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Independent RecoRd Monday, March 11, 2019 A3 00 1 BETHANY BAKER, BILLINGS GAZETTE aldean Good Luck, left, supports Barbara Stewart, middle, mother of Freda Knows Gun, also known as Freda KnowshisGun, as she embraces Trinity rockabove, daughter of Freda Knows Gun, during an event honoring the national day of awareness for murdered and missing women and girls at the crow Tribal Multi- Purpose Building in crow agency on May 9, 2018. to turn to first when Freda Knows Gun disappeared, family members said. Her last known conversation had been in Kennewick, but she had been living in Billings since about July. Ultimately, it was Bureau of Indian Af- fairs law enforcement in Crow Agency who registered Knows Gun as missing, but there was confusion about her last name. A first report filed at the re- quest of mother rec- ognized birth name, Knows Gun.

That report was filed Nov. 14, 2016, after Freda missed the funeral of an aunt with whom she was close. not uncommon for missing person reports to be filed after funerals, because missing a loved farewell ceremony is rare in Native American families. A second report was filed Dec. 11 that same year, the only difference was a change to last name Knowshisgun.

It is a common confusion in family name translation from Crow to English that a should be added. There are missing posters and T-shirts for Freda that use both spellings. Eventually, the FBI became involved in Knows case. The dead ends have been multiple, the potential contributing factors bizarre. think it was in July the last time we heard from them (the said Fran- ces Knows Gun, sis- ter.

said you ever heard of a drug called hot He said you take that stuff you forget who you I said. never heard of Freda had started spending more time in Billings in the months before disappear- ing. She had fallen in with a bad crowd, according to her mother, Barbara Stewart. A whip-smart student who learned easy and was work- ing to finish college, Knows Gun began seeing less of her family. She started abusing substances.

It seemed like when Freda was first reported missing, law enforcement dismissed her concern because of the possibility that sub- stances were involved, Fran- ces Knows Gun said, like any transgression made it OK not to take disappearance seriously. After Freda went missing, her new friends had little to say. The mother of Knows Billings roommate confronted Stewart and Frances in a Billings store and told them not to mention the name to the FBI. Knows family heard that roommate has since moved to California. The family wants answers.

Someone knows something, they said. Someone always does. never goes a day, an hour, a minute, a second without thinking of Frances said. still in denial. I tell myself out there, somewhere.

I often catch myself talking to her, praying her spirit hears my spirit, asking the creator to protect her, watch over her, let her please come to the realization that we all miss her a lot. And our family is not the same without her. And that her children need Missing From A2 Second gym roof collapses at MSU BOZEMAN (AP) A second gym roof has collapsed at Montana State University as officials had expected. The North roof collapsed Saturday evening, two days after the student fitness South Gym gave out following heavy snowfall. The second collapse was consid- ered likely since the two connected gyms were built around the same time and the buildings were con- structed using similar methods and materials.

University officials say the school hired structural engineers to evalu- ate more than 40 flat-roofed build- ings on campus. Glacier reservations going to lottery system COLUMBIA FALLS (AP) Gla- cier National Park is changing how it administers backcountry camp- ing reservations this year. The park says it will use a ified lottery that will pro- cess requests on opening day in a randomly sequenced order. After that, reservations will be taken in the order received. The Hungry Horse News reports that the reservation system for opening day had been on a first- come, first-served basis.

Opening day for reservations is Friday. The changes come after a rush of reservation requests last year over- loaded the system and it crashed. Last year 1,500 campers made an attempt to get a reservation in the first hour. The previous year, 1,600 people applied for permits on the first day. District says it followed procedures GREAT FALLS (AP) The school district where a former Montana high school trainer al- legedly sexually abused students says it aware of abuse and followed proper reporting proce- dures when allegations did arise.

The claim came Wednesday in a motion by the Miles City school district asking a judge to dismiss some of the allegations made in a lawsuit by former students con- cerning James Jensen, Jr. The Great Falls Tribune re- ports the district says that when the allegations surfaced in 1997, the law only required it to report suspected abuse by parents or guardians. Jensen was released the following year. Attorneys for the students say they will detail how school of- ficials failed to follow reporting standards. Jensen has apologized for caus- ing any distress but has denied the more serious allegations.

