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Show PALL OF SMOKE HANGS OVER BUTTE Butto, Mont., Aug. 23. Although no forest fife of consequence rages within one hundred miles of Butte, the 6moko hung bo heavily over thH city last night that the environs themselves might have been ablaio. Conditions In central Montana aro Utile Improved. The blaze south of Bozeman wag not under control at 9 o'clock and troops aro demanded. The fires in Lewis and Clarke county, coun-ty, about Wlllburn and Gould still rage, Neihart, Barker and other towns in Cascade county are yet in Peril, the exact Btatus of tho blaze being unknown. A pralrlo flro near Harden, Har-den, in Yellowstone county, threatens threat-ens that town, while It Is rumored that Wibaux, in Dawson county, Is threatened by a prairie flro. These fires are all independent of the Couer d'Alene blaze. Many aro threatened by theso conflagrations, but the entire stato prairie and forest for-est Is llko tinder and no one can tell what city will go next. The smoke now covers nn area of several hundred thousand square miles, lying over the state like a pall from a volcano Only rnln can extinguish ex-tinguish the various Area, as the rangers rang-ers have more than they can hanJlo and sufficient troops do not seem to bo available. |