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Show LIGHTNING CAUSE OF FOREST FIRES MISSOULA, Mont., July 15. Today To-day the forest fires that arc raging in western Montana Invaded the Glacier National Park, three conflag-rctions conflag-rctions being reported to the local headquarters of District No. 1 of tho forest service. Crews from Flathead and Blackfoot National forests are fighting these fires and one is now under control, although the other one is assuming dangerous proportions. The park contains no National forests but government preserves are being threatened. Numerous flies are burning along the right of way of the Great Northern North-ern In the Kootenai country and the railroad has furnished 100 men to help fight them. Major Fred Morgan waui instructed today to assemble men to fight a fire that had broken ouc between Avaro and Arlee on the lino of the Northern Pacific. The sixteen fires In the Lolo National forctt are well manned and the majority of 11. em are thought to bo under control, but the situation In the Cabinet forest for-est on Clarks Fork of the Columbia is more serious, as a sufficient number num-ber of firs fighters cannot be collected collect-ed there. A crew Is being sent from Missoula tonight. The fires in , the Hitter Root and Coeur D'Aleno forests for-ests are now under control. District Forester Greely announced today that lightning has caused many of these flret? and that tho brief thunder storms that have visited western Montana within the last few days have done more harm than good. |