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Show PROTEST AGAINST SALOONS , Army Officers Want Gin Mills Near Post Abolished. MISSOL'LA, Mont.. March 10. Tho officers of-ficers of the Seventh Inrantry, stationed at Fort Missoula, have presented a petition peti-tion to the County Commissioners of Missoula Mis-soula county, asking that tho saloons near the military post be abolished. It Is represented that the saloons exerl a demoralizing de-moralizing Inlluencc on the soldiers and that thylr presence tends to destroy discipline. dis-cipline. i A communication has al3o been sent to tne War department asking for co-operation In the efforts of the officers to put an end to the saloons. During the past, few weeks numerous fights have occurred outside tho military reservation In which one soldlor was shot through tho ear and others were slightly injured. It has been represented to the Wm department de-partment that with falcons within u short distance of tho fort, tho post la not a proper place to quarter soldiers. |