Congress.

It is estimated that there is a white population of 30,000 of whom
between 5,000 and 6,000 are women. Probably not 500 native women are
voters. Indian men have a vote if they have "severed tribal
relations," which is interpreted to mean that if an Indian moves to a
white man's town or lives on a creek or in a camp in such a way that
the missions or the marshals think he has left his tribe, he can vote.
Indian women have a vote if they marry white men who have a vote; if
they are unmarried and have "severed tribal relations"; if they are
married to an Indian who has "severed tribal relations." The original
code said definitely that Juries should be drawn from the male
citizens and it has never been changed. With this exception the rights
of men and women are the same.

Two other bills of importance passed by the first Legislature provided
for the compulsory education of white children and for Juvenile Courts
to look after dependent children and create a Board of Children's
Guardians. This board consists of the District Judge and U. S. Marshal
in each judicial division, together with one woman appointed by the
Governor, thus creating four such boards in the Territory, one for
each division.

The interest of Alaska women in questions affecting local or
Territorial conditions is intense and their efforts effective, as
their work in the prohibition campaign of 1916 proved. This was
essentially a woman's campaign, so well handled that at the plebiscite
held at the time of the general election in November, 1916, the vote
was about two to one in favor of prohibition. As a result, Congress
enacted the Bone Dry Prohibition law for the Territory Feb. 14, 1917.
It is believed that about three-fourths of the qualified women vote
but there is no means of knowing. The percentage of illiteracy among
white women is negligible and the young native women taught at the
Government and mission schools can read and write.

The women of Alaska did their share in all kinds of war work, for
conservation, bond drives, Red Cross and kindred activities. On
account of the vast distances and small means of transportation any
general cooperation is impossible. There are two daily papers in
Fairbanks with a wide circulation over the entire district, which is
larger than Texas. The organizing for Red Cross work had to be largely
done through these papers but in a few months there were about 600
knitters, practically all the women in the