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Oklahoma State Register.
EIGHTEEENTH YEAR, NO.
46
GUTHRIE, 0 K L A.,
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1910
$1.00 PER YEAR.
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Equal Franchise For Men And Women;
Fears And Benefits Of It's Ex:ercise
In The Higher Efficiency
Of Civil Life
This office is in receipt of "The Remonstrance," a quarterly tract
published in Boston by the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Fur-
ther Extension of Suffrage to Women. It is its own best evidence why
women should be placed on a greater equality of all the dual duties and ac-
tivities of life that men and women areliving and are destined to live to-
gether. A glance at the arguments used against suffrage indicates the need
of a large range of sympathy in the growth of intellectuall companionship
of men and women, which means a greater harmoney and pleasure in their
relations. Especially is this true in warning American men against granting
equal privileges to their women in the example of militancy of English wom-
en in the recent violent demonstrations against Parliament and in the elec-
tions. The old world-worn reasoning is held out that because the slave
abused his liberty he should not have freedom; and because the unlettered
misused their education they should remain in ignorance. "A little learn-
ing Is a dangerous thing," said the anti-equal sharers of male suffrage of
that day, then the poor should have none of it. And that is the argument
now of the anti-equal woman suffrage. Because the gentle creature, wo-
man, held up by man as such ideal monitor of all the virtues, does not act
with' ethical delicacy when placed in civic relations to man, is the very
■crux of the argument why she should be given opportunity there also to
display the graces of her mind and manners. When she has attain: d her
rights in this direction, the last, or almost the last, barrier that makes
man and woman the savage antagonists in their social relation rather
than the civilized partners, she will no longer either agitate or fight for
them. Every step of the struggle from savagery to civilization for man
and woman, both born of the same woman and sired by the same man,
lias been one of concession on the part of man to what he considered the
co-relative duties of woman. Yet to-day that race and civilization is the
highest in -which man has conceded, in the ages past, the greatest amount
of freedom to woman, of the character at the time conceived to be dan-
gerous to their united progress.
Neither in a state of nature nor society is the female always in a
position to be wholly protected by man. The beasts that mate lose their
companions, and the mother is left unprotected with her young and must
hunt their food. In society the woman has lost her father, brother, son,
husband—is without kith or kin, and must look for herself. The social
and civil laws apply to her the same whether she has had a head and
hand in their making or not.
In a democrt-tic form of governmene non should be ruled without their
consent. How much more useful and delightful will woman be when she
is the full companion of man in all his thinking, feeling and acting—in all
his aspirations and activities.. Why not reverse the figura of speech and
say, How much more happy and useful will man be when he is the full
companion of woman in all her aspirations and activities. It amounts to
the same thing. The two are one. Not the two sides of the same- life,
hut the halves of the same life. Human life is a merging, not a division of
interests.
Government is not such a gigant c difficulty if it were not that so
many rights are denied and have to be fought for. When woman is con-
ceded the right to vote as she is now to eat wear clothes and bear child-
ren, it will be no more an ungracious act for man to accompany her to a
place where they deposit a slip of paper that registers their opinion up-
on some social or civic policy that shall benefit th m both alike than it
is now to be her companion to the theatre, the ballroom or the church.
The voting place will then have a vase of flowers on the table instead of
tobacco juice on the floor and civil mmtVs of men and women instead of
vulgar bandinage.
Woman has fought her equal way into the church and the school room
and she will yet find equality in theliome and the forum. The inefficiency
of laws In the regulation of cities, of prisons, of charitable and el moson-
ary institutions, of child labor, the white slave, of railroad and street
car accommodations, of tuberculosis, of marriage and divorce, is due to the
fact that woman has had no hand in the making of the laws that control
them. .
The great cry of the hour is that there is something fund mentally
wrong with American social life. That on the one hand men and women mar-
ry to hastily and on the other divorce each other too promiscuously, and
the third is that they do not marry enough but live too numerously with-
out license. The ind pendence of labor for women has been gained. They
are no longer entire, but partial chatel of men. Now the solution of the
probl m is in the education not the retardation of women in the intelligent
exercise of their share of law makirg.
As for the fear that by the extension of the privilege of depositing a
slip of paper in the ballot box it will turn woman into man-nature has
made a barrier between them that neither man nor woman can cross. But
it will extend woman's exercise of her intelligence until there will be no
forbidden trra incognit in the intellectual and moral world that man
will be compelled to enjoy himself, but he can share the whole universe
with her who is born of the same womb, who lays her head on the same
pillow and who ent rs again the same portals of mystery with him at the
end of life. .
