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Show men go to the national forests of western west-ern Montana and are equipped for a long stay in the woods. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will arrive In Missoula tomorrow night on the North Coast limited and after a brief stay he will leave, with District Dis-trict Forester W. B. Greely, for Libby, from which place they will take a trip of Inspection Into the Kootenai country. coun-try. ANACONDA. Mont.. July 14. A Libby dispatch to the Standard says that 300 men are fighting forest fires In the Kootenai National reserve and that immediate assistance .has bcn asked for as the present force is en-adequate en-adequate to cope with the rapidly Bprendlng flames. Most of the fires are along the Great Northern rail- , roads right of way and the railroad Is hurrying a large force of men to the scene to assist the foreBt service guards. Fires are raging in the vicinity of Stillwater Whiteflsh. Lost Creek and Athens, according to telegrams received re-ceived by the forest service. ORGANIZING FORCES TO FIGHT FLAMES BUTTE, Mont, July 14. The fires that are sweeping portions of western Montana are reported tonight to be spreading and four new conflagrations have Increased the total number to seventeen Of the fires reported today to-day one is near Cyr, on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Pui-'et Sound railway, and the slate and the Big Blackfoot company seem destined to lose much valuable timber. At St. Regis tho fire is reported to be a roaring furnace a mile and a quarter ;n width. The mill of the Big Blackfoot company at St. Regis has suspended operations and has sent employes out to fight the fire. It has also sent a special train of fire fighters to Fourteen Mile, and the Milwaukee Mil-waukee has a crew of eighty, men between be-tween Alberton and Houston. This crew worked nil last night and has not yet stopped excepting to snatch a bite to eat occasionally. The forest service is sending out a . new crew from hero tonight. These |