Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-25
LOST LINCOLN COUNTY
Btu Swept Desha--Nip and Tuck Be. tween Young and Nixon For Sec. Ond Place-Seyeral Townships Unheard FrOm-The Unofficial Count Shows 3,l5O Votes Cast.

With four comparatively large town ships to hear from in Desha county and one small voting precinct in Jef- ferson, the unofficial returns from Fridays elction for prosecuting at torney of the Eleventh Judicial Dis- trict, show that Judge w. D. Jones, the present incumbent, was reelected to the office by a plurality of 3S0 votes over w. T. Young and T. Havis Nix on. It is the fourth successive time that this honor has been bestowed up- on Judge Jones by the voters of the i Eleventh District. The race for sec
 ond place is still in doubt. T. Havis Nixon leads w. T. Young for second honors by only 5S votes. It will re-
 quire the official figures to decide the many place" bets which were placed preceding and on the day of the event. full election by the betting ones in the District.
 i The four townships, yet to be heard from in Desha county are believed to be favorable to Young, although many figure that his majorities over Nixon in the various precincts unheard from will not be sufficient to over come Nixon's lead of 58 votes. Mr.
 Young believes that they will, but Nixon says there is little chance of his doing it. The unofficial returns from Desha show that county to be Nixon's weakest of the three. In six precincts in that county Nixon receiv- ed only "A votes, while Young,s total is 112. There are, according to the figures of the last election in Desha, nearly 220 votes in Walnut Lake, Jef- ferson, Richland and Silver Lake townships, which are yet to report the prosecuting attorneys vote. In the event that Young's votes overcome Nixon's present lead he will be given the second honor, although it is a we'll known fact that many of the votes re- turned in townships in all of the three counties will undergo a change when the official count is made. This will not change the general result. for Judge Jones has the office 'cinched" for two years more, after his present term expires, but it will affect Young's and Nixon's totals. Talladega is the township in Jeffer- son county which has not been heard from. This vote is of little conse- quence in view of the fact that there are only about six votes in the Tal- ladega box.
 Secretary w. B. Sorrells of the Democratic Central Committee of the Eleventh Judicial District, stated yes terday afternoon that the committee would canvass he vote in this city Thursday afternoon at o'clock. The vote will be canvassed, he says, just the same as if there was contest on, to insure the correct count in de- ciding the second man. Many bets were made in this city and elsewhere in the District on the third man. These bets are being held up for the official count.
 Judge Jones Swept the District.
 Judge w. D. Jones could not have received more f1attering endorse ment than was shown by the returns in Fridays election. He carried all of the four wards and the Vaugine town ship box in the city and thirteen town ships in Jefferson county. In Lin- coin county Judge Jones has nothing to be ashamed of. While Nixon car ried the county over Young by small vote, total of 35, Judge Jones receiv- ed only AZ votes less than Nixon there. The big vote received by Nixon in Star City. where the largest vote (Continued on Page Four.l