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Show TWO MINES OF BUTTE ARE FORCED TO CLOSE HELENA, Mont.. Dec. -Lack of coal dm- ;o the switchmen's strike iorced the Parrot mine of Ihe Amalgamated Amalga-mated Copper company at Budnto close tonight. Tho Moonlight, another Amalgamated property, will shut down tomorrow. The two mines employ J0O men. So long as the Oregon Short Lino continue? to operate Hulte will be sup-plied sup-plied with fuel and other necessities, and the rest of tho mines can lie kept open. Two Northern Pacific freight trains left, Helena for Missoula lodnv. Otherwise Other-wise the strike situation sliows no change. The striken derive much encouragement en-couragement from a rumor that the heads of their respective brotherhoods have directed the firemen, engineers and conductors lo stop work if strike breakers are employed in the places of the union switchmen. At Missoula, the Northern Pacific division officials worked iu the yarde today and by night had six trains of time freight, for way stations made up. By utilizing extra clerks in the division offices ,-i day and a night j'.-inl crow have been organized, and it is expected that the congestion of the yards will be relieved by tomorrow evening. I'as senger trains are running on time and tho Chicago. Milwaukee & Puget Sound continues to handle its regular business. |