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Show MISS ELLAJJLSON WINS Fully 15,000 of the 32,000 Votes in the Goddess of Liberty Contest - Oast for Her. MISS WINNIE KIMBALL 18 SECOND. Scenes and Incidents During the First Night of the Count-9300 Votes in One Paokage. Thu very first ballot that came out of the box last night when the counting of the votes lor tho Goddess of Liberty was commenced w as a Tim us ballot, and it was cast for Miss Ella Olson. As the counting proceeded Miss Olsen's votes began to multiply and it was soon apparent that she was a sure winner. When the election board took a recess at 4:110 this morning it was evident that she had received almost as many voles as all the other candidates put together. "Of counting ballots there is no end" was the wail of the election board last night as they gathered around the long table at the chamber of commerce. When the task was commenced it seemed as though it would never be completed. The night was hot and sultry, and the ballots bal-lots flowed, from the boxes onto the lablo thick and fast, and were more numerous than the leaves that, were strewn in tho famous vale of Valam-brosa. Valam-brosa. The counting was commenced abonL !) o'clock, and continued uutiU o'clock this morning. At that, hour 10,000 votes had been counted and the tellers , wore then able to say confidently confi-dently that Miss Ol.sc.u was a sure winner. Of these ten thousand i votes, she. had 4315. Miss Winnie Kimball was second on the list then with 22!l() votes and Miss Maud Merrill third with 1455 vole. A rough estimate esti-mate was made then which showed that about. liO.ODO voles had been east, of whieli number' 15,000 or probably more were for Miss Olson. The set ties and incidents during the counting were often of an amusing character. Tho ballots, too, were sometimes significant. The popularity of Tun Times was amply attested by iho number of Times' ballots drawn from the box. "Nothing but Times ballots," said one of the tellers, after Hie count bad boon going on for nearly two hours, and until tho very end of the count Thk Times' ballots held their place, numbering almost as many as these of all tho other papers combined. com-bined. Quito a crowd hung round the door of the chamber of commerce until the election board was compelled to take a recess from sheer exhaustion. Every few minutes some friend of one of the candidates would come in to ask how the returns stood then. .Ballots began to come in in great packages about 8 o'clock, and from that time on until '12 counted the ballots, announcing them in tens. These results were noted on two tally sheets, wbilo still another man again counted the ballots to see that there hail been no mistake. About midnight the excitement around the, chamber of commerce became intense. Many had been expecting to receive the result about that hour and quite a crowd, anxious to know how Hie vote was going crowded into the room and woulil scarcely be satisfied with the answer that not one-fifth of the votes had yet been counted. Miss Olsen's friends went, however, confident from the start. She took the lead before 500 votes had been counted ami kept it, to tho very close. About 11 o'clock it looked 'as though Miss Winnie Kimball Kim-ball was going to forgo ahead but the next batch of votes drawn from the box were all for Miss Olsen and she was again in tho lead. MISS ELLA OLSON, THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY. |