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Show ALASKA WOMEN ! SWAYELECTIONS Results in Territory Determined Determin-ed Largely by Votes of Female Contingency. Bitter Municipal Fight in Juneau Reform Ticket , Wins in Ketchikan. Seattle, Wash., April 9. Cable dispatches dis-patches from Alaska indicate today that the results of the, elections In various " parts of the territory this week were determined to a measurable measur-able degree by the votes of women who cast ballots for the first time. Women wero given the right to vote by the enactment of a measure of the first territorial legislature a year ago. In Skagway the familiar methods of campaigning brought victory to the feminine politicians. Electors were steered to polling places by women workers who bought cigars and lunches lunch-es and supplied conveyances while explaining sample ballots. They elected their entire non-partisan ticket tick-et in Skagway against the Taxpayers' ticket which has been In power six years. Bitter Municipal Fight. In a bitter municipal 'fight In Juneau in which women were particularly particu-larly active, the Citizens' party was able to elect but two candidates against the Peoples' party headed by former Mayor Valentine. The two candidates were for tho council. In Ketchikan, center of the fishing fish-ing industry, the reform ticket won by electing five of seven councilmen and the school clerk. The important feature of the election elec-tion in Fairbanks was the defeat for the city council of Dan Drlscoll, territorial ter-ritorial representative, said to ba Congressional Delegate Wickorshara's choice for representative In the district. dis-trict. In Cordova the Citizens'. Progrcs- sive parly won on a platfoniyyx&3yfH Ising reforms and economy, 'FH In Valdcz the non-paxtlsan tlokelf iMjH with a single exception was victor -)t In Seward the Peoples' ticket clecV! ;, iiH cd a straight slate. ;iH George B. Grigsby was elected mayor of Nome. &'lH |