History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. I, Part 72

Author: Lyman, William Denison, 1852-1920
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: [Chicago] S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1134

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All the county officers chosen were republicans except Mr. Fogarty for auditor, and Mr. Flummerfelt for treasurer.

In the same election a vote was taken on a woman suffrage amendment to the constitution, the second on that issue, the first having been in 1889. The amendment suffered defeat 452 to 792. It was defeated in the state by 38,886 to 15,969.

One event of much importance occurred in 1899. This was the creation of Chelan County. The act providing for this was passed by the lower house of the legislature on February 27th and by the senate on March 8th. The act

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joined the southwestern part of Okanogan County to the northeastern part of Kittitas County for the new county. The line between Kittitas and Chelan is indicated by the following extract from the act, declaring the boundaries of the new county : "Beginning at the point of intersection of the middle of the main channel of the Columbia River with the fifth standard parallel north, thencc running west along said standard parallel north to the point where the said standard parellel north intersects the summit of the main divide between tlie waters flowing northerly and easterly into the Wenatchee and Columbia rivers, and the waters flowing southerly and westerly into the Yakima River, thence in a general northwesterly direction along the summit of said main divide be- tween the waters flowing northerly and easterly into the Wenatchee and Co- lumbia rivers and the waters flowing southerly and westerly into the Yakima River, following the course of the center of the summit of the Cascade Moun- tains to the eastern boundary of King County ; The above indi- cates the new northern boundary of Kittitas County, and from this it will be seen that the Wenatchee Valley on the south side of the river, embracing the site of the city of Wenatchee and the beautiful and productive country around it, became part of Chelan County. By reason of the change in county bounda- ries it became necessary to supersede Commissioner Dennis Strong, a resident of Wenatchee. J. E. Burke accordingly was appointed to that place.

BRYAN'S VISIT

To the still large number of populists and progressive democrats in Ellens- burg an interesting event occurred on April 1, 1900, when the "silver-tongued," "Cross of Gold" (if we may make such a bimetallic mixture of metaphors) orator, the "Peerless Leader" of the Platte, W. J. Bryan himself, passed through the city on his tour of the Northwest and paused for a visit and a speech.

The presence of Governor Rogers, whom all people in the state respected regardless of politics, added interest to the occasion.

The election of 1900 fulfilled the forecast of that of 1898, i. e., the victory of the republicans. Apparently the people had become afraid to experiment further and were willing to swallow anything that they thought would be "regular" high tariff and all.

F. W. Cushman and W. L. Jones were reelected to Congress by 1,098 and 1110 votes respectively to 924 and 934 for F. C. Robertson and J. T. Ronald, democrats.

For governor, however, the old war-horse of populism, John R. Rogers, held his own by reelection, having 1,125 to 946 for J. M. Frink. The vote for other state officers shows uniform republican victories by about 100 majority. The legislative returns show the election for state senator of J. P. Sharp, re- publican, by a vote of 1,207 to 876 for S. T. Packwood, democrat, and for rep- resentatives of R. B. Wilson, republican, and T. B. Goodwin, democrat. John B. Davidson was reëlected to the superior judgeship by a close vote. The county officers chosen were: Sheriff, Isaac Brown; auditor, S. P. Fogarty ; clerk, H. W. Hale ; treasurer, Lee Purdin ; attorney, C. V. Warner ; assessor, J. W. Richards; superintendent, W. A. Thomas; surveyor, E. I. Anderson ; cor-

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oner, J. W. Bean; commissioner first district, J. E. Burke ; commissioner sec- ond district, W. E. Crowley ; commissioner third district, Jacob Bowers.

The victory of the republicans was not pronounced so far as the county went. Of the above chosen officials Messrs. Brown, Hale, Richards, Anderson, Burke, Bean and Bowers, seven in number, were republicans, while the re- maining five were democrats. Majorities were small in most cases. The result indicated a healthy state of local independence.

The campaign of 1902 was marked by the fact that by the lamented death of Governor Rogers, the Lieutenant-Governor Henry McBride, a republican, succeeded to the place. His administration was signalized by his strenuous advocacy of laws for a railway commission and the prohibition of railway passes.

