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Show SUPPLIES RUSHED TO THE FRONT Seattle. Wash., Aug. 2r.. Mcn: dynamite dy-namite nnd supplies were rushed to Barneson, on the Columbia and Pu get Sound rallroaJ. about thirty miles east of Seattle, in a desperate effort yesterday to check what Is considered consider-ed the worst forest fire that has yet hioken out In Western Washington The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound railroad has sent twenty men Into the district to help fight the fire, tl.o Weyerhauser Lumber company nished in 2j men last nl?ht and I). P. Simmons. Ir.. chief fire warden of the Washington Foreat Fire association, associa-tion, sent every available man at his disposal. A bad fire i- burning in Kitsap county, about two and a half miles south of Port Gamble. It Is said fo have been started by Indians, who wanted a Held burned over In order to produce a good growth of berry bushes. |