Show S i I r r r 3 a y BLAZE MENACE f r CA CAUSES AlARM T To FEDERAL OffiCIALS OffiCIALS' IAl i Fanned by High Winds Idaho Conflagration Is Growing Serious Say Reports to Salt Lake W V ITH high winds sweeping V the mountains of central Idaho great forest fires have gained new headway in the Thunder Mountain country and anda a fresh army of ot fire fighters Is again being sent to the front With them are going expert ti firemen emen as field agents of ot the land office dispatched from Denver Portland and San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco on orders from Washington Seventy-five Seventy men are arc being mobilized mobilized mobilized mobil mobil- at Boise today according to Ralph S. S Kelley chief j ot of f the field feld service In Salt r Lake k khi In hi general raf nc charge ha g ot of lh the operations operations op- op i in Idaho J. J D. D McLeod special special cial field agent from Denv Denver r. r left yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- for tor Boise to take charge in the field The other field agents from the coast will be on the ground in a day or two Fifty of ot the men will go Into the tha Thunder Mountain country from Cascade Cascade Cascade Cas Cas- cade the nearest railroad point The fire in that section Is spread over a wide domain and is burning thousands of ot dollars' dollars worth of ot fine tine yellow pine timber Twenty-five Twenty men will be sent into another section In the central western part of Idaho to French creek be between between between be- be tween the Nez Perce and the Idaho national forests The fire there is partly within the Idaho forest where a hundred men are working under the forestry service The land office will cooperate The situation is b becoming very grave again said Mr lr Kelley because of ot the high winds and the absence of ot rain There is still great danger of ot a general conflagration |