This was rather populistic than republican doctrine and shows something of the leaven that had been working in the public mind during the decade. In this election also a congressman was added to the list from Washington, giving the state three. In spite of the "hard times" of the decade of the nineties the population of the state had increased from 349,390 in 1890 to 518,103 in 1900.

In 1902 F. W. Cushman, W. L. Jones and W. E. Humphrey were elected to Congress over G. F. Cotterill, O. R. Holcomb and Frank B. Cole, by an aver- age majority of about 300. For representatives to the legislature from what had now become the nineteenth district, G. E. Dickson and R. B. Wilson, re- publicans, were chosen over Mat Flynn and Michal McColgan, by 1,016 and 1.021 votes respectively to 996 and 842. The county officers chosen were these : Sheriff, R. L. Thomas; auditor, H. M. Baldwin; clerk, A. E. Emerson ; treas- urer, Lee Purdin; attorney, C. V. Warner; assessor, W. M. Kenney; super - intendent, H. F. Blair; surveyor, M. M. Emerson; coroner, H. J. Felch ; com- missioner first district, J. E. Burke ; commissioner third district, Edgar Pease, This election also, like that of 1900, was not a decided republican victory. All the congressmen, indeed, had large majorities, and both representatives to the legislature were republicans, but of the county officials, the auditor, sheriff, treasurer and attorney were democrats, and the majorities for the republicans chosen were not large.

With 1904 we reach another presidential election. It will be of interest to note here the precincts as recorded in the county books. They were Colochem, Cle Elum, Ellensburg first ward, Ellensburg second ward, West Kittitas, Easton, Liberty, Mountain, Manashtash, North Kittitas, Roslyn first ward, Roslyn sec- ond ward, Swauk, South Kittitas, South Ellensburg. Teanaway, West Kittitas.

The election of 1904 marks the tremendous reaction toward the repub - lican candidates. This reaction was not surprising in view of the fact that progressive republicanism in the person of Roosevelt was in the saddle, while the democrats with a ghastly attempt to pick up the reactionary elements had repudiated their new leaders of the Bryan type and took the back track in the form of the Parker wing of democracy. The result was inevitable. The coun- try spewed the ill-tasting mess out of its mouth. Majorities on national, state and county tickets were generally overwhelming for the republican candidates. There were, however, some extraordinary exceptions, such as to make the election peculiar. We will give the figures in full in this election, in order to exhibit the peculiarities and the comparisons. Note in the first place that five

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parties were in the field on the congressional ticket and six on the presidential. The six latter were republican, democratic, people's party, socialist, socialist labor, and prohibition. The people's party had no candidates for Congress. In the county election, the democratic, republican and prohibition parties had can- didates.

For presidential electors, the highest republican received 1,787 votes; the highest democratic, 523; socialist, 291; prohibitionist, 78; socialist labor, 72, and people's party, 5. To that sorry pass had come that proud host which had shaken the club over the heads of the plutocrats and lobbyists only eight years before. The votes for congressmen were: W. E. Humphrey, 1,652; W. L. Jones, 1,660, F. W. Cushman, 1,660, republicans ; James J. Anderson, Howard Hathaway and W. T. Beck, democrats, 652, 644 and 649, respectively ; George Croston, H. D. Jory, and T. C. Wiswell, socialists, 288, 287, and 286; Henry Brown and F. B. Hawes, prohibitionists, 71 each; William Bontain, R. Mc- Donald, and G. Norling, socialist labor, 29, 29, 28. The republican candidates for Supreme Judge, F. H. Rudkin and Mark A. Fullerton, received 1,646 and 1,733, respectively, while the democrat, Alfred Battle, had 747. The two candidates for governor, A. E. Meed, republican, had 1,277, and the democrat, George Turner, had 1,173. For the legislature in what was now the 13th dis- trict, J. P. Sharp, republican had 1,484 to 938 for the democrat, M. E. Flynn. For representatives in the Nineteenth district, Andrew Olson, republican, had 1,545, G. E. Dickson, republican, had 1,403, E. L. Collins, democrat, had 923, R. A. Turner, democrat, had 1,025, and William Smith, prohibitionist, had 71. For judge of the superior court, H. B. Rigg, republican, was victor with 1,425 to 1,022 for E. B. Preble, democrat. The democratic candidate for sheriff, L. A. Thomas, had 1,427, to 1,152 for Isaac Brown, republican, and 73 for W. M. Jennings, prohibitionist. For clerk, A. E. Emerson, republican, had 1,804 to 128 for C. E. Bruner, prohibitionist.

