Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-08-17 | Page 3 | Forest Fires Set by Hobo Element

I FOREST FIRES SE SET BY HOBO Men Seeking Employment int in In inthe the Northwest Apply the Torch Portland Ore Oe Aug It Forest t service serice officials are known to 16 have obtained direct dirt evidence that tbt several disastrous tot forest for st tires fires in the north Borth northwest northwest west wet have been set by men meD W ho later tat secured Mure employment as fire fir fighters It Is believed this became a common practice In many mRY districts While ac ao acknowledging they have evidence the th authorities here are trying 10 to 1 eats eat et several gangs aa before obtaining any arrests Suspicion was wu arois t when men who had bad fought one 01 tire fire te ap al appeared about abut another recently lat dicov discovered ered ere In the same 10 locality J The ut l wage has ham been M 34 I cents CeUs an a hour Tl Tia e forestry tor tr service alone has baa b spent Ilet Szu 10 zt OIlS e this season ln the driest known fur for thirty years n Three Tree hundred men are also employed by the Western extern Fui Foi ul estry and Conservation association Heavy Hevy rains fell tel for tur tight right hours houra over the Colville reservation Maton in nort eastern estem Washington and in An this ibis dt di triet a a as well wel a a as in several others othe the tha danger is pest past t East Et of ot Mount Jeffer Jefferson Jeter Jeterson son Oregon Oreo however bow ever water is ja stilt still atil being hauled haul on oa wagons wap to tight fight the flames In the tb Wallowa reserve ree 4 oO acres have ba ve been burned over Timber owners owner and eo in Oregon have begun a movement nt looking toward towar a or organisation 1 organisation r to prevent such sueh fires tres i those thoe of this year 81 Kalispell Mont Meat Aug Au Ranger Clark came eme down from tl Coram Comma Corm this morning with wih word won tram from tr White Whiteriver hi lE river seventy miles up the South Fork that another anther fire fre had broken out there thErl and was waa beyond control of ot the te one r i two rangers stationed at that tbt lD I He came caine Ome to Kl l for help belp and an w wiL I I L le leave e for tor Coram Comm tomorrow with wih a a pad pack pa h train and men Supplies are ar shipped In from Ovando to 16 supply ir th ts camp from yesterday Other Or fires show little