St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-21
A Lucky Dozen Who Guesse5
Nearest the Vote for
Governor.
Guesses Numbering Thou
sands Upon Thousands
Which Poured In.
st. Paul and Minneapolis Each
Capture One of the First
Prizes.
GuesSes Which Were Very
Close, and Others Ex-
tremely Wild.

Thomas Wilson, Dem ....... :. .... .S14
W. r. Merriam Rep. .................,SS,l1 III
:. NJ. owen. Alliance. 5S, IS
j. p. Pinkham, Pro ............. ..... S.424
The above is the official vote of Min
nesota at the November election of
1890 as declared by the state canvassing
board last Wednesday at the conclusion
of its laborS, and on these, the official
figures, the prizes in the GLOBES great
guessing contest have been awarded.
Early i'll the late state campaign, for the
purpose of testing the interest in pOliti-
cal matters of its readers, the GLOBE
made the following liberal offer:
The GLOBE will give S25 TO the person
making The nearest guess of the vote cast at
the next state election, Nov. 4, for the Dem
ocrauc nominee gOr governor of Minnesota;
SO for the nearest guess OF the vote of the
Republican nominee tor governor; S25 for
the nearest guess OF the vote for the Al
lance nominee for governor. and $50 for the
nearest guess OF the vote for the Prohibition
nominee for governor.
To the lucky person who makes the Sec
ond nearest guess Of the vote of either the
Democratic or Republican candidate for gov
ernor of Minnesota: "a gold stop watch,
split second horse timer"
Whoever can figure out the second nearest
guess of the vote of either the Farmers AL
lance or the Prohibition candidate for gov
ernor of Minnesota: "a ledy's engraved
gold filled hunting case Elgin movement
watch
A SO subscription to the DAILY and Sun
DAY GLOBE each for the third nearest guess
OF the vote OF either party's candidate.
Every reader invited TO make guess or as
many guesSes as he~may wish to make for
either or both parties candidates, according
10 the following plan: The voting coupon
was then inserted, upon which every guess
was require dto be made.
Immediately after the announcement
OF the contest the coupons began TO roll
In from all parts of the country, from
Maine 10 California. Nearly every state
In the Union responded, and almost the
entire time OF one man was monopo-
!ized III handling the coupons and plac-
ing them Oh record. The ladies took
greater interest in the contest than had
been expected, although it must be con-
ffessed that some OF their gueSses were
Just little wild. One of them, how
ever, wins handsome gold watch, she
having made the second nearest guess
to the vote received by Judge Wilson.
The prize winners are:
Democratic.
First Prize, SPA. Templeton, Mil
bank, Grant county, S. D., his guess be-
ing 50, 500, or within a of the number of
votes actually received by the Demo-
cratic nominee.
Second Prize. a Gold Watch-Miss
Elma HiXon, Herman, Grant county.
Mimi, her guess being $4,000. For sec
ond place there was tie between Miss
HiXon and S. E. Swesey, of Osceola
Mills, Wis. This was decided by lot,
MISS HiX0n winning the prize. Mr..
Swesey was then awarde,I the third
prize, years subscription to the DAILY
and SUNDAY GLOBE.
Republican,.
First PriZe-R. B. Field, 316 Second
avenue south. Minneapolis, his guess
being SS,119. Mr.. Field wins S25.
Second Prize, Gold Watch-A. Tenn
pleton, Milbank. Grant county, S. D.,
his guess being 5000.
Third Prize, $40 Subscription to
the DAILY and SUNDAY GIoBE-J. w.
Henderson, st. Paul. His guess was
SS,279.
Alliance.
First Prize, s25-M. E. Murray. ST
Paul. His guess was 5S, ,437.
Second Prize, Gold Watch-H. F.
Pfeifer. Slayton. Murray counsv. Minn.
His guess was 5S,G45.
Third Prize, $40 Subscription to the
DAILY and SUNDAY GLoBE-J. A.
Skoeg, PCS Pennsylvania avenue, St.
Paul, his guess being $4,000.
Prohibition.
First Prize. S25-A. G. Krogness. Ran.
gor, WalwOrth county, S. D. The win
ming guess was S,461.
Second Prize, Gold Watch-CharIes
Stewart. st. Paul. His guess was & 465
1hlrd Prize, a SO Subscription to the
DAILY and SUNDAY GLOBE Here
again there was a tie between T. Jen-
nlngs, OF Chatfield, Fillmore county,
MIMI, ana u. I'll. Cunningham, Sturgeon
Lake, Pine county, and the prize was
divided evenly. Each will receive the
GLOBE, DAILY and SUNDAY. six
months. Both estimated Mr.. Pink
hams vote at $500.
Ihese prizes are now ready for the
winners, and will be sent to them as
soon as each one mails his or her photo
graph to the GLOBE. ACCOMPANIED by
brief sketches of their lives.
Among the many gueSserS who came
near winning prizes are the following
W. Fl. Campbell guessed Judge Wilson's
vote al So, $50.
A. RAIDER, Prescott. Wis, thought 81. .6l2
would be close guess, and il was
c. Hilgedick. OF MINNEAPOLIS. fixed the
judges vote at So. 30.
:. John a. Danewlck, of Minneapolis, came a
little nearer estimating the Democratic lead.
er's vote. at 1872.
William Erwin. of Gilead, Neb.. guessed
S5,555 for Judge wilson
A; N Cralghead, of st. Paul, went n little
higher, and set down the judges vote at
S5.642 wv -
P. W.. To5in, of St Paul, was a close
guesser, his estimate on Judge Wilson being
IS. 646 'eis
Miss D. P. HalIowell. of St. Paul. guessad
,l1IdOn Wilson
Miss Josie o Halloran, also of st. Paul sat
down 1000 as her guess
Moses Lafond of Little Falls, guessed that
Gov. Merriam would receive SS. $50, which
was very close.
NJ. j. Glennon, of Fergus Falls. estimated
the Alliance vote at $1,000.
This was also the guess of Moses V. Kim
bail, OF Byron, Olmsted county
c. F. Miller, of Long Prairie. Mimi. came
closer when he guessed 57,357 for S. NJ
Owen.
M. Monaghan, of Merriam Park. placed the
Pinkham vote at $3.50
Josie La Rue. of 1l39 Forest street St
Paul, fixed the cold water vote at 8, $40.
While there were thousands of very
good gueSses, there were thousands
upon thousands far out of the way. and
evidently made by those looking fol
tidal waves" of all sizes and complex.
ions. The falling off in the total vote
completely upset a great many, while
the size of the Alliance vote and the
shrlnkage in the Prohibition vote dis.
turbed as many more estimates.
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Both Boys Drowned.
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