Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-18 | Page 5 | Butte Infantrymen Clear City Streets

BUTTE INFANTRYMEN CLEAR CITY STREETS Pearse-Connelly Club Thwarted in Attempt At-tempt to Hold Parade; Shot 1 Brings Assistance, , PUTTB, Mont., March 17. An attempt on the part of the Pearce-Connolly club, an Irish political organization of this city, to bold a parade this afternoon without with-out permission from Governor S. Y. Stewart, in violation of an order Ismicd Friday by the state council tff defense, resulted In federal in fant rymr-n on duty bore clearing Dm streets. Infantrymen were left on patrol duty In t he husinesH district, hi id It wHfi Stated thai they would bo kept there during the nighl. An Infantryman on patrol duty fired his rifle and summoned assistance when a rrQwd began to gather, and soldiers and police reserves respond or. The crowd cheered the soldiers when they loaded their rifles and fixed bayonets, and then it dispersed. The order of the state couik-H of defense de-fense forbids para iles (,r other pubUe demontrations except funeral? In the state during the war without written permission per-mission of the governor.