Arizona republican., 1917-04-28

crowd to the table of the board; they were given ballots and then they backed into the crowd and were not observed again until they presented the ballots for deposit. One negro woman took ballot, went away and was seen no more. It is presumed that she was a souvenir hunter. It was this episode that preciptated the stationing of an officer outside the door to see that the ballots were not carried away
 There was not room for all the voters in the booths and some of them marked their ballots in their hands, the best they could In one case a voter of the name of Schultze drove up in a buggy and sent in for a ballot. which was taken out to him by MT. Fuller When Schultze had marked it MT. Fuller brought it back and deposited it. It was developed on cross examination by MT. Ives that SchultZe is a cripple. MT. Lukesh said he had observed no soliciting of votes about the polling place, though he heard many of the voters declaring their favorites. Those most frequently mentioned were Gov ernor Hunt and Armer, the republican candidate for sheriff. The attorneys for the contestee endeavored to bring out from this witness the fact that
 
 the adherents of these candidates.
 The cross examination brought out nothing additional except that Schultze was cripple, and MT Ives was mak- ing the most of that when Judge Sloan asked if SchultZe always lived in his buggy Mir. Ives also attempted to es- tablish a more than usual intimacy of relation between the witness and the attorneys for the contestee. He asked closely as to the time of the arrival of the witness in the city and the number of times he had seen the attorneys and talked with them. MT Bullard was thereby moved to observe that the wit ness had not boarded with Governor Campbell This was delicate refer ence to the weekend the witnesses in the Douglas precinct No. l case, Art Pearson, H. H. Hart and his wife and William Thaw had spent at the home of former Governor Hunt.
 On his direct examination Lukesh said that after the closing of the polls on election night he went home for some sleep and returned to assist in the counting at midnight Then the other judge. MT. Fuller. went off shift At 3 o'clock the inspector, MT. McRae left, so that only one member of the board was present at the counting. l lie leSllflpIy or NIT. ulleT cor | roborated that of MT Lukesh in a general way as to the congestion at the polls, though he said that he had not observed the same measure of con fusion and political discussion the for ] mer had described Frequently more than one voter entered a booth But on cross examination he said that there was no disturbance about the polls and that in all respects it was the most orderly election ever held in that pre- cinct.
 In the afternoon Eager precinct was | taken up. Two witnesses were pres ent, Joseph H. Pierce and J. K Udall. 1 The former was member of the cleo 1 tion board, a clerk and a republican. 1 MT. Ives in the beginning sought to lay the ground work to a general objection 1 to his testimony. He was present in the neighborhood at the time the depo- i sitiOns were taken and it had been un- derstood by himself and Mr. Clark for the contestee that that was under the l rule. He had not understood that any witnesses would be brought down Judge Stanford said he preferred wit nesses in person and, moreover, he 1 could not recognize any understanding between the attorneys made by them out