Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-06-15

y thOfOuRn uspectiOf, loo. Ou, tuey
found out all sout our rooms and the
way business is conducted. The gam
blers were made to suffer even worse.
Why, there isn't public gambling
place open in this city today. You can't
find the chips anywhere. Just think of
IL! All the dealers were fiued $1,000
apiece, jailed fifteen days and put IN
der bonds. In week there wasn't one
on the street. Court adjourned two
weeks ago, and nov they're coming
back. There are four places where faro
Ia dealt just opened, but with closed
doors and keepers. you bet But there
are only few games left" departed
smelling the sigh with which this was
said.
wALLA wALLA SATISFIED.
In Walla Walla, from what compe-
tent authorities there assured me some
days ago, il Ia plain that the changes
are quite as radical. One of their influ-
entail citizens discoursed to me thus:
ut il evident to any one who listens To
the street talk b 70 that all our more
conservative citizens. including our
hard-working men, day iaborers and
the like. are pleased with this infusion
Ct the sexual element into our suffraQes
and courts Of justice. Ii is a new quss-
ton, of course, and we come to il SLOW
~. Ii came to us almost simultaneous.
ly with another reform very much
needed, viz: the Registration Act. By
that Act in the three largest towns in
the Territory. all voters must be regis
tered-no more running in of riff raft
from anywhere and voting IL merely
on OATH What surprises rs all not a
little Is that very few women seem to
jury duty, they dodge IL in every way
they can"
The "newness my friend referred
TO. find very generally spoken of. fhe
fact Is. IN spite OF the previous agita-
ton OF the subject, there was little
thought given to IL, aud last winter
when the Legislature and Council
adopted the amendment, it was q sur
prise. The women, who had scarcely
dreamed of such thing, suddenly
found themselves voters. with the right
10 hold any sfiice and the obligation to
sit as jurors. Previously to this, 1t
must be remembered, there had been a
partial education of the sex, they hav-
ing been privileged TO vote on educa-
tional questions, taxes for the support
OF the public schools, etc. These PRIV
leges were not given without deter
mined struggle. Eight members or the
Territorial Council were on tie ever it.
The vote was made affirmative by the
vote OF the ninth, the msmber from
Port Townsend.
AN ECCENTRIC CHAMPION OF WOMEN.
Having thus barely survived stranc-
ling at birth, repeat hearsay in stating
that the new measure would undoubt-
edly have been made practically 50 iu-
sufterable rs to become almost inoper-
alive in the Sound country, at least, if
Il had not found copious wet nurse ia
the person of Hon. Roger 5. Greene,
Judge of the circuit comprising Cheha.
lis, Tacoma. Seattle, Port Townsend,
Laconner, Snohomish and wnatcom.
The Judge had bsen very active in pro-
curing the passage Of the acs, and zeal
ously assumed the position of foster
mother 10 it immediately after. He o
a man OF unqualified integrity and spot
less reputation, bat extreme in views,
and a oontrmed believer in the cause I
emancipated woman. he holds con {
week days and breaches and baptiz .
converts in Lake Union on Sundays.
had very pleasant conversation with
him for an hour today, In which he said
that he hoped for great moral influence
10 come from the presence of the other
sex IN the court room ss jurors. ~ 4
pecsaliy," he said. do | expect tbs IA.
all that class of cases where the home Is
assaults q. Ii is notorious thar n
the few we have had alread,
verdiots of conviction have been rem
dsred when they suid not have been
otherwise. Censurr has been expressed
about the preseace of women IN trying
these cases where they are uuclean. hui
the testimony nerd not necessarily be
indecent. IL concerns the reputation of
certain suspected establishments as re-
CARDS chastity, matter easily enough
asoertained and IN way, under proper
jurisdiction, that need not offend.
Also IN the selection of the iuries. while
II h necessary that the opposite sex
should be represented, IL 10 open for q Q
Court, IN determining the jurors fr, m
tie venfre, 20 grant such excuses IL q
make such selections as shall not inco,.
venience the family. regard the nIm
Der OF valid excuses for women as of
larger variety than those for men. We
have had already some prolonged ses-
sions with married ladies, dowaxers,
widows aud female property holders
serving as jurors. I believe no house.
hod has been inconvenienced. Mar
ried women with an establishment.
even IL they have no childres. are
householder. and they are eligible for
jury service
FAIR TRIAL DEMANDED.
The judge evidently intends that the
new ueasafe shall have al once forced
and fair trial. with every mitigating
Feature ard all the friction possible re-
moved. bat he will have no evasions.
Dsseusisd with the results Of the pre-
vaoos male issics' hndlng<. tbs Judge
notified the Prosecuting Attorney that