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Show W0MKN AS JUI10US. An Indignant Lady Dctiies that They Have Proved a Kailurt1 in Wyoming. Keeently the Xew York Suit published pub-lished an article on woman Mill'rae, iu which it was etulcd tlutt in our neighboring territory of Wyoming women hud proved a failure as jurors; and Lillio Devereax Blake what a pretty namo for tho hotoino of a diino novel writes to tho editor in this strain : An article on woman millVago in Wjoining, which appear il in the Sim ono day last week, demands a lew words in reply, as ild alatcnienU in M'verul imporlunt points aie ouly hull truths. The writer bears general gen-eral tealiui'jny to tho good conduct ot women us voters, and tho elevating elevat-ing ell'ect of their presence iu publics, bur. declares that as jurors they were such failures that tho whole otibject has been dropped. It was not! dropped at all, but tho technical point that tho word "male" hud never been stricken from the tpiali-ticalious tpiali-ticalious ot jurors wns taken J-vantago J-vantago of by certain men who had good reason to dread tho action of worm n as jurors to exclude them from :iio jury box, and this not because be-cause of thtir incompetency, but because be-cause of their ctlieiency. Tho Itev. U.J. Pierce, of Laramie, bears testimony testi-mony to tho truth of these facts in a letter to tho AVir AVMhyji. After speaking of women as voters he '1 ho right to it on llu' jury was abo ceded, ahiiough a eoiul. cling s.'nte;ice in an other pan of th c de has withdrawn 'the women fr tntlieju'y tince tho iie- end ri-ar. Wdrn the tlrpt jury wi I drawn al Laramie, four, al leas, of the I live Udiw dawu wimo iiiU'liig.'iit, earn-j est ehri.-nan wotmn wh.'.whru ihejujgoj . inl'.irmed Uinn . r' lus willingnes.- to es.-1 eiiso any nol w:slili g to erve, turprUeJ all and rhoeked nol a fiw by nnswi-ring, I " Wp nil prv'p"si' lo serve." Th--ir turm ' -t wliee mav lit.v b cahd "tho rign of t-rn-r f,.r vil doers. ' Fiiidin a d.-n 1 S.indy law on tl. ftalui-i Iwclv, ibcy revive I it. fhal up every jnlo.'ii mid p.ace of ''u-ine.s i-n S-iidny. linril svvtra !". r bn nki'.ir ui t-r, and adminUti-r-d justice, ns Judge II' wi afterward teiii-li' teiii-li' d, in ss able nn.l judieiou a manner up any jury ho a dre.s.d. 1 mm not ae-Hiainu-d 1lh lharivultief i:.e tirS'. fc-niHlejury fc-niHlejury in (.'h-yviuu-, but in La rami' 1 uwi: g t i the ;tro; g pniu ii-!e and n le li I : geiue of the w. iii-.-n. md-J ly rt f.i llit'ol g'at.d jury, ii re:onned Ih city, iii'ing it (fign of )uit nev-r jireu a::-.iaed. Tiii - vas id the pprii.g of 17. Since that time women have not been permitted to perform jury duty; , but in the face of liimo fuels it willj nut do to say that they arc not com-. petent. A strong cllort is being made in tl:e adjoining lerriury of C!uradoi ' to introduce woiiiam sutl'rago into iti conslitution when it becomes a state, ' but a certain jwjition of tho popula-1 tion there are violently opposed to j liiis, dre;uling probably the t fleets of ' that influence which has m:tde Wy-'oming Wy-'oming the most onlerly territory of the wett. |