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Show MRS PANKHURST MmY VISIT IN SALT LAKE Salt Lake. Oct. 28. Mrs. Emmclkie Pankhurst may visit Salt Lake She I i3 scheduled to lecture on November 113 at Colorado Springs, and she has expressed a desire to visit Salt Lake and other western cities before her return to England. The militant suffragette wishe.-, to visit ull of the states In this countr,. w here women may vote, and to make a study of conditions here with a view to advancing the cause of votca for women by showing fh progress made In this country in the section., where there Is equal suffrage. Mrs. Pankhurst Is not slated for a lecture in Salt Lake, but she ha3 som-open som-open time, and may ceclde to come here for a day or two while on her way to the coast Jt Is possible n, a lecture date here may be arranged for her. For ten years Mrs Pankhurst has been the principal figure in the woman wom-an s suffrage movement throughout the world She was one of the founders found-ers oi the Woman's Political union in England In lff3 and then began her spectacular career that has made her th most noted suffragette in all the world. In 10Q8 .Mr Pankhurst devised the-hunger the-hunger strikes" as a man9 of s-(aping s-(aping the legal penalties Imposed on the suffragettes by the British officials offi-cials Since that time the hunger strikes have been one of the most baffling problems which the British offices and courts have tried to sohe Several times Mrs Pankhurst was sentenced to jail, but in each case was released after she had refused to eat. Last spring she was convicted of con nplrlng to blow up the country estate of Lloyd George and sentenced io three years In prison. She again went on a "hunger strike" and was released after three weeks in jail. Later she was again imprisoned and again released after she had coupled a "water strike" with her "hunger 1 strike." A few days ago she arrived in America. The immigration officials offi-cials first ordered her deportation, bul later Commissioner General Caini-nettl Caini-nettl reversed the ruling of his sub ordinatee and she was permitted to enter the country. in |