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Show BDITE WIM W MAP BY WESTERN UNION; CLICIING WIRES CEASE AT MIDNIGHT Strike of Messengers, Followed Fol-lowed by Rioting, Cause of Entire Suspension of Telegraph Service I In the Saoky City. K K far pi the Western Vnlon Tele-traph Tele-traph company la concerned, Dutte, Mont, Vft-g Xitea wiped off the map. Acting Knder Instructlona from New Yorjt, Manager Wild of the Weatern "ion otflca of Dutte promptly t mid- Vixht laat night cut out every inatru nent working In that olllce except the iAasoclatrd Treaa leuaed wire. When '"W on iha nlsht report bad been aent IhlP, too,,1 waa cut out, the offlco locked up grid the operator relieved from nil further duty, All fiuilnta Aftocted. f'ntll the troublea with the lalMir flnlon are at(ed It ) arniounced that Iha company will remain closed, Not only doea thla nfTect the commercial hualneaa of the city, which la Urge, but also the leneed preaa wires mid those uaed by commission houses, And In consequence con-sequence the newspapers will be limited In lhir news to what little Un be brought In over the long distance telephone tele-phone and the wires of the foetal Tele-graph company. Halt Lake having no 1'oslal ofTlue, Is therefore limited to the use of the telephone In communications with Uuttr-. Origin at th Trouble. Th trouble arose over the demand of the. A. I), T. mMSsengers employed by t'vPi Westerji L'nlon to deliver messages Ar a recognition of thlr recently formed union. This was refused. The messengers promptly struck, and when the Western Unlcm attempted to use Us '.vn messengers, not only were they as-ult?d as-ult?d and rotten-egged, but the office yTii'O was stoned and pelted 'with de-( de-( cayed fruit and eggs. Police protection - waa then given the office, but yesterday .h.e efTlce Wa again assaulted, and It v finally decided to Mot the city from " ifti telegraph map of the Western I'ulon until the troubles can be settled. Manager Copp of the local Associated T"-ess office talked with the managing iltor of the Butte Inter-Mountatn over the long distance telephone this morning. Matters were quiet at the t.me. it will be necessary for the press ;-e;ort of the Butte papers to be filed withthe Postal company at Helena. Xast y.essa'ge Trom Eutte. The laat Aasoclated Tress message eonr out from Butte early this morning ws as follows: "Acting upon Instructions from Superintendent Su-perintendent McMlchael at Minneapolis, Minneapo-lis, Manager Wild closed the local office of the Western ITnlon Telegraph company com-pany at midnight and announced that business through the company's office in thla city would be entirely suspended suspend-ed until further notice. This order. Manager Wild stated, applies to all leased wires leading into Hutte. "The trouble arises out of a strike of messenger boya. and the deciiilon of the . company to close Its ofn here f(-. f(-. lowed an unsuccessful attempt to deliver de-liver Ita messagea yesterday. Men were employed at $5 per day. but wf-re pelu-d with eggs and driven back to the of. flee. The telegraph officials complain that the police protection given their mployeea la wholly inadequate," |