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PORTLAND. ORECJON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1913.
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V
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C A R R A N Z A A N D HALE
GONFERAT NOGALES
Rebel Leader Receives
Wilson's Proposition.
DEFINITE PLEDGES EXACTED
Local Feeling Is That History
Is Being Made.
ALL CEREMONY IS WAIVED
Definite Terms of United States
Government Said to Have Been
Presented but All Are Si
lent as to Details.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 12. John Llnd,
pergonal representative of president
"Wilson, left the Mexican capital to
nleht for Vera C'rnz. Mr. I.lnd has
been here since November 7 In confer
ence with the American charge d'af
faires, Nelson O'Shaugbnessy,
ethers, cn the Mexican situation.
VERA CltCZ, Mm., Nov. 12. The
personal effects of Mr. Llnd 'were re
moved tonight from ills hotel, where
lie linn rcsldetl during; hla stay In Vera
Cror, to the American Consulate.
NOGAI.ES, Sonora, Nov. 13. Cross
In? a narrow little street from the
tri.ited States Into Mexico, 'William Bay
ard Hale, personal representative of
President Wilson, met the constitution
alist chief. General Venustiano Carran
za, and his Cabinet, and presented to
them a definite proposal from the
American Government.
What that proposal was the American
diplomatic agent declined to say. -The
Mexican revolutionary leaders also
'vere silent, but to those who have
been anxiously awaiting1 the develop
ment of the American policy with re
mru to Mexico it was fraught with
) ossibilitles for the destinies of the
v, ar-worn republic and her relations
tilth her Northern neighbor.
Definite Pledges Required.
All that could be learned regarding
the proposal of the American President
was that it was In writing and that
it required certain things, including
pledges from the Constitutionalists, in
case the United States lifted the em
bargo on the exportation of arms.
Among the guarantees demanded
were said to be restoration of general
order in a reasonable time, safety of
Americans and other foreigners and the
ultimate establishment of bona fide
representative government.
Hale Meet Carranza Cabinet.
Into a little room of the tiny custom
house, where General Carranza has es
tablished his "ad interim" capital, the
American emissary was ushered to meet
thu chiefs of the rebellion against
Iluerta. Carranza and his entire Cab
lnet were there and with them Hale
conferred, exchanged views and im
pressiens and consulted from noon until
the shadows grew long and enveloped
the twin towns of Nogales, U. S. A.,
and Nogales, Itepublica de Mexico.
Both towns unanimously decided that
the conference was the most portent
ous event in their history. Their peo
pits frankly believed that, in fact, it
was making history and that on its
outcome depended fate not merely vie
tory or defeat for a single political
party of Mexico, but possibly peace or
war for two countries, and probably
the salvation or destruction of a na
tion. Ceremony Is Lacking;.
The conference was held amid the
simplest surroundings. There were no
uniforms, no ceremony. Hale, accom
panied by American Consul Frederick
Slmpich, entered the custom-house and
was ushered into the tiny room.
There they found straight-back chairs
lining the walls. The only decoration
was a gilded coat of arms of the Re
public of Mexico. This hung over the
place reserved for General Carranza.
Hale, dressed in traveling tweeds, was
surrounded by Mexicans in somber
black and grays. Tgnacio Bonlllas, an
American university alumnus and Car
ranza's minister of fomento and com
munications, was the official Inter
preter. for the American representative
and General Carranza.
Bonillas took President Wilson's
proposition from Hale, and in Spanish
presented it to the rebel chieftain.
News Eagerly Awaited.
During the hours the men were in
conference throngs of anxious Mexi
cans paced the patio of the custom
house. Across the boundary on the
American sJde of the street dividing
the two towns there were several hun
dred American refugees from Mexico
who eagerly awaited news from the
conference chamber, believing that the
safety of their possessions left in Mex
ico when they took the President's ad
vice to get out of the country depended
upon the outcome. No word as to what
President Wilson had proposed to Oar
ranza through Hale, or what the rebel
leaders thought of the proposal, was
allowed to leak out.
Hale went direct from the conference
room to the American side and en
tered into communication with Wash
ington.
