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Show TILE ELECTION CONTESTS TODAY Ferry and Anson Would Oust Hartenstein and Tuddenham. ; Charging that votes vera fraudulently counted ' and -that- the returns W -the Judges of election were not fhe true figures, fig-ures, W. Mont Ferry will file a suit this afternoon in the District court contesting con-testing Councilman E. A. Hartensteln's right to alt In the City Council from the fourth precinct under the returns made be the recent election. The petition sets up that the total vote for Ferry for the long term Councilmanshlp should be 1347 votes. Instead of 1323, as he was given by the returns. Instead of Hartenstein being be-ing entitled to 1332 votes, it is asserted that it should be 1300. The petition points out that many mistakes mis-takes in the returns were made, and that In the Thirty-eighth district four more votes wre given Hartenstein than he was entitled to. In the Fortieth district It Is asserted that there were six, In the Forty-first district seven. In the Forty-second Forty-second throe, and the Forty-third five. At the samo time that the contest Is filed by Ferry, a similar petition will be filed by Perry J. Anson, contesting the position of Councilman W. J. Tuddenham, who was awarded his seat by the City Council sitting as a board of canvassers of the election. The complaints ask that the vote b re. counted and that the return of the City Council be set aside and both men, Anson and Ferry, be declared elected. |