Arizona republican., 1917-04-24

eases the registration certificates claimed to have been held by them had been forgotten or lost, to which they made affidavit. Two of these voters were residents of California or had had come from California within three or four months preceding the election.
 When these various documents had been put in evidence, the witnesses for the contestee were called for, sworn and put under the rule. They were S. N. Harris C. A. Diehl, H. A. Hanna, M. A. Newton, w. L. Carpenter and F. w. Byers Another. Mrs R. A. Harrer was called later.
 A noticeable fact was the reluctance of the witnesses which in the case of all of them but two was explained by the circumstance that they will have to return to Swansea, said to be an eX- tremely radical camp where the Hunt sentiment prevails. One of these wit nesses, Mrs Harrer, though not now resident of Swansea is a genuine Hunt sympathizer. The other MT. Carpenter
 is no longer a resident of Swansea.
 MT Diehl was the first witness called. He has been resident of the camp for two years and is assayer for the mining company. The election
 board he said. was made up of J. C.
 McDOnnel inspector; w. R. Bunker and R. B. Dixon judges, and himself and Dr. c. c. Tolleson, clerks In vio-
 lation of the law, a deputy sheriff, Henry Bandy was appointed election
 marshal The election was held in the
 school house at Swansea, called by MT. Diehl ''raghouse,' that is a framework covered with canvas The room occu- pied by the election board was 21 feet.
 In the rear of it was a sort of q shed , by feet. It was two corners of this
 room that two socalled booths, being
 only rough shelves had been put up out of the view of the election board. Most of the ballots were marked on the top of the school desks in the larger
 room. These were so crowded that some of the voters were within five or six feet of the table on which the bal lot box was and the voters were often within a few feet of one another Mir. Diehl said that he was absent from the board from noon until two o'clock. He identified the precinct register, the poll 1 list and the challenge list offered by Judge Sloan.
 The next witness was H. B. Han na, a prOspector. He was registered at Bouse but voted at Swansea. His de- scriptiOn of the voting room and the adjacent shed was the same as that of
 Mir. Diehl. He said he made out his ballot on a desk within five feet of the election board. Three or four other i voters nearby were so engaged at the
 time. He did not see how they marked their ballots, though he admitted that if one had chosen to do so he could at least have seen the column in which | the voter was marking.
 On cross examination Mr. Hanna said i that he had shown his ballot to no one 1 and he did not think any one had seen i it. MT. Hanna said that his name ap-
 peared on the challenge list as he had ! registered at Bouse. On redirect exam i ination he said that there was a polit- 1 ical discussion going on in the voting | room in which members of the election 1 board took part.
 MT. Diehl was recalled by MT Struck ] meyer and said that he had observed | nothing wrong about the voting place | but in reply to a question by Judge i Sloan he said that no extraordinary precautions had been taken. The testi- l mony of Sam H. Harris agent and sup |