Show I MOITANA REGIMENTS S TROUBLES Private Setciiccd to Two Years and Lieutenant Curnutialcd Special to The Herald Butte Mont Aug 21Prvate Ed Moran of company C Montana regiment I regi-ment writes to relatives in Butte from Honolulu that he had been courtmar Ualed ad sentenced to two years imprisonment im-prisonment at Alcatraz military prison in California for striking Lieutenant John F Mercer of the sme company and had been recommended for dishonorable dishon-orable discharge also A courtmatal has been ordered for Lieutenant Mercer Mer-cer Mora writes that the lieutenant was I crazy drunk at Honolulu and abused and insulted him whereupon he knocked I knock-ed the officer down Moran i the man who acted a spokesman for the Montana soldiers I who struck against the foul rations furnished fur-nished them in camp at San Francisco I and refused to drill until their rations were improved For that offense Moran Mo-ran was reduced from the rank of corporal cor-poral ad transferred to another company com-pany Prominent state and federa of tcals have already been appealeto behalf to use their influence in young Morans I I |