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Show WILL WIRE WIN IT. He Leads the List as the Contest Closes Today by Fifty-Five. HILTON STILL A COOD SECOND. Danner and Ksllnger Tie for Third Place, While Matthews Holds a Grip on Fourth Notes of the Struggle. And the cry is still they come ! The Times voting contest still continues and the manner in which votes are dropping into the box of the voting-contest editor is gratifying in the extreme to all but him. The task of keeping an accurate count is no easy oue and the mathematician aforesaid has his braiu sorely racked in his effort to do all justioa and not miss a vote. Officer Danner came in for some votes today. to-day. That Is to say he did not personally visit The Times office but a friend of his did, and as a result Uanr.er starts off with 6o, a very tidv little send off when the fact that the voting does not close until June 20 is considered. Some humorist who signed himself "Mrs. Flanagan" voted one for Officer McUinty and agreed to poll one each day for that individual in-dividual hereafter. As there is no such person per-son on the force the quasi Airs. Flanagan con rest assured that his ballot is now reposing repos-ing quietly in the basement of the voting contest editor's waste basket alongside some spring poetrv donated by a pupil in the Ogden military academy. No joshing goes in this business, it is all in dead earnest. At 2 p. in. today the vote stood as follows: fol-lows: Sergeant Wire MJ Offlcer Hilton I11 Officer EsUnger J Officer Danner W Officer Matthews Jl Officer Shaffer M Officer Curran , Officer Albrisrht m Serjeant Kand-.dph Officer H. Ford 18 Officer Lund 10 Officer Whit.' 6 Officer Siegtna I Offic. r Carey 5 Officer Carman Sergeant Sheets 8 Offic. rllurd J Officer shannon Total 597 NOTES OF THE COXTEST. Look out for Wire. Keep your eye on Hilton. Whaf s the matter with Mr. Eslinger? Also what's the matter with Mr. Donner? Mathews will be heard from soon. Paste that in your hat. Will somebody please break that tie between, be-tween, Eslinger ana Donner. A friend of George Albright says "never mind, just you wait, it's a long time until .tune 20." If any one thinks Harry Curran is out of the rr.ee he or she is not running in their proper groove. The votinsr contest editor insists that every person must cut his own votes. This buying buy-ing a hundred papers and placing them on his desk doesn't go. |