Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-04
After Receiving Three Knife
Wounds Chief Executive
Fires From Floor and Shoots
AssaiIant Through Stomach,
BOTH MEN LIKELY
TO RECOVER, IS BELIEF
Attempted Assassination Grows
Out of Recent Trouble Be-
tween Western Federation
and Seeding Miners,

Iutto. Mont, July 3--Louis l.. Dun
can. mayor of Butte, was stabbed
three times hate today and. PROSTATE,
shot his assassin. Eric Lantala. a
Finnish miner, IN the abdomen. Both
men probably viii recover.
The aliray took place IN AIR. Dun
cans office whittier l.antala went To
enter protest against the presence in
gHtte of Frank Nltonen of Ncgaunee,
Mich. correspondent for Finnish
newspaper of Hancock. Mich. This
uap,r sided with officials of the West
trn Federation Of Miners as against
ID faction Of Butte miners local No.
which recently broke away and
formed new organization, and the
mnyor was asked yesterday To order
AHonen ont Of town. lie was told
ihat $50 Finnish miners, favoring the
new organization. had decided that
Butte was not good place for the
man. and had adopted resolutions
calling for his deportation.
II have no power to force an
American citizen 10 leave" the may
or is said to have told his petitioners.
some Of whom appeared not TO agree
with him.
When Iantala appeared at the
mayors office today. he reiterated
the demand that Altonen be sent out
Of town. The mayor stated his posi-
tion again and Lantala began stab
bing The attack feled the mayor
who shot from the floor
Assistance Came Quickly.
Iantala was overpoWered by Alder
man Davis and Building Inspector
Van Horne. who ran into the mayors
office when they heard the scufflng
By this time he had inflicted three
wounds on the mayor. Duncan and
i.antala were taken Co hospitals whore
it was said after full examination
that the mayors wounds were super
fetal cuts in the neck, back and
shoulder while I.antala's wound
would have 10 be examined further
to ascertain whether the liver had
been penetrated, in which case 1t
might prove fatal. The mayor was
later removed to his home,
This afternoon lantala appeared in
the office of Police Judge Booher and
after threatening him. repaired to the
second floor of the city hall, where
Mayor Duncan was Just entering his
own office
II noticed some one behind me,
declared the mayor as he was lying
ON a cot in the emergency hospital
The man was a few feet behind me
as I passed through the auditors of
flee Then he closed the auditors
door. He followed me into my private
office and demanded what | intended
doing about Frank Altomen. ! re-
piled that Altonen had perfect right
to remain in Butte as long as he did
no wrong.
"At this the man drew huge
knife said the mayor "and shouting,
tIfll GbaW VotI advanced foxXard me !
Before that ! noticed that he had kept
his hand in his pocket. When | saw
the knife | grabbed my revolver and
shot just as he lunged with the knife.
The mayor added that after he
shot he fell over trunk in the cor /
ner Of the room and that while trying
TO extficate himself from his posi-
tion, Lantala drove the knife into HIM
three times The third thrust was
Just as Davis and Van Hone rushed |
into the room and started to pun Lam /
tala from the mayor. The stabbing
was done with an improvised dirk I
made from a file.
Lantala first appeared in the pres
ent trouble yesterday when his ar
rest was caused by friends of Frank !
Atonen, a. correspondent for Fin
nish newspaper published at Hancock, |
Mich
Altonen had come to Butte to cham /
pion the cause of the Western Fede- |
ration Of Miners in the labor distur- I
Dances here. Lantala, when called |
upon to plead Yesterday Indicated that I
he could not speak the English lam I
suage Police Judge Booher. believ- /
ing that the man was not speaking T
the truth, sentenced him to jail for .
twenty-four hours. Later his punish
ment was fixed at fine Of $40 on I
charge Of attacking Altonen. and he I
paid the fine
shall remain in Butte until | am
either assassinated or forciby run
out of the city," said Altonen, who IS
q former organizer for the Western /
Federation of Miners
Several Miners Go to Jail.
Red Foley. charged with larceny /
at the time it was dynamited, was ar
raigned today. His case was contin-
ned until Monday because he had no
counsel.
James Alien and Tom Bolan. arrest
ed today, and w A. Wylie all charg
ed with participating in and incting
riot the night Of June %, and vii
liam Cullen and William Usurary.
charged with carrying concealed wea-
pons at that time. were arraigned.
their cases being continued until Mon
day They went to Jail in default of
$4,000 bonds
Lasar Tomich. John Tomich and
Mike Miller. charged with robbery of
the Stewart mine from which dVpa- /