Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-05-21
GUARD AGAINST
FOREST FIRES
State Land Department
Sends Out Circular of
Warning


department is sending out notices Of
warning to owners of timber, mama
gers of mills and logging companies.
campers prospectors, hunters and
Others aud pointing out to them the
provisions of the law passed by the
last legislature for the protection Of
forests. These notices are being sent
to county commissioners, county at
torneys and other officers and are be-
ing posted in public places.
Beginning with section 6, the new
law reads as follows:
"The period from May to October
1 in each year shall be known as the
close season, during which time 1t
shall be unlawful for any camper.
farmer logger or other Individual,
firm or corporation to set out or
cause to be set out. fres in slashings,'
down or fallen timber, or on timber
lands or in the vicinity of timber
lands, or in the vicinity of grain
fields, for the purpose Of clearing land
or brush grass or other infiammao.e
material, without first obtaining a
permit in writing. or print, from the
fire warden Of the district as provided
in section of this act. Any person
violating any of the provisions of this
section snail be punished by fine OF
not less than 800 or more than $780,
or by Imprisonment in the county jail
not less than one month nor more
than six months. Provided, that this
section shall not apply to any person
or persons setting out back fires for
the purpose OF stopping or checking
fire then burning.
From May / to october OF each
year 1t shall be unlawful for amy per-
son. firm or corporation to use any
spark emitting locomotive, logging en-
g.ns, traction engine or stationary en-
CINE located in timber district Fith-
out the use of a good and efficient
spark arrester upon amy such engine.
ANY person, firm or corporation viO-
lating any provision of this section
shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall pay o
fine of not less than $25 nor more than
800 for each day such engine or loco
motive is SO used.
| Every person, firm or corporation
operating a railroad shall keep the
ground for so feet on each side of the
center of the track, or such portion
thereof as may be owned or controlled
| by such person, firm or corporation,
clear of combustible materials, except
ties and other materials necessary for
the maintenance and operation of the
road, from May i to October / of each
year No person, firm or corporation
shall permit any of his or its en-
ployes to leave deposit of fires, live
Goals or ashes in the immediate vicin-
ity of wood ands or lands liable to be
overrun by fire, and every engineer.
conductor, trainman or section man.
discovering fire adjacent to the track
shall report the same promptly at the
first telegraph or telephone station
reached by him. Any person, firm or
corporation violating any provision of
this section shall be guilty of mis-
demeancr and shall be subjected to a
penalty of not more than 800 for each
offense, and any railroad employee vio-'
lating the same shall be guilty OF a
misdemeanor and shall be punished
by q fine Of not less than SIS nor more
than $50.
"The fire wardsns shall enforce the
provisions of this act. They. and
their deputy fire wardens, shall patrol
their districts in dry seasons. Each
may arrest, without warrant, any
person found violating any provision
of this act and take him before a
magistrate and there make complaint;
and, when a warden shall have infor-
nation that such violation has been
committed. he shall make similar
complaint. Wardens shall go to the
place Of danger to control or prevent
Ares. and in emergencies may employ
or compel assistance
The state land commissioner and
his assistants. or land appraisers and |
selectors, game wardens and deputies
and all peace officers Of the state are
hereby charged with the enforcement
or this act, and shall have full power
to arrest violators of the provisions
Of this act, and deliver them to the
nearest magistrate to be dealt with
according to law; and it is hereby
made the duty Of such officers having
knowledge Of any violation of the
provisions Of this act to file a COM
plant in a court Of competent juris-
iiction against such persons.
Every warden or deputy warden
and every person lawfully command
ID to assist in enforcing any OF the
provisions OF this act. who shall un-
refuse or neglect to per-
'orm his duty: every person who shall
rindle IRE on or near the forest or
'rairie land and leave 1t unextin-
rushed, or be q party thereto; every
'erson who shall use other than In