Show PREVENTION OF FOREST FIRES Provision of theN v Law Passed by Congress Special Agent Sowers has received a circular from CommissIonQr Blnger Hermann of the general land ofllce giving giv-ing time new act of Congress approved May 5 1SOO relative to forest fires which provided that any person who shall willfully or maliciously set on fire or cause lo be set on fire any timber underbrush or grass upon the public domain or shall leave or suffer lire to burn unattended near any timber or other inflammable material shall be guilty ot misdemeanor and shall be fined upon conviction in a United States rourl not more than 5000 or be Imprisoned Im-prisoned for not more than two years or both Peisons who build fires in or near any forest timber or other Inflammable malcrlal upon tile public domain shall exllngulsh II before leaving Failure Ho do so renders the offender liable on conviction to a 1000 line or one year imprisonment or both Fines are to be paid InU the public school fund of the county where the offense may he committed |