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Show SCORE ONE FOR THE "DRYS" First Local Option Election In Idaho Results In Disaster for Saloon .Men. Boise, 'Idaho. Tho first election in Idaho under the provisions or tho local lo-cal option law passed by tho last session ses-sion or tho legislature was hold in Canyon county on Wednesday. It ro suited in tho county going dry by a voto or 3,162 to 1,308 three to one. Under the law the county will go on a prohibition basis at the expiration of three months unless tho operntion of tho act shall bo stopped by legal proceedings. pro-ceedings. Thero was a marked falling off In the vote, both from tho registration for the. special election and from tho vote last fall. Of tho twcnty-flvo precincts in the county, twenty-thrco voted dry, tho two exceptions being Nnmpa precincts. pre-cincts. Nampa aB a town voted wet by n margin of twonty votes and was the only town in tho county to record re-cord a majority voto against prohibition. prohibi-tion. Caldwell, tho county seat, went dry by a majority of 393 out of 727 votes cast. Nampa cast tho heaviest vote of any town in the county 1,054 out of a registration bf 2,177. Pay-otte Pay-otte gave a majority or 214 ror tho drys out of 615 votes cast, and only about half of tho registration was represented rep-resented in tho vote. Tho country precincts voted stronger for a dry county than thoso in the towns. Idaho county, which has the distinction distinc-tion or being the largest county In tho United States, also voted "dry" under tho now local option law. |