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Show U. S. OFFICER GETS FRENCH .WAR CROSS BUTTE, Mont., Oct. 20. Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-Colonel D. Gay Stivers, cited for the French war cross for gallantry in action, ac-tion, according to word received here, Is well known throughout the west and the northwest, where he resided for many years.- He practiced law here for some time, and while residing here he became be-came president of the Rocky Mountain Rifle club. During his incumbency the club won a world's championship and had two members in the American Rifle club, which won the last Olympic games shoot. Colonel Stivers, the son of a West Point graduate, was reared in the frontier fron-tier military posts of the southwest. He raised a company of Griggsby's Rough Riders and served as their captain during dur-ing the Spanish-American war. He left Montana as a major soon after the war began and for a time was in charge of construction work in an eastern cantonment. canton-ment. 1 I |