For auditor the republican candidate, Dr. Mahan, had 1 to 1,319 for H. M. Baldwin, democrat, and 74 for W. H. Bridge, prohibitionist.

For treasurer, the republican candidate, W. B. Price, gathered in 1,359 votes to 1,125 for W. J. Payne, democrat. Austin Mires, republican, for attor- ney, had 1,389 to 818 for L. E. Campbell, democrat, and 289 for W. W. Bonney, independent. For assessor, the republican, W. M. Kenney, was far in the lead, 1,531, while T. B. Wright, democrat, and Luke L. Seeley, prohibitionist, had 926 and 96 respectively ; H. F. Blair, republican, for superintendent, had 1,585 to 913 for O. H. Kerns, democrat. The record for surveyor shows 1,548 for the republican candidate, A. F. York and 890 for the democratic, J. P. Bru- ton. H. J. Felch was chosen coroner without opposition, having 1,860 votes. The commissioner in first district was A. M. Wright, and in the second, John T. Taylor, both republicans.

There was a special election in 1905 to supply the vacancy caused by the death of State Senator J. P. Sharp. Arthur Gunn of Wenatchee was chosen.

Reaching now the intermediate election of 1906 we find interest to some extent on the wane. For Congress, Messrs. Humphrey, Jones and Cushman were reëlected by votes of 1,245, 1,217 and 1,242 to an average of 650 for the democratnc candidates. In the contest for representatives in the legislature, G. E. Dickson and Andrew Olson, republicans, had 1,043 and 1,154 votes each

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to 1,000 and 691 for the democrats, H. M. Baldwin and Andrew Wilson : social- ist candidates appear in this election, J. F. Le Clerc and A. C. Norcross, with 190 and 178 respectively. For sheriff, W. E. Crowley, democrat, was chosen over J. B. Becker, republican, and W. H. McKee, socialist, the votes being 1,300, 755 and 157. A republican clerk, George Sayles, was chosen by 1,002 to 943 for O. W. Ball, democrat, and H. D. Harkness, socialist, with a vote of 943. The record for auditor shows 1,578 for the democrat, E. J. Matthews to 977 for the republican, A. E. Emerson. For treasurer, W. D. Price, repub- lican, had 1,413 to 800 for Frank Bossong, democrat. Chester R. Hovey, re- publican, gathered in the office of attorney from A. L. Slemmons, by 1,139 to 856. James Heron, republican, became assessor with 1,082 votes to 884 for the democrat and 181 for the socialist. C. S. Baker was chosen superintendent by 1,159 to 840 for the democrat W. A. Thomas. For surveyor the record is 1,203 for W. M. Emerson to 709 for the democrat and 200 for the socialist. For coroner G. W. Steele, republican, had 1,361 to 221 for H. T. Williger, socialist, William Adams became commissioner in the second district and J. N. Burch in the third.

And now comes another presidential year, 1908. The republicans were still far in the lead, though with some surprising exceptions. The Taft electors obtained 1,752 votes to 985 for the Bryan electors, with 317 socialist and 64 prohibition. That record shows a total county vote of 3,118, denoting a marked increase and worth remembering in comparison with later votes after woman suffrage came in. Since 1906 the congressional apportionment for the state had been segregated into districts, and hence but one congressman appears. A new deal was on and a new congressional luminary appears in the person of Miles Poindexter. He was chosen to represent the fourth district by 1,684 votes over William Goodyear, democrat, with 974. There came into existence this year the nonpartisan judiciary system, and the votes for the three judges are inter- esting, not as showing any comparison of parties, but the judges voted for and the number of votes. Judges Crow, Root and Chadwick received 2,670, 2,648 and 2,648, each, being elected by large majorities.