One of the common arguments a long men against the extension of
the election franchise to women is that a majority of the s x do not them-
selves desire to vote.
Why not the women of Oklahoma hold a primary election on the ques-
tion and decide the matter once and for all among themselves? Of cours:,
all things considered, this would probably not be a fair test. It is proba-
bly a fact that most women are still, "As the husband so the wife is," on
this question. Thev are not yet sufficiently emancipated from the domi-
nancy of man's historic dictum, that voting and all othfr state making, law
making affairs are his special province.
But an opportunity to one-half of the population of Oklahoma—the
women of Oklahoma—to show which way the majority speaks, would at
least show a positive test on the question of increased duties and benefits,
as expr ssed by women themselves, and would indicate the strength and
weakness of the campaign.
A FALL FOB I'AIM'S 1*B1I)E.
The (Juads He Believed Were Hi>
Are Only Foundlings.
I s Angeles, Feb. 3.—"For sixteen
years we had no children," Mrs. W.
W. Wilson, 2019 South Magnolia av-
enue,said, according to Dr. Armstrong
C. Pratt, who was called to give col-
or to her assertion of having become
the mother of quaruplets last Friday.
"My husband desired children, a
large family, and so did I. Our only
child di d when it was born, nearly
twenty-five years ago. Nine years
nurse whom I knew in Chicago help-
ed me by telling me of a child that
was about to be born at a hospital
near our home.
"We planned it tog ther. 1 did not
desire my husband to know that he
had been fooled. I hoped to please
him, but when the birth happened
there w re two babies, and the nurse
rushed in to tell me. 1 told her to
bring them both. So 1 had twins
when my husband arrived from the
store. m
"Since then it has been the same
Twice we obtained three babies and
each time my husband has been great-
ly pleased. I would not do anything
to huit his feelings for the world,
but he was so happy when the chil-
dren came that I kept on. I began
my plans for th se last children sev-
eral months ago and carried out the
details so as to fool everyone except
the woman who assisted me. My
husband did not suspect anything and
my family physician, Dr. Paul
Bresse, was not taken into my con-
fidence.
"Please don't tell my husband, doc-
tor," Mrs. Wilson said to Dr. Pratt,
he declares, "for he is as happy as
can be in believing that they are his
children. If we could only have kept
th others alive, I should not have at-
tempted it again. But each time the
little ones died. We did our best to
keep them."
In addition to confessing that all
of Mrs. Wilson's supposed quadrup-
lets had be u contributed by other
women, the nurse said:
"1 obtained one of Mrs. Wilson's
quadruplets from the county hospital,
one fron , private hospital, one from
a saleswoman in a store and one
from a physician who knew of the
seh me to provide Mrs. Wilson with
several babies."
"Mrs. Wilson desired five babies,
but I could obtain only four of the
iht age."
galvanometers that are placed in the ss
| interior of a great electro magnet
that light or cover up a series of tin
mirrors and form on a screen the im
age of the object."
To the newspaper men present th
scientists gave some most interesting
demonstrations. Different l.tters were
placed before the transmitting tele-
phote and instantly appeared on the
screen in the nearby room. Then
images of a bottle and a leat.l pencil I.u Pollen*'
were in turn instantly and accurate- 'mere al-
ly transmitted. conimissior
"W hope soon to transmit the col- hope of l
ors as well," sa:d M. Fournier.
A SEW THEOBY ABOUT FABMS.
Cities Too Kind to laemplojfd the
ltev J. N. (Vomer Bays.
citle
not
ment
(Kansas City Star.)
May I add a word to the special
discussion now going on concerning
unemployed? There is more than one
reason why so many drift into the
i in the winter. The cause is
n many cas s a lack of employ-
1U,,11L The farmers have as hard a
time getting help in the winter as in
the summer, both men and women.
Because they cannot get this help
they have f wer products and the
prices, neeeninrlly, are higher. There
is always work to do on the farm.
But there is an army of men who
po out in harvest time and get big
wages for a few months, then tramp
thenis Ives penniless, and then come
to the city. These find shelter in our
benevolent Institutions, where for a
pittance and a few hours' work they
can get food and comfortable quart-
ers Some of them will do odd jobs
around the city at twenty cents an
hour few being very handy on the
This is much pleasanter than
outuoor work on ti farm in the wln-
tego lone: as this system is maintain-
ed so long we will have present con-
ditions. .lust now every unemployed
man in th - cities could get work,
wages and a good home on some farm.
in time of gen-ral depression the
free soup house and lodging house are
a necessity and a great blessing. But
The systematize care and provision
made for the unemployed are known
1 v every tramp in the country. And
these tramps are not such because
they are not Inclined to work, and be-
cause they can get along without it
with the aid of these institutions.
