Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-07-15
Jackson, Center of Noted Jack
sons Hole, Puts One in Ey-
cry Local Office.
HUSBAND DEFEATED BY WIFE
Wyoming's One-Time Rendezvous for
Western Outlaws No LongerA Gives
Them Standardization Proves
Close Contest.


cent annual election, the city of Jack
son puts in a bid for the honor of be-
ing the first municipality in the world
to be governed wholly by women.
| A ticket made up entirely of women
ran squarely against ticket made up
entirely of men, and the former won
by a majority larger than the total
vote polled by friend husband. In one
/ instance a woman defeated her own
| husband AS a result, JacksOn's Hole.
long since grown accustomed to ma
tion-wide publicity, now has produced
another noteworthy situation.
In preparing for it's annual election,
| Jackson, the center" of Jackson's Hole,
| held a caucus and when the ballots
were counted it was found that the
| following ticket had been nOminated:
Mayor, Mrs. Grace Miller; two-year
councilwomen, Mrs. Rose Crabtree and
Mrs. Mae Deloney; one-year council
women. Mrs. Genevieve Van Week and
Mrs. Faustina Haight.
Careful scrutiny failed to disclose
the name of one man. Notwithstand-
| ing the excellence of the ticket within
a few minutes another caucus was
called and the following ticket was
placed in the field:
Mayor Fred Lovejoy two-year coun-
cilmen, Henry Crabtree and William
Mercill; one-year councilmen, M e.
Williams and T. Fl. Baxter.
Jackson's Biggest Poll.
On election day both sides worked
| with unusual zeal and each got out ev-
| the largest poll ever recorded in the
city. The final downfall of the imam
party" was not known however, until
the last ballot was counted.
Time was when Jackson was as
wild as the movies" still insist on
painting the west. Seventy-fve miles
from a railroad, it is one Of the most
isolated points in the United States. 1t
lies south Of the Yellowstone National
park, close to territory which would
be taken into the park under the terms
of a bill now before congress, and is
surrounded by big mountains. Through
out winter it is virtually impossible
either to come to Or go from Jack
son. It's present population is about
800.
In the old days Jackson and Jack
sons Hole were the rendezvous for
goodly portion Of the bad men of the
entire west. Whenever serious crime
was committed between the MISSISSIPPI
| ri river and the Pacific coast it was
pretty safe to guess that the man re-
sponsible for it was either headed for
Jackson's Hole Or already had reached
| it. There he joined others for mutual
protection, and respectable citizens
| knew better than to risk their lives
in such company. The outlaw element
lived and stole and killed about as 1t
| pleased.
Times Have Changed.
In a recent issue of the Saturday
Evening Post Elizabeth Frazer de-
scribed Jackson's Hole as "the last
Wilderness" and she described it cor
rectly. If there is a wilder place ir
the United States it hasn't yet been
discovered. But it is no longer "wool-
ly;" it is merely sparsely settled. One
may travel for miles and miles with
out seeing q sign of a human habita-
ton, but one will see plenty Of elk
and bear and mountain sheep and an
telopes, and perhaps a few mountain
lions, and in some parts one will see
huge herds of domestic cattle.
Many fasteners think of Wyoming
as a vast desert. They have never
seen Jackson's Hole. Perhaps nowhere
else in North America does vegetation
thrive more thickly.
In travelling through this huge peck
ct in the mountains one occasionally
will run across a cowboy or a from
tiersman such as one had expected,
and probably he will be armed with
a six-shOOter, but whenever he aims it
it will not be toward a fellOwman.
Rather 1t will be toward beast Of
prey which springs upon him suddenly
and which falls so suddenly that one
can hardly realize that he has whipped
out his weapon and pulled the trigger.
But if one meets him along in Septem-
Der he will be armed with a rifle, and
his victims will be elk and bear and
other inhabitants Of che Of the great
est Of all big game countries.
Jackson's Hole broke into print
many times in early DAYS through its
running fights, revolver duels and
thrilling escapes. Now it has landed
in print once more but for far diff
ferent reason. This time the trouble
was merely battle OF ballots between
men and women. ard the thrilling es-
cape consisted of the mems deliver
ance from the horrors o. trying to run
a small town government.