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Show ' THE ELECTION CONTEST. Examination of tee BIngbaa Witnesses. rafi e'vidkxce tikes today. Tfce Case Proceeds Slowly. The Allen-Fergujon election ,. test caso was resumed before Judge Anderson today. BeDJamln Wright, of South Cottonwood, Cot-tonwood, was recalled. He testified that ho was acquainted with H. Q Bradford, of South Cottonwoodj that ho was a citizen of tira United States, a resident and a registered voter at that place, and that the attempt to vote by Sir. Bradford ss prevented by the Judges o election. S. Wolfley testirleJ-I am a res!-' dent of Smith Cottonwood, and have been for many years; am a natural-iied natural-iied citizens of the Unill st.,- W.in'gUU;rei? (or the last Augult elecUou; my lallot was a straiKht leople'aandWorkliigmen's Ucket. I tendered my ballot at tbe polls, but was refused the right to vote, f afcw oin.-reJ an anidavlt which was aUo rejected. Secretary Sells teslifted-Ho pro-ducal pro-ducal the election nturcs ot poll number three of ningham precinct also the returns of the third poll of tho second precinct, of Salt .Lake City. The votes cast in poll S, Bingham precinct, were 30 for Allen, 1 for Ferguson, and one blank ballot. Tbeboxoftho poll mentioned was opened and the votes found to be as stated. The examination of the Bingham witnesses was then resumed. Mr. Beaver, one of the Judges of election of poll number threo testified: testi-fied: I recognizs the register and poll lists by my signature on the back. Mr. Brown Who marked tho word "voted" opposite the namr of these who voted? Witnes Mr. Scott, one of tho Judges of election. 31r. Brown Are you acquainted with A. liolbrook, of Bingham? Witness Have known him Blightly for three or four years. j Mr. Brown Who voted in the name of Mr. Holbrook? Witness A stranger. I believe he is a pzospector by profession. Mr. Brown Why-did you allow him to vote when he was not the man whose name was on the list? Witness He represented iil'OM.-lf as Sir. 11 nl brook, and I had nc right i to contradict him. Mr. Brown So you let him vote. I did you? Witness Ves. sir. Mr. Brown Did a man by the name of R. Hunter vote at tbu polls of the precinct where you wera Judge, on the fourth of August? Witness He did. Mr. Brown You are acquainted with blm, are yon not? Witness Slightly. Mr. Brown Well, who was tho man who personated the name of Mr. Hunter? j Witness A slranger personally to me. Mr. Brown Are you acquainted with W. C. Allen, or Bigham? Witness I know a little of him. Mr. Brown Who voted hlr j name? ' Witness A stranger personally ! to me? i Mr. Brown And you didn't object? ob-ject? Witness Xo, sir. Mr. Brown Why didn't you? Witness Because lie said his name was Allen. Mr. Brown Do yon know a man named H. D. Jones, of Bingham, wlitw name is the eighth one on the registration list? Witness I used to. Mr. Brown Whi voted for hjn? Witness (sarcastically) Why, H. D Jones. Mr. Brown Was it tho H. D. Jones that you used to know? Witness Xo. fir. Mr. Brown Who was it then? Witness A stranger perronally tome. Mr. Brown You ire also acquainted ac-quainted with a John O. Jones of I i!lnhaiu are you not? Witness I was, a little. j Mr. Brown Who voted his name? Witness, confusedly Why, John-O. John-O. Jones. Mr. Brown Are you sure that this was the real John O. Jones, did you know him? Witness No sir, he was a stranger stran-ger personally to me. I used to know him a long time ago but did not know him then. Mr. Brown Did you know Win. Tierce? Witness Uo, sir. Mr. Brown Who voted his name? Witness V. E. Xiong, a stringer personally tome. Mr. Brown I see that W. E. Long seventeenth on the voting list voted. Do you know him? Witness Xo, sir. Mr. Brown Don't you know that Mr. Jjong is a druggist and has lived in this city for a year past, but went to Bingham to vote at the election In question? WitneeS-No, sir. Mr. Brown Who voted Mr. Long's name? Witness A stranger to me personally. per-sonally. Mr. Brown Is it not a fact, Mr. Beaver, that this man whom you persist in calling a stranger to you personally cast all of the thirteen votes that we Intend to prove to be illegal? Witness No, sir. V. McArty, Charles Burnett, Jo. Fryer,, Tut Messay, It. I Dayton, and a number of other name, thirteen thir-teen in all, were read to him by Sir. Brown, someof which were familiar to the witness and others not Mr. Brown Were you not paid 28 on or about election day or two dollars for each 11 e.al vote? Witness No, sir, I only received half of that, and it was for canvass- Horace D. Jones testified I was absent from Bingham for three years prior to August -1th of this year. Kever knew a man by the same name. Had there been one I should have known it Joseph Fryer testified He had lived in Bingham, but had not done so for five months prior to the elec tion of Iaat August. e "J Eureka on election day and did not return to Bingham until after election. elec-tion. Did not know any person of the same name. Pat Pheland, a merchant, testified: testi-fied: Live In Bingham; have done so forseveral jeara. I know V. C. Hall, W. J. Nolan, J jhn O. Joneo, II. D. Jones, W. E. Long, F. D. Jerome, Chas. Burnett, Jos. Fryer, Pat- Merick, Jt. P. Dayton and It. p Norton. They are miners; do not think any of them had lived in Bingham for some time previous to August 4th, and do not think they were there on that date. They had previously lived in Bingham, but had moved away. ,,, A. Holbrook testlfied-I was absent from Bingham for seven years prior to August 4 ot the present year. W J. Nolan testified that six years ago he lived in Bingham; was a registered voUr at that time, but not since. Did not know anyone at Bingham by the same name. Barney Quinn testified I have lived In Bingham for several years; was Postmaster at that place for fourlyears. I do nottblnk Chas. Burnett, K. Hunter, N. C. Allen, W. J. Nolan, or in fact any of the 13, were there on August -4th. 1 think I should have known it had they been there. Had a talk with Mr. Beaver the Saturday before election, and told him he had belter be careful not to transtrress the election elec-tion laws of tho Territory or he might get Into thepenitentlary. Mr. Brown-What led to this conversation? Judge lioofborough Wo object. The Court He may answer. Witness Well, he had been taking tak-ing whUky, tobacco and cigars to tho boys at the Brooklyn mine. Case f o progress. |