The Log Cabin Democrat from Conway, Arkansas • 1

DAILY EDITION The Cabin Dem VOL. i CONWAY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1909 while the weather is cold Telephone your Grocery order to us and we will send it to you. You will not have to come out in the cold to see about it. Call Phone 78 Piercey Sons GOV.DONAGHEY INAUGURATED TOOK OATH OF OFFICE TODAY Reading of Inaugural Message Consumed Two Hours. Big Crowd Present to Witness Offiicers Sworn In.

Little Rock, Jan. Packed so that the large room was uncomfortable, with others shoving to get in from the outside, Gov. George W. Donaghey, Auditor John R. Jobe, Treasurer James L.

Yates, Superintendent of Public Instruction George B. Cook, Commissioner of Agriculture Guy B. Tucker, Secretary of State O. C. Ludwig, Land Commissioner L.

LCoffman, and Attorney General Hal L. Norwood, stood before Associate Justice B. B. Battle and took the oath of office, swearing to uphold the constitution of the state and work for its best interest in the next two years. Immediately afterwards Gov.

W. Donaghey began to deliver his inaugural message. He began speaking at 2:30 and it will take him two hours to complete it. It was 1130 when the house and Oakland Dairy Pure, fresh milk iu sealed bottles delivered to your door twice dailv at 25c Per Gallon Leave orders with our driver or address Thurston Fulmer R. F.

D. No. 6, Conway, Ark. senate met in joint session to hear the inaugural address. It was the intention of the general assembly to have the ballots of the last election cast up in joint session at that hour, but by reconsideration it was moved up until morning in order to give the entire afternoon for the inauguration.

It is known he will favor the discharge of Caldwell Drake and the capitol commission, and will favor the payment by the state of the salary of X. O. Pindall while acting as governor; also the continuation of the fight with the railroads over the Arkansas railroad commission tariff and the two cent rate, the building of four agricultural schools and a branch insane asylum at some other place where a portion of the inmates can exercise themselves by raising truck, the working of two thirds of the convicts on the county roads and the other one third on the state farm, the creation of a tax commission and a state bank examiner, submitting the question of state wide prohibition and initiative and referendum to the people, increasing the standard of the University of Arkansas and State Normal, beside the organization of a text bo.k commission, the conservation of the natural resources of the state, the organization of drainage districts to reclaim thousands of acres of state laud, and increasing the salaries of some officials, as all of these matters were favored by him in his campaign for election. Gov. Donaghey will take possession of the executive office late this afternoon and will be the first elected official to sit there in two years.

Bruce Bullion, his secretary, will succeed Paul Little as private secretary and adjutant general of the Arkansas state guard at the same time. Little Rock, Jan. 14, 3 p. Donaghey favors referring to two Federal judges and the chief justice of the supreme court of Arkansas the adjustment amount due the capitol contractors. He also favors the abolishment of the land office two years hence.

The Revenge AND Ex-Convict Number 900 The Features of Program at the Electric THEATRE! The Full Program is as Follows: Ex-Convict No. 900 The Revenge A Fool for Luck as Yesterday The Above are Three Full Reels The Building is Comfortably Heated Rounds Ladies Orchestra Hendrix Auditorium, Wednesday Evening, January 27. CARTWRIGHT TRIAL NOW ON Jury Now Hearing Evidence in Trial of Wife-Slayer. A Number of Witnesses Have Been Proceedings and Court Notes. Immediately upon the convening of court this morning the trial of James Cartwright, accused of the murder of his wife near Wooster last September, was begun.

The jury in this case had already been empaneled and Prosecuting Attorney G. W. Clark made the opening case on behalf of the state. Mr. Clark went somewhat into details as to what the proof on behalf of the prosecution would be, stating that the state would be able show by its witnesses that Ca wright carefully and deliber? planned the murder of his and that he was not insane.

Judge P. H. Prince, who with George Shaw, was appointed by Judge Lankford to defend Cartwright, in making the opening statement for the defendant, said that it was admitted that Cartwright had killed his wife, but that it would be shown by the evidence that the defendant was insane not only at the time the deed was committed, but had been insane prior thereto. Up to the time of going to press a number of witnesses had been examined by the state, and the indications are that a goodly portion of the day will be consumed in hearing the testimony of witnesses for the prosecutions. Hon.

J. A. Batson, representative from this county, was a witness for the state and came up from Little Rock to testify. The defendant was living on Mr. farm at the time of the killing.

Milligan Indicted. Slayer of Joe Herring must answer murder charge. The grand jury has returned a true bill against L. K. Milligan, who killed Joe Herring near Damascus last fall, charging him with murder in the first degree.

His trial was set by Judge Lankford for Thursday, January 21. WEATHER FORECAST. New Orleans, Jan. partly cloudly and warmer; Friday, partly cloudy and colder. Russell Norton of Helena is in the city today visiting his mother, Mrs.

N. M. Norton, matron at the cottage home. Other Court Proceedings. State vs.

Arthur Peel; attachment (or witness ordered. State, vs. Lute Herington; selling liquor; plea of guilty, fine of $50. State vs. Ernest Castleberry; nolle pros, at cost of defendant.

F. B. Murphy, vs. St. L.

I. M. S. Ry. answer filed.

Elizabeth Simpson vs. St. L- I. M. S.

Ry. answer filed. A. E. Forrest vs.

St. L. I. M. S.

