The Springdale news., 1905-04-28
CIRCUIT COURT PROCEEDINGS.

 those who do bot want to give their friends away. and l want you tG req. S0n with the boys when they are Sus- pected of this offense If any crime deserves special attention 1t is that Of perjury Make 1t dangerous te commit perjury. To convict a person of perjury the rule formerly was to require the evidence of che witness to be coFroberated by that of another. but the supreme court has held that conviction may be had on the evidence Of one witness.
 No public officer is allowed t0 use funds in his charge for his own gain or to allow others to do so, and if you ind that any have done So they ought to be indicted
 He said it was violation Of law for any person to keep open hls store on Sunday to sell goods or to permit peO. 1 pie to % ln or out. It IS also viola tIOn of law t0 play cards or hunt on the Sabbath
 The attention Of the grand jury was especially directed to violations of the yagrancy law A Yagrant is a person who goes from place to place begging and without visible means of support. or who goes from place to place to gamble. There are some of these in thls town, and maybe some in the country. There are in .this town some yellow 'niggerS, some black sniggers, and some white men. who have no visible means Of support, but stand on the street corners from morn ] ing till night. Some have wives at home hard at work and others have deserted wife anc children and left them destitute and in absolute want want you to ferret out these fellows and well put them on the chain gang where they can do an honest days work. something they have not done for twenty years to my knowledge.
 The illegal sale of whiskey Is not engaged in to the same extent as formerly, but there Is some bootleg ging going %. Of recent years there has been placed CD the marketa num= Der Of different t0nicS CT oitterS t0 sell in prohibition districts. A drug giSt Wh9 sefis these t0nles as a beverage should be indicted. whether they in- toxlcate oF nat. They cannot esade the law by claiming these tones are not intoxicating 4 recent analysis Of peruna showed that 1t contained =U per cent. alcohol. and understan nd US sale has about stopped. To sell tOnics or bitters that contains any per cent alcohol k q violation df law. The lid is still on here in town, but a little steam escapes once and a while, and 1 want you sixteen men to Sit on the lid for the next two or three weeks and see if you can't hold il down.
 The law permits a person to make wine on his own premises of grapes or berries grown by himself and when properly labeled to sell 1t anywhere in the state, but quantities less than one- nfth of gallon must be put up in sealed bottles l don't like the law. but the legislature in it's wisdom, and no doubt with the best of lnten- tions, saw 1t to give it to us. They were led to believe that with such law the hill sides of Arkansas would be settled up with foreign popula- tion and there would be smiling yine- yards on every side. AS matter or fact class Of natives, and not usually the best class, have gone down ID some sheep pasture and trimmed up few wild blackberry pushes or grape vines and these are our smiling yineyarls. ' If our legislators could see these smiling vineyards and taste the Stuf that IS peddled around at public gathering as native wine they would repeal this law.
 In closing Judge Tillman urged the grand iury to expedite business and get through as quickly as possl Die 50 l as to inc IT no more expense than IS ahsolusely necessary
 Tie grand jury retired al once and completed their organization by electing B. r. Johnson, ot Winslow, clerk and r. F. Slsco, of Cove Creek. assistant clerk. The grand jury has a large airy room in the basement, where they can work free from molestation,
 The following petit jurors were sworn in:
 First panel-C. E. Wilson, L C Combs. NJ. NJ. Combs, Geo. Bement. Hugh Rollins, Fred i Dorman. John Bevers, W. NJ. Simpson. H. K. Wilson, NJ. C. Smith, Fred Beasley, r. Ii. Drake.
 Second pannel-Phil Mcguire, Ira McCaleb, H. (. Evans, Fred Maclin. E. Webb, A. B. Ferry Silas Williams, J. W. Cavness' Wm. Norwood, J. (. Franklin, p. E. Shotner, ]. D. Savage.
 The following cases have been disposed of up to Wednesday night. Where not otherwise noted the plaintiff is the state;
 Clifford Cate and one Ballard, disturbing religious congrega-