The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-27
TO BE HANDED DOWN BY JUDGE MOONEY THIS MORNING AT
 g O'CLOCK.
ALL POINTS ARE ADMITTED
'ndieations Are That the Decision Will Favor License and That the Sale of Liquors Win Be LeosI After the Morning in Court.

This morning at 9 o'clock County
 Judge Mooney will hand down his de.
 eislon on the petitions for the lawful
 sale of liquor in Hot Springs rms announcement was made at n
 night session last night when the long
 weeks and probably months of eyi. dence taking on the part of the re.
 monstrators was terminated when
 counsel for the petitioners entered q
 general admission of the trend of the evidence.
 The evidence that had been intro-
 duced for the past few days by the
 petitioners was not conclusive on any
 score II. was simply proving that
 when agents of the remonstrators wis.,
 ited certain addresses, given in the petitions, some of the petitioners could not be located
 That proves nothing conclusive.
 and for. the advantage of time saving
 We will admit that this line of eyi.
 dence could go much further" an.
 nounced counsel for the petitioners.
 Judge Mooney had been patient the
 last few days and permitted the at.
 torneys for the remonstrators to in.
 troduce much evidence Of this char. acter, but he made frequent rulings on technical points which indicated that he understood the legal phase of the procedure thoroughly, and while
 he was indulging much evidence tax Ing, he was not regarding it as con- elusive to anything
 There had been just two days spent Tn evidence taking in the case. in- cluding two night sessions. The at- torneys have made a hard fight on both sides. Judge Mooney has been the central figure for the fire of hun. dreds of technicalities, and many deep legal problems throughout the and the case has given the public much opportunity to have an insight into his judicial informa- ton, which has introduced something or the promptness and decisive meth- ods that had on previous occasions in other courts, been the subject of much favorable criticism.
 Yesterday Judge Mooney freouent- y cut the attorneys out of any sort 'f an argument by telling them ha understood the situation, and did not want to hear an argument. The ac- ion was addressed to neither side, ut to counsel for both sides. The 'ourt had reached that stage where le was unwilling to sit and listen to engthy discussion on some point of which he was familiar, and he would amply announce a ruling, and that nded 1t.
 The demonstrators evidently made
 mistake yesterday when Hugh Hale Ras put on the stand. He testified o having gone to many addresses as
 process server for the Temperance -eague, and to not having found at he addresses the parties mentioned n the petitions. After he left the tand, however, the attention of the ourt was called to the fact that Mir. iale was one Of the demonstrators, nd that as such, and party to the uit at law, he was not qulified to erve processes in the suit, therefore he evidence was not properly pre- ented for consideration.
 While the point was largely in avor of the petitioners. yet the evi- ence given by any of the process ervers for the remonstrators is not onclusive, and shows nothing ex- ept that certain date the parties id not reside at the residences given n the petitions. Many of them had to other parts of the city, nd some had more than one address, ut had given the one which was re- orted mon est"
 President Ed Johnson of the Se- urity Bank was one of the important illnesses of the day for the remon- trators. He was introduced as an ex- ert in the matter of signatures, and he attorneys for the petitioners con- eded that he was expert in such latters. He was permitted to take he petitions and go over them and ubmit a report as to how many of he names he could find in his opin- on had been signed by the same per on. If any and also to compare sig atures on the petitions with the sig atures of the parties who had circu- lted tha nptitfou