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FRAUD.
OITY COUNCIL DECLARE N.
W. Quincy ELECTED
ALDERMAN.
The Mayoralty to be Settled
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News.

!. GALVESTON, April 29.-The agony over the
aldermanic contest has ended. TO day the
committee OF tile whole of the City q, uncll
presented a majority and minority report. The
majority report rejecting the returns from the
11th Ward and declaring NJ w. Quincy legally
elected as Alderman from the 18th Ward, was
adopted by vote of 8 to2. Aldermen Large
and Mcdonald submitted an exhaustive minor
ty report which was voted Gown.
whole will tockle, the may
orally contest which now absrbs public atten-
tiOn and promises to b. more exciting than the
aldermenic contest.
arrived this morning 1. ON Corpus Christi,
crowded with passengers en- route for the
worlds E6positf1fn ff Sind anu the captain i, reports
mOdaIiOns. After taking on 1,4N0 sacks of
coffee, the AranSaS sailed at 2 p. IN. for New
Orleans.
More Sensational Developments In
the 1eyOralty contest.
GALVESTON, May 1.-The Mayoral con-
fest between Ex-Sayor Fulton AID acting
Mayor Atkins took new and unexpected turn
to day. The sleuth hounds Of investiga
tba1 tSH Eos started fa the out right Wne
the frauds in the aldermanic contest between
Quincy and Allen. After seating Cuncy they
took up the rial again, and to-day the big
wolf was fairly run 10 cover, where he has
turned on his purSuers and shdw5 Signs #
fight. When the Council met to-day, IN com
mi,tee of the whole, the contestant (Fulton)
proving the frau ulent character of the re-
turns from the Eleventh Ward. These returns
had already been proven so putrid that Atkins
out single genuine ballot in the Eleventh
Ward box. His entire defense con-
sisted of an exhaustive document
labor1nuSly alleging, in a superficial manner,
the existence Of fraudulent ballots in the
boxes of the other Wards. For instance. in
the 7th Ward Atkins alleges the perpeti alton
of such hanious offences against the election
laws as .'the pasting together of one ballot"
another ballot he alleges "had a circle upon 1t
made with pencil; while still another was
ner he enumerated perhaps hundred petty
Irregularities. The attorneys for Atkins. at
the conclusion OF the evidence offered by Fu!-
ton, attem sted to call witnesses and prove for
whom they voted for mayor In the Eleventh
Ward Fulton objected to it on the ground that
to show for whom they voted would be equiva-
lent to holding an election at time and man
sustained this objection, and, on mot. on OF Al
der.nan Lee, by vote of
asxns ia o v three ssectes ed Th Byo rea ea y By
crisis. The attorneys for Atkins, after hasty
eonsu ,tation, re-entered the Chamber and
ing that Atkins withdrew his case from fur
her consideration of the Council.
and said he would appeal to more learned tri
bunal. The strangest part of the proceedings
was the p0mp0us announcement by the Junior
attorney, that he took the responsibility of say
ing that the contestee (Atkins) would contin-
u6 TO nOlu the ONCE Oh Mayor pEnC-
ing the discussion of the case by the courts.
This is the rub; Fulton with the Eleventh
Ward thrown out, has an undisputed majority
of 81 votes, yet Atkins refuses to abide by any
result the city council may determine, and de-
family declares war by announcing he Will
continue to be mayor, no matter what the
council does, until disposedby more learned
tribunal" The situation tonight Is one of ap
prehensive anxiety.
AS so as Atkins withdrew from the con-
test to avoid his impending defeat, he repaired
to his Office and Immediately began whole
sale decapitatiOn ofthe old and tried members
of the city police force. By nightfall he had
summarily dismissed twenty policemen, in
| Guiding two detectives; also discharged some
minor employees. Some days agS; he oti dis; s;
| Police Jerdone, and appointed others in their
stead. Thus, tonight the entire police
| force of the city are new men, every one
of whom is a strong partisan Of
Atkins. 1t certainly looks as though Atkins
was preparing to physically resist the order OF
the, City Council hurting him from office. That
such mandate will be issued tomorrow no.
body doubts. Excitement over the probable
outcome is apparent everywhere. The popular
feeling is decidedly against Atkins and his
methods.