I beg to suggest that some of the
funds raised for these institutions be
! appropriated to the establishing of a
! chain of employment bureaus, bet
one be opened in every county seat
where the farmer can apply for help,
and let these be in communication
with the cities where the unemployed
congregate, and then, if necessary,
purchase tickets for these men and
send them where wanted. Ill connec-
tion with a description of the man
sufficient to identify lilni should be
recorded, and let each man under-
stand that each time he appears for
help the more difficult it will be for
| hi.n to £et it.
As it now is, no able-liodlcd man
should be on the benevolent rock pile
list more than a few days. This class
n^eds forcing out to the work await-
ing them In the country. Our abun-
' dant provisions for them in the city
; draws and keeps them here. The whole
of socl ty would be helped if they
! were mado productive.
| I have talked with many of these
men from our institutions here, and
the winter quarters in them are a
part of their annual program. lift us
| make it more difficult for the alile-
bodied to impose upon our charity,
| and let our free institutions not be
too desirous of making a grand sliow-
I ing in their annual report, and let
I them be r lore ttrict in all their re-
) quirements and the r suits will be—
1 the farmers can have help to enlarge
\ their opeiations and increase their
j products; the city will have fewer
charity subjects, and the tramp him-
self will learn to be a self-dependent
man, and prices for all farm products
will be more reasonable.
TELEVISION ON J1IE WAY.
Frenchmen Have Practically Perfect-
ed a Machine for Seeing.
The day is very near when one can
sit comfortably in his own room and
not only listen to the voice of a friend
miles away but see him as distinctly
as though the friend were sitting in a
chair b.side him, and when from his
palace a monarch or president can in-
augurate some public exposition
thousands of miles distant being both
seen and heard by the assembled peo-
ple.
The very interesting experiments in
"television" that have just been made
at Iji Rochelle by a young French
scientist. M. Georges Rignoux, aided
in his work by the advice of M. Four-
nier, director of the Municipal labor-
atory of that city, gives strong hope
that these dreams will soon be realiz-
ed. Some weeks ago, the famous Ger-
man electrician, Ruhmer, successfully
carried through for the first time an
experiment in "television" oi: seeing
at a distance. Similar researches had
b en made for a long time in France,
but these trials had always been sur-
rounded by a mysterious silence. The
French inventors were waiting the
moment their apparatus would be p r-
fected befoi a giving to the world their
discovery. Professor Ruhmer's pub-
lication of his ' experiments obliged
them to break their silence and the
first trials of these two French scien-
tists have been much more conclusive
than those made by the German.
Under the ancient porticos in the
historic old street, Manage, at the
back of a dark and narrow court yard,
Rignoux and Fournier have installed
the:r laboratories. The first room as
one enters contains the transmitting
apparatus. A couple of rooms beyond
is a drakened chamber, the tomb-like
blackness being increased by the aid
of great rolls of black paper which
which cover the whole wall. Here one
finds the receiver.
"It seems very rudimentary and yet
we have been working on it for mbr
than two years," said M. Rignoux.
"We have called our apparatus 'tele-
pliote.' As the telephone transmits
by wire, variations of sound, the 't l-
ephote' transmits the luminous scales,
variations of shadows and lights. The
transmitting apparatus is very simple.
A concave mirror projects a beam
from a Nernst lamp of 3,000 candle
pow r on the object of which one
wishes to transmit the image. Each
point of the object thus lighted Is pro-
jected by a lens on a surface formed
of sixty-four cells of selenium.
"As you see, we use sixty-four cells
while Rurmer has only twenty-five on
his demonstrating apparatus, and the
number of figures or combinations of
signs that we can send is much great-
er. The cells of selenium constitute
really an artificial retina. The selen-
ium acts under the influence of the
light and each lightened cell s neis
into the wire a current of intensity
proportionate to the force of that cor-
lesponding to the luminous point. The
variations of the lighting of the ob-
ject, its play of light and shadow
thus transform themselves into elec-
tric variations that travel along the
sixty-four wires and arrive at the re-
ceiving point At the receiver each
one of these currents acts on the little
I HOW TO SECURE MAJORIT\ t^ULE
PracticalTest of the Preferential System Whe ebv Vnu
Vote tor five Candidates at the 6an.e '1 ime a 5-'
Deliver a Knock-out blow to the ''Gang" '
in the
POSTAL HAM: rittHT ON.
