Arizona republican., 1910-04-06
| N q 0F WATER USERS
 A Proposition To Erect Office
 Building Carried 0RME NAMED PRESIDENT
Hahn and McDermott De- feated For Governor. Win cent Elected to Council. Peculiar Case in Eighth District

Tine election of the Water Users association yesterday resulted in the election of John P. Ormc president by an almost unanimous vote. q few complimentary votes being written in on the printed ballot, for E. A Fowler and l.. M Hoghc. neither of whom were candidates. George Christy received all the votes cast for vice-prcsidern save q single block of 100 for J. r. Ivy who was not a candidate.
 For the board of governors there were three contests of some Vigur In the fourth district E.. l.. Jack and Dan McDermott both sought to sue cccd Elliot Evans. Mir Jack being the successful candidate In the seventh district E. O. Brown ac- cnmplished the defeat of George M. Hahn who sought 10 succeed himself and in the eighth district C. A. Say Tor was reelected over the Opposi- tion of George A. DobSon. r.. W. Wilbur succeeds Charles Peterson in the ninth district the latter not de- string reelection. In thc other dis tricts there was practically no con test for governor. Dr. Stone in the first succeeds himself securing every vote cast. In the second George l.. WillSy succeeds John r. Ormc, sccur- ing every vote cast H. ]. Me Clung in the third. Joe Cope in the fifth and l.. J. Bennett in the sixth were reelected.
 In the council vote there was trouble only in the fourth and seventh districts. In the fourth A. G. Smoot won over l.. D. Rosseau to succeed J. T. Bone and in the seventh George Vincent defeated Roy Clayson who sought reelection. In the sixth two councilmen were elected. Gordon Tweed to succeed himself and w. J. Murphy to fill a vacancy. In the eighth district there was an incident that will probably call for settle ment by some action of the board of governors or the council. though there is nothing acrimonious in con- nection with it. Alma Millett is d hold-over councilman. or was at the time the election call was issued. Since that time he has sold his pro- perty in that district and of course cannot longer represent it. The voters knowing this, availed them- selves of the election in progress yes terday and selected M. A. Swallow to succeed him. by a vote of l636. The question now arising is whether the election of MT. Swallow is legal in view of the fact that the vacancy had not been declared and the cleo ton call did not include q selection of Millett's successor. If it is so q, nI.I, I,. icf. tory. the only question being whether it can be so declared. The small vote for Mir Swallow was doubtless due to the fact that only a part of the electors knew of the pending va cancy.
 One of the most important results of the election was that of the af- firmative vote for the erection of q water building for the use of the as- sociation. the reclamation service and the farmers The figures cannot be given yet as the returns are in from only eight or ten districts but the ma jority for tho building in the eight districts is so great it cannot be over come by the vote in the other two. It was reported tlIat one of them at least and probably both of them went against the building but not unani- mously. so it is quite certain the building project carried.
 owing to these missing districts a full vote cannot bc given for thc president and vice-president. Con- corning councilmcn and governors there are no figures but telephone message announced last night that all the names on the printed ballot were elected. indicating that there was little or no opposition. These names are: Ninth district-E. W. Wilbur for governor; George C. Dor man for councilman. Tenth district-- w w Dobson for governor to sue cced himself. and w. A. Coffman to succeed C. $. Steward
 The vote so far as returned is as follows: