The Bismarck tribune., 1922-06-30
HEDSTR0M AND
KELLY YICT0RS
FOR SHERIFF
They Will Fight It Out in Fall,
Out-distancing Nine Other
Candidates
LADY CANDIDATES LOW
All Independent Indorsees
Win for Legislature.
McCurdy and Allen
LADY CANDIDATES LOW

will battle in the fall for the posi-
ton of sheriff of Burleigh county.
Returns from majority Of the pre-
cincts of the county on the race for
sheriff, in which there were II parti-
cipants showed Kelly and Hedstrom
running considerably stronger than
the rest of the field. The city of
Bismarck vote put Kelly far in the
lead and in many Of the county pre-
cincts he also showed up strong. 1t
appeared that Kelly and Hedstrom
would run aaclose race for the top.
most position.
With IA precincts the vote for
legislature in Burleigh county, in
cluding returns in addition to those
to the county auditor was: Harring-
ton 1888; Heaton 1854; Anderson
2,3OS; Void 1884; Jennings 1888;
Voight 1901.
Figures compiled from 43 pre-
cincts by friends Of Mr.. Void, how
ever, showed: Harrington 1887;
Heaton 2317; Anderson 1862; Void
1902; Jennings 1878; Voight 1701.
Whether Harry Clough or H. A.
Thomas will oppose Frank Johnson
for county auditor appeared to rest
upon the missing precincts. They
were running close.
F. E. McCurdy and E. S. Allen
were nominated for states attorney,
over Philip Elliott and j. NJ. McCar-
ter. E. J. Gobel was leading the
field for coroner.
Vote Incomplete
The Burleigh county complete
vote will not be known until the
canvassing board meets. Officials in
at least two voting precincts in the
city of Bismarck either made errors
in returns to the county auditor or
sealed the returns with the poll
books in the ballot boxes. With 80
out of 50 of the precincts of the
county tabulated on state Offices the
Nestos vote stood "a above that of
McCumber while the Frazier vote
was 272 above that of Baker for Gov
nor. .-r
Obert A. Olson was leading and it
appeared he would cary the county.
Poindexter also was ahead of John
son for the nomination for auditor
by 81 votes. Congressman Young had
lead of about 600 over John Sher-
man.
The majority for Governor Nestos
of around 500 in the county still ap-
peared to be today conservative
estimate. Figures for 80 out of SO
precincts not including four pre-
cinets in Bismarck gave the follow
ing:
McCumber 1912, Frazier 143S, Nc
Harg SO.
Young 1920, Sherman 1864. a.
Nestos 1916, Baker 1862, Stegner
IS. IN
Hall 1893, Aaker 1914. n
Olsness 1882, Carpenter 1892. y
Poindexter 1882, johnson 1888.
Olson 1919, Steen 1907. =.
Shafer 1850, Garberg 1107, Wehe
275. ....
Kitchen 1886, Church 1s4s, Serum
gard 1876. .,,
Tabulation of Vote
For legislature 80 out,aof So pre-
cincts-Anderson 1444; Harrington
1856; Heaton 1711; Jennings 1888;
Void 1902; Voight 1916.
For sheriff-Mrs. Charlebois 1873;
Hedstrom SAG; Kafer 375; Kelly 600;
Mrs. Moran At; McGarvey 229; Ode
26; Thompson 2s7; William 24O; An
derson 18; Barnes 237.
For auditor-Thomas 613; Clough
575; johnson 1901.
For states attorney IN McCarter
291; McCurdy 1886; Allen 800; Eli
oft 553.
The following were nominated to
run for county Offices in the fall,
there being but two candidates:
For county superintendent-W. E..
Parsons, Miss Madge Runey.
For county JUDGE. C. Davies,
John F. Fort.
For treasurer-Robert Phelps, J.
A. Flow.
Richard Penwardcn, register of
deeds, and Fred Swenson were nom-
mated for that position over Mrs.
Nebergell. E. G. Patterson and J..
P. Spies were nominated for COM
missioner, there being but the two
candidates.. Patterson led in the
vote thus far.
E. J. Gobel and Coroner H. J..
Stroke were nominated for that po-
sition over f. M. Stanton.
Jack Hanson was run on "stick-
ers" for county surveyor, and will
60 on the ballot against T. H. Atkin-
son in the fall. Mr.. Hanson is in
charge of the transportation section
of the state highway commission.
The vote on this office had not been
tabulated.
The vote by precincts in Bismarck
was: first ward east-Frazier 70;
McCumber 1888; Nestos 212; Baker
So.
First ward west-Frazier 46; Nc
Cumber 213; Ncstos 2O5; Baker 80.
Second ward east-Frazier 70; Nc
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