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Show P eSdence Discovered That Many Forest Fires Are of Incendiary Origin Washington, Aug. 22. Positive cvl-deneo cvl-deneo that many of the forest Ores lu Oregon are of Incendiary origin has been discovered by government agents, according to a telegram received re-ceived at tho offices of the forest Are service from Associate District Forester For-ester Cecil of Portland. Mr. Cecil Eays in bis dispatch thit there is no doubt that the fires that the Crater National forest and at Med-ford Med-ford resulted from incendiarism and that new fires are being Bet constantly. constant-ly. He reports that he has Btarted twenty-five men on scout duty in aa effort to catch thV3 culprits. Fires in the Crater National forest In southern Oregon and at Medford, Ore., are proving more serious every hour... There are COO men there now under the forest service, the war department already haviug 100 soldiers detailed In this district, and has ordered 250 more from American lake. . Assistant District Forester Buck has gono from Portland to take personal, per-sonal, charge of the . situation. He 6ays the troops will be used to protect pro-tect life and property and It will be hard to extinguish the fires without the aid of rain. Efforts will be made to protoct the bet timber. |