Its sue
c many people who se<
plan of city govenrnmen ti
mocracy In the United Stute
kable spread of this plan Is ning of a change in
cited as evidence that the people art tutions that will niak.' „, „
turning to it as a practical and efficient In fact as well as in name B ment-
will .TT m.ay prov" thu stimulus that
will Impel other cities and even state,
to adopt the preferential o. aTonl
HT " - u,e ZT.
our political lnsti-
tlio
Big Filt;i;uiiil Interests Oppose
Kill in the Senate.
Washington, Feb. 3—The first round
in the battle over the Postal Savings
aank bill was fought in the Senate
method of bringing the control
ment baek into their hands.
It is a matter of more thai
terest, then, when the people
depose their loeul boss and
ity's affairs in charge of
tliis aft inoon when Senator Heyburn | reBponBii,iB l0 popular will.
took occasion to question Senateir
Carter, in charge of ths bill, and off-
er sundry objections to the measure.
Heyburn probably will fight the bill,
no matter what form it may take, as
he made it plain that he is not in
sympathy with the idea, at lenst in
form.
After the discussion the progres-
ses of the senate spent an hour in
conference and decided to offer two
amendments to the measure, or if they
do not offer them they intend to make
Senator Carter offer them. It is plain
that some of the extreme reactionar-
ies 011 the R publican side are not in-
tending to favor the bill. Most of the
Democrats have friends in the hank-
ing business who are imploring them
to oppose the bill. Some of them do
not wish to hell) the Republican party
r deem a campaign promise, so that
it is pretty certain that the question
of passing this bill will get down
where every vote will be of import-
ance. Before that time arrives the
progressives intend that there shall be?
some small changes in the bill.
TO MAKE CILAVIS RETRACT.
Interested Congressmen Mill 'lake a
Hand at Cross-Examination.
Washington, F b. 3.—When the ex-
amination begins tomorrow afternoon
before the Ballinger-Pinchot congres-
sional investigating committee it is
expected that new and striking feat-
ures will be brought out in regard to
the charg s which have been maele
against various individuals by Mr.
Glavis in Ins testimony before the
committee, the taking of which was
finished yesterday.
Represesentatlve McT<achlan. of al-
ifornia, and Representative Kinkaid,
of Nebraska, who were interested m
certain Alaska coal claims, according
to testimony given by Mr. Glavis yes-
terday, either personally or through
frleneis on the investigating commit-
tee, will put Mr. Glavis, it is believed
through a severe examination from all
taint of suspicion.
Mr. Glavis declared yesterday that
Mr Ballinger. after being commission-
er of th land office, had acted as at-
torney for Mr. Kinkaid. I nregard to
Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Glavis testified
that Mr. Ballinger had suggested to
him that the investigation agahist the _
California congiessman be not l'lir;l,)f the bll,
sued, as there had been "to much of ^ of
that sort < f thing in the past.
Th re was no meeting of the com-1
n;itee today ; nd so far as the pro-1
ceedings tomorrow are concerned,
they will be directed entirely by Sen-
ator Nelson, , hairman of the commit-
tee No program has b en adopted, so
far as is known, the chairman pre- j
ferring to let the Investigation take
its own course without interference,,
which might tend to hamper the tak-
ing of testimony. I
Oth r witnesses are to be called this
w >ek but their names were not dis- ( It n
closed It Is regarded as certain that, majority is ruled by a highly organised
several officials and employees of the, minority. Various plans have be.n
general land office will be summoned , brought forward to overcome this The
and the list of witnesses likely will, Second < hoice form of prefere ntial vot-
include government employees from , ing is one. Second election, are another,
other departments having jurisdiction As long as forty years ago. John Stuart
in land matters or which are connect-) Mill suggested preferential voting, hut
ed with the conservation program. did not work out his suggestion into a
There 1 smuch speculation as to < plan. Thinkers < f this country
whether Gifford Pinchot, former chief, have turned their ey.-s to Australia where
foraster will be called to the stand. I Preferential voting is in operation. Rut
He ' as been an interested att ndant in this Grand Junction plan, we have-
on the hearings and has followed the j what appears to be the most practical
evidence with the greatest care. It is | Plan that has yet been put into u -
uf govern-
local ln-
of a city
place the
nnmission.
