Arizona republican., 1899-01-13
IT IS ALL OVER NOW
The LaSf Deposition is Taken in
 inc Contest.

The josh is ended. The honorable
 J. Milton Davis rushed into the pres
 ence of Commissioners Kincaid and Gray, his prematrrely whitened hair
 erect like the flaming light of Pharos,
 and exclaimed: We will not hear
 the cost of the cross examination. 7"
 MT. Davis was recovering from a trou-
 bled dream of the deposition proceed
 ings the night before, in which
 Stenographer Tiffany had been sitting
 heavily on his breast.
 A. s. Arthur shook MT. Davis and
 awakened him. He sat down, rubbed his eyes and perceived his whereabouts.
 Judge Kibbey, representing the re- spondent, said he had no wish to pro long the agony of MT. Davis and the contestants, but in view of the fact that a, young man by the name of Rus sell had introduced inccherent testi- mony which might reflect upon so re- lS2eotabIg citizens as Col. William l Christy and O. H. Christy, the re- spondents had deemed it advisable to introduce testimony in rebuttal.
 l The Hon. J. Milton Davis rose like lone in a dream and exclaimed:: "The contestants will not stand the expense of the testimony on the part of the Icontestees. Even the commissioners smiled, and MT Davis resumed his Ireverie. Col Christy was called to the stand. He said that he was at West Phoenix precinct No. pretty much all day. He did not go inside the fifty foot limit except to procure numbers for voters. He had exercised no un- due influence over anybody.
 O. H. Christy whose tintillating pocket had attracted the ears of E. s. Russell and an alleged hobo converted from democracy to republicanism, said that he was at the polls. He was not within the fifty-foCt limit at any time except when he went tc vote. He was not aware that his pocket produced any jingle. He might have had one or two silver dollars, but he was confident that the chink could not have affected a political conversion of MT Russell or any other hobo
 Captain HE Mcdonald was a witness
 
 is a Texan and a rock-rfbbed disciple of Jefferson and Jackson. He was the mainstay of the democrats at West Phoenix precinct No. 1 on that fateful day. No other democrat or republican appeared to be in authority. pr. H. A. Hughes the day before had testified that Captain Mcdonald was a good democrat, prominent in all democratic councils, and a bell-Wether in demo- cratic caucuses and conventions, and absolutely faithful 364 days in the year. On election day, however, he was ac'5 to be a republican. This tes- tim.ony was calculated to prove that the misconduct at the polls rested upon the republicans. Captain Mcdonald indignantly rebutted the charge of Dr. Hughes and swore that he was dem ocrat 365 days in the year. The only other witnesses were Supervisor John R. Norton, Thomas E. Dalton and Lee Gray, all democrats. MT. Norton said that he saw nothing irregular in that precinct. There were democrats and republicans within the fifty-foot limit. There was no disturbance, nothing cal culated to lthwart the purpose Of any voter. The so-called reverse" ballots. MT. Dalton, who was a democratic in spector, said he received them from the democratic clerk of the board of supervisors and gave his receipt for them. Lee Gray testified that he had received the objectionable ballots from a democratic printer, he. turned them ever to the democratic inspector and had taken his receipt.