City Bonds Narrowly Pass by a Single Vote

With not even one vote to spare, the proposition to bond the city for $23,000 carried at the special election Tuesday. To win it was necessary for the issue to receive 60 per cent of the votes cast. The total votes in the three wards was 115, of which 69 were for, and 46 against bonds. Sixty per cent of 115 is 69, so that the difference of just one vote would have changed the result of the election. There was probably never before so little interest shown in any city election and the vote was not more than one-fifth of the total vote of the city and less than half of the total registration. There was little or no open campaigning done for or against the issue and a number of the voters did not wake up to the fact that there was an election until after the polls were closed. The bonds, which the election authorizes, are to be used in retiring the present warrant indebtedness of the city. By the terms of a previous contract the issue has been sold to Keeler Brothers of Denver at 5%. City officials are of the opinion that there will now be no delay in securing the money on the bonds and immediately retiring the warrants.