But in
irand Junction, Colo., the people have
adopted a development of the commis-
sion plan that challenges the attention
of every voter in the United States.
As provided by the Constitution of Col-
orado, after the people of the city by a
large vote had determined upon the call-
ing of the convention, a body of twenty-
one men were selected at a special elec-
tion to draw up a new charter. Seven
of these men were union labor men, three
were bankers, and one a lawyer and the
balance were business men and local
capitalists. They were in session sixty
days, and at the end of that period re-
ported to the people.
The charter provided for the commis-
sion system of municipal government
with five commissioners in charge of
the departments. The departments of
Public Affairs, Finance and Supplies,
Highways, Health and Civic Beauty, wa-
ter and Sewers.
The initiative and referendum and the
Recall are provided for, but every elec-
tive officer has a ninety-day immunity
from the operation of the recall after
elction.
No franchise can be granted without
the consent of the voters at either a
special or general election. All public
utility franchises are Indeterminate and
can be revoked on failure of the corpora-
tion to fulfill its franchise provisions.
City wards and saloons are abolished;
paving and all municipal works must be
done by the department chief under
whom the work is being planned, and
cannot be done by contract; all offlelals
under the charter must give a full eight-
hour day to their work. If heads of de-
partments cannot keep employed for the
entire eight hours in their office they
must go oVit and take personal super-
vision of the municipal works in their
department. Kach official must publish
a report in his department every three
months.
The commissioners can make no con-
tracts that exceed their term of office
and cannot sell, abandon or grant any
real estate belonging to the city without
the sanction of the people.
But when it came to the question of
elections the members of the charter con-
vention accepted the preferential system
of voting rather than direct primaries
(as in l>es Moines) or second elections
(as in Berkeley) because, as the official
summary explains, it is a means of "sc-
oring a unique and accurate expression
will at the polls, with the
•ost and effort."
This system of voting was used in the
Grand Junction election of November 2.
For the first time in the history of this
country preferential voting was put to
a severe practical test. The story of
this election is told by Mr. Blekel on
another page of this magazine. It shows
how It Is possible to bring about the rule
of the majority.
That Is what men have been striving
after ever since popular government was
conceived:—majority rule. We haven't
ften the loosely organized
ment by majority.
THE EXPERIENCE OF GRAND
JUNCTION
(By Carl A. Bickel.)
I>ld you ever vote for five candidate,
roi mayor, all running at the same elec-
tion and for the same office Did you
ever wish that some system might be de-
vised whereby the unorganised masses
v.. ?y° a c'la"c" ut tlle polls aea"«t
the highly-organized minority?
If so you will read with Interest the
results of the first practical test of the
preferential or "choice" system of vot-
ing in America.
For the first time in the political his-
tory of the United States the preferen-
tial system of voting was given a prac-
tical trial in the municipal election at
Grand Junction, Colorado, on November
2. The election was the first to be held
under the Grand Junction charter. This
charter is remarkable In many ways,
having been termed by experts to be
the "most democratic Instrument ever
presented to any city in America," and
having attracted by many of its unique
provisions widespread attention from all
parts of the United States. Without
doubt, however, the Incorporation of the
preferential or "choice" system of vot-
ing Into the charter was the single pro*
vision that excited the most comment.
The preferential system allows the
elector to vote for as many candidates
for any given office as there are candi-
dates nominated, save one. The aim of
the system is plain. It looks toward se-
curing the election of that candidate for
public office who Is undlsputably the
most popular man. It also aims and does
deliver a heart-breaking blow at those
who would manipulate an election by
organization and obtain success, througff
organization, over an unorganized ma-
jority of the people.
Corrupt politics, argued the members
of the Grand Junction charter conven-
tion, is always highly organized politics^
The majority of the people are generally
right but unorganized. Like sheep they
can be herded and controlled by a small
minority of "gray wolves" because of
their lack of political experience and
their inability to carry on sustained and
expensive pollticnl campaigns.
Why the Preferential System was
Adopted.
