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Show Vaudeville Artist Dead. MISSOULA, Mont., Dec. 19. Will K. Davenport, an old-time vaudeville artist find ex-lieutenant In the regular I'nited States army, died suddenly Sunday of apoplexy. ap-oplexy. Davenport wae attached to the famous Seventh cavalry as an enlisted man and was with Reno at the time of the Custer massacre. On account of bravery In that campaign he was appointed ap-pointed to a lieutenancy but resigned after af-ter holding his commission for ten years, to take up the theatrical profession. He was widely known throughout the West. .At one time he conducted a theater 1m Wallace, Ida., and was on the Northwest circuit. |