Arizona republican., 1911-03-26
RESULT OF SCHOOL
 ELECTIONS YESTERDAY
E. T. Ceilings Will FropabIy Succeed Emory Rays On High School eoard-Sims Ely Re- Elected In District
 No. 1.

The election of a trustee of the Phoenix union high school yesterday created considerable interest and drew
 out very fair vote, resulting prob
 ably in the selection of E. T. Col
 lings to succeed Emory Rays. the
 present incumbent, who was put
 forward by his friends for reelection.
 Not all the districts forming the
 union high school district have been
 heard from, but as far as learned
 Mir. Ceilings leads by between fifty
 and sixty votes and is most likely
 elected. Though q few ardent work
 CTS were in evidence in support of
 both men, the election did not take
 on the appearance of a hard fought
 contest. The votes cast in Phoenix
 totaled AT, by no means such a
 vote as would have been brought
 out by a fight but enough to show
 that the issue had been given atten-
 ton by a very representative class of the people It seemed to he a
 friendly rivalry between the friends of two very we'll known and highly esteemed gentlemen.
 In Phoenix Mir Ceilings received 26I votes It. is reported that he re- ceived 25 more in the Osborn district
 making total Of 2S6. Mir. Rays received PIG votes in Phoenix and it is reported that he got s in the Isaac district and in Alhambra. total of 22S. If he secured any in the Osborn district or if Mir. Ceilings secured any in Isaac or Alhambra, the fact could not be established last night It was reported also that votes were cast at Murphy but it was not learned for whom. Other voting places in the high school district are
 Wilson, Creighton, Grand Avenue, Jefferson. Madison. Cartwright, In dependence and Mesquite. It is known that in some of these districts no election was held and it is possible none was held in any of them. In any event it is hardly supposed that Mir. Rays will overcome the lead of MT Ceilings, in the precincts above 
 The high school board is composed of five trustees. The terms of two expire in each of two successive years and in the third year the term of the fifth man expires. This is a third year election in which but one trustee goes out The board as at present constituted is composed of O. H. Christy. president; Emory Kays. secretary: B. F. McFall. J. T. Bone and Eugene Brady O'Neill.
 The election for trustee of the city schools was a tame affair, it be- ing the first election for many years in which there was not d contest. Fffty-one votes were cast, all of them for the e-election of Sims Ely.
 The city board consists of three members. one trustee seing elected each year for a term of three years. Tn term being a long one. member has the right to feel that he has done his duty by the public in serving once, and some weeks ago MT. Ely informed his colleagues -on the board, pr. Dameron and Mir. Tolleson. that he wished to retire at the end of his term. They earnestly requested him to stand for re-elec- ton. however, and several business men joined in the request. It was easier to consent because of the fact that it would be impossible to have more agreeable associates in the many onerous duties of school trus- tee than Dr. Dameron and NIT. Tolle- son have shown themselves, and impossible to find in the whole city two men who could be more con scjentious and unseIfish in the dis charge of public duty than DamerSn and TolIeson have been in looking after the school affairs of Phoenix. and Mir. Ely agreed to permit the use of his name.