The Prescott daily news., 1909-03-05
LITTLE ROCK NEWS

by qulcK action yesterday Sena- tor DeRossitt beat Senator Glov- or to the Senate with a bill to dispose of the new State Cap itol site, move the partially com p'eted new building to the site Of the old capitol, and there CT ect new building, thus stealing the thunder Senator Glover had spent much time in preparing Senator Glover was to present the bill early yesterday morn ing, but Senator DeRosSitt, was there ahetad of him and the De- Rossitt bill was the only one to reach the senate. It has been the talk Of the town since. While the bill was read twice, and has been taken up as serious as many oth
 CT bills Of the Sena te, it is hard ly taken seriously by others, it being considered by contractors and financiers as well, as being entirely out of the question. 1t has been shown within the. past month that the new state Cap;
 tel would be out of, politics this session of the legislature, a settlement of some kind being a surety One senator in expressing an opinion of the bill last night stated he would today introduce a bill which vii, locate the new building in Argenta, if any change is made in the location Governor Donaghey considers the DeRossitt bill as an absurdity, {, and says the new Capitol where it stands will be completed be- fore his term of office has eXpir- eded if the legislature vii. only assist him.
 Little Rock, March A. Yesterday was the first quiet day the five men inl the Pulaski county jail, J. c. Mabray, F. M. Clark, I. J. Warner, J. c, John son and H M Stockwell, who are charged with being wizards of frenzied finance, since their incarceration There was no one in to identify them, and, bridge was resorted to to pass the time away. Mrs. Mabray and Mrs. Clark called on the prisoners for the first time in several days ow- ing to the slight illness of Mrs. Clark. The announcement that Mabray alone is to be- taken to Council Bluffs and the rest re- main here for trial, has, caused the four men on the third floor no end of uneasiness, and their attorneys are now fighting to the limit to prevent a separation They want Mabray left here for trial with the rest, or all taken to Council Bluffs. The at torneys for the defense are will ing to make any reasonable con cession to the state to keep Ma bray here now that the others are to stay, and a conference will be held tomorrow to consider what shall be done Should the government consent to leave the men all here for the state court to handle on account of the dir ect testimony which will connect them With working T c. K ile ,of Cisco, lil., out of S1O,OOO on horse race here Feb 13. the in- spectors will demand a much in creased bond to prevent any of the men getting away In order 10 do this other charges would have to be brought and addition indictments returned by the grand jury Sheriff Roberts and Deputies Hawkins and Reichardt are following clews now which they expect will result in more Mikes worked here being turn ed up in few days and this Wouid enable the court tq raise the bond to any amount suggest cd by the prosecuting attorney. Should another good case deve,op here the postal inspectors are expected to willingly allow the state court to proceed, so they can spend as much time as they desire in working up the Federal end or the prosecution and se- curing evidence stronger than they have now. The total of the government evidence is a letter which was written by an agent for Samuel Sutor, of Cass Lake Minn., in raising money to pay over to the swindlers in Council B.uiifs later. As the agent is all legged to have been connected with Mabray the postal author ities, say Mabray, while he had no hand in writing the. letter was in the conspiracy to fleece SILL nd fhorof