1IIEKTA WILL. XOT ACCEDE
John Llnd Gets No Answer and Pre
pares for Departure.
MEXICO CITY. Nov. 12. General
Victorlano Huerta tacitly refused to
I (Concluded ea Pas W.
STOP, LOOK, LISTEN
SIGNS ARE IGNORED
STATISTICS OX CROSSINGS SHOW
DRIVERS ARE CARELESS.
Only' One Per Cent of Those Ap
proaching Tracks Pause, Say
Officials of Southern Pacific.
SAN FRANCISCO., Nov. 12. (Special.)
More than 57 per cent of all people
In automobiles, carriages or on foot,
who cross railway tracks In California
do not stop moving and, fall to look
either way for coming trains. Sixty
nine per cent of auto drivers never
"Stop, Look and Listen." '
The Southern Pacific Company today
made public the results of a check
made at 12 typical crossings in San
Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Stock
ton and the country in an investiga
tion to Improve crossing conditions.
Statistics show that 1 per cent
of all auto accidents occur at cross
ings. The railroads and the automo
bile associations are co-operating to
lessen the number.
Here is the Southern Pacific sum
mary of 151 hours at the 12 crossings:
Motor vehicles crossed, 16,522; horse
drawn vehicles, 4246; pedestrians, 4528;
total, 25,296. ?
This is how travelers treated the
"Stop, look, listen" signs:
Pet.
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Stopped and looked both ways. .
85
K.epc moving ana looKea botti
ways S05O
Kept moving and looked one
way , 1694
Kept moving and. looked ahead 14,617
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67.8
Of the 16,522 automobiles, 2860
crossed at high speed. The drivers of
9926 automobiles looked neither way.
The Southern Pacific officials say they
must have more co-operation in guarding-
against accidents.
WOMAN DIES FROM BURNS
Home of C. M. Bragg, Xcar Bend,
Destroyed While Rancher Absent.
BEND, Or., Nov. 12. (Special.)
Burned in a terriBle manner while
alone at her home, six miles east of
Bend, yesterday, Mrs. EUa N. Bragg,
wife of C. M. Bragg, a rancher,' died
this morning. The Bragg- home was de
stroyed by the fire, the origin of which
is unknown.
Mr. Bragg was returning from Bend
with supplies when he saw the smoke
from the burning house while about
two miles away. A neighbor who was'
on horseback reached the house before
Mr. Bragg did and put out a fire in
the barn which Mrs. Bragg started by
tearing off part of her burning cloth
ing. When Mr. Bragg arrived his wife
had struggled along the road about 100
yards. She was taken to a neighbor's
house, where she died at 5:30. She was
42 years old and has been married 15
years. There were no children.
AVALANCHE BURIES MINERS
Alaskans Carried to Within 10 Feet
of Precipice One Dies.
VALDEZ, Alaska, Nov. 12. (Special.)
Robert Martin was killed and John
Connelly, Warren Nelson and E. S.
Bruner were injured in an avalanbhe
on the Big Four mining claims on Min
eral Creek, near here. One of the sur
vivors was beneath the debris seven
hours.
Bruner, Nelson, Connelly and Martin
were overwhelmned in their tent by an
avalanche of snow that descended and
carried them and their tent to within
10 feet of a 1000-foot precipice,
Bruner chopped his way out of the
debris by using a part "of a whisky
flask as a knife. Naked and badly cut,
he walked a quarter of a mile to the
tunnel and procured a shovel, with
which he dug out his companions.
OREGON WINNER RETURNS
Load of Prizes Brought From Drj
Farming Congress hy T. Reuter.
Loaded down with cups, ribbons.
medals, diplomas and other insignia ol
championships won and honors extend
ed, Tillman Reuter, Oregon's dry-farm
ing wizard, returned yesterday from
the annual International Dry Farming
Congress at Tulsa, Okla., where he won
the grand prize for the best state ex
hibit. Every state in the Union and nearly
every province in Canada had an ex-
nioit enterea in competition against
Mr. Reuters Oregon display, ' gathereo
from Central and Eastern counties.
This is the fourth successive year Mr.
Reuter has won the grand champion
ship for this state.
