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Show DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN GRAND COUNTY THR WINNER By the drrision of Judge Henry X. H Hayes made at Hichneld on Decern Bl her 27th. John It Skew, Democrat- ic candidate for sheriff of Grand Bl county at the recent election, won BJ his contest against W. J. Blls. Ke- Bl publican, and the coin holds that BB Hllss In ousted and t-ludd fresn BB the office for which he was trlvctt a BB certificate of election by the canvas Bb ing board The statement of eon test B set forth five different ground of BB contest. One of thee grounds, invmm- BVJ ly, that of alleged illegal votes east BVJ for Hli. was not tried at It wat BVJ stipulated between counsel for the BH respective parties that the case he BBJ submitted to the court on the four H grounds on which evidence wat H adduced, and that the matter of the BJ alleged illegal votes should not be Bl gone into unless to do so would BpJ change the result It was conceded BB that unless the contestant should, by BH the elimination of absent voters' bat BJ lot or a gain on the recount reduce BJ the majority given Bliss on the face of the returns that is to say, betow BH five votes that the trial of the matter BB on the ground of illegal votes would BJ not change the result BH |