The asphalt of the streets left clean imprints of a pedestrian's feet; bits of newspaper stuck fast to the hot tar.

Down by the gorge, where the great green river made its magnificent plunges over the falls, people congregated, tarried, and were loath to leave, for here the blowing mist and the air set into motion by the falling water created a temperature that was relief.
Citizens talked of the protracted hot spell, of the blasted crops, of an almost sure disaster to the wheat-fields, and of the activities of the I.W.W.Even the war, for the time being, gave place to the nearer calamities impending.
Montana had taken drastic measures against the invading I.W.W.

The Governor of Idaho had sent word to the camps of the organization that they had five days to leave that state.

Spokane was awakening to the menace of hordes of strange, idle men who came in on the westbound freight-trains.

The railroads had been unable to handle the situation.
They were being hard put to it to run trains at all.