The daily progressive-miner., 1916-05-10
THE DISTRICT
 COURT ORDERS

HUI. cI. D. OJdchpOie,
 U. S. Commissioner,
 Ketchikan, Alaska.
 Dear Sir:
 The method of ascertaining whet- l her or not a majority of the people of Ketchikan and within two miles of the corporate limits thereof, are willing that liquor shall be nanu- | factured or sold in Ketchikan will this year be substantially the same as that adopted for last year, that l is to say: You will appoint two re- liable and trustworthy citizens, in good standing, to make census en- umeration of the persons qualified to express their opinion, and on the first day of June, 1916, will hold an "election," as was done last year. You will instruct the persons ap- pointed by you an enumerators to proceed as follows, that is to say:
 They will provide themselves with books alphabetically indexed, and will insert, under the proper index letter, the name, residence and oc- cupation of every white male and female citizen and resident over the age of 21 years, residing in Ketchi kan or within two miles of the cor porate limits thereof. You will fur ther instruct them
 That the. word WHITE" means white as distinguished from Indians. consequently the names of all per sons of the African race who are otherwise qualified should be taken down.
 "CITIZENS" means full citizens not simply those who have declared their intention to become citizens.
 PRESIDENTS" means those who claim Ketchikan as their residence. Residence is largely matter of in- tention, and a person may be re- sident, although he may have been in Ketchikan only one day, or one hour. for that matter-the test is whether or not he considers that as his re- sidence-as his home, or whether he is merely a sojouner, claiming or intending to claim some other place as his home.
 "OvER THE AGE OF 21 VARS" A married woman, even though un- der the age of 21 years, is consider ed by the law to be of the full legal age, and consequently the enumer- ators would take the names of any married women, who is otherwise qualified, even thoIgn she may he under 21 years of age.
 In this connection, also you. might Instruct the enumerators that mar ried woman is considered to be of the nationality of her husband, and that any woman of American birth who is married to an alien does her self thereby become an alien and her name should not be taken.
 The enumerators should be further instructed that they are not to ask whether a citizen is or is not in fav- or of liquor being sold. They are only to take the name, residence and ocupation of every person found to be qualified.
 The persons who intend to apply for. license must bear the expense of taking this census, and the persons appointed must make arrangements with those who intend to be appli- cants as to their compensation, as the Court has no funds at it's dis posal for such purpose.
 "Yoting."
 Having ascertained in the man ner aforesaid the total number of qualified persons, the next thing is to ascertain how many of them do, in good faith, consent.
 For the purpose of ascertaining this, Gas nearly as possible) the U. S. Commissioner will, on June 1st, be at public place in Ketchikan. to be by him selected and of which due notice shall be given, at all times between the hours of a. m. and z p. m., and will then and there receive and place in a ballot box provided for that purpose. the ballots of all the persons offering to vote on the question; provided