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Show BULLET OF BUTTE MAYOR PROVES FATAL Eric Lantala Dies of His Wound; Proposed Pro-posed Constitution of New Union Thought Too Radical BUTTE, Mont., July 5. Eric Lantala, the Finnish miner, who attacked Mayor Louis J. Duncan in the latter's office last Friday because of the city executive's refusal re-fusal to deport a correspondent here of a Michigan Finnish newspaper upholding the policies of the-Western Federation of Miners, and who was shot by the mayor, died today of the wound. The bullet penetrated pene-trated the liver. Lantala refused to make any statement to the county attorney in regard to the affair, although to others he asserted that the mayor 6hot him before be-fore he stabbed the mayor. The constitution proposed by the executive execu-tive committee of the new miners' union was made public today and caused friction fric-tion In the ranks of the insurgent miners. Those who oppose it consider it too radical radi-cal and allege that it Is modeled on principles prin-ciples of the Industrial Workers of the World. |