Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-15
THE ELECTION CONTEST.
1t VIII Come up Before Jadee ssss
on Monday.

Inc following was fled IN the
Third District COurtsestefday after.
noons
! In the tnifd District Court of the
Territory OF Utah:
Richard w. Young, John Pewson
Smith and William j. Tuddenham, be-
ing first duly sworn, on their osths do
say:
That they are, and at all the times
hereafter named have been, citizens Of
the United States.
That Salt Lake City Is tho name OF
a municipal corporation existing under
the laws OF Stah Territory, and that J,
is a city * the t'first class" :. bay;rn
ar inhabitancy Of ovsT 20 boo peonIe a.
and before the urne Of the election
herein Mentioned. That for tae Isst
ons and half years they have been
and now are, actual, bona fde resi-
dents OF the Fourth municipal ward.
IN said city OF Salt Lake, Salt Lake
County. Utah Territory.
An@t cach o. said atlantis has been.
during the period last Aforesaid, anu h
LOW over the age o. twentylore
yearsi and they have been during said
PeIiod, ana now ere. duly registered
and qualified electors and free hoiders
said. A cry Aiole-
That. to-wit, on the 10Th day Of Feb
ruary. 1890. atlantis Si,ege that tbeTa
was a mnnf-ipAl election held in ssid
city, for the purpose of electinu one
mayor and fifteen councilmen' and
otner officers OF and for said civ. Tor
me ensuing two years; and that al the
eiection atlantis and each Of them
were candidates for the officsof coun-
T S.I from said Fourth Municipal
ward and then and there each Of them
received 4s2 votes for the office Of
councioaan in said city, from said
municipal ward.
Annants further state that they re-
ceiNed the highest number of votes of
AGy person or persons from said
municipal ward for the office Of coun-
Gilman, and that no other persons or
candidates were voted for said Of
nee except three, whose names are as
follows, to-witg Worden P. Noble.
Louis Cohn and Lucius Z. Hall; and |
that neither OF said candidates, last |
Aforesaid, received as great a number |
OF votes rs were cast in favor Of aiii- |
ants, and that said three last named |
persons obtained only S04 votes that |
were cas-. in said municipal ward at |
said election for said Offices OF council |
men therefrom.
Atlantis further state that they are
informed and believe that one Elijah
II. Sells has been named and author
ized by the duly qualified officers Of
the law to issue TO the persons obtain
ing the highest number of votes, and
the one authorized TO hold said office,
certificate Of election or a certificate
TO that effect; and that atlantis acting
on said Information and belief. subse-
quent to said 10Th day OF February.
1890, applied TO said Elijah II. Sells,
as such officer. and duly requested
MIN to issue TO them the said certifi-
cate, showing that they were the par
ties so elected to the office aforesaid,
and each OF them; but said Sells then
and there declined and refused to issue
said certificate 10 them, or either OF
them.
Wherefore atlantis ask this honor
able court to issue an order to said
Eli iah II. Sells, commanding him TO
issue to each Of said atlantis a ceriifi-
cate of their election to the Office Of
councillor Of said city from said NUM-
cipal ward, or in default thereof to
show cause why he did not issue said
certificate. before this honorable court,
at the hour Of 10 am, on the 18th day
Of February, 1890.
RICHARD W. YOUNG,
JOHN FEwsoS SMITH,
w. J. TUDDESHAM.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this l3th day OF February, lego.
]. NJ. WADDELL, Notary Public.
The following certificate Of the
vote in the Third and Fourth pre-
cincts accompanies the affidavit:
Number OF votes received by the
in the Third and Fourth
precincts Of Salt Lake city
as shown by the official canvass: