45 year old Chauncey Norman Noteware of Douglas County (Carson City) wins. R.M. Daggett and Dr. A.S. Peck also ran. Noteware had brothers and cousins who were gunning for other positions, including M.D. Noteware who would become Surveyor General, W.C. Noteware who would become Clerk. Those boys were city officials in other towns when the […]
politics
Orion won’t buttonhole voters at saloons
The night before the election, all the other candidates are buying whisky for voters getting verbal pledges of a vote. MT&OC pg 100
Orion loses to Noteware
Orion comes in 2nd – the election was a party nomination for the Union Party. Union Party Nominee for Governor is Henry Goode Blasdel