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Show GOOD ADVICE GIVEN BY A.BUTTE JUDGE Suffragettes Are Advised to Cease Fighting and Act Liko Loving Sisters. BUTTE, Mont., Deo. 9. -"For God's sake, women, quit your fighting- and go back to your meetings and try to act like loving sisters, you suffragettes," Pollco Judge Thomas Booker told tho suffragettes suffra-gettes who were on trial today before him on a charge of dlsturbanco caused bv a factional fight In their quarters last Saturday, when tho two factions clashed and the pollco wero called In. Judge Boohor dismissed tho cases, telling tell-ing the defendants, Mrs. H. G. Clinch, presldont of the insurgent faction, and Mrs. Dorothy Johnson, presldont of the so-called regular faction, that it would bo useless so far as any good to tho community was concerned to fine them, and that ho was "thunderstruck that ediir cated and refined women of Butte cannot meet In social sosslona without fighting." Judge Boohor decided that "this is a most peculiar case; that Mrs. Clinch, having a gavel, had a right to ran for order, or-der, no matter how much nolso sho made." It was the Johnson forces attempting to wrest tho gavol from Mrs. Clinch that precipitated the fight. |