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Show Californian Must Deposit $50,-000 $50,-000 With State Before Second Canvass Begins NEWARK. N. J.. May 1. Chief Justice William S. Gummcre, of the supreme courl, today signed an order for a recount of the vote cast In last Tuesday.'s presidential preferential primaries for Senator Johnson and Major General Wood. The recount wll be for the entire state and will begin on May 10 In Essex, Es-sex, Morris, Camden. Glouceter and Cape May counties, whero the supporters suppor-ters of Senator Johnson allege that mistakes were made in vote tabulations. tabula-tions. The sum ,of $50,000 must bo deposited de-posited with tho secretary of stato of New Jersey by Senator Jolinson before tho recount will begin, to defray expenses ex-penses entailed by tho various country boards in tho recount. Tho justice's reason for allowing the recount to start in the first five counties, he said, was to give Johnson supporters an opportunity to abandon the contest should it be shown by the recount in thoso counties that the result re-sult was not materially-changed. |