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Show OFFICERS CHOSEN BYENGINEERS Tragio Death of Chief IngTaham Oasts a Shadow Over tho Convention. LOS ANGELES, Cal May 28. Eventful were tho proceedings at both sessions of the locomotive engineers' convention today. Tho chair so tragically vacated Friday by First Grand Chief T. S. Ingraham was filled by William B. Prentcr. Grand Engineer W. S, Stone was returned to office by almost unanimous vote and the Jnsuranco branch was deprived of an officer who, with President Futch, has since 1S9G so administered the association associa-tion in this as to place It along with fraternal organizations. The change of offico for Prentcr means a Berlous loss to the Insurance association, a loss felt perhaps mora keenly by President Futch than any one else. This evening the board of trustees of the brotherhood met to canvass can-vass the field for a suitable man to be given the Insurance secretaryship, a task recognized as most difficult. The result of this canvass will be made public on Monday forenoon, when the convention will bo asked to Indorse the choice of the trustees. First Chief Prcnter became a member mem-ber of the brotherhood in 1379 at Toronto, To-ronto, Canada. For the past twenty-four years ho has held office either In sub-dlvlslons or In grand divisions, and was elected to tho Insurance secretaryship In 1S06. The event of tho afternoon's executive session was the election of Grand Chief Stone to succeed himself by a vote that was a surprise oven to his most sanguine san-guine friends. Men who had been strongly opposed to him during the canvass can-vass of tho past few days at the last moment gave him most cordlnl support. But ono ballot was necessary for a choice. Chief Stone received -130 votes, Matt Shay 107 and C. W. Gardner forty-one. forty-one. The rest wore scattered. When the result was made known the convention con-vention went wild. A motion to make this first ballot formal for-mal was carried unanimously. The convention then Instructed J. H. Welsh, division 207 of Atlanta, Ga., to cast tho ballot for Chief Stone. The concluding hours of the convention conven-tion were occupied In tho casting of an Informal ballot for first assistant chief. There were nearly forty aspirants In tho running. The Informal ballot resulted re-sulted In placing In tho fore C. P. Curtis, Cur-tis, F. A. Burgess, E. W. Hurley, M. W. Cadle, H. E. Willis and Peter Kllduff. These names will be voted on Monday. D. W. Prcnter of Cleveland, who for the past eight years has been secretary of tho insurance department of the order, or-der, was today unanimously chosen to servo temporarily as first grand engineer engi-neer In place of T. S. Ingraham, whose death occurred yesterday. It Is likely that when the permanont election Is mado next week that Mr.y Prcnter will be re-elected to tho position for the two-years' two-years' term. Tomorrow afternoon funeral services over the remains of the late T. S, Ingraham In-graham will be held at the First Congregational Con-gregational church. The services will be conducted by tho brotherhood. A committee will then depart for Cleveland Cleve-land with tho body of tho late engineer. |