Arizona republican., 1895-05-05
WHO'S THE TRUSTEE?
The Isaac's District Hearing
 Begins.
The Contest of Elvey vs. Crabbs the Continuation of an Old School
 District Split.

It was too thick to stir in the office of County Superintendent Grouse yes- terday afternoon. If the board of supervisors had happened along it would have recognized the justice of the superintendent's clamor for more room. The voting population of Isaac's school district had come in to testif y in the school election contesr case of Mo Elvey vs. Crabb.
 D. Crabb was elected trustee in this district and the certificate of his election was filed with the county su- perintendent almost simultaneously with protest against his confirmation and 8 notice of contest.
 This contest is only continuation of schism in the district beginning with school house location fight. Neither the contestant nor the contestee cares much for the latent honor in the posi- | tion of school trustee and nothing at all for the official emolmuents. They stand only for the sacred principles of the eastern and western portions of the district.
 The contest is based mainly on two allegations. The first is that the cleo tion was informal and irregular. That
 it that there was not the prescribed complement of judges and, clerks that in fact, the trustee, elect Crabb was the judge, clerk and autocrat of the election assisted spasmodically by o. H. Christy. The other complaint is that the polls Ewere not kept open during the time prescribed by law and that thereby many persons who would have voted against Crabb were debarred from vot. ing at all.
 Witnesses for the contestant were the contestant himself, w. P. John. eon, Chris Miller, P. R. Day
 ner, Frank o. Elvey. John Nc
 Bride and Henry Ware. On the
 other side were 0. H. Christy, J
 D. Crabb and M. H. Porter. MT.
 Johnson is the Bill Nye of the district
 He testified only concerning the infor'
 mality of the election. He went there
 to vote and found nobody in charge but
 Mr. Crabb, one of the candidates. The
 witness thought he looked lonesome
 but triumphant, and he thought that if
 Mir. Crabb permitted himself to be de-
 feated he wasn't much of a politician
 or else was lacking in political ambi tion. The witness had attended schoo
 elections and other elections in other
 countries. They were not managed
 this way, but he thought this was thu
 Arizona method and was perhaps al right in this climate.
 There was nothing dec1sive in any O
 the rest of the testimony for the con
 testant.
 MT. Crabb said in defense that whe' the time came for opening the poll there was nobody there but himsel
 and MT. Christy. They consulted th statutes but could find no authority 10 , going out into the highways and tryin' Z to collar people and bring them in t } act as clerks and judges. The poll were therefore opened as early as pos r sible and kept open as long as the laV } allowed. Seven or eight persons cam ) to vote after the closing. Two of then the witness said would have voted fo
 Mir. Elvey, the rest he thought woul' l have voted for himself.
 There was question concerning tn eligibility of some of the voters bu 3 that was not taken up and the case wa continued, until next Saturday. Botl } sides were represented by attorneys l Judge Kibbey for the contestant and l l D. Bennett for the contestee.