Show I I I I i i I I i I I I I j i SALOONS TOO NEAR FORT FORTI Officers of Seventh Infantry Ask Montana Officials to toi Abate a Nuisance Mont March or of of the Se Seventh infantry stationed at Fort Missoula have presented a pe petition petition to the county commissioners of Missoula county asking that the sa saloons loons bonn near the military Dost be abol abolished It is represented that the sa loons exert a demoralizing influence on the soldiers and that their presence tends to destroy discipline The peti will be acted upon tomorrow A communication has also been sent to 10 the war department asking for lor co coI cooperation operation in the efforts of the officers to put an end to the saloons During the past few weeks numerous tights fights have occurred outside the mUl tary reservation in which one soldier was shot through the ear and others were slightly injured It has been re to the war department that with saloons within a aj short distance of the fort the post Dost is isi not a proper place to quarter soldiers It is stated by the officers that further efforts Will be made to do away with I the saloons |