WOMEN ESCHEW POLITICS
Daughters of Confederacy Ignore
Greetings Prom Suffragists.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 12. The
Daughters of the Confederacy refused
flatly, today, to receive greetings from
the Southern States Woman Suffrage
Conference, after the organization f
that body was effected.
This action was taken on the grounds
that the Daughters must eschew poli
tics or ay kinds.
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JUDGE KNOWLES INJURED
Hunting Hatchet Glances and Gashes
Knee of Jurist,
LA GRANDE. Or., Nov. 12. (Spe
cial.) Circuit Judge Knowles may not
be able to convene the Wallowa term
of court next Monday, as the result of
a serious Injury which he sustained
when a hunting hatchet glanced and
struck him a severe gash on the knee
He is unable to walk and suffers
much pain.
CURRENCY
CAUCUS
PLANS ABANDONED
Administration Wins
Votes in Committee.
REED AND O'GORMAN GO OVER
Hitchcock, However, Cannot
Yet Reconcile His Views.
EARLY REPORT INDICATED
Pressure Brought to Bear to Secure
Adjournment, hut Mexican Sit
uation, if Nothing Else,
Will Prevent It.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The attempt
to force the Administration currency
bill through the Senate by the use of
the Democratic caucus was abandoned
today and the currency committee of
the Senate obtained time for further
consideration of the bill. The practical
agreement by six Democratic Senators,
half of the committee, and hope for a
final report within five or six days was
reported to the Democratic conference
when it met today by Senator Owen,
and at his request the conference took
no action.
Since the call for the conference was
issued Senators Reed and O'Gorruan
had Joined Chairman Owen and Sena
tors Pomerene, Shafroth and Holtis in
support of the Administration measure.
despite their votes against some of
its provisions in the committee. These
six Democrats have virtually agreed on
a bill which meets the view of Presi
dent Wilson. This measure will be
taken before the Senate as soon as
possible.
Hitchcock Holds Out.
A further attempt to swing Senator
Hitchcock, of Nebraska, in line with
his Democratic colleagues was made in
j. meeting of Democrats of the commit
te after the conference, but Senator
Hitchcock insisted he could not recon
cile his ciews with the demands of the
President. Tr.e full . committee. Demo
crats and Republicans, will meet tomor-
ow and another attempt will be made
to secure an agreement among a ma
jority.
If this falls, it is probable that the
Democrats and Republicans will make
unanimous report on those details
of the bill which all approve and then
submit supplementary reports showing
the Senate their disagreement on the
fundamentals of the bill. The Republic
ans and Senator Hitchcock have an
nounced their determination to stand
out to the last for the public owner
ship of the regional banks in the n,in
system and for Government control of
those banks.
The Democratic conference was in
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY S Maximum temperature, 44
degrees: minimum. 86 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds.
Foreign.
Mexican rebel leader receives Wilson's 1 pro
posal. Page 1.
National.
Wilson's proposition to Mexican rebels de
livered to Carranza. Page 1.
Plan for currency caucus abandoned. Page 1.
President's family busy opening boxes con
taining wedding gifts. Page 2.
Domestic.
Lawyer convicted, detective free in Funk
conspiracy case. Page 2.
Anti-Saloon League works for "dry" Na
tion. Page S.
Purity Congress hears neglectful parents
blamed for vice. Page 1.
Passengers from Orient have experience
with law against aigrettes. Page 5.
Gould family displaced by Rockefeller char
ities in control of New York's elevated
railway. Page 2.
Statistics show "Stop, Look, Listen" signs
are ignored. Page 1.
Sport.
Uniform contract may be adopted fr ball
players. Page 9.
Old grudges expected to make contests for
Pacific Coast honors spirited. Page 8.
East and Middle West teams practice for
final games. Page S.
Giant-Sox banquet orators to be numerous.
Page 9.
Three Portland freshmen make University
of Oregon team. Page S.
Pacific Northwest.
Columbia George convicted of murder at
Pendleton. Page 6.
High-bred cows urged by expert for dairies
at Chehalis. Page 7.
Young Eccles' coup wins In dealings with
Sumpter Valley Railroad trainmen. Page 2.
