OCR Text |
Show In (he Fight to ' Save Idaho Towns From Destruction I Spokane, July 2?. Nearly a hundred hun-dred men aro Pghilr.g to save the thriving mining town of Ward nor, Idaho The forest fire has made Its ny rapidly, aud onlv a mile and a half oi a heavily Umbered hill inter enes. Dispatches from Wallace, Idaho, f-py that during th past two days tho heavy winds havo wrought inconcelv-, inconcelv-, able damage to timber and other property In that district. Women are aiding the. men In Ore fighting on Pine creek. Men are dropping at their work exhausted, and the wives of the homi'Stcfulers are doing what they to cheek the flames. James P..tierton and family are re-I re-I l'Orted to have been living In a mine tunDel for two d?: ?. unable to venture i out on account of the f re. A searc'i-Ing searc'i-Ing party will c,o there as soon as the men can spared. On Pino cefc bark firing Is belnc, tried to -qve pome of the homesteaders' homestead-ers' timber |