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Show If i SSlBE I' ji'i.v '' Voters Favored I ; ( jS Disincorporation. I ! .. GRIMMS BXTKRING OF I .1 UDGMIOT ACCORD IXG IY I h$l Prclty Mftle Weber I'ounfv I j-Vaj County Commissioners. I t " Jl Special (o The Tribune. I OGDENV Feb! 1. IhintsvWe City Is no I , 'IfJ nioie. This does not moan that the I ' ' 'T3 pretty Utile town to the oast of Osden I ' 'ilB 'ms bcon Ntyopt.rrcnn existence by a lor- .' -'irl'j i.nrio or floor! or destroyed by fire. Xono I 'hB "r ,ncsc ealamltlos has visited the city. I .itaj i "nI 21 stranger there would never drcuni I t 'if that .such is the case, but It Is a fact I 'i'jjl nevertheless Hunlsvlllc City does not .Vgl now exist. " In the district our I this afternoon I -M I Judge .1. V. Howell Mndbrcd u decision 1 t I 'viW 9 m maitcr'of me contest of (he clec- i i j ' tion at ' which the question of dlslncor- i i; T poratlng the city was votui upon last j November, declaring that the result of i ' ji?;'4 Die election showed unmistakably that I . vfcr. it was the will of the majority of the : .-lii voters that the city b. disincorporated. I-. :r Acting "upon a petition from a large j i '.'i number of residents and voters of the 1 -.'..) little city, Judge Jlowcll issued an order i ;: prior to the November election allowing I . ! , ' i P the nucstion of disincorporating the city ''tylfi ' 10 l,e vtcd upon. "When the votes wore ( ' ;.1g counted It was found that ballots 1 j ff had been cust against disincorporation. i '', wliilc of the duly iiinliicd voters of I .' b Hie city cxprcscd their desire lo dlsin-corporate. II J.h Six votes Unaccounted For. ! Had tills been the total vote cusL at r';S . th election, the result would not haw II ''"'ir lon?: remained in doubt, However. It j . f'fi ''',f5 foauH, when the voting- machine was . iig examined, that, cloven votes had been W? scattered across the ballot 3hect In blank I r in spaces wh"re no question or name of 1 1 0 ' Jj candidate hnd been placed to be voted ' '.tit' upon. By adding this seatleid vote to I ('is t!ic total of V,la 1i"I nay votes cast on j ii'jr ,np disincorporation fltiestion. the J Judges fui tkor learned loot six votes hnd ,f yria! Il"lt been accounted for. even In the I' blank spaces on tho biillot sheet and had J . j.y ben Inst entirely, t '" This unusuai behavior of the voting I 'Mi machine gav.j the voters who were op-po."d op-po."d to disincorporating the city an op- i po'Umity to flic a contest of tho ele?- j i tion, whb h was immediately done. At '-,,.v, 3 the hearing several wot Us a go. it was '') shown thHi the voting machine had been - ' H sccutely locked before the election and I si i yviang'-d that it was Impossible for a ' iR' vr"er to loa.ve the booth tintii he had j 'ni'.B vofd one way or the other on the oucs- ;)'??9 tion. re."jile tills, there was nnqucs- y ii nr.hle delect In the mechanism of the ( J? riRchinc on' tlie day of the election, as if-t1 shown by the scattered and lost voles. Tllc Co,irt's -Decision. 8 rendering his decMon. Judge Howell i?uE df-'-laied the iitt"r U purely a legal and i i'p B "ot n 1'-1M If il oiffiilon and 'thai tic 1 t H tii'ictions of the court are only to deter- mine as a mattsr of law how the majority of the legal voters who voted on the question cast their ballots. Upon the above finding the court said: "Let the Judgment be that the corporate powers of lluntsvillc City shall cease and that notice shall be given in a newspaper of general circulation in the county requiring re-quiring that all claims against t he corporation cor-poration shall be filed In this court within with-in three, months Iron) the first publication publica-tion of said notice, at which time the court will adjudicate such claims, and take such steps as may be uecesanry to wind up the affairs of the clly," The disincorporation of the city will mean that the town In the future will bu gow-rnod in the same manner as North Ogden. Plain City and other sections of Weber county which look to the board of county commissioners for all matters pertninimr lo their affairs. |