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Show . FOREST FIRES RAGING Immense Losses of Timber in Montana Mon-tana and Idaho This Year. BUTTE, Mont.. Aug 11. A Wallace (Ida.) special (o tho Miner says: Word was received here last night from Slato creek that another forest tiro had broken out. It Is estimated that moro than a : thousand n?res of timber In this countrv has been destroyed by forest Urea this season. Volumes of Smoke. Fires are burning In several places between be-tween Slato creek and St. Joe. tho smoko rolling In hug volumes over Wallace and In eastern Idaho and western Montana. Iv03ses in Idaho. State Land Inspector Munson estimates that f000 acres have been destroyed In Idaho this ear by forest fires. |