The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-11-10

With unofficial election returns in
from 23 of the 20 precinct sof Powder
River county, interest centers on the
shrievalty contest for ". e. sutter, the
present incumbent. and I. r. Warren
are running close, Warren leading with
20 votes. With the returns from Is
precincts In the two candidates were
tied with 21S each but southwest pres
cincts late Thursday afternoon 1urned
the tide in warren's favor
The returns from the precincts were
compiled by the Powder River County
Examiner and incl udes all precincts
from which returns could be secured
up to the hour Of going to press. Re-
turns from six precincts In this c''un-
ty remain to be tabulated with the
total
The tabulation of votes from the 26
precincts in this county shows Julian
Terrett leading John l.. Scofield for
state representative with 1ss votes.
Baxter Pierce leading John Rroaddus
for county commissioner with 333
votes, j. T. Wilson leading Wallace
Palmer for treasurer with lSs votes.
F. T. West leading A. B. Norris for
county clerk and recorder with 1877
votes, L. r. Warren leading w. f.
Sutter with 22 votes. Henry o. Boyes
and Minor Harvey, independent shriev-
atty candidates, were far behind. Boyes
with 50 and Harvey with las. NJ. T.
Wiley for county assessor was leading
J. d. Williams. the present incumbent.
with 66 votes. and O. w. Cason with
112 votes. j. I. Westphal for county
superintendent of schools. was leading
Mrs. John Gaar with l2S votes and R.
NJ. Neiman. the indepe endent candidate.
with 299 votes.
Three county candidates had very
little opposition and they are elected.
no names appearing en- the printed
ballot against them, Frank L. Funk
enbusch as county surveyor, F.. A.
| Rlenkner as county attorney and A.
w. Hetdel as public administrator. Vot.
ers in several precincts wrote in the
name Of n. A. Burkey for county attor-
ney, % such votes being received by
him in Broadus precinct. S \. Holt
has been elected coroner though he
will probably fail to qualify for he re-
signed as such official month ago
! The returns were tabulated by the
Examiner in the order received, as fol-
lows: Broadus, Stacey. Moorhead
Cache Creek. Richardson. Graham
Ashland, Rrandenberg, Crow Creek
Epsie. Reder. East Fork. Pilgrim
Creek. Mixpah, Pumpkin Creek. Lowe,
Otter. Upper Otter, Anderson, Box Ell
der. Remaining precincts to be heard
from are Steadman. Belle Greek. hid
die. Bowers. Ridge and Cross.
The Examiner office has veen visited
day and night by people getting ths
election returns that were added from
the different precincts and posted on q
large blackboard as fast as received
Election night. standing room was Al
Ia premium in the printing office. Hy
using the Powder River telephone tint
and the telephone toll line, the Exam
iner Office was able to secure the re-
turns from eight precincts by 10:3(
O'Clock election night. Not only die
the Examiner freely supply election re'
turns here but also sent them to Mile'
city ~ Well and from there they wss'
tabulated with other state returns. tn
long defiance telephone in retur1
brought tidiuss Of the state and ma
ltionai elections.
i In Broadus precinct lS2 votes wes'
polled out Of zee registered. The cleo
ton officials completed their work b!
lo:9e and were served . feed BY tn
ladies OF Broadus and later the sur
plus cake and sandwiches were broueA
70 the printing Office where We had
mfdnaGht feast that was an exception
to the rule.
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