The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1907-04-06
Elected Mayor Of Chicago by a
Plurality Over Dunno Of
l3,476 Ballots.
DEMOCRATS ELECT TREASURER
City Council Is a Close Proposition
as IL Looks.
Ordinances That We're the Issue Are
All Woman Elected
Justice OF the Peace
Other Elections.

Chicago, April 4.-Fred A. Bussc
has been elected mayor OF Chicago.
BY a plurality OF l3,476 over Mayor
Edward II. Dunno Chicago chose the
postmaster TO preside over her des-
tines for four years. 20 enforce the
traction ordinances and TO inaugurate
the new era which the forthcoming
charter promises.
The total vote on mayor. according
20 the police returns. was 335 COL, out
OF registration OF 30i.5SS. The
total for Mr. Busse was 165.3i0 and
for Dunno 151.9l3. George Koop. the
Socialist candidate, polled l34G0 aud
w. A. Brubaker. on the Prohibition
ticket, received 5,S75.
Democratic Treasurer Elected.
John +. TRIGGER was the one Demo
crat 10 be elected. He was chosen
city treasurer by plurality OF 1888
over General Edward c. Young. John
r. McCabe, Republican, was elected
city clerk. Thomas II. Little the Demo
cratic nominee. running n shade be-
hind Mayor Dunno and losing TO Mr.
McCabe by l5.414
The new city council Will be evenly
divided between the two major par.
ties. The Republicans elected twenty
two new aldermen. as against fourteen
elected by the Democrats. With the
hold-over aldermen this leaves the
standing thirty-fve for the Republic
ans. thirty-four for the Democrats and
one independent Democrat. Alderman
Bowler OF the Nineteenth ward. who.
however, usually votes with the Demo.
Gratis on party matters.
McSureiy Elected Judge.
william III. McSurely, who was the
Republican nominee 10 succeed the
late Judge Gary. defeated Alderman
william +. Dever. Mayor Dunne's
council door manager, by i4,231. For
sanitary trustee. Otto J. Novak was
elected 60 oil the vacancy caused by
the death II his father by plurality
OF 35.30i over Alex Wlsnlewskl.
The country towns added str NJ
plurality 10 the figures which the Re
publican nominees for the judgeships
and the vacancy on TIE sanitary boar
received In the city. Judge Ben NJ
Smith was reelected by final pu.
rnllty OF 36731.
Car settlement Indorscd.
Citizens OF Chicago Endorsed car
settlement by a majority OF 30, 1876 and
thus stood by the work OF the city
council. which two months ago passed
the measures by an oyerwhelm NJ vote
and over Mayor DUNES veto
The decisive action by the eec,
tornte means that during the next
three years the two traction com.
panlcs viii cxpend Ia the neigh o.
hood Of Si0.Oo0,O0O for new equip,
ment
Mrs Catharlne Waugh McCuloch
rode into public Office ~ Evanston ~
Justice OF the peace 10y IA major t.
Of over 100 over her opponent
other Illinois Towns.
AZ Springfield Mayor DcNcreux was
defeated FOR reelection by the Rcpub.
llcan candidate. II VIII take the Of
fetal count 20 decide the mayoalty nj
Calcshurg. The Democratic executive
az quincy. Mayor John a. Stelnhack
who has held the office twelve ypnrs.
was defeated by j. II Rest, Republic
an. Republicans elected their entire
city tickets at Rock Island and Ma.
comb At Rellcvlle municipal i'm.
provements won the day Fred J.
Kern was reelected mayor
Elections Ia Kansas.
Topeka, Kan, April w w
Rose. who was ousted twice from the
mayoralty Of Kansas city Kan, by
the supreme court Cor pon-enforce-
ment Of the prohibition laws. was de-
feated FOR reelection los H. H. Cornell.
a Republican. the entire Republican
tirAef helnr nlnrInl. Ms Eirrn Err