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Show FOREST HANGERS flFTERJTHE FI Men From the Ogden District Shipped to Idaho With Post Haste. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Aug. 2S. Ton forestry rangers of lh fourth district wore sent out from Ogden today by District Forester A. E. Sherman io assist in fighting tho flames which arc sweeping the northwest country. coun-try. Four of tho men wero detailed to Kallspell. Mont.; two at Llbby, Mont..; two at Missoula, Mont.: one at Kooskla, Ida., and ono at Grangevillo, Ida. Responding lo the general alarm which was flashed all over tho fourth district bv Forester Sherman when he was callod upon to furnish men to assist In lighting the fires, employees of tho service laid everything aside and started on a bee-line bee-line for Ogden. As a result, tho district forester has had available men every dav since assistance, was rcriuested from him. An instance of Ihe ready willingness willing-ness of the forestry men to respond to tho call of their chief Is that of Walter E. Banks. Hanks received word to report re-port at Ogden as soon as possible, late Thursday evening. Ho Is an attache of the Powell national forest In southeastern southeast-ern Utah. Saddling his horse, without waiting for any elaborate preparation for his journey, he rode 125 miles into Marys-vllle, Marys-vllle, catching the train for Ogden Saturday Satur-day morning at 3 o'clock. 7-1 o was one of the men sent out by District Forester Sherman this morning. Q. R. Craft, the tlscal agent of the fourth district, left for tho Targhce forest late last night with funds to pay oft" the men who are battling with the fire demon in that district. Ho" conveyed a messago from District Forester Sherman to Supervisor Super-visor David Burnett, Instructing the latter lat-ter to wire by 3 o'clock this afternoon If he needed any additional help. No word was received at that hour, and the ten men held here In reserve were detailed de-tailed to the other districts mentioned. District Forester Sherman said this afternoon after-noon that he felt much encouraged over the conditions in the Targhce forest, as the failure to receive n. telegram from Supervisor 73arnett indicated that the men detailed by the forestry department and the assistance rendered by the Oregon Ore-gon Short bine railroad yesterday, when-lf0 when-lf0 men were sent to assist in lighting the fire, have the (lnmes under control. Telephonic communication was obtained this afternoon with Supervisor C. M. Woods of tho Sawtooth forest at Halley, Ida. The supervisor Informed the district forester that several fires whleh at times assumed a threatening nsport had broken out In the territory under his jurisdiction, but that by prompt work they had been subdued. |