Plea for church heard by labor at Seattle
convention- Page 5.
Girl who wins many prizes for baking and
sewing wins now many offers of mar
riage. Page 1.
More accidents recorded second year over
first under Washington's workmen's
compensation act. Page 6.
Oregon hen lays 003 eggs in 12 months.
Pago 18.
Salem "wets" would restrain prohibition
from going Into effect. Page 7.
Crook County plans higher tax levy next
, year to aid roaus. page o.
Commercial and Marine.
Ready demand absorbs all hop offerings.
Page 19.
Hulk of Canadian crop reported moved and
Chicago market advances. Page 19.
Improvement in speculative sentiment in
Wall street and abroad. Page 19.
Mammoth ves3els to navigate Columbia
River. Page 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
Gorgeous floral displays are sold for char
ity. Page li.
Holden puts O. K. on Portland school gar
den system. Page 18. i
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 14.
Cltv Commissioner Brewster Itemizes plan
for using $200,000 In park bonds asked
of voters, l'age 13.
Oregon citizens make preparation to com
ply with Income tax law. Page 13.
Rehearsals for "Jappyland" keep society
folk busy. Page 12.
Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe sues for divorce.
making many cnarges. rasa -if.
State-wide conference makes recommenda
tion to Industrial Welfare for ruling.
Page 1.
Suspect leaps from high window Into arms
of officer. Page 14.
Unique acts revealed La Investigation of po
. lice ftcoDdaL- rae 4.
Multnomah must act now on good roads,
say speakers at auto club banquet.
Page 18.
$3500 PAID FOR DOG BITE
Streetcar Company Makes Xo 70e
fense Against Passenger's Claim.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 12. A Jury in the
Circuit Court here 'oday awarded Al
bert J. Good J350C- damages against
the United Railways, the local traction
company, because he was bitten by a
dog while he was ri-ding on a street
car. The dos was picked up on the street
by a policeman, who was permitted by
the streetcar conductor to board the
ear with the anims.,
8.25 MINIMUM PAY
LIMIT IS PROPOSED
54 Hour Work Week
Is Conference Idea.
RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MADE
Suggestion Covers Mercantile.
Factory and Laundry Aid.
SIMILAR RULING NEXT STEP
Industrial Welfare Commission Tem
porarily Allows Stores to Stay
Open Until 8 P. M. Pending
Action on Recommendations.
That $8.25 a week be the . minimum
wage for experienced women workers;
that 54 hours a week be the maximum
hours; that the period before a worker
shall be considered experienced shall
be one year; that $6 a week be the
minimum wage foe inexperienced work
ers not engaged on piecework, and that
8:30 "P. M. be the limit for night work
in mercantile and manufacturing estab.
lishments and laundries were the rec
ommendations adopted by the state
wide conference on hours, wages and
working conditions for women and
minors yesterday afternoon.
The Industrial "Welfare Commission,
which called the conference as part of
its administration of the Oregon mini
mum wage law for women and minors,
will give four weeks' advertised notice
of a public hearing, to take place prob
ably December; 13, at which the recom
mendations may be discussed by all who
wish to urge or oppose therrj.
Ninety Days Time Needed.
Following this public hearing, pro
vided the recommendations are satis
factory to the commission, a ruling em
bodying them will be issued, to become
effective after 60 days. Thus It will
be approximately 00 days until the ear
liest dae that the recommendations ex
pressed in a ruling can become legalli
binding.
The recommendation that women
may not be employed after 8:30 P. M.
does not include hotels and restaurants,
canneries, confectioneries, nor tele
phone arid telegraph olfices. The rec
ommendation that 54 hours shall be a
maximum week's work, and the otiier
recommendations, however, do appfy to
these places, as to other enterprises in
the state in which women are em
ployed. Rollnjc Is Modified.
The Commission yesterday issued an
announcement modifying its ruling
that after November 2S women shall
not be employed in Portland mercan
tile establishments after 6 P. 51. For
a period of six months from that date
women will be permitted to work in
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MANY SUITORS WOO
GIRL WHO CAN SEW
LASS WHO BAKES PRIZE PIES
GETS MARRIAGE OFFERS.