For governor, S. G. Cosgrove received 1,772 to 1,002 for John Pattison, democrat. For state senator in the thirteenth district, J. H. Smithson, republi- can, was chosen with 1,716 votes to 1,072 for Mitchel Stevens, democrat, and 50 for the prohibitionist, George W. Siegel. The representatives for the nine- teenth district were the republicans F. L. Calkins with 1,683 votes and J. C. Hubbell with 1,758 against 1,103 for Joseph Watson and R. A. Turner, demo- crats. Ralph Kauffman became judge of the Supreme Court. W. E. Crowley for sheriff had an overwhelming vote, 1,991, over W. F. Lewis, 966. Mr. Crow- ley was the democratic candidate. E. J. Matthews was another successful dem- ocrat, having 1,552 to 1,351 for J. J. Putnam, republican, George Sayles, repub- lican candidate for clerk, defeated Jacob J. Michaels by 1,625 to 1,199. For treasurer T. C. Crimp was chosen without opposition. For attorney E. K. Brown, republican, triumphed over the opposing democrat A. L. Slemmons by 1.544 to 1,341. For assessor the vote was 1,804 for James Heron, republican, and 1,009 for J. H. Lee, democrat. Mrs. Genevieve L. Barklay was elected superintendent, the democratic candidate, by 1,532 to 1,362 for C. S. Baker, re-

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publican. M. M. Emerson became engineer without opposition. T. S. Wasson became coroner, A. M. Wright commissioner in first district and J. W. Burch commissioner in third district.

Coming now to the election of 1910 we find a new choice in the congres- sional field, W. L. LaFollette, republican, chosen by 1,303 votes to 405 for the democrat, H. D. Merritt, and 209 for the socialist, D. C. Coates. We find as representatives in the legislature for the nineteenth district, George E. Dickson with 1,612 votes and J. C. Hubbell with 1,324, both republicans, and Mitchel Stevens, democrat, with 851. B. H. German was chosen sheriff without opposi- tion.

The other county officers chosen follow: Clerk, W. Newstrum; auditor, James Heron ; treasurer, Fred Gilmour ; attorney, E. K. Brown; assessor, G. C. Estrem : superintendent, Mrs. Genevieve Barklay; engineer, C. T. Jordan; coroner, T. S. Wasson; commissioner first district, Isaac Brown; commissioner second district, William Adam. Of the county officers named above, Messrs. German and Gilmour, and Mrs. Barklay were democrats. The others were republicans.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE

One very notable vote took place in 1910 .. For the third time the consti- tutional amendment providing for woman suffrage was voted on. This time it was successful. The vote in Kittitas County was 629 for to 366 against. The most surprising thing is the smallness of the vote on this important subject. There was a total vote of 995 votes as compared with 2,917 for congressmen. It certainly speaks poorly for the intelligence and character of the male voters that they so neglected to vote on this important question. It suggests, however, that those who did vote acted wisely in enlarging the electorate.

The great year of 1912 has now come. Here we find a condition unprece- dented in national politics.

The republican party had been so wrenched by internal differences that it had split into the conservative and progressive factions. A political triangle was formed similar in origin and outcome to the great triangle of 1,860 by which the democratic party was rent in twain and that greatest of Americans, Abraham Lincoln, became the first republican president. There is an extraordinary sim- ilarity in the conjunction of events which made Lincoln president in 1860 and that which made Wilson president in 1912.

It is within the range of probability that the future historian may write these men in the same category in other respects also. The election of a demo- cratic president was a foregone conclusion, but the state of Washington was one of the small number of states to vote for the progressive candidate.

In examining the record of the vote of 1912 in Kittitas County we discover the unusual fact that the electors of the six different presidential tickets re- ceived exactly the same vote on each ticket as follows: Democratic, 1,407 ; pro- gressive, 1,402; republican, 1,157; socialist, 515; prohibition, 142; socialist la- hor, 33. This vote, it should be remembered, includes the women newly en- dowed with political right. The election was such as to get out pretty much the full strength, and hence the aggregate vote for president comes pretty nearly representing the voting power of Kittitas County. This aggregate is 4,656.