Grand Junction Is a comparatively
small city of 11,000 people, but one that
has great promise and one that Is rap-
Idly growing. In embryo It already had
its public utility companies who had, in
the past, taken an active part in politics
It has Just passed throug a very excit-
ing campaign In which the liquor issue
was paramount and in which the city had
gone "dry;" and had called its charter
convention, as any city can do in Colo-
rado that has a population of over 2,000
people, and for the first time in twenty-
two years of the city's existence, the
movement towards "progressive" govern-
ment was receiving the general support
of a large mass of the people. To pro-
tect the city In the future and save It
from the fate of many of Its larger
brothers, the domination of the munici-
pal utility corporations and the organized
seekers for special privilege, the twenty-
one members of the charter convention
determined upon the adoption of the
preferential system.
The preferential system operates as
a nominating primary and an election
at the same time and also disposes of
the expensive and cumbersome "sec-
ond" elections as are sometimes required
in cities under charters or "plans" simi-
lar to those now in operation at Colo-
rado Springs, or Berkeley, California.
Under the Grand Junction Charter the
Initial nominations are made by petition.
Any citizen of "good moral character"
can be nominated by the filing of a pe-
tition with the city clerk. This petition,
nt?ilning the name of the candidate,
heii 'ved that the Democratic members I If this system had been in operation j must he siKneel by twenty-five electors
it that! In Boston the other day, the result of who have not at that time signed any
the election would doubtless have been j other petition nominating any other can-
far different. If it had been employed J'Hdate for the same office. The signer
In the last Senatorial primary In Wis- | a'HO makes affidavit to the following
consin, It Is quite certain that another statement:
man would have been nominated. Un- OFFICIAL BALLOT
der the single choice form of direct
nominations, the progressive vote may j ( General Municipal El ction. City of
be divided among several candidates all :el Junction, Colo., November 2,
whom stand on a progressive plat- I
of the committee will see tc
Mr. P'nchot is summoned and will
seek to make as much political capital
out of his testimony as they can
"Wc are going to the bottom of the
whole matter,'' said R presentative
Oilie .Times of Kentucky, one of the
Demociatic members, tonight. He de-
clined to discuss the plans made? by
the Democ-atic me-nb rs of the com-
mitter to insure a thorough inquiry.
BifltOS WHITER A PAUPER.
Roozc Too Much for lite Anthor «f
"Goo (loo Eyes,"
Detroit, Mich., Fell. 3.—Hugh Can-
non, who wrote "Goo Goo Eyes."
"Ain't That a Shame," "Hill Ball y"
and other classics of rag time, was
sent to Eloise poor house today at
the ago of 36. He told the story of
his life in short, expressive sen-
tences.
i "I quit the coke easy," he said.
1 "Fifteen days in the ail cured me of
that. I lilt the pipe in New York for
a year ami stopped that. I went up
, against the morphine hard and quit,
but booze, red, oily booze—that's got
, me for keeps.
i "I started when I was 16; I'm 36
I now, and except for seven months on
j the wagon I've been pickled most of
the time. It was twenty years—twen-
ty black, nasty, sick y ars -with only
| n little brightness now and then when
I made good with some song."
_ _ K. D. 1909.
while a single reactionary candi- |
date, backed by the united strength of i mak
the "machine," may win. Yet in such the appropriat
a case the successful candidate does not
represent the political ideas of a maj-
ority of the people. Under the pref-
erential system, this result would be ex-
tremely unlikely. Tho possibility
Instructions—To vote for any person,
<) In Ink In the square in
column according to your
right of the name voted
Vote your first choice In the first
inn; vote your second choice In the
nd columns; vote any other choice In
third column. Vote only one first and
" only one second choice. Do not vote more
or | than one choice for one person, as only
minority control would ha reduced to a on.- choice will count for any candidate
minimum. j this ballot. Omit voting for one name
I for each office, if more than one candi-
I date therefor. All distinguishing mark®
(Continued on Page 2.)
That is why the Grand Junction ex-
periment Is arousing popular Interest.
HASKELL SIGNS WALLACE BILL.
(lOWTiior Approves Measure Extend-
ing Tax Payment Time Limit
From Feb. 1 to April.
Haskell has approved the Wallace
bill, which extends the time for pay-
ment, of taxes from Feb. 1 to April I.
After the last-named date a penalty
of 18 cents per year attaches.
The act bears the emergency clause,
giving It Immediate effect.
A\ INTEttESTHTG LECTURE
An audience of four hundred people
greeted Miss Ellen Stone, the noted
missionary captured by the Bulgarian
brigands and held for ransom several
years ago, who lectured at the First
Presbyterian church under tho auspices
of the \V. C. T. U. Miss Stono enter-
tained the audience with the thrilling
story of her capture and of the customs
and characteristic.* of the people she had
been among during her missionary work.
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