The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-06-04
WOMEN NOW RULE
BAD MEMS TOWN
JACKSON, CENTER OF JACKSON'S
HOLE, PUTS ONE IN EVERY
OFFICE


Outlaws No Longer Gives Then
, Shelter; How Time Has Brough
Many Changes.
Women are in control of Jackson
center of Jackson's Hole, in the oil
days the Wyoming rendezvous o
Montana bad men, and Wyoming, tn
lpioneer suffrage state, now lay
claim to another distinction. Fol
lowing the annual election the. tow
Of Jackson puts in a. bid for thu
honor of being the first municipaltt,
in the world to be governed who'll.
by women.
A ticket made up entirely of WON
en- ran squarely against a ticket en-
tirely of men, and the former wo1
by a majority larger than the tota
vote polled by friend husband. II
one instance, woman defeated hel
own husband. AS result, Jackson's
Hole, long since-grown accustomed
to nationwide publicity, now has pro
duced another noteworthy situation.
In preparing for its annual cleo
ton this spring, Jackson held 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-
/ ir,or he of ho xviii h.
in few minutes another caucus was
called and the following ticket was
placed in the field;
Mayor, Fred Lovejoy; two-year
councilmen, Henry Crabtree and VIII
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
imam 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 one 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-
1ation 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 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 at
Jackson's Hole or was headed for it.
There he Joined others for mutual
and respectable citizens
knew better than to risk their lives
in such company. The outlaw ele-
as 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 writers of the
west that was wrote about it was not
exaggeration.
{, Times Have Changed
But times have changed. Tues
lays election proved that that neck
If woods has fallen into complete
lecadence, or that it has become one
If the inspired communities of the
world. 1t all depends upon ones
If one is anti-suffragist
logs, or something like that; if one
avors suffrage one will say it has {
fitted itself out of the slough of des-
ond and is trying to live down its
wicked past. ~
In a recent issue of the Saturday t
Ivening Post, Elizabeth Frazer des- g
RIDES Jackson's Hole as ''the last S
and she described 1t
DIRECTLY. If there is wilder place S
q the United States it hasn't yet a
cen discovered. But it is no longer t
woolly;" it is merely sparsely set P
led. One may travel for miles and {
lilies without seeing sign of hui b
ian habitation, but one will see S
lenty of elk and bear and mountain C
neep and antelopes, and perhaps
NV mountain lions, and in some n
arts one will see huge herds of do o
lestic cattle. c.
Many fasteners think of wyoming I
) a vast desert. They have never "
zen Jackson's Hole. Perhaps no II
here else in North America does S
sgetation thrive more thickly. fl
In travelling through this huge W
1cket in the mountains one occa-
onally will run across a cowboy or CT
frontiersman such as one had ex- pl
,cted, and probably he will be arm W
with six-shooter, but whenever al
, aims it 1t will not be toward a &C
last of prey which springs upon him &C
ddenly and which falls SO sudden pl
that one can hardly realize that m
has whipped out his weapon and tn
He'd the trigger. But if one meets ne
m along in September he will be
med with a rifle. and his victims ce
IL be elk and bear and other inhabi- w
is of one of the greatest of all plg ae
me countries. ne
Jackson's Hole broke into print 81
any times in early days through or