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Show JH BiTTER LIQUOR ' If FIGHT IN IPAi !i flji E. Boise, Idaho, Aug. 29. The "wet" ,P fc and dry Issue in many of the twenty- v 'J K seven counties of the state of Idaho 1 'I E promises to become pai amount this t J K fall, for not only those counties that ' W are now "dry" will hold special elee- , Ik tions either to remain in that condl- i s I WF xion or become "wet," but many of -) fl the- "wet" counties will test the local i fl option law. Uf. The Idaho Anti-Saloon league is in complete charge of the campaign to 1 fl ' keep the "dry" counties "dry" and ' mr t0 add new counties to the "water i, Ik wagon" list ! If The local option law was passed by Iltf the Tenth legislature throe years ago Wit ' and before the session )iad -adjourned II L more than sixty local option cam- II palgns were on in fifteen of the then f . twontj -three counties of the state, r all of them voting to becomo "dry'' II and thereby banishing the saloon and IV liquor traffic from their territory, II' Three of the counties, Oneida, Latah I " and Cassia, were dry through orders I l of the county commissioners, who re- 1 t fused to Issue saloon licenses The 1 law was operative for, two years, ex- I plring this fall, with the result that campaigns are again being waged in I ' the respective counties In the "wot" f territory to make the counties "dry," and In the "dry" counties to make I them "wet," I Four Now Counties. I I Four new counties were created bj' H 1 the Eleventh legislature Clearwater I I and Lewis out of old Noz Perce, Ad- I R. ams ,out of the north half of Wash- II r Ington, and Bonneville out of part of fl ' Fiemont and Bingham counties. As f $ the territory from which these cbun- II j ties wero formed was "dry" at the .JlK, time tho county creation blllB were ; passed, the new counties necessarily fjlt became "dry," making a total of twen- jj ty "dry,' counties In the state and j seven "wet." The segregation of 1 I "wet" and "dry" counties Is shown in I ' the following list: II f "Dry" counties Bonner, Kootenai,4" U ' Latah, Idaho, Nez Perce, Lewis, Clear- |