Show I DRIVING SALOONS fROM MISSOURI v Voters ot rs Are Lining Up Under Under Under Un Un- der the Prohibition Flag and Gradually Temperance Temper Temper- ance Forces Are Winning KANSAS CITY Mo 10 Sept 21 The Tho Tho last ten days have ha changed chanse the tho vict wet and dry n map of ot tho the stet state of ot Missouri The Tha nine elections held in that period perIO J resulted In eight dry counts counties to one Wet wot at Benton went wet The saloon elements element majority In Benton was sixty votes At the thc beginning of 1905 Missouri had hilt three prohibition counties Now No it has forty seven the 13 latest test one St. St county having Just voted dr dry b by a majority majority ma mg of or COO GlO The local option move has been shown to be a gradual movement with Ith the general al recent reform move moe aa its chief stimulant The Missouri l Anti Anti- Saloon league u has kept workers in many counties and through Its Influence several dr dry elections may have hayo been brought about The he Rev Rc Alb Albert rt Bushnell Kansas City J Life building superintendent of ot the Saloon Anti-Saloon league for the Kan Kansas s City district said laid yesterday that in his estimation estimation estimation estima estima- tion it would be only a n few weeks until the state would be 10 half hale prohibition H He sold said There are 11 1 counties in the tho state and forty seven of or them have haV voted against the flie saloon Only ten more dry elections are ara need needed to male malco the tho wet and dry sides equal There Thore have been eight counties made prohibition territory within the tho last week There will be several more elections In the next few tew we weeks weeks- kl and it looks good for tor the saloon anti-saloon people At the thC beginning of Ctt 1905 Atchison Harrison Harrison Har Hat rison risen and Shelb Shelby counties In the north of ot MI Missouri were the only prohibition coun cairn ties tics McDonald l county In lii the extrema southwest est was was' the next to vote against the he saloon From that time the north and the south tiers o of counties began besan to vote otc for tor prohibition until the ranks have hava nea I nearly reached the Missouri river as ns It divides dl the state |