the small lakes and streams are higher than for years. With 

 the woods in the condition they are at present the danger 

 from forest fires is remote and woodsmen do not believe 

 there will be any of consequence in northern Minnesota this 

 year. 



"More than 930,000,000 board feet of lumber, valued at 

 $20,000,000, is annually utilized in the wood-using industries 

 of Wisconsin, and almost 50 per cent of this is purchased out- 

 side of the state. This means that in time the state will lose 

 its wood-using industry unless the rapid destruction of the 

 forests is checked." 



This is a statement made by State Forester E. M. Griffith, 

 of Wisconsin, who is back of a movement to create a rorest 

 reserve of at least 1,500,000 acres. The state has a reserve of 

 less than one-third of this number already but Mr. Griffith 

 declares that a much larger reserve "can aid very materially 

 in supplying this raw material, though the state cannot and 

 should not be expected to do it all." 



Charging negligence in not protecting locomotives with 

 cinder arresters, thirty or more insurance companies and prop- 

 erty owners have commenced suit in the superior court at 

 Tacoma, Wash., against the Great Northern railway for dam- 

 ages approximating $275,000, alleged to have been imposed 

 through fire which started in the Galbraith Bacon dock in 

 Seattle, June 10, 1910, consuming several city blocks. 



It is specifically alleged that cinders from a locomotive 

 belonging to the defendant set fire to the dock, resulting in 

 the loss of one life and burning property worth hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars. 



Tribute to the presence of God in the woods, recently 

 was paid by Rev. George R. Gebauer, pastor of the First 

 Unitarian church in Duluth while delivering a sermon on 

 the subject, "Influences." The following pretty eulogy of 

 the stars and woods and the sermons they preach, came from 

 him: 



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