The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-04-13

Immediately AFTER the pOilS cioSSu
last night at o'clock a large crowd
assembled at the Town Hail to
watch the count. AS the ballots
were first read off, the first seven
being for the entire Peoples ticket,
the followers of that side began to
smile. triumphantly and whisper
about landslide. Then three solid
votes for the Citizens ticket fol
lowed and thus it went on, the solid
tickets coming out in punches for
one or the other side When 200
votes had been cast the high men
were Slater, Howard, Schmitz and
Smith of the Peoples party and
Ross, Chase and Ray on the. Citizens
ticket This continued on and OIL
until near the end of the counting,
when a couple of punches of solid
tickets displaced Chase and Ray
and gave Price and Davis place
among the highest seven. Ross led
his ticket as soon as split tickets be-
gan to appear, and We'd with Slater
for first place. HaZelet fell to the
rear by few votes as soon as split
tickets appeared, and in the end was
defeated by Ross, the only man
elected on the Citizens ticket.
A change of six votes would have
elected Chase and Ray and defeated
Davis and Smith. A change of ten
votes would have, elected Boyle and
Nettleton and defeated Price and
Schmitz. So the closeness of the
contest may be appreciated. Had
the Citizens ticket received ten OF
the solid votes cast for the Peoples
ticket by the 20 or % men, desig-
mated as the Floating" vote and
which were. controlled by booze and
money, five of the Citizens ticket
would have been elected. Had the
change been IA, six of the Citizens
candidates would have been sue
cessful
Deming Wheeler and his dogs are
again with us, having arrived on
yesterdays train. Last fall Mr..
Wheeler went to the westward from
here and struck out over the trail
TO Kaltag. He went to the Iditarod,
on to Kaltag and over into the Nome
country. After five weeks there he
returned on March "a. After few
days there he came; on to the coast
and will remain here for time.
Geo. Howard Birch, manager OF
the Dan Creek Mining Company
was an arrival yesterday and will
leave on the morning train for Nc
Carthy. From there he will go over
Sourdough hill and the Nizina river
to his big placer operations near the
mouth of Dan Creek. He had his
supplies for the season freighted in
long before the breakup, and only
brought with him some chickens
vegetables and few other necessi-
ties. He states that George Max
Esterly is in Seattle and will not
leave for the north until towards
the end of the month. Mr.. Birch
brings no new railroad Information
4 James j. Godfrey and wife were
arrivals on yesterdays train from
the interior, having been on the
property of the Mother Lode Cop
per Mines Company for several
months past. They took the steamer
this morning for Valdez and will re-
turn and go outside on the same
steamer. Mr.. Godfrey is president
Of the Mother Lode Company and
will go at once to New York on i'm
portant business. During the past
winter considerable high grade cop
per ore, has been shipped to the
Nacoma smelter But the breaking
up of the trails has prevented any
further shipments until next winter
as the ore has to be hauled by
teams for ~ miles from the tram
way to the railway at Mccarthy. the
breakup came three weeks earlier
this year than heretofore, the last
shipment being carload that was