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Show I SOCIALIST REFUSES TO PAY HIS POLL TAX I Grafton, 111., May 16. J. J. Keou, I a Socialist in jail here for refusal to pay a poll tax, was yesterday Informed that he will have t serve six months each for the three years he is delia- ! queut. Keon has served six weeks of his first sentence and has sacrificed moie than $100 In salary, rather than pay a tux which be calls unjust. The city of Grafton already has expended ex-pended more for meals than the lax amounted to, hut Mayor Journeys In-, In-, slsts that he is enforcing tho law of j the state. |