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Show Contest for Butte Mayor Dropped. Butte, Mont. Counsel for Jorry . Mnhouey, Democratic candidate for mayor attho last municipal olection, who contested tlio olection of Mayor losoph Corby, havo acknowlodgod do-feat. do-feat. Fifty-ono ballots mnrltod for ' Mahoney woro such palpable frauds that Mahoney hlmsolf donounocd thorn. When tho ballot sacks woro taken from tho vaults of tho city hall tho seals on several of " thorn wero broken. In two wards tho ballots woro erased and mutilated. i |