Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-01-20
SALOON HEARING
 MAY LAST WEEKS Judge Philpot Says He Will Hear All Evidence of Both Sides Before Acting. MANY CHALLENGED. Lists From Hotels and RO0ming Houses Attacked by Remon-
 strants Yesterday.
MANY CHALLENGED.

County Judge c. M. Philpot stat cd Monday that he would continue tl e hearing of the liquor license peti- tiOn case in the county court until the resmonstrants had submitted all of their evidence and until counsel for the saloon men completed their Introduction of testimony. Just how told, for Monday afternoon, after the days session of the court was ad- ;ol med, the remonstrants filed another long list of witnesses-some lif+y--with County Clerk Nichol and asked that they be summoned as wit nesses in their behalf.
 fudge Philpot says that he will not permit either side to delay matters, Eut in his anxiety to be fair to both sides, he has decided to continue the hearing in an effort to get down to the actual facts himself and, after all tne evidence has been heard, do little figuring and render his decis- | ion
 If the case proceeds as slowly as | it did yesterday, when only few of names were challenged, each l signer being investigated, and the re- rnonstrants continue to file lists of witnesses in order to sustain their contentious that the petition does not contain majority of the white adult inbatiants of Pine Bluff, and then the saloon men bring il numbers of witnesses to offset this evidence, it is most likely that the end of the present hearing will not come for two weeks, at least, if no longer. All this time the saloons will have to remain closed and that may be for | good, i1 the event Judge Philpou should decide the case against the liquor men.
 A greater part of the day was l ldhCl up III CudllCA6lAS AQlACo Ol persons who had signed the liquor petition and had given the Jefferson and Pines hotels as their place or abode. Other "guests" at the OrtOn oHtel and the See House, Third avenue irooming house, were investi- gated. In all the remonstrants cnal- lenged about 200, many of these were shown to be living at the hotels of rooming houses, while large num-
 her of others were shown to have lived there only short while, some
 as temporary guests, others as em- plovees and stills others as having tlieir headquarters there and calling
 the hotels their homes.
 Hotel Men Heard.
 1 H. E. "Pam" Johnson, chief clrek
 at the Hotel Jefferson, testified that
 some of the persons challenged liv-
 ed at the hotel, others considered it
 their headquarters aAd spent their
 Saturdays and Sundays there, still
 others had been there only short
 while, but do not Give there." He ad-
 mitted that many travelling men, who
 really make Pine Bluff their home in
 the sense of the word, often register
 ed from the cities in which their
 houses are located. A number ot
 those called he did not know person
 ally. He also said that often persons
 come to the hotel and make it their
 home for some weeks before going 1 into permanent homes here. He did
 not know whether any of the persons
 whose residence at the hotel we're questioned, were in the city or not
 He said all he knew was that they
 were not "living at the hotel and did not live there on January 1, 1914 l Mrs. Carrye w. Brown, who with her nephew, Matt See, conduct room
 :ns houses at No. 21S Georgia street and No. 319 East Third avenue No 219 East Third avenue, on direct ex- animation was positive about some ot 62 petitioners, who we're challenged secause it is contended that they are 1 not living at the numbers given. She knew many of them, she said. and recited little incidents in practically 4 every case in which a signer was questioned. Many of the people list Ted were at her place one time or