Ry. answer filed. O. D. Clibourn vs.

Southwestern Insurance answer filed. G. H. Burke vs. St.

L. I. M. S. Ry.

answer filed. Court Notes. Mr. Houston, an attorney of Pearson, is among the visiting lawyers. On account of the extremely bad weather a great deal of difficulty has been experienced in getting witnesses, and Sheriff Brady and his deputies have been busy bringing in the dilatoryjones.

So far only one case has been tried of Lee Gately, who was acquitted last night of grand larceny. LEE GATELY IS ACQUITTED The Jury Returns Verdict of Not Guilty. Defendant Charge With Grand Jury out For Half An Largely Circumstantial. After deliberating about half an hour a jury in circuit court returned a verdict of in the case of the of Arkansas vs. Lee Gately last night.

The defendant was charged with stealing two mules belonging to H. Robinson, a merchant at Wooster, in March, 1907. The evidence introduced on behalf of the State was largely circumstantial, and no evidence was introduced by the defendant whatever. Witnesses on behalf of the state testified that Lee Gately was in the neighborhood of Wooster about the time the two mules were stolen, and it was shown that the mules were carried to stables, in Little Rock, by some white man a night or two after they had been taken from lot. The night-watchman at the stables did not identify Gately as the man who delivered the mules to him, but J.

J. Hawkins, who was at that time chief of police of Little, testified that after he had taken Gately in custody, the defendant told him he had taken the mules there, but stated that he had gotten them from a man in the Cadron bottom, who had hired him to carry them to Little Rock, and agreed to pay him $10 for taking them there. The defendant did not take the stand, his attorneys aruguing that the state had failed to make out a case against him to the degree of certainty that the law requires. Gateley was represented by G. W.

and R. G. Bruce. NORMAL ENTERTAINMENT Interesting Program Will be Rendered Tomorrow Morning. The entertainment at the Arkansas State Normal tomorrow morning at to will be one of the best ever given in Conway and the faculty desire to see a large crowd present, as this is the first program to be rendered by the students of the Normal.

The drawings that were on exhibition at the State Association in Little Rock in December will be exhibited and special attention is called to this feature. The department of music has some interesting numbers on the program, after which, the debate by the members of the English department will be given on the subject: That Lady Macbeth was More Guilty than Macbeth. CAPT. J. A.

WALLIS DEAD Veteran Planter of Palarm Succumbs After Long Illness. Capt. J. Wallis of Palarm, died at his home at Palarm, Arkansas, Tuesday night, after a long illness. Capt.

Wallis was 75 years of age, and had resided at Palarm for about 18 years, he being the owner of the large plantation upon which Palarm station is located. He had been ill for several months, and his death had been hourly Capt. Wallis was unmarried, and his nearest relative was T. L. Daniels, his nephew, who has been living with Capt.

Wallis and managing his plantation for some years. The body ofj.Capt. Wallis was taken to Pine Bluff, his former home, for interment. H. M.

Langston of Wooster paid this office a pleasant call yesterday. Mr. Land Owntir.wER We want to talk to you a few minutes again about abstracts. In fact, we expect to give, from time to time through these columns, information about titles that may be worth your attention. We know that you are interested, as all sensible people are, in having a perfect title.

Do you know that since your land has increased in value certain people are buying up adverse claims to lands throughout the county and are preparing to bring suit to oust the present owner; that some such suits have already been brought, in fact? Do you know what the show about your title? Whether there are any defects that should be cured. Just as a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, your title is no stronger than the weakest place in it. You may have an apparently perfect deed from the man you bought from, but there may be a weak place somewhere behind that. Seven possession necessarily give you a good title. It is only a question of time until you have to have an abstract, anyway.

Nobody wants to buy your place without one. No loan company will advance money without an abstract. Today is a better time to act than the day after somebody has taken your home from you. Bahner Go. Gonway, Arkansas PROHIBITION FOR TENNESSEE Nashville, January The bill to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquor in Tennessee passed the lower house of the general assembly this evening at 6:15 The vote was 62 to 36.

Twenty-two Republicans voted for and one against the measure. The measure passed is the one favorably acted on yesterday by the senate, and now goes to Governor Patterson. He is expected to veto it, but under the constitution his veto only operates as a suggestion, not as a stay, and a bare majority may pass a bill over the unfavorable action. State-wiilers maintain that the action is not material, that his veto will not be sustained. The bill provides that prohibition become effective July 1, 1909.

When the final vote was announced the cheers from the galleries were deafening, the demonstration on the floor and in the galleries lasting several minutes. Old papers for sale at this office. Martin Appoints Judge. Little Rock, Jan. Acting Governor Jesse M.

Martin yesterday afternoon appointed James H. Stevenson, of the law firm of Campbell Stevenson, to fill the vacancy in the circuit court, second division, caused by tbe death of E. W. Winfield. Old papers for sale at this Office.

We Buy and Sell all kinds of City Real Estate We buy and sell all kinds of country real estate. This is our business. DURHAM HOLMAN The Best Book of the Year When you stop to think about it, your bank book tell much of the story of your life? You, who can read between the lines and analyze the figures, know the labor and the sacrifice represented by each dollar deposited. Every entry is the happy ending a thrilling chapter. Make your bank account is recording your history and telling the story of your success.

We Keep our Depositors GUARANTEED by all modern methods known for safety. If you have no bank book, bring in a deposit now and get one The Old Reliable Bank of Conway.