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Show FLAMES SPREAD WITH RAPIDITY IN FOUR BIG DISTRICTS BOTST3, Idaho.' July 17. Prom Boise, from Cascade, from Halley and from Salmon Sal-mon City parties of fire fighters were sent out today to help check the wind-driven wind-driven walls of flame which have already al-ready destroyed more than 56,000 acres of valuable timber in southern Idaho and which menace farms, towns, livestock and mining properties. Tiie fires are spreading rapidly In four districts. The north end of the yellow pine district fire seems to be checked, but the conflagration is spreading rapidly southward over a fifteen-mile front, and in places has gained ten miles. Other fires are raging on Pistol, Sulphur and Indian creeks, and near the settlement of Yellow Jacket another fire has started. The flames have eaten their way into the Weiser and Idaho national forests, and the Hazard creek fire, which was thought to have been extinguished, has started up again. A serious condition also prevails pre-vails In Chamberlain basin, from which ; no word has come for thirty-six hours. State and federal authorities and the timber owners are cooperating. The Idaho Ida-ho Wool pro wers' association has offered to the fire-fighting agencies all of Its sheep camp outfits and supplies which can be spared. No rain has fallen In southern Idaho for forty-seven days and hundreds of square miles of foreat are 1 as dry as tinder. The general land office of-fice in Boise has Issued -an appeal for 100 more men to volunteer for fire fighting fight-ing at 50 cents an hour, board and transportation. |