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ANNUAL REPORT OF 

 SUMMARY OF PRAIRIE FIRES, 1903 Continued. 



Total acres burned over, 26,308. Damage, 14,666. 

 Classification of causes: 



Burning brush, straw or stubble, 9. 



Railroad locomotives, 4. 



Hunters, 3. 



Other causes, 7. 



Unknown, 13. 



REPORT OF FIRE WARDENS AND OTHERS OF PRAIRIE 

 FIRES FOR 1903. 



ANOKA COUNTY. 



J. R. Broadbent, chairman, town of Linwood, May 14: 



Yesterday a fire on section 32 burned over 15 acres of 

 meadow and would have destroyed a bridge had it not 

 been extinguished. As it was, no damage was done. 



