Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-09

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 uiShed before the work of salvage
 was begun. The cutlery and such
 other goods as would be ruined or tarnished by water were taken out.
 immersed in oil wiped dry and re- moved to places of safety.
 On the Donofrio-Zunkel side the fire had been less furious. The fix lures in the front of the store. in eluding the great soda fountain
 seemed to have been affected only by smoke, but in the rear the loss was complete. The walls of this store as well as of the restaurant were adorned with a fine collection of Rollin pictures which would figure heavily in an estimate of the loss but it could not be aseertained last night to what extent they had been damaged by smoke.
 It was impossible to save anything from the lodge room of the Knights of Pythias which was also used by the D. o. K. K. the Red Men. the WOodmen of America. the Woodmen of the World and the Maeeabees. The furniture was owned by the Knights and that together with their paraphernalia was valued at about $s,OOO. It was insured for $2,15O.
 The paraphernalia of the D. O. K. K. was rich and costly but no esti- mate of it's value could be obtained. The regalia of the other orders rang ed in value from $500 to $500. There was no insurance.
 The only thing saved of the com plete equipment of Dr. Dameron was his diploma but he was happy. Though he lost s2,OO0 in the fire, he valued the diploma at much more than that, since the college which is- sued it has since been merged with another institution, so that the diploma could not have been replaced.
 W. s. Heflin, manager for Talbot & Hubbard, said yesterday that the stock in the store was worth about $50,000 though estimates had placed It as high as s1OO,OOO. The insurance he said was $35,OOO. Most of this insurance was carried by the agency of F.. l. Bennitt Only few days ago Mir. Heflin had had the policies changed so as to permit the keep ing of five gallons of gasoline in the store instead of only one gallon. but it happened that at the time of the fire there was not as much as one gallon, all of the oils and other inflammable material being kept in the warehouse of the company.
 Colin Bury, a member of the Dono- friO-Zunkel company. said that the in Suranee on the stock and fixtures was sl6,00O. which would easily cover any loss that might be found to have been sustained. This insurance had been distributed among several com panies so that not more than $2.0OO 1 of the loss will be borne by any one of them. MT. Donofrio is on the | coast but Mir. Bury sent him tele- gram which will bring him home this morning.
 As to the damage to the building owned by Mons Ellingson of Tempe. only q rough conjecture can be made | There is nothing left of it but the walls and the rear one is in bad shape. the top being thrown a foot out of line when the roof gave way. The other walls which were partieul- arly strong are believed to be un- injured and it is thought that not more than ten feet of the rear wall will have to be replaced. This build ing was erected at a cost of $4O.000. There is said to be an insurance of S30,000. Mir. Ellingson went to San Francisco on Saturday night but the telegraph told him of his loss
 As to the origin of the fire nothing is known. though there is no doubt that the place of it was in the base ment of the Donofrio-Zunkel com pany. Mir. Bury said that just be- fore closing the place after midnight he made round of the building. in euding the basement as is done every night. There had been no fire in the basement and none could have been introduced from the outside, so that conjecture is Left to fall back on the theory of spontaneous com bustion.
 About o'clock in the morning D. H. Burtis. whose store joins that of Talbot .. Hubbard on the west. : went to his place of business. He was accompanied by man who want ed small stove and when they went to the basement to get it MT. Burtis f a nun0ant SmaU of SmoL-a | |.