The log cabin Democrat., 1908-11-19
FROM THE
 CAPITAL CITY

have been recorded with the State Republican committee within the past mouth. These offices, as a rule, are filled through recommen- tion by the county organization, but in many instances the appli- cants have appealed to the state committee, and at the next meet ing of the committee there will be much straightening out to be done. There is always number of changes being made in offices of this class, but the number at the present time is far above the nor nal.
 "What our concern lost last fall through dull times" stated James Arensor, of the Gus Blass Dry Goods Co.,, one of the best known travelling salesmen in Arkansas, yesterday afternoon, "it will make up this year if we can get the goods. Business was never better with us and collections are as good as the business, (which makes it indeed gratifying after a year of such financial stringency. It is all a question now of getting the goods. If we can get the mer- chandise to supply the trade, our business for the fall will be phe- nominal, and with wholesale houses doing business in this way, it shows that times are good over the territory which we supply"
 Near the close of the year the capitol commission, which has virtually been out of existance since the opinion of Attorney Gen. eral Kirby out off the approprla- ton for work on the state capital, will come from its Information and take on new life. Lehman Kay, secretary of the board, who has been in Little Rock from his home in Salem for the past few days at- tending the sessions of the grand lodge, says the commission will have a meeting about the first of the year and begin preparing its report to the legislature upon the work which has been done after the adjournment of the 1907 Gen. eral Assembly, and up to the time the work was stopped. The con- mission will probably in its report favor the retention of the present contractors for the completion of the building.
 By night the evidence for the de- fense in the Wright will case is expected to be all in, and the plain tiff will have sometime tomorrow morning to begin upon the rebut- tai testimony. The defense has made very strong case, and the testimony today has been mostly that of experts, testifying that Weldon E. Wright had lucid in intervals during which he was as sane as any person. The case will probably reach the jury Sat urday, thus taking up two full weeks of the circuit courts time with the hearing. The case is now on a par with the famous Taylor will case, which was recently sent back to the circuit court by the Su- preme court, and which will have another trial this term of the court. The suit is brought by Mrs. Lucy M. Wright and Mrs Braeme, moth CT and sister of Weldon E. Wright, and left his property to Judge R. ]. Lea, of the circuit court, cous in. The plaintiff claims Weldon Wright was insane, as was his father before him.
 The returns for the Fourth Com gressional district in the recent election have been received. They show Ben Cravens, Democrat, to have defeated Ed Mechem, Repub- lican, for Congress, I3,454 to o,II2. The closest Mechem came to Cray ems in any county, was Crawford, where the two tied, each receiving 1927 votes. In Sebastian county, where both candidates reside, Cravens secured 3252 to 2I74 for Mechem. Mechem made his