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Show ! BITING COLD j I IN NOHTWEST I II ' 1,1 SPOKANE, Wash. Dec. D. Hitlng if , f-olrl and no rue I as the Bense of re A Si ports from dozpns of northwest com-H com-H J mnnitles parly today while many otn y drs reported wood the only fuel avail H able. Hope held out for Improved m conditions at least for a day or two. H was scanty. M The b.'si for this hope was the fledge of voJunteei coal miners at ll' Bear Creek, Mont., that they soon f would be producing 200 tons of coal I j daih, assurances from regional rail" H I rond administration officials that everything possible would bo done to 111 provide conl for some of the point:-. I -uttering most, and the fact that for F ! some of the worst pressed commiin-; commiin-; ities notabl) Iiutto. Helena and Greet 1 Kalis, Mont, coal shipments were i arriving or on the way. y. The highest pitch of Buffering la re- ! norfed from Hut re where Fuel Admin istrator Mcintosh told a citizens' I , j meetinc Issl night hundreds are in (tyjgtress; women and children are snfforing from hunger and cold. yhe city has authorised the mayor to expend $6,000 for relief and the I I county has increased its relief fund f 1 i by $35,000 a month. Butte lias been burning old frame houses, relics of it eajjy days, and while it was reported two days ago that all these had gon- jl an "urgent appeal was sent out las': J . night thai others which could be pared be singled out and demolished The temperature at Butte last night was thirty degrees below zero City grade schools at Livingston wore closed yesterdav. ihe thermometer thermome-ter there registered 26 degress hr I m I, zero, with no coal In town. Shelby, Deer Lodge, Bozeman and numerous smaller communities re ported they also were without coal. All Montana points report extreme' cold, ami th- cold wave le spreading southward into Oregon, where the temperature al places reached 25 degrees de-grees below zero last night. Ahead) without fuel, the situation at Brldger, Mont , was rendered worse when the light, water and power plant vi as destro) ed by fire j one hundred anrl fifty nu n attend- pa i i ing a mass meeting last night at Great rails volunteered to go to Sand Coulee tomorrow morning to Ruik In coal mines. Thermometers at Great Kails, I ei orded a temperature ol 33 degrees RII tyglow zero last night. |