Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-08

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fight on the wet or dry platform this yeai
was charged by the element Of personality
which was introduced and which. no doubt
caused the defeat OF prohibition in FALL
City.
sTRoMsBURG. Neb. April ~7-(special
The entire temperance ticket was elected
in the municipal election in this city al
follows: Mayor, Colonel r. P. Pike; coun.
Gilman. First ward. G.. @. johnson; council
man, Second ward, N. =. Freeman; city
clerk, Emil Olsen. city treasurer. Edwin A
Anderson; engineer, olof Netsell; polio,
Judge. J. q. Green. All nominees on tn,
citizens or high license ticket excepting
that Of councilman in the Second ward
city engineer and police judge had with.
drawn before the election.
HILDRETH. Neb.. April L-Cspecial)-
The result Of the village election proved a
surprise, the water advocates winning OUT
by a majority Of IS votes. Tho vote was as
follows: For license. 81; against license, 60
N. s. Mari and II. Neubauer were re-
elected members OF the village board.
PLATTSMoUTH ,Neb., April L-CThe
democratic ticket. headed by j. r. Sattler
for mayor, was elected yesterday with the
exception of the school board, III. N.
Dewey, and Or. G.. A. Marshall. Platts-
mouth will be wet another year.
Cass county will have eleven dry
towns and five wet ones this year. six
applications for permits to run saloon in
this city for another year have been made.
regardless OF the new law requiring them
to close their places of business at s
o'clock in the evening.
SUTTON. April 1-(Special) 1.-THE city
election yesterday resulted in the election
OF M. j. Wieland for low license for
mayor and against high license and a less
number of saloons by 66 majority. The
question of saloons or no saloons resulted
In a majority for saloons by a majority
of 81.
Fourth Term for Miles.
HASTINGS, Neb., April 7.-(special Tele-
g~ram.)-ElecteG to his fourth term by 46O
votes, with four councilmen who will
grant a license, c. ]. Miles is again mayor
of Hastings, this time for two years. and
the city will have saloons. Even II the
prohibition workers should elect all four
members next year, the council with the
mayor will still control and Hastings will
not change for two years.
With the mayor and counciimen the
high-license people elected a city clerk
and city treasurer.
High license gained in all four wards
of Hastings. Last year the prohibitionists
carried two of the four, but these went
over into the wet column this year by
good majorities.
HOLDREGE, Neb., April 7.-(Special Tel
egram.)-At the city election held Tues
day the issue was for and against license
and ;he anti-llcense ticket was elected in
its entirety. but by. a reduced majority
over the vote Of last year.
Bertrand also went dry, which will leave
Phelps county without a saloon after May
first.
AURORA, Neb.. April 7~-(Speclal Tele-
gram )-Frenk Sharpe was elected mayor
OF Aurora Tuesday and the town went dry
by a large majority. o. II. Hervig is clerk
and ]. A. Isaman. treasurer.
CHADRON, Neb. April 1.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-J W.. Finnegan was reelected
mayor. This city voted wet. Crawford
and Alliance also went wet.
AINSWORTH, Neb., April Especial
observation-disclosures went dry, with
a majority of fifteen out Of ia votes cast.
Kearney Decides 10 Go Dry.
KEARNEY, Neb.,- April T~.-(Special Tele-
grom.)-A full vote was polled. The
fight was between the vets and the drys
on the submission, of the question. The
6rys polled a majority of SO votes and
Kearney will be dry for the first time in
eleven years. All candidates for council
ran on petition Nd are pledged to abide
by the decision Of the voters. John w.
Patterson, Independent candidate for
mayor, polled about 800 more votes than
either Deets or Tabor.
HERMAN, Neb.. April ~7.-(Speclal Tele-
g~ram.)-The village election was pulled off
in Herman in the rain, and resulted
in c.. R. Gray and e. p. Hansen being
elected trustees on the village board and a
majority of nine votes in favor of no
saloons for next year. Every vote in town
was polled except two, ninety-three votes
being cast.
Beatrice Again Goes Dry.
BEATRICE, Neb.. April Z-(special Tele-
gram.)-Beatrice went dry in the election
by 100 votes. There was a lively con-
test between C. /. Reed. republican candi-
date for mayor and j. 8. Rutherford. demo-
crat. the latter winning out by about $50
votes. The following ticket was elected:
mayor. J. s. Rutherford: treasurer, ]. E..
Jones; city clerk. S. Q. Free: water com
missioner, ]. r. c. Field; police Judge. e.
r. Ellis. The prohibitionists held prayer
meetings in all the churches today.
Wymore Dry by Two Votes.
WYMORB Neb.. April ~7.-(Special Tele-
gram. IN. l.. Rawlings, running on petit
ton, was elected mayor by forty-fivs
majority over G. T. Stephenson, republican
and democratic nominee. Wymore is dry
by two majority.
NEIGH, Neb., April 7~.-(special Tele-
g~ram.)-The following city ticket was
elected here: Mayor, w. l.. STAPLE:
city clerk, T. s. Paxton: treasurer. ]. ].
Melick; police Judge, Joe McCraig; ooun-
Gilman First ward. v, e. e.
Second ward, w. L. McAllister. The city
clerk, treasurer and two councilmen elect,
are men favoring a change in the city
government. The council now stands a
tie, and legal authority says Neigh will
be dry the coming year.
HEBRON, Neb.. April T-(Special Tele-
grandfather two years as q dry town
Hebron voted for license and elected
c. NJ. Smith, mayor.
No Water Works Franchise.