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Show FOREST FIRE CASES TO BE PROSECUTED E. S French, assist.- it t,, t)r. S.1K It-or. It-or. with headquarters In the district forest nfr ices, of the fores! servlc. left for Boise Idaho, last night, to begin be-gin a Vigorous prosecution of S number num-ber of persons arrested for violating the federal and state fire lawa in regard re-gard to national forest I His trip Is In. line with vigorous prosecutions of all such cases which policy has recently been decided upon bv the forest service offlial.s. Of district Pour. Local officials received a telephone message from .Montneh.! Matin ihi horning t have Mr. Stanch stop on i Tuesday to prosecUU a case Involving the setting of a fire on the r-irlbou national forest .luring the closed season sea-son from June l to October 3 1. during which flr wardens of the state refuse I to Issue a permit to stert fires fpl li purpose of clearing land within the national forests. According to the eelephone mesage the mining company officials applied for a permit to sei t' tins and when refused, ordered men In their employ to go ahea,i and start the fires, irrespective irre-spective of the pemlt which don'- i e-sultlnj: e-sultlnj: In a fire which v. as ohlj put under cvontrol after It had burned' I over the lond of the mining cmnpanv and also after lr had burned consul-arable consul-arable land of the forest. |