Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-10
CANVASS SHOWS
SOME CHANGES
Official Inspection Reveals a Num-
Der of inaccuracies in the
First Precinct.
DOES NOT ALTER the RESULT
Work on the Second Precinct Begins
Tonight When Interesting Deylop'
ments Are Looked For.

The official canvass OF the returns of
the municipal election which was begun
in earnest last last night by the city
council, shows a number of changes In
the unofficial returns from the First
precinct, none of which altered the re-
suit of the election but merely changed
the pluralities In some instances. Mar
lin lost 81 votes. 80 in the Fifth and
one IN the Eighth district. Hays lost
20 votes In the Eleventh district, where
he was credited with ia votes on cleo
ton night when 1t should have been
only 1854.
Fisher Harris gained 10 votes In the
Eighth and c. B. Felt lost 10 In the
same district Isaacs, Socialist candi-
date for mayor lost in the Fourth, 8
in the Ninth and gained in the
Eleventh, making total loss of 8
votes in the entire precinct. j. j. Mey-
ers lost 20 votes in the Second, Critch-
low lost In the Eighth Nye lost | in
the same district but gained / IN the
Eleventh: Mrs. johnson, Socialist lost
in the Fourth; Randall. Socialist, lost
I'm the Ninth, and Service, Socialist,
lost 2 in the Fourth.
TELLERs APPOINTED.
When the council was called to order,
President Cottrell appointed Sharp,
Tuddenham and A. j. Davis as tellers.
There were only a very few spectators
present watching the canvass. Among
them We're Chairman Lcary OF the
Democratic city committee, w. H.
Bramel, City Atty. Nye, Councilman
elect l.. d. Martin, Land and Water
Commissioner MacKnight and several
others. In all but two Of the districts
there was a discrepancy between the
number of names on the official poll
book and the number marked voted
on the official register These were
merely due TO the negligence of the
judges In marking on the register those
who had voted
DISCREPANCIES SHOWN.
In district No. the POLLOCK con-
tanned 40S names, while there were only
405 checked on the official register
There was a discrepancy OF seven in the
second district, the pollbook showing
Sal names and the number checked on
the register was 53i. In the Third dis
trict the judges failed to check % per-
sons who had voted. The pollbook con-
tanned APO names while only iO7 were
checked on the register There was one
challenge in the district which was sus-
tanned.
FOURTH NOT COMPLETE.
The returns IN the fourth district were
not complete as the official register was
missing and one of the judges. j. j.
Whitaker failed to sign the pollbook.
A messenger was sent for the register
and to secure Mr.. Whttakers sigma
ture TO the pollbook There were no
other irregularities in the returns of
the district. In the Fifth district there
We're 472 names on the pollbook and 40
checked ON the register. In this dis
trct Martin lost 80 votes. The pollbouk
in the Sixth district contained 3l4 votes
and SAl were checked On the register.
There were FIVE challenges in this dis
trct, three of which We're sustained,
one withdrawn and one sworn In.
EIGHT CHALLENGES.
There were eight challenges in the
seventh district, three Of which were
sustained and five sworn in. The poll
book showed 46S votes cast but only 1853
were checked on the register. In the
eighth district there were $40 names ON
the polbook and SOB checked on the
register The POLLOCK and register in
both ninth and tenth districts tailed,
there being S65 votes east in the former
and 4Oi in the latter In the eleventh
the pUllnOOk contained 4lJ names Nnlle
there were only 4l5 checked on the reg
lister. Hays lost 20 votes in this dis
tHct,
SECOND PRECINCT TONIGHT.
Tonight at O'Clock the council win
begin on the returns from the Second
precinct II Is expected that much
more interest will be taken in the cam
yass In this district as the result may
be changed in the vote for councilmen
for the short term which would elect
the two Democratic candidates, Bur-
bidge and Badger, and thus change the
politics OF the new council. These men
were defeated by pluraities of only six
and ten votes respectively and an olil-
cial canvass might in those cases alter
the results materially,