Show FIRES IN THE YUKON HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND ACRES OF VIRGIN FOREST BEING I SWEPT BY FLAMES Country for Two Hundred Miles Between Be Be- tween Big Salmon and Stewart City Is a Roaring Furnace Flames Leaping Across Across River I I Seattle Wash A Vash A special cable to the Seattle Post from Dawson Dason Yukon territory says The Yukon valley is a roaring furnace fur Cur nace for miles between Big Salmon Salmon Sal mon and Stewart City Everywhere forest fires arc are raging but they are not near any city Hundreds of thousands of acres of at virgin forest are arc being swept Possibly Possibly Pos POSe sibly cords of timber has been ruined At Coffey creek so hot was the fire that it leaped the river P. P X Lade Lade- out lost his home barn and horses in inthe inthe inthe the flames I Arrivals from upriver said it was Impossible to see the banks for foI many miles because of dense smoke Governor Black Dlack has issued a sp special proclamation of warning that all persons persons per per- sons guilty of burning off ofT underbrush will be prosecuted to ta the extreme limit of the law Taw The Canadian telegraph wires are down in the burned area |