Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-01
WOMEN NOW RULE: BAR ME:N'S' TOWN
 OUT IN WYOMING
City of Jackson Puts One in Charge of Every Local
 Office

Cheyenne. Wyo.. May 29.-Wyom- ing Suffrage state. now lays claim to another distinction. Following the annual election last week the city of Jackson puts in bid for the hon or of being the first municipality in the world to be governed wholly by women.
 A ticket made up entirely of wo- men ran squarely against ticket made up entirely of men, and the former won by majority larger than the total vote peiIed by friend hus- band. In one instance a women de feated her own husband. As q re suit, Jackson's .Holct long since grown accustomed to nationwide pub iicity, now has produced another noteworthy situation.
 In preparing for its annual elec- tion this spring, Jackson, the center of Jackson's Hole, held q 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 Grab tree and Mrs. Mae Deloney; one year Councilwomen, 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 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
 
 M. k. Williams and T. II. Baxter.
 5ackson's Biggest Pole.
 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 "n1an party was rot known, however, un- til the last ballot was counted.
 Time was when Jackson was as wild as the movies" still insist on pointing the West. Seventy y-five miles from railroad, it is one of the most isolated points in the United States. It lies south of the Yellow stone National Park, close to terri tory which would be taken into the park under the terms of q bill now before congress, and is surrounded by big mountains. Through out winter it is virtually impossible either to come to or go from Jackson. It's present population is about 300
 In the old days Jackson and Jack sons Hole were the rendezvous for a good!y 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 man responsible for it was either headed for Jackson's Hole or already had reached it. There he joined oth- CTS for mutual protection, and re- spectable citizens knew better than to risk their lives in such company The outlaw element lived and stole and killed about as it pleased.
 It was concerning those days that Owen Mister wrote when he made Jackson's hole famous by his descrip- tions in "The Virginian." Whatever he and all other writers of the West that was wrote about it was no exag- geration.
 Times Have Changed. But times have changed. Tuesdays election proved that that neck of the woods has fallen into complete de- cadence, or that it has become one ot the inspired communities of the world. It all depends upon ones view point. If one is anti-suffragist one