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Show TRAINED MEN SENT . OUT FROM OGDEN Sherman's Fifty Men Ordered to Proceed at Once to Missoula to Assist As-sist in Directing Work of Fire Fighting Crews-Local Crews-Local Forestry Officials Interested. Washington. Aug. 24 Fifty forest agents from the staff of District Forester For-ester Sherman at Ogden, Utah, haw been ordered by the forest service here to proceed at onco to Missoula, Mont, to aid In superintending the fighting of the flames iu that district. These men, who are trained In the work of buttling with forest fires, will be. put Into serv ice directing the work of the lire fighting crews an.) assisting assist-ing the troops and militia. As there Is no cause for alarm from llres in Utah, the officials of the forest per-vice per-vice thought these men could be spared for service In Missoula, 'Mont. The only report which has reached the forest service this morning of the situation iu the northwest was from District Forester Greeley aat Missoula. Mis-soula. Mr. Greeley urged on the bureau bu-reau the need of more assistance to protect the towns and settlements wilhiu the stricken district. Although the situation on the Flathead Flat-head Indian reservation in Montana Is I considered serious, Superintendent Morgan in a telegram to the. Indi:in bureau Ibis morning, says conditions there are in bettor 6hupe than in any of the surrounding country, lie reports re-ports eight fires on the reservation not under control, jind that the tires surrounding the reservation are being . driven toward it by hnrd winds. Much difficulty being experienced by. the reservation officials in securing any kind of labor to tight the Mantes. The Indian bureau has been authorized author-ized to jso the necessary money In fighting llie fires. Two more companies of tri'np could be used, says Mr. Morgan, and he requests that they be sent if available. avail-able. Northern Pacific trains are tied up and railroad bulges have been j burned and telegraph wires severed. General Uur, commanding the do- partment of the Columbia, in a report to General Wood, chief of stfff of the army, said that a little rain had fallen on the 'burning forests and conditions were more hopeful. |