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Show On Friday last, the Supreme Court of the Territory rendered a decision sustaining a demurrer to the mandamus requiring Assessor Burton to erase the names of all females from his list of voters. There was a very general fear that prejudice and bigotry might influence the majority of the court, but such was not the case. Judges Hunter and Emerson, in a very logical opinion, held that the demurrer should be sustained on the ground that the Assessor had done only the duty prescribed to him by law, and it would not be legal to require him to undo it, until the law itself should, by competent authority, be declared invalid. Of course Judge Boreman had to dissent, but this, happily, did not amount to anything. Thus have the schemes of the "liberals" come to naught. Their next object of attack will doubtless be the law which confers the franchise on women, and in the meantime the Ladies will vote. |