Show council makes canvass of election returns A canvass of the returns of the recent municipal election was made by the city council at a special meeting held monday night for that purpose and to pay the bills incurred by the election eley election tion this canvass made no changes in the elected officials with very few changes in the total vote of the candidates thus all the democrats were elected except one the canvass did bring out some irregularities in voting with several illegal ballots being cast although nothing can be done about challenging these votes after they are cast city officials inform us that action could be taken against the ones who cast the illegal ballots ali though such a thing is not at au all impy several of our readers have asked to have the tabulation of votes cast given by districts and we are therefore giving there herewith it shows the republican nominees were strongest in district N NV ni V 3 the northwest corner of the city here both arthur and howard joseph and J W bentley led their democratic opponents district no 2 went straight democratic with every norn nom inee on that ticket coming out in lead there in district no I 1 bentley and whitney were the only ones on the republican ticket to lead the ones on the democratic side the district tabulations are as follows for mayor mitchell D 55 89 joseph R 65 57 79 4 year councilman miller D 62 98 halterman R 56 49 87 2 year councilmen adams D 58 86 orton D 50 81 99 D 63 88 holyoak R 55 60 79 joseph R 75 66 88 R 49 51 85 for recorder halterman D 66 83 94 whitney R 54 61 for treasurer benson D 50 83 94 bentley R 68 63 62 99 |