Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-03
VARIED RESULTS At POLLS
Nebraska Municipalities Show All Sorts of
Local Preferences.
MAJORITY OF PLACES VOTE FOR LICENSE
Republicans Have Sweeping Victories.
In Important cities where
There Are Partisan
Contests.

otNNhAttu hdIOIiNgs u gain over last year
for the antis. On the question OF gas OF
electric lights the vote showed 100 ma
jority for electric lights. A full temper
ance board was elected as follows: Mayor,
Isaac Letson; clerk, Ed Mullowney; treas
urer, Wilbur Price; police Judge, H. W.
Gooch; councilmen, First ward, Frank Pit
tenger; Second ward. F. S. Thompson.
ANSLEY-License ticket carries by Is
majority. The new board stands four IL
cense and one temperance. This makes the
third year in succession that the license
ticket has varied.
ASHLAND-There was no opposition to
the republican ticket. Jef Smith, for
mayor. received eighty votes. The rest Of
the vote on city officers did not differ ma
terially from the head of the ticket.
BATTLE CREEK-L. B. Baker, Howard
Miller and August Steffen we're elected for
three years by a large majority on the peo-
pies or reform ticket. the issue being "old
board or reform" The vote on issuing
bonds for water works was lost by a large
majority.
BRAINARD-Joseph Matansek and c. C..
Gelwick were elected. There was no OPP
position.
CLAY CENTER-The following trustees
we're elected, having being nominated by
petition: NJ. NJ. Johnson, L. F. Fryar. B.
H.. Dunn, ]. L. Perry and ]. E. Wheeler.
There was no particular Issue.
David City for License.
DAVID CITY-The entire republican
ticket was elected. except the councilman
from the Second ward. There were two
tickets and a heavy vote was polled. These
officers were elected: Mayor, ]. G. Ross;
city clerk, w. s. Mccoy: treasurer, A. L.
Hughes; police judge. F. F. Ware; coun-
cilmen, First ward, j. F. Zeilinger; Second
ward, H. II. Harmon; Third ward, II. W.
Kelbert. The mayor and Ave counoilmeu
are for license. One councilman (HRrmon)
is snti-license.
ELWOOD-Offcials elected: W. r. Pat
rick, NJ. T. X. Rasmussen and ]. r. Null
Ter. who were high license men.
FAIRBURY-The municipal election re-
suited in a complete victory for the high
license ticket, with the exception OF one
member of the school board, WHO was de-
feated by the women's vote. The election
was the most stubbornly contested of any
in the history Of the city. The winning
ticket had an average of about sixty ma
jorlty. The officers elected were: R. A..
Clapp, mayor; D. B.. Cropsey, treasurer;
Lou Nutyman, clerk; A. Courtney, city en-
gineer; H. p. Showalter and H. F. Hale.
members Of school board; Nat Downs, coun-
Gilman First ward; Jack Simpson, council
man Second ward.
FnirmOnt and Fullerton Thirsty.
FAIRMONT-Election resulted in a ma
jority Of twenty against license. W.. W.
Kemp was elected mayor; E. E. Sparks,
councilman First ward; c. d. Lindley,
councilman Second ward; Joseph Jackson.
clerk; J. W.. Carey. treasurer; w. T. Putt,
engineer; ]. E. Curtis. police Judge.
FULLERTON-The question of liquor IL
cense was voted on at the bottom of the
ticket. The First ward went dry by three
votes. the Second ward following suit by
the same majority, while the Third ward
gave a majority against license of forty
FIVE. The thirsty will now have to depend
on bootleggers.
HARVARD-Yost (high license) won the
election for mayor over Moger, candidate
on the law and order ticket, by twenty
three majority. In the First ward Schwartz
(high license) was elected over Gardner
Qaw and order) by twenty-five votes, while
in the Second ward Balm (high license) was
elected over Bayles claw and order) by six
teen.
Hastings GIOriOusIy Republican.
HASTINGS-The republicans won a glo-
rious victory by electing every candidate
upon their ticket. The principal fight was
made upon the head of the ticket, but
Clarence J. Miles defeated Chris Hansen
for mayor by a majority OF SO. A. H.
Cramer defeated ]. r. Mclaughlin for city
treasurer by 1873. A. T. Bratton won out
for city clerk by defeating Isaac LIE Dioyt
by 1873. Will Hosglsnd led the republican
ticket by defeating John Zimmering for
water and light commissioner by 276. In
the First ward Robert Williams won out
for councilman over Emil Polenski by 81;
Second ward, Campbell 20S. Mcdonald 142;
Third ward, Zinn 2O9, McAuley So; Fourth
ward. Haynes 1874, Ladd 122. Chris Pau
lick, J. A. Rose and C. H. Hedge were
elected members Of the school board.
HEBRON-The city election resulted in
a complete victory for the citizens anti
license party. w. H. Bayes was elected
mayor; B. F. Young, treasurer; Frank
Werner. clerk; Alex Campbell. engineer;
J. NJ. Williams, councilman from the First
ward, being the only license man elected.
JULIAN-The citizens OF Julian decided
that they wanted saloons by a majority
Of 20.
Full Republican Ticket in Kearney.
KEARNEY-The city Of Kearney elected
a full republican ticket, the FIRST in many
years. Although the vote was light, never
theless the election was close. The cleo
tion was held for Board Of Education, po-
lice Judge and councilmen. The license
question was not submitted this year. con-
sequently the town will be wet. Shelton
and Elm Greek go wet and Gibbon dry.
LEIGH-There was only one ticket in
the field. J. H.. Loyery and c. II. Morian
were elected. The board is now composed
Of high-license men.
NEBRASKA CITY-The republicans car
ried everything at the election yesterday
except police judge. treasurer and one
councilman. II. H. Bartling defeated E. d..
Marnell for mayor by 440 votes. The coun-
cilmen chosen we're James Christensen,
Chris Johnson. F. w. Koppell and Edward
| Shannon.
NEMAHA-Elmer E. Allen, Isaac n.
Cooper and Frank Titus were elected
trustees for this village yesterday. Little
Interest was taken and only nineteen votes
were cast.
Orleans Has Dry Mayor.
ORLEANS. o. Hoffman was elected
mayor; H.. Evan, councilman Second ward;
W. S. Sullivan. councilman First ward; w.