The Strong Hand
APPLIED BY A WOMAN. TOWN COUXCILLORS SUBDUED. AMERICA'S STRONGER SEX. Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables. New iork, January 5. Miss Fern Hobbs, private secretary to the Governor of Oregon, arrived at Coppertieid with the Governor's "mandate to place the town under martial tow and request the instant retirement'of the mayor and councillors, owing to their' connivance in violations of the liquor Jaws.
Several councillors, who were saloonkeepers, heard of the threatened action, | anil many citizens armed, it is believed, with the intention to resist. They were thunderstruck when a single woman left the train, and they flatly refused to resign, but Miss Hobbs promptly sum. moned the State Artillery and prison guards, under Colonel Lawson, and ordered him to arrest the mayor and councillors.
The saloons wero then raided and placed under the care of guards and the proprietors ordered to remove their stocks to another county, otherwise it would be confiscated.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 161, 7 January 1914, Page 5
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154The Strong Hand Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 161, 7 January 1914, Page 5
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