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In this election two congressmen-at-large were to be voted for throughout the state. The following were the candidates and parties and votes: Republi- cans, H. B. Dewey and J. E. Frost, with 1,437 and 1,797 votes respectively ; democrats, E. O. Conner and H. W. White, 1,137 and 1,164; progressive, J. W. Bryan and J. A. Falconer, 1,334 and 1,560; socialists, S. E. Giles and Alfred Wagenknecht, 472 and 455; prohibition, N. A. Thompson, 125.

For congressman from the fourth district, the result was this: Republican, WV. L. LaFollette, 1,704; democrat, R. Drumheller, 1,119; progressive, F. M. Goodwin, 1,367; socialist, R. B. Martin, 450.

For Governor, the democratic candidate, Ernest Lister, received 1,580 to 1,505 for Robert Hodges, progressive ; M. E. Hay, republican, with 1,422; Anna Maley, socialist, with 411; G. F. Stivers, prohibitionist, with 114: A. L. Brear- cliff, socialist labor, with 18. Ralph Kauffman was chosen to the superior judgeship over John B. Davidson. For state senator C. H. Flummerfelt, demo- crat, was elected with 2,258 votes to 1,044 for James E. Ferguson, republican. 1,006 for S. P. Beecher, progressive, and 401 for the socialist, O. D. Stoker.

For representative E. K. Brown, progressive, had 1,884 votes and his part- ner, A. E. Elberson, had 1,411. The republicans, G. E. Dickson and J. C. Hub- bell, had 1,353 and 1,306. The democrats, P. H. Adams and Charles Bull, had 1,828 and 1,647. The votes for local officers are also significant and will be given in full. For sheriff, B. H. German, democrat, 2,691 : John F. Bowers, republican, 1,155; S. E. Bunker, progressive, 965. For clerk, William News- trum, republican, 2,104; J. A. Crimp, democrat, 1,682 ; progressive, W. F. Peter- son, 837; auditor, James Heron, republican, 2,117; H. W. Baldwin, democrat, 1,625. Treasurer, Fred Gilmour, democrat, 2,375; W. A. Stainman, progres- sive, 1,310. Attorney, F. A. Kern, progressive, 2,096; A. L. Slemmons, demo- crat, 1,676; O. A. Falkner, republican, 134. Assessor, G. C. Estrem, progres- sive, 1,675; C. G. Thomas, democrat, 1,453; E. G. Southern, republican, 1,265. Superintendent, Mrs. Mary D. Boedcher, progressive, 2,266; Jennie W. Talbot, republican, 1,344; Lillian Merryman, democrat, 1,225. Engineer, Charles T. Jordan, without opposition. Coroner, R. A. Rose, republican, 2,043; W. K. Briley, progressive, 1,328; W. L. Jackson, democrat, 1,226. Commissioner for second district. H. G. McNeil, progressive.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

A special matter of utmost importance in the development of the political system of the state was the submission to the electorate in 1912 of three great constitutional amendments. These were the Recall, Initiative and Referendum, and Prohibition. Kittitas County, as almost all of eastern Washington, and enough of western Washington to make a majority, went affirmative on these propositions. In the county : Recall : yes 1,459; No, 541. Initiative and Refer- endum: Yes, 1,418; no, 503. Prohibition: Yes, 3,016; Nb. 2,638. It is rather significant to note how much greater vote was called out on the last. It is sur- mised that women had not become much interested in the former questions, but their sentiments were roused to the full on prohibition.

ELECTION OF 1914

The seventeenth amendment to the federal constitution went into operation for the first time in the state this year, though it had been duly passed some

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years earlier. It was not an unaccustomed process, however, for popular sena- torial nomination had supplanted legislative choice for several years.

The total vote for senator was 6,030, divided thus: W. L. Jones, republi- can, 1,746; Ole Hanson, progressive, 1,647; W. W. Black, democrat, 1,447 ; Adam H. Barth, socialist, 412; A. S. Caton, prohibition, 158. For representa- tive fourth district, W. L. LaFollette, republican, 1,988; Roscoe Drumheller, democrat, 1,377.

