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Show MAYOR OF BUTTE STABBED B! HER SHOOTS HIS ASSAILANT AFTER HE HAD BEEN STABBED AND FELL TO FLOOR. Affray In Executive's Office Sequel to His Refusal of Demand of Finnish Miners to Deport Eastern Newspaper Writers. Butte, Mont. Louis P. Duncan, mayor of Butte, was stabbed three times late Friday, after which he shot his assailant, Eric Lantala, a Finnish miner in the abdomen. Mayor Duncan will recover, but his assail-aiii assail-aiii died Sunday. The affray took place in Mr. Duncan's Dun-can's office, whither Lantala went to enter protest againt the presence in Butte of Frank Altonen of Neguanee, Mich., correspondent for a Finnish newspaper at Hancock, Mich. This paper has sided with officials of the W'estern Federation of Miners as against a faction of Butte miners local lo-cal No. 1, which recently broke away and formed a new organization, and the mayor was asked to order Altonen Alto-nen out of town. He was told that 250 Finnish miners, favoring the new organization, had decided that Butte was not a good place for the man, and had adopted resolutions calling for his deportation. "I have no power to force an American Amer-ican citizen to leave," the mayor is said to have told his petitioners, some of whom appeared not to agree with him. When Lantala appeared at the mayor's office, he reiterated the demand de-mand that Altonen be ordered from town. The mayor stated his position again and Lantala began stabbing. His attack felled the mayor, who shot from the floor. Lantala was overpowered by Alderman Alder-man Davis and Building Inspector Van Horne, who ran into the mayor's office when they heard the scuffling. |