Letters From Bachelors of Wealth
and Standing Seek Hand of
Capable, Practical Maiden.
NORTH TAKIMA, Wash., Nov. 12.
(Special.) The ability to bake the best
loaf of bread and the best cake, to
make the best shirtwaist and the best
plain dress, in a contest open to school
girls of the state, has brought to Miss
Helen Townsend, of North Yakima,
more than the prizes she has won at
the "Washington State Fair in this city
and the Children's Industrial Exhibit in
Spokane in the last month and a half.
The latest things her ability has
brought her are matrimonial oppor
tunities. That they are excellent op
portunities is admitted by the men Who
offer them.
' The offers are all by letter and all
of them describe in detail the worldly
wealth and physical attributes of the
bachelors who make them. One letter
that has been received by Miss Town
send is from a rancher near Farming
ton, Wash., who owns 360 acres and
who now. does his own cooking but who
wants someone else to do It for him.
Miss Townsend is a student in the
North Yakima School and the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Townsend, or
chardists in Frultvale, a suburb of this
city. In the last two months she has
won as prizes two sewing machines, a
cedar chest, considerable cash and a
number of miscellaneous small articles
for her culinary ability and dexterity
with the needle.
PRESIDENT IS FOR ECONOMY
American Ships Must Bid on Same
Basis as Foreign Bottoms.
Democratic economy has taken from
the Matson Navigation Company, of
San Francisco, the business of trans
porting a cargo of coal in their new
steamer Manoa from Norfolk to San
Francisco.
President Wilson is t,aid to have re
fused to sign a contract yesterday to
pay the Matson interests $7 a. ton for
moving the fuel while owners of for
eign vessels bid from $4.75 to $5.50. A
telegram received here made known his
action.
The Manoa has been completed at
Newport News and is intended to oper
ate from San Francisco to the Hawaiian
Islands. As a means of getting her
around cheaply and earn something on
tho voyage, the owners bid on the fuel
contract.'
INFORMATION BUREAU GOES
Appropriation for 114 Cut Off by
Budget Committee.
Portland's attempt to have a public
information bureau at the City Hall
to hand out municipal information has
been a failure. Announcement was
r.ade yesterday that the department
vill be abolished Monday and the in
formation clerk. Miss Mina Smith, will
go back to her former position as
clerk of the women's division of the
2ree employment bureau.
The budget committee refused to al
low an appropriation' to cover the cost
of the work during 1914 and Commis
sioner Brewster, who has charge, de
cided that it would be useless to con
tinue the office unless It could be made
permanent.
COLLIER ASHORE ON GUAM
American Is Drowned in Typhoon In
Philippines.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. First news
of a great typhoon, which swept the
Island of Guam and threw the collier
AJax ashore, came to the Navy Depart
ment today in a report from Lieutenant-Commander
Hinds, governor of the
island and commandant of the naval
station there. One American was
drowned Hospital Steward George M.
Nicholson, who was sent ashore with a
rescue party from the AJax.
The storm demolished native houses
and destroyed roads, wharves, lighters
and telegraph and telephone poles.
PERUVIAN CITY IN RUINS
More Than 2 00 Deaths Reported as
Result of Earthquake. '
LIMA, Peru, Nov. 12. Official tele
grams report a continuance of earth
quakes in the province of Aymareas in
the department of Apurimao. The City
of Challhuanoa, capital of the prov
ince, with a population of nearly 4000,
is reported to be in ruins. A private
telegram says that the deaths number
more than 200.
Apurimao is a southwestern depart
ment of Peru, with a population of
nearly 200,000. It is, composed of the
provinces of Abanacay, Aymareas, Anta
arid Cotabambas and a portion of
Ayacucho.
FIELD IN JAPAN FERTILE
Eliot Suggests Mission Work by Uni
tarians in Nippon.
BOSTON, Nov. 12. In an address
before the missionary conference of the
American Unitarian Association here
today Emeritus President Eliot of
Harvard recommended Japan as a fer
tile field for the mission work of the
denomination, which already has some
missionaries there.
