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Show RELAY AUTOMOBILES AHEAD OF SCHEDULE Excellent Time Is Being Made With Message Sent From Coast to Coast. MlysuxLA, Mont., Sept. 1.). The relay re-lay automobile, carrying the war department depart-ment message from Plymouth to Puget Sound, readied Missoula from Butte at Jl:35 o'clock. The distance from Butte, 137 miles, was negotiated in three hours and forty -three minutes, beating the previous time by thirteen minutes. The message was immediately started weat for Spokane. BUTTE. Mont., Sept. 15. The war department message being relayed over the Yellowstone trail from Plymouth, Mass., to Puget Sound, crossed fhe'eon-tiui-nt al divide at dawn today in custody cus-tody of W. S. Yund of Belgrade, and a r rived in But te this morning, forty-two forty-two minutes ahead of schedule. The lOll-mile drive from Belgrade, forty-three forty-three of it over' Ihe hardest mountain road in Montana, was made in two hours and fitly -seven minutes. Two minutes after Yund had delivered deliv-ered tho message to Mayor ha rles H. I Lane at the- city hall, Jnlm Berkin was j speeding with it for Missoula. |