The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-06-03
WOMEN NOW RULE
BAD MEMS TOWN
JACKSON, CENTER OF JACKSON'S
HOLE, PUTS ONE IN EVERY
OFFICE
Wife Defeats Husband; Wyoming's
One-Time Rendezvous of Western
Outlaws No Longer Gives Them
Shelter; How Time Has Brought
Many Changes.

center of Jackson's Hole, in the OLE
days the Wyoming rendezvous o
Montana bad men, and Wyoming, tht
pioneer suffrage state, now lay
claim to another distinction. Fol
lowing the annual election the tow
of Jackson puts in a bid for the
honor of being the first municipality
in the world to be governed wholly
by women.
A ticket made up entirely of WON
en- ran squarely against a ticket en-.
tirely of men, and the former woI
by a majority larger than the tota
vote polled by friend husband. Ii
one instance, a woman defeated hel
own husband. AS a result, Jackson's
Hole, long since grown accustomed
to nationwide publicity, now has pro.
duced another noteworthy situation.
In preparing for it's annual cleo.
tion this spring, Jackson held a eau
Gus and when the ballots were count
ed it was found that the following
ticket had been nominated.
Mayor, Mrs. Grace Miller; two
year CONDITIONER, Mrs. Rose Crab
tree and Mrs. Moe Deloney; one-year
CONDITIONER, Mrs. Genevieve Week
and Mrs. Faustina Haight.
Careful scrutiny failed to disclose
the name of one man. Notwithstand-
ing the excellence of the ticket, with
in a few minutes another caucus was
called and the following ticket was
placed in the field:
Mayor, Fred Lovejoy; two-year
councilmen, Henry Crabtree and Will
liam Mercili; one-year councilmen,
M. E. Williams and T. H. Baxter.
Jackson's Biggest Poll
On election day both sides worked
with unusual zeal and each got out
every possible vote, and the result
was the largest poll ever recorded in
the city. The final downfall of the
s'man party" was not known, how
ever, until the last ballot was count
ed.
Time was when Jackson was as
wild as the movies" still insist on
painting the west. Seventy-five miles
from a railroad, it is n of the most
isolated points in the United States.
1t lies south of the Yellowstone Ma
tional park, close to territory which
would be taken into the park under
the terms of a bill now before con-
gress, and is surrounded by noun
tains. Throughout winter it is Writ
ually impossible either to come to or
go from Jackson. It's present popu-
lation is about 800.
In the old days Jackson and Jack
sons Hole were the rendezvous for
a goodly portion of the bad men of
the entire west. Whenever a serious
crime was committed between the
Mississippi river and the Pacific coast
it was pretty safe to guess that the
responsible for it was either at
Jackson's Hole or was headed for it.
There he joined others for mutual
protection, and respectable citizens
knew better than to risk their lives
in such company. The outlaw ele-
ment lived and stole and killed about
it pleased.
1t was concerning those days
that Owen Wister wrote when he
made Jackson's Hole famous by his
descriptions in "The Virginian."
What he and other writer's of the
west that was wrote about it vas not
ex~aggeration.
Times Have Changed
But times have changed. Tues
days election proved that that neck
Of woods has fallen into complete
decadence, or that it has become one
Of the inspired communities of the
1t all depends upon ones
If one is anti-suffragist
.ne will say Jackson has gone to the
logs, or something like that; if one
favors suffrage one will say it has
lifted itself out of the slough of des-
pond and is trying to live down it's
past.
In a recent issue of the Saturday
Evening Post, Elizabeth Frazer des-
tribes Jackson's Hole as 'the last
and she described it
correctly. If there is a wilder place
n the United States it hasn't yet
)een discovered. But it is no longer
'woolly;" it is merely sparsely set
led. One may travel for miles and
niles without seeing a sign of a hui
nan ~habitation, but one will see
,lenty of elk and bear and mountain
heep and antelopes, and perhaps a
mountain lions, and in some
'arts one will see huge herds of do
nestle cattle.
Many fasteners think of Wyoming
s a vast desert. They have never
cen Jackson's Hole. Perhaps no
where else in North America does
egetation thrive more thick1y.
In travelling through this huge
ocket in the mountains one occa-
will run across a cowboy or
frontiersman such as one had ex-
and probably he will be arm
with a six-shooter, but whenever
e aims it it will not be toward a
east of prey which springs upon him
lddenly and which falls so sudden
that n can hardly realize that
e has whipped out his weapon and t
ulled the trigger. But if one meets /
i'm along in September he will be
rmed with a rifle, and his victims {
i'll be elk and bear and other inhabi- Y
ats of one of the greatest of all big &
anne countries. I
Jackson's Hole broke into print s
any times in early days through E
8 running fights, revolver duels
nd thrilling escapes. Now it has
nded in print once more, but for a |
r different aso This time the I
ouble was merely a battle of bal Y
is between men and women, and
e thrilling eScape consisted of the q