" The people or Japan, said J.e, are
giving serious consideration to a re
ligion which means righteousness in
the conduct of life. It is for us to go to
them in answer to their Quosclons as
to what religion supplies the right nu
tiv for every-day living:.- '
PARENTAL NEGLECT
BLAMED FOR VICE
Love of Finery Also
Takes Share.
RGMANGE IS ANOTHER CAUSE
Moral Educator Proposes Rec
reation as Remedy.
DAWN OF NEW ERA NOTED
Purity Congress Hears Causes of
Evil Catalogned and Cures Pre
scribed Children Asked to
Aid Anthony Comstock.
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 12. A depart
ment of recreation to combat the evil
influences of the dancehalls in all
cities. Federal laws governing divorces
and marriage of an interstate nature,
and a congress of newspaper men to
discuss methods of governing the dis
semination of news relative to th
white slave traffic were among the
recommendations offered by Clifford
G. Roe, of Chicago, in an address be
fore the International Purity Congress,
which closed here tonight. Mr. Roe is
the president of the American Bureau
of Moral Education and was appointed
a delegate to the congress by Secretary
of State Bryan, by authority of a Joint
resolution of the Federal Congress.
The subject of Mr. Roe's address was
"White Slavery and the Best Method
of Dealing With the Evil."
New Method In Vogue.
"The term "white slavery' has broad
ened greatly in recent years," he said.
"In the past efforts to deal with tho
social evil problem were largely reg
ulative. Within the last seven years
a. new method of dealing with it has
been adopted. A scientific study has
brought about the adoption of the at
titude of constant repression, as tho
immediate method, and absolute sup
pression of commercialized vice as the
ultimate ideal.
"Neglect by parents in bringing up
their daughters is a big factor in the
making of white slaves. Mothers are
often too busy attending clubs, thea
ters and card parties to find time to
spend on their children. Fathers have
keener interest in their properties
than they have for the welfare of their
daughters. They let their children grow
up like the weeds in the prairie, to care
for and look after themselves.
Many Causes Enumerated.
"Girls who are brought up under such
influences are easy prey for the white
slave procurers."
Among the causes of white slavery
enumerated were:
Ignorance on the part of the public,
the parents and the children.
Double standard of morals.
Hasty marriages and divorces.
Love of fine clothes and suggestive
fashions.
The spirit of adventure Mid romance.
Discussing some of tho economic
causes, he gave the following:
The deferring of marriage because
men cannot afford to marry.
Competition of girls and women who
do not need to work and help lower
wages. Wages are regulated by supply
and demand.
Employment of young girls, who
practically lose the home care and
training of mothers.
The absolute elimination of the vice
districts and a single standard of mor
ality for men and women were urged.
Prison Proponed as Cure.
Winifred C. Ziabel, former District
Attorney of Milwaukee, made a plea
for the extermination of the segregated
vice district, urging long-term prison
sentences as a cure.
Farms and homes throughout the
country where refuge may be extended
to unfortunate women are to be estab
lished by the World's Purity Federa
tion, under the auspices of which the
congress Is held. Five members of the
organization were appointed by Presi
dent Steadwell to study conditions
among these women and to establish
the refuges. Funds for the enterprise
will be raised by the committee.
A purity congress will be held at
Kansas City in November, 1914. The
next regular congress will be held in
1915, but the location has not yet been
decided.
School children over the entire coun
try a asked to contribute 10 cenLs
each assist Anthony Comstock, o
New York, to carry on his crusade
against immorality, according to reso
lutions adopted today. The children
are requested, to forego one evening at
a moving-picture show for that pur
pose. VOTE OF WOMEN IS LIGHT
Proportion in City Precincts Is
Heavy, but in Country Small.
GRANTS PASS, Or., Nov. 12. (Spe
cial.) At the recent special election
1554 votes were cast, while the regis
tration stands nearly 4000. It is esti
mated that about 900 men voted, while
there were but 600 women. In the
country preclnct3 the women took but
little interest.
Althouse precinct cast 69 votes,' only
six of which were cast by women.
In the populous precinct oE Kerby
only eight women voted. In the city
in Ward Two 140 votes were cast, 107
of which were by women.
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