The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-02

| Z. +. wilson were elected. The high
school bonds for 100000 lost heavily
Newton, Kan, April DIR o. w
Rolf was reelected commissioner by
a majority of 400. Mrs. Helen smolt,
j. D. Nicholson, Don Kinney were
| elected to the school board.
Osawatomie, Kan, April &C. H
Barr was reelected mayor and the
entire citizens ticket won by ma
| jority of about 200.
Horton, Kan, April I'm a hard
| fought contest here J. z. Bailey,
| Brown county's representative in the
legislature, was elected mayor by a
majority of 36 votes. He headed the
| Progressive ticket, which also elected
M. E. Davis police il dge, and one
| councilman, John REESE.
! The Citizens ticket elected J. S.
Henderson, city treasurer; D. W. Car
| penter, treasurer board of education;
three members of the board of educa-
| ton, S. H. Harris, Peter O'Hara an.
s. E. Friend, and three councilmen,
Abe Long, F. M. Baldwin and Ira
| Stiles.
A proposition to spend $4,000 for a
| new city hall easily carried.
The fight was against the present ad-
mln1strat1on, which has spent a good
deal of money in city improvements
The Progressives failed to file their
lot, but elected Bailey by writing his
| name in and defeating the present
| mayor w. G. Kelley.
The biggest vote in the history of
Horton was polled.
Columbus, Kan, April 2.-E r.
Whiteside, Democrat, defeated w w,
Bowers, on the Peoples ticket, by a
close majority.
Sabetha, Kan, April I'm the cleo
ton w. r. Guild was elected MAYOR
missioners. These candidates received
a majority of $50 out of $50 votes
Harrington, Kan. April DIR Will
liam M. Rooms. president of the Bust
ness Association, was elected mayor
over Jesse Dairy, present incumbent,
by IS majority. DR.. Rooms ran on a
platform of more and better water.
Leavenworth, Kan, April 2-E. w.
GRANGER was elected mayor over Peter
Everhardy by a majority of 593. The
total vote of GRANGER was 1922 and
that of Everhardy 2,529. Both men
have served the city as mayor. GRANGER
vas the first mayor under commits
sion government. He represented the
contest. Henry Dolde. r. E. Nelson
Anton Swoboda and Charles T. Cox
present commissioners were reelected.
Morris Toffier, Charles J. MCGEE and
S. Kuraner were elected to the school
board.
Ga1ena, Kan, April 2-Porter M
Clark, Republican, defeated T. L. Win
die Democrat, by n votes in the cleo
ton. Three of five councilmen elected
also are Republicans The retiring
mayor, DR.. c. H. Jones, is a Demo-
GRAFT and it has been several years
since a Republican mayor was elected.
The Democrats, however, still have a
majority in the council.
Kansas City, April 2.-Returns at
midnight indicated the probable cleo
ton of G. w. Green as mayor of Kan
sas City, Kan, over J. E. Porter the
present mayor. AT that hour Green
was leading by less than 200 votes,
with II out of 50 precincts not count
ed J. E. eaten, James A. Gable, Jas.
L. Beggs and M. H. Martin, for COM
missioners, were leading their oppon-
ents by small margins.
For Flood Sufferers.
Dodge City, Kan, April 2.-+'Dodge
City, Kansas, Flour to the Flood Suf-
ferers in the Ohio Valley This is
the sign that will travel on a car of
flour to leave here over the Santa Fe
for Dayton. Ohio. Three hundred and
sixty dollars was raised here by sub
scription- The car of flour was fur
nished by the Dodge City Mill & Ele-
vator company at cost and the Santa
Fe will carry it to Dayton free of
charge. Mayor H. B. Bell is largely |
responsible for the donation He per-
sonally circulated a subscription paper |
among the business men, raising 5000. |
He stationed his secretary, Miss Violet |
Watson, in the postoffice lobby with |
another paper and $3.50 was raised in
a few minutes.