencies in the Stanas of
 Washington and Oregon for the North
 western National Fire Insurance Co.,,
 had a narrow escape from being vic
 tim of the recent catastrophe the
 Canadian Pacific railroad when snow slide swept passenger train i'm to a ravine 1000 feet below the tracks
 and buried the train and it's 100 or more passengers in such depth of
 made possible only by the spring thaws. MT. -Nickerson was a passen- ger on the next train ahead of the one which met with disaster and when it passed the scene of the accident the snow there was ten feet deep and it was still showing. Twenty miles further on his train became stalled and was held for twelve hours, those on board suffering meanwhile from cold and lack of food. One of the
 three postal clerks lost on the train which went down the mountain side has sister who is a typist under
 Miss Belle Nickerson, an attache of
 the government land office at Seattle.
 While Louis Gros was approaching the Five Points along the Park road Tuesday afternoon with two horse load of merchandise from Bethel for the Ridge store he met runaway horse attached to an empty wagon.
 Dismounting he faced the runaway
 and tried to stop it by brandishing i swerving the runeway dashed aeainst Mr C1ros knocking him senseless. He
 was still unconscious when some time
 found him and after bringing him to l by applications of snow and ice to
 his head helped him to the house of
 again. pr. Smith found that his in- | juries comprised a broken arm, a
 cracked collar bone and many severe | contusions, The runaway horse be- I longed to MT. Grant manager of A. L. | Livermore's firm. who had left his
 team to pursue two cows he was driv-
 The burning of brush or the start | ing of any other sort of bonfire IS made unlawful by new statute unless
 from the local fire warden. D. R. Warner has been appointed warden , for this town by the selectnlen and is now posting notices giving warning of the law and the penalties for it's in fraction. These may be $10 fine and six months imprisonment. As the sta tute specifics brush grass and rubish it would seem that even a garden bon fire requires a license.
 Minnie stuck1in aged IS, was taken before Justice B!ackman last Thursday at the instance of her guardian, Hen ry Gilbert of Bethel, the charge being incorrigibility and associating With disorderly persons. On the evidence offered the court committed her to
 the House of the Good Shepherd at
 Hartford during her minority. Sev- eral months ago the girl left the place provided for her and had since been living in the tenement flat at Um- pawaug known as the Eelpot. Although the general health of Mrs.