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Show FOREST FIRES STILL RAGING. Rains Aid Fighters Materially, However, How-ever, in Some Districts. Spokane, Wash. Forest fire conditions condi-tions in the Pend Oreille and Coeur d'Alene forests of northern Idaho, according ac-cording to information received here, were worse Saturday, while in the St. Joe forest, where several small fires were burning, little change was noted. A heavy rain for the second consecutive consec-utive night has virtually extinguished the Mission creek fire across the Canadian-Idaho line, which has destroyed 200,000,000 feet of timber. A fire on the south end of Pend Oreille lake threatened homesteaders, and more men were sent to fight it. Four more lightning fires were re ported trom the coeur a Aiene iorest, and one fire set by lightning had spread over 200 to 300 acres. Three hundred men are fighting the fire on Bear creek, near Kellogg, Idaho. Ida-ho. New crews were sent to the fire near Heron, Mont., which forced crews fighting it to withdraw. Rains relieved the seriousness of the forest fire situation in all parts of Western Montana. More firefighters are to be sent to the Selway and Nez Perce, Idaho, it was declared, in an effort to bring the fires there under control. |