The log cabin Democrat., 1921-01-19
GRAND JURY GIVEN
 RECESS; 46 BILLS
IS SUBJECT TO RECALL
Final Report to Court Made By Coun ty Probe Body-Mule Case Won
 by Plaintiff.

Aprll, dIUef accepting the 1lnal re- port of it's labors. Eleven new in dictments, all for misdemeanors, were returned by the jury before going into recess. The total for the sitting is 46 bills, 16 charging felonies and 30 misdemeanors.
 The final case tried before circuit court went into recess, to extend un- til Monday, was the litigating between R. T. Stone and Doss Harness for possession of a certain mule. The yer dict of the trial jury of which s. H. Russell was foreman, awarded the mule to Mr. Stone. fixed it's value at $100 and in addition awarded Mir. Stone damages in the sum of $25. All told, AZ witnesses were examined in course of the trial
 Trial of Rev. Noah Hunter. in iail on charge of illegal manufacture of whiskey, probably will be held the end of next week, it was said Hunter has been imprisoned for some time and Judge Clark will probably order his trial when other cases of the same nature are called. Through an er- TOT made in it's daily edition of Mon day, the Log Cabin Democrat stated that Hunter is negro. He is white man and member of a family we'll known and respected in this county. The final report of the grand jury. which was accepted by Judge Clark, was as follows:
 To the Hon. George W. Clark. Circuit
 Judge:
 We your grand jury appointed for the January term, 1920, beg leave to make this our final report:
 We have examined 137 witnesses. and have found 46 true bills, 16 felo- nies and 30 misdemeanors.
 We have had a committee to visit the county poor farm and make the following report:
 We find, Mir Kuykendall, the new keeper, has just moved in and has taken charge of the place. He treat ed us very kindly and took pleasure in showing us all about the farm. We found only thre inmates. They told us they were kindly treated and well ! cared for. We found the bedding and furniture in very bad and unsanitary condition and recommend change at | once for the health of the inmates, as well as for their comfort. We found the buildings in bad condition, especi- ally the porches and roofs and recom- mend that these be repaired at once. ho fo I the building too extensive to be kept up, for the number of inmates usually Kept there, so if it can be done to advantage we recommend this farm be sold in part, or all, and a small place be bought and made more convenient and comfortable for those who must stay there.
 This body recommends that the good people in every community in this county take notice of all sales of cigarettes and cigarette papers, use of slot machines and punch boards, as well as the sale or making of moon shine whiskey, and disturbances of public worship and make a report of any that they know of to the next term of the grand jury. We have referred to the next grand jury a number of names of boys who have disturbed public worship. and they will be looked into at the next grand jury In other words, they are passed by on their good behavior.
 We recommend that a sheet of steel be placed inside the jail so as to make the same more secure. Also that the bedding be kept in better condition and that the water works be repaired so the place will be in a more sanitary condition.
 We find the courthouse building in fairly good condition and do not care to make and recommendations at this time.
 The report of the various officers of the county have been filed Generally, these reports show aggregate receipts and their accuracy could mot be as- certained by the examination of the witnesses, who had not examined the itemized accounts. We believe a thorough audit of the accounts of the various county officers would be worth while.
 It apears to have been a custom in this county for the recorder to not index instruments filed for record until sometime after they are record ed Such practice if continued may be expected to cause serious loss to our citizens. The great increase in land values, the educating of our citizens to know the importance of the re- cording of their deeds and mortgages, the growing demand for abstracts of title, the increase of population of the county, the leasing of lands for oil and gas, the investment of foreign cap ital with it's Investigating of land titles have all added to the volume of work being done in the recorders of