East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-04-20
Official Returns, Which Have
Not Beer Announced, Can
not Change Situation.
BOTH WILL WIN BY
OVER 1000 VOTES
It. IT. Geer Is Third in Congressional
Race Having Received Less Than
Ellis AMI ShepIscrd--Cake's Victory
I'm UmatiIIa One 0f the Genuine
Surprises - Umatiria Considered n
Strong Faitom County.

While the complete returns from
the primary election of last Friday
have not been received as yet, suf-
ficient information Is now at hand to
warrant the assertion that II. M. Cake
is the nominee of the republicans for
United States senator by majority
of from 1000 to $500 and that Con-
gresham Ellis is also renominated by
a plurallty ranging above 1000 votes
The small cuunties,yet't hear from
will not change the result in either
case and all that remains now Is to
announce definitely the exact figures
when the reports shall have been
made.
Shepherd is second and Geer third
IN the congressional race.
From the returns now In II appears
that the next legislature will have =
majority OF statement No. members
In Multnomah county IA out of IS
candidates are for Statement No. /,
the victory being greater than its most
ardent admirers expected in THAI
county. while throughout the state
the statement No. sentiment has
carried in large number Of counties
Complete returns are not at hand at
this time and the exact results cannot
be given.
Perhaps the greatest surprise in the
senatorial race was the victory OF II.
NJ. Cake in Umatilla county, which
had been considered the strongest
Fulton county In the state outside OF
dent that Cake will carry the county
by a small margin, although the exact
official returns are not yet known.
He also carried Baker county. an
other county which was considered
strong for Fulton owing to his stand
for the federal building and federal
district headquarters at Baker City.
Cake will carry that county by about
250 votes.
Umatllla County Returns.
Al the county clerks office the last
OF The ballot boxes were received this
morning However, the official count
will not commence until this evening,
as h b. Richards, justice at Athena,
who Is to artist cannot arrive until
4:30. The count will be made by
County Clerk Sailing, Justice Joe
Parkes and Justice Richards
To officially canvass the vote will
require about six hours work and the
task may be completed tonight unless
unforeseen delays occur.
Since Saturday afternoon there has
been practically no change with re-
spect to the vote in this county. The
later returns were all from small pre-
cincts and they did not materially af-
feet the result.
On the legislative ticket a summary
OF 80 precincts gives Mann SAT, Bar
rett $40 and Steen 7O4, thereby assur-
ing the nomination of Mann and Bar
rett, but leaving II uncertain as to
whether. or not Mann or Barrett will
lead the race.
More complete returns also
strengthen Ellis lead over Geer in
this county and the final figures will |
show that he won from the ex-gover-
nor In this county by nearly four to |
one vote.
In the two Weston precincts II was |
claimed that Geer would run strong, |
but in Weston precinct he received |
but two votes to II for Ellis, while |
in East Weston Ellis won by q vote of
IS to 12 None of the precincts yet i
heard from show a majority for Geer.