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Show MAY. INMATES OF P00RH0USE VOTE? The question of the right of the Inmates In-mates of the county infirmary to register regis-ter and vote vill be decided by the courts. j Democratic Chairman Samuel Russell of district 3. the one In which the Infirmary In-firmary Is located, filed a petition In the District court Wednesday afternoon. The petition asks that an order be Issued Is-sued citing Augusta W. Betts. the registration reg-istration agent of district 53. into court . to show imus why the naouss of tkirty-eix tkirty-eix of the Inmates of the Infirmary, who' were registered on October li. 12 and IS. should not be stricken from the list and their tight to voting be denied. The petition also mites that there are twenty other inmates whom the petitioner pe-titioner has reason to believe will be registered on November 1 and X and that their names will be received and registered unless prevented by an order or-der of court. - The petition Is ibased on section 806, "'isloii. two of the Revised Statutes of i 1888. i . - . |