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Show PARK'S ELECTION TO BE CONTESTED Salt Lake Has a Sensational Aftermath to Its Municipal Campaign Claim Made That Ballots Were Illegal Socialists Make Gains in This State. V TJic election of Samuel C. Parks as mayor and the election of four commissioners com-missioners and an auditor at jester-day's jester-day's municipal election in Salt Lake will be contested on the ground that tlie ballot UBCd In tho election did not comply with tho law, it was announced an-nounced In Salt Lako today. The contest, it said, will determine deter-mine the constitutionality of the law pasbed at the last legislature which places Salt Lake under the commission commis-sion form of government The law provides thai the namca of but two candidates for each office shall appear ap-pear on tho ballot, the other candidates candi-dates having been eliminated at primary pri-mary elections. The ballots used ycBtorday, as prepared by City Recorder Re-corder Ben River, contained spaces In which votors could write in names of candidates not printed on the ballot. It Is alleged that the providing or Bpacos for writing in names of candidates candi-dates Is in contravention of the ,Jaw and that it invalidates yeslerda ' election. It is further allece-I that the failure of the law to provide spaces in which voters may write In names, renders tho law unconstitutional It is announced this afternoon that upon the issue of certificates of election elec-tion to the candidates successful in yesterday's elecMon, Martin E. Mul-vey, Mul-vey, Salt Lake councilman and member mem-ber of tho American party, will apply ap-ply for an Injunction to restrain them from taking office The case thus presented to the district court will be carrlqd to tho state supreme court and the supreme court of the Unite! States, If necessary, to determine the constitutionality of the law. Prominent mombcrs of tho Salt Lake bar declared today that in their opinion there were grae doubts of the constitutionality of the law and doubt might bo cast on city bonds and warrants IsRiiCd bv officials elected under the law. It is said that a number of Salt Lako business men will Join with Councilman ilulvey In bringing the SUlL Salt Lake City. Utah, Nov. S While yesterday's municipal' olections in many Utah cities and towns -Roro fought ou purely local issues, the results re-sults received today indicate wide gains by both Democrats and Socialists. So-cialists. The majority of the towns ot Utah were overwhelmingly Republican at tho last election Tho Socialist gains wcro made largely in the mining camps. Eureka. Eu-reka. Murray, Mammoth and Stockton electing Socialist officers They also gained councllmcn in soveral other towns, including Bingham. The towns in which the normal Republican Re-publican majorities wero maintained are farming communities with few exceptions. ex-ceptions. They Include Ogden, Brig ham Cltv, Richfield, Sprlugvllle, Lohl, Epbxaim and Spanish Fork. The Democrats elected their tickets in Logan, Kaysvllle. Price, Beaver, Coalville Coal-ville Mount Pleasant, Grantsvlllc, Pay son, Park City and Hebor. Most of "those towns In the past have shown Republican majorities. In Salt Lake City the Citizens' nonpartisan non-partisan ticket, headed by Samuel C. Park von a sweeping victory. The fight was purely along local Issues, the CltlzcnB candidates being opposed by the "American" or anti-Mormon ticket. that tho nomadic Dane found Ms greatest excitement and the most interesting in-teresting xporienccF. Once at Cape Town 1'eternon Bought work and secured se-cured tho lowly position of peeling potatoes on r leper isle. Surely thli was a position that would call few applicants, but necessity and perhaps the spirit of adventuro that was guiding guid-ing him ou Jiis way, prompted "him to accept and ho began his duties In tho ery midst of tho "unclean." Working Work-ing at times with human beings whose fingers had been eaten off by the raagcs of the dread disease and others oth-ers whose feet (wore missing nnd who yet clung to life despite its agony Peterson soon grew tired of his task. Not only was he tired of his grew-sonie grew-sonie work, but he feared that despite all tho precautions which modem science sci-ence gave to the attendants on the Isle that he might fall victim to the disease. dis-ease. He drew what monej was coming com-ing to him and departed to look for a more healthful vocation at some point as distant as his purse would permit per-mit Peterson is a baker by tiade and It was while baking at an African town on the Orange river that the village wus besieged by tho Boors in their war with the British. The explosion of a shell destroyed the shop in -which the young traveler was making bread pieces of the projectile flying dangerously dan-gerously near his head, so dangerously that he made immediate preparations for departure Leaving Africa the young man sailed for England and from thero left for his second visit to America. Ho had very good reasons 'for making his second trip to America. On his first trip, Peterson had met and won the heart of a Danish girl at Moline, 111 . and It was to claim her as Ills bride that he returned to this country after bis circle of the clobo was complete. com-plete. 'Beforo leaving on his first western trip, Potcrson married the glil of his choice, ondlng a romantic feature of his roving career. The girl to whom he -was betrothed had waited for him one wnoio year ior ne toiu ner tnat no could never wed until he had belted the globe. After (he wedding and a loving honeymoon the young man again heard the call of tho wild and ho loft for tho west Later his wife died. On Peterson's first visit to Ogden he was on his way to tho Pacific coast, his objective, point being San Francisco. The paly offer for a position posi-tion west of this city was one from a local emplojment agency to work at Lqs Angeles This did not altogether suit him and when he learned that he would have to have bis baggage checked through to the city of augois ho almost determined to give up tho prospect of making tho trip which tho agency offered. Then he hit upon up-on a schomo. He loft his real baggage with an acquaintance In this city-and checker a bundle of supposed baggage through tho agency. When the train on which ho was riding reached Sacramento Sac-ramento ho left thq car In which he was riding and alighted from the train. Tho trip from Ogden to Sacramento Sacra-mento had cobI him ?1.25. the fee which tho employment bureau had exacted ex-acted for securing him tho position in Los Angeles. After a short stary in Sacramento Peterson continued on his way to San Francisco, from which city he wrote to Ogden for his clothing. cloth-ing. Any skin itching Is a temper-tester. Tho more you scratch the worse It Itches. Doan's Ointment cures piles, eczemu any skin Itching. At all drug stores. |