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Show Guard are being h'd In reMig ) tAko the field at short notir. in pon tne greatest danger Is In the. Wat Iowa reserve, whence three eomjn,' of regular tro.pH line already bo.!! dispatched " Seattle, Wash, Aug. 15. Retrains Ret-rains whlrh fell through northweit!. Washington yesterday chce.lojrj brush fires which have been burnln elnco early In th summer and th5 rflnecrw bellcvo there will pm. difficulty In keeping the flrCR un(1 control. RAIN NECESSARY TO STOP FIRES Portland, Ore, Aug. 15. Until a general ruin comes to break the long dry period. It Is evident that the forest for-est fires now raging in a score of districts, dis-tricts, all over the Pacific Northwest will remain a serious menace. The loss at present can be counted only In millions, but how many millions can scarcely be guessed. Tho forecaster fore-caster gives no hope for rain. Forest rangers and settlers are working day and night lu tho Coeur d'Ale-n region. Idaho, where three towns have been threatened Tho fires are not yet under real control. A new fire sprang up near Lake Chelan, Wash., yesterday and, fanned by a strong wind, baffled all efforts to check It. Millions of feet of tlmir have been burned in tho Wenahar reserve re-serve Two thousand acres have been burned over at Yacolt, northeast of Vancouver, Wosh With the exception ex-ception of this fire and that nt Gray'a Harbor last week. Western Washington Washing-ton has been remarkably free of fires this season The eastern part of the 3tato has suffered severely, however. A line of firefighters fifteen miles long Is still maintained In the Cohllle reserve. re-serve. Two regiments or Orecon National |