STATE BRIEFS ROB CHANEY MISSOULA As pres- idents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping bluster over U.S.-China trade policy, the outdoor gear industry worries it might get tram- pled underfoot. current negotia- tions create a significant amount of uncertainty for said Matthew Chris- tensen, Simms Fishing Products senior director of sourcing, planning and development. de- fine our retail prices sev- eral months in advance of when the product is going to sell. now working on spring 2020. All this uncertainty makes it very difficult to make those de- cisions with any Simms makes its fly-fishing rods at a factory in Bozeman, but imports some of its other products from China.

As part of the U.S. challenge to Chinese trade practices, Trump has gone through three rounds of punitive restrictions on goods imported from Chi- nese producers. In 2017, China exported about 41 percent of the clothing sold in the United States, 72 percent all footwear and 84 percent of travel goods, according to the Outdoor Industry Association. outdoor industry got hit on the third round, when we placed a 10 per- cent tariff on bikes, bike chairs, backpacks, kayaks and ski said Rich Harper of the Outdoor Industry Association. outdoor products already face high tariffs.

17.6 percent on back- packs from China. 20 percent on sports If the negotiations fail, Trump has threatened to impose another 25 percent tariff on $260 billion worth of imports from China. Harper said that would particularly hit apparel and footwear, with those goods adding a 35 percent markup in addition to the routine tariffs they already factor into their costs. That money paid by China, but by U.S. cus- tomers, according to for- mer federal trade negotia- tor Joanna Shelton.

president says the Chinese are paying so much in tariffs, but the U.S. importer that pays the Shelton said. say a company like REI directly imports all its tents and camp chairs from China. The ship comes to a Seattle port and the cargo container is presented to U.S. Customs agents.

They look at the bill of lading and the regular tariff is 17.6 percent. But com- ing from China, so 10 percent on top of that. You write a check to the Customs Service. If you pay the tariff, you get That cost gets passed up the supply chain. Missou- la-based Everest Designs owner Matt Skousen man- ufactures his hats and ap- parel in Nepal, which subject to the tariffs.

But seen how the costs of imported goods go through a multiplier effect as they move from loading dock to store shelf. Say a hat costs the im- porter $1 from China. The importer must pay the U.S. Customs Bureau the tariff as it comes off the ship, adding 17.6 cents. Then the importer typically doubles the price to the retailer, so the $1.176 hat becomes a $2.36 hat.

The retailer typically doubles the price again, bringing the price to $4.70 for the customer looking for a new hat. you work that out on a pair of $150 hiking shoes, talking real Skousen said. some point, you hit psycholog- ical resistance from the All companies expect some price fluctuation and build that into their busi- ness models. In the short term, they may be able to eat some of the tariff cost to prevent competitors from cutting into their market share. But at some point, that sacrifice be- comes unsustainable.

CFOs already are pricing in the Sk- ousen said. facing 50 percent tariffs for fall 2019, I would have already priced in 50 percent of that. Then for 2020, if tar- iffs did go through, al- ready softened that One of the major out- door industry trade shows bumped up its winter ex- position from mid-Janu- ary to early November last year, to prep its members for the unsettled im- port-export situation. Harper said the Outdoor Industry Association met with members of Con- gress last week pressing the case that more tariffs and uncertainty were bad for business. But outdoor gear may be collateral damage in the larger trade war.

U.S. objectives are more focused on intellec- tual property theft, market access and said Christensen. may have a broader range of impact than just those of us who import from Christensen said the fight could result in oppor- tunities for other coun- tries like Vietnam, who see a chance to steal some of market share. dominance on the shelves of stores like Cabe- and REI has shrunk in recent years, as places like Vietnam and Mexico have cut into its product lines. But it costs companies a lot to switch factories and credit lines, especially if products are already under contract.

Skousen added that while the trade dispute was causing headaches, U.S. businesses had been angry with China for years. personally seen some of his most successful Ne- pali-made hats replicated right down to the yarn and color scheme by Chinese producers. Sk- ousen said. got the technology to make advanced materials, and great manufacturing capa- bilities.

constantly having to fight off knock- offs, and a big tax on your business. When you throw that tariff in there, a Trump had said he ex- pected to complete a trade deal with Xi at a meeting at his Mar-a-Lago resort later in March. However, Xi canceled the visit on Friday, amid concerns that an agreement would not be reached by then. Trade war worries outdoor gear makers in Montana Chinese exports include footwear and travel goods TOM BAUER, MISSOULIAN Missoula-based Everest designs owner Matt Skousen manufactures his hats and apparel in nepal, which subject to the tariffs. But seen how the costs of imported goods go through a multiplier effect as they move from loading dock to store shelf.

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