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Show News Ilappeniogs tec3moimtam States Spokane. -For miles in every direc tion, along the coast, In the Cascades, through eastern Washington and northern Idaho In the Rockies, as far eastward as Montana, the Pacific northwest is under a 'smoke pall. Three months virtually without rain, even in the Puget Sound country, where rainfall usually is incessant, has resulted in the most serious forest for-est fire situation that the northwest has experienced since 190J. Millions of feet of choice pine, fir, cedar and spruce, covering thousands of acres scattered over this territory, already are a total loss. Every available man forest ranger and day laborer has been pressed into service in the vain efforts to check the flames. Aeroplanes Aero-planes have been used to locate the small blazes from which the larger start and every modern method of locating lo-cating and fighting fire has been tried, and has failed. Officially, the situation situa-tion Is characterized as "most serious." ser-ious." Wlnnemucca. A meteor fell north of Wlnnemucca, shaking ail the frame houses in town and awakening many people, the impact sounding like a muffled explosion in a mine. A party of young people returning from a dance at Uolconda saw the meteor, which is believed to have fallen abor.t a mile from town. Several meteors, large and small, were observed earlier in the night. Moscow. The university is preparing prepar-ing to send about eighteen head of Ilolsteln and Jersey dairy cattle to three livestock shows In the northwest north-west this fall A small herd of each breed will be exhibited at the Spokane Interstate fair, September 4-0, at the Western Royal 'iLlvestock show at Spokane the latter part of October, and at the Pacific International Live, stock show at Portland Ore., November Novem-ber 11. San Francisco The railroad strike situation cleared somewhat in the west with the moving of passengers who had been marooned on desert points at Needles, Calif., and Callente and Las Vegas, New, and an announcement announce-ment by the' Western Pacific Railroad company here that there was a possibility possi-bility of its renewing operations In California after an enforced suspen. sion. Annandale, Minn. Ten persons dead and more than ten score injured was the toll of the wreck on the Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, St Paul & Sault Ste. Marie railway here, w hen westbound passen. ;er No. 107 crashed into a light truck load fd with oil and then plowed into a freight train standing on a side track. St Paul, Minn. Government operation opera-tion of railroads serving the producing mines and if necessary government seizure and operation of all the coal mines in the United States will have the approval of the governors ot Minnesota, Min-nesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa,, according to resolutions res-olutions adopted at the conference of governors iu St. Paul and forwarded to President Harding. Yakima. Charles Smith reported to the police that two armed men, holding hold-ing him up on a street and finding his pockets empty, handed him 33 cents. "Take It," he quoted one of the bandit was saying. "Buy yourself a cup ot coffee and a stack of hut cakes. You're evidently worse off than we are." Missoula, Mont. That the national nation-al forests of Montana and northern Idaho will be called upon within the next few years to furnish the majority major-ity of telephone and telegraph poles used In the east, is the belief of forestry for-estry officials, as a result of the inroads in-roads made by the chestnut blight on the timber supply in that section. According Ac-cording to forestry officials, Montana iml Idaho now are shipping lare quantities of poles to the Atlantic seaboard: sea-board: There is considerable cedar in Montana and the supply Is as yot practically prac-tically untouched, It is said. The forest for-est service is making a study of the taper and growth of cedar in Montana and Idaho, the data to be used as a future tas!s for cutting western roJ cedar pole stands. El Paso. A-i order to shoot to kill ff necessary for self protection or to enforce the striUe injunction was is suod to deputy United States mar-glials mar-glials patrolling railroad property her in connection with the railroad strike. The order was plvon by Assistant United .States District Attorney Nor ! man J. Morrison. w I I.amar, Culo. Five persons were drowned in Brandon lake, forty-five miles north of hero, when a flat scow, from which tlmy were fishing, over ' turned. None of the party escaped. J Missoula. .Sixty incendiary fires' w ere set one day in the Kootenai na tioiial fire8t, Montana, according to dispatches received by the forest ser. vico at Missoula headiiuarters. A spe. t'al foreo of forest olicers lias been j Jjtailed to run down the o.Tenders. 1 I: i |