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Show Government Aids In Fighting a Fire in Idaho BOISE, Idaho. July 16 Governor D. Davis received word from Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior Franklin K Lane, advising that $40,000 has been set aside for expense of fighting a forest fire that has destroyed approximate-! approximate-! "ei rtOO acres of Umber in the yellow pine section of the Thunder mountain region. The fire has been raging about three weeks, but efforts to combat com-bat ii have been meager because of lack of an appropriation by th' de partment of interior for fighting fires on Ihe public domain. No loss of life has oeruired in Ihe fire, but hundreds of thousands of dollars dol-lars worth of valuable timber has been destroyed and a quarter of a million sheep are in danger. |