Representatives in legislature: J. C. Hubbell, republican, 2,944; Philip H. Adams, democrat, 2,494; C. T. Jordan, democrat, 1,280; E. K. Brown, progres- sive, 2,047 ; sheriff, Hod Harmon, republican, 1,987; Howard Garrison, dem- ocrat, 2,329; P. W. Stenger, progressive, 966. Clerk: F. T. Hofmann, progres- sive, 1,847 ; Frank Taylor, democrat, 1,616; William B. Price, republican, 1,563. Auditor : Walter G. Damerow, republican, 2,403; E. G. Heron, progressive, 1,657; L. L. Geeslin, democrat, 953. Treasurer : Maud Gilmour, democrat, 2.619 Roy Burch, republican, 2,033: G. C. Estrem, progressive, 633. Attorney : F. A. Kern, progressive, 3,065; Edward Pruyn, republican, 1,698. Assessor : Mrs. L. A. Kenney, republican, 2,481 ; W. P. Hiddleson, democrat, 1,572; B. A. Gault, progressive, 1,083. Superintendent : Mary A. Boedcher, without oppo- sition. Engineer: M. M. Emerson, republican, 1,974; H. A. Murray, progres- sive, 1,792; Max L. Mook, democrat, 1,316. Commissioners: first district, Louis Larson, and second district, H. G. McNeil, both without opposition.

An important group of initiative measures, several designed to modify the prohibition amendment, were voted on in this election. All were defeated, most of them so overwhelmingly as to make it almost needless to caunt the votes. This was true in the state as well as county.

ELECTION OF 1916

We reach in this election one of the most exciting presidential elections in the history of the country.

After the great split of 1912 the two wings of the republican party joined in the nomination of the "Sphinx" of the party, C. E. Hughes. It certainly . looked as though there might be a republican administration. And so there would have been, had it not been for the West. There was as intense a struggle over the governorship and the senatorship as the presidency. The adherents of Turner and Poindexter respectively and of Lister and McBride felt equally that the country would be saved or lost as their candidate rose or fell. The results of the election were full of surprises, the greatest of which was that Washington, normally a republican state by 50,000 or 60,000, went for Wilson by 16,594 plurality.

The result in Kittitas County was for presidential electors : highest repub- lican, 2,310; highest democrat, 2,609; prohibition, 93; socialist, 262; socialist labor, 8. A total of 5,282, somewhat less than in 1914 and a good deal more than in 1912.

The senatorial contest resulted in 2,891 for the republican Poindexter and 1,932 for the democrat Turner. There were 294 socialist, 55 prohibition and 8 progressive. To that sorry depth the great progressive party had fallen, a worse tumble than the populist party had taken. For representative in the fourth district LaFollette, republican, had 2,961 votes and Masterson, demo-

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crat, had 1,754, with 257 for the socialist candidate. The result in the guber- national contest was close, and even in doubt in the state, but Lister pulled through with 13,840 majority. In the county Lister's vote was 2,557 to 2,409 for McBride, republican. The lesser candidates had 335 in all. For state sen- ator, J. B. Adams, republican, had 2,520 to 2,081 for J. H. Ferryman, democrat.

For representative J. C. Hubbell, republican, had 3,319, and D. O. Kearby, Republican, had 3,405. There was no opposing candidate in either case. For sheriff, Howard Garrison, democrat, received 3,008, with no opposing candi- date. Clerk, Fred T. Hofman, and for auditor W. G. Damerow, both republi- cans. Treasurer : Mand Gilmour, democrat, was reelected with 2,761 to 2,303 for her republican competitor, James Heron. Attorney: Arthur L. McGuire, democrat, with 2,499 votes, was chosen over Newton Henton, republican, 2,412. For assessor : Mrs. Lillian A. Kenney, republican, 2,820; Hugh Fish, dem- ocrat, 2,120. Superintendent : S. A. Bartlett, without opposition. Engineer : H. A. Murray, without opposition. Commissioners : in first district, J. W. Ger- man ; in second district, James Lane. For the superior court, Ralph Kauffman and John B. Davidson were again pitted against each other, with the result of 1,606 votes for the former and 2,230 for the latter.

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History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. I, Part 72

Author: Lyman, William Denison, 1852-1920 Publication date: 1919 Publisher: [Chicago] S.J. Clarke Number of Pages: 1134

Author: Lyman, William Denison, 1852-1920
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: [Chicago] S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1134