Arizona republican., 1909-06-11

{ doing. The committee men worked like Trojans and every registered vote that could be located was assiduously sought. The office of Dwight B.
 Heard was a center of interest, espe- cially when the returns began to come l in. The same was true of the office i of Roy Goodrich. the headquarters of ! the publicity committee.
 That Mir. Heard is pleased with the situation may be judged from a little ! incident. About o'clock he was send | ing into his office from another part ' of town. by telephone, the returns from an outlying precinct. At the conclu- sion of the conversation he was asked
 When are you going home to supper?" ] The only reply that came back over the telephone was, Yes, we winl We win," accompanied by a satisfied laugh.
 There was much excitement but no { pickering, and comparatively little challenging about the polls in Phoenix, though the Tempe committee was rep resented at a l of them. The vote was gotten out early and though it was not all brought out there was a larger per centage of it than usual.
 Nine applicants for a place on the register were permitted after hearing by Judge Kent yesterday morning to vote, it having been shown that they had been registered though their ap- plications had been lost Another. Kenneth Shibley, similarly situated, was also allowed to vote.
 Judge Kent himself had to decide his own right to vote. An error had been made showing him to be a resident of Mesa precinct and under former ruling by him in an election contest he would have had to vote in that precinct. if at all. But this case was different. The error was not that of a register ing officer, but of the printer, for the original application showed that he had been registered in this precinct.
 There was general impression in the morning that neither proposition would receive a majority of the votes cast. The %lo bridge" vote was feared. It was ttsought to exist principally in the districts north and west of PhOe- nix. It was learned in the afternoon that the vote in those districts was not heavy. The farmers who did not want bridge wese too busy making hay to turn out and there was nobody dis posed to urge them to do so.
 The Tempe site received a larger vote in Phoenix than it's opponents ex- pected, though it fell short of the ex- pectations of the people of Tempe by about thirty votes. It was proportion ately heavier in the Fourth ward though it's greatest strength was sup posed to be in the First.
 The heavy vote in the Osborn pre- cinct and the light vote for Tempe was a surprise to both sides. The Center street people had hardly counted on more than 50 per cent of it and the Tempe committee counted on an equal division Of it after counting out the mo bridge" vite.
 The mo bridge" vote is something not disclosed by the returns. It tis in the no columns but it can not be dis tinguished there from the vote against either of the propositions. It it known however, that there were very few such votes in this precinct. There were probably not many anywhere. If there had been as many votes cast as had generally been expected the number would have been filled out by that vote and there would be no bridge. It was stated by those who had carefully gone over the field that 125 mo bridge" votes would defeat both propositions.