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Show principle can bo conceived which disenfranchise dis-enfranchise Innocent vetcr6 because of the mistakes or misconduct of the election officers in performing their dul l8. In tho special charter macs both the cities of Lowlston and Holse have, special charters which contain clauses claus-es contrary to those In the local op-tlnn op-tlnn statutes, which were enacted at a later date, but, according to tho decision of the supremo court, both chnrtors must bo subservient to tho state law. NEZ PERCE LOCAL OPTION . UPHELD BY THE COURTS Molse, Dec. 7. The Nez Perce county coun-ty local option election, which has been In the courts lor several months, has been declared legal by the supreme su-preme court. This decision is hardly secondary In Importance to the one rendered the day before lu the Mix case. In which it was declared that a general law can amend a special city charter its far as tho liquor traffic traf-fic is concerned. These two opinions form a triumph for local option In the state In their effects. Both ballots bal-lots and stubs were numbered In the Nee Perce case, but lh opinion of j tbe court is to the effect that no I |