The Only Way.
A WOMAN IN AUTHORITY. ORDERS COUNCILLORS TO REP’CN. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received S a.m.) New York, January 5. Miss Fern Hobbs, private secretary to the Governor of Oregon, arrived at Copperfiold with the Governor’s mandate .0 place the town under martial law and a request for the instant retirement of the mayor and councillors owing to connivance at violation of the liquor laws, several councillors being saloon keepers. Hoiariug of the threatened action, many of the citizens armed themselves with the intention to resist, and were thunderstruck when a single woman detrained. Members of the Council flatly refused to resign, but Miss Hobbs promptly summoned the State artillery and prison guai’ds under Colonel Lawson and ordered him to arrest the mayor and councillors.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 January 1914, Page 5
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129The Only Way. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 January 1914, Page 5
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