tomorrow
-tottoTof Full City
jet-Only One Pre
cinct.
nrrow, February 26 is
»primary election, when
jty ticket is to be nomi
iy the white electors of
t. The city primary in
[has brought out the full
rote and there is no rea
believe that it will not be
| attended this year, for
i a contest for every of
nayor, John P. Paul is a
te for re-election and A.
ly is his opponent; for
r, Bradley Graham asks
lation and is opposed by
Brandenburg; for mar
, H. Carouthers is also a
te for re-election and
Martin seeks the same
Iir treasurer brings
;w men Garland
ry Clark, while for
following have
ir names, two to be
each ward: T. P.
t Pate, John R.
nd Sol Heinemann
Vard and Dr. E. L.
L Hubert, W. H.
V. B. Grant in the
> be only one pre
t at the city hall,
ectors, who can le
are to be allowed
Needed At Home,
lependent.
[, Feb. 25.—There
id in the Pulaski
s a federal prison
. Hearn, a young
es a charge of
bscene letter to a
' woman of Balti
beardless youth is
Methodist mission
and was suspend*
Irix college a short
Sis arrest, for not
he rules of the in*
Sang Hearn has a
'thcr in Hendriz
the ministry. He
!appreciate tne
s in, nor fear
ningly consid
which caused
terpiece. His
one of where
? sometimes
ms for light
with board if
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An Open Letter.
Newport, Ark., Feb. 24, 1914.
' To the People of Newport:
The time is at hand for the
selection of a new set of city of
ficers and I want to say a word.
The present administration
has been a progressive set of
men. They have done what they
each thought at the time was to
the best interest of the city as a
whole.
While it may seem to some
many errors have been made I
will say they have acted at all
times in good faith and without
any prejudice.
As your mayor for the past
two years I have done what I
could for the betterment in gen
eral ; I have not catered to any
| person or persons and in all
cases coming before me for ad
judication, I have done what I
considered right and proper
without the advice of outside
interests. I do not by any means
claim to be infallible but will
say this: that no act of mine
has caused me any regret and
that similar cases coming under
my jurisdiction in the future will
be treated in the same manner as
in the past, and I have no apolo
gies to offer for what I have or
have not done.
In my letter accepting the
call for mayor from a number
of citizens two years ago, I
thanked them for the Honor and
accepted the call and in that let
ter I told them my keynote was
to light the streets of Newport
with electricity. We had prac
tically been in darkness for 3
years. The stockholders of the
old company who were the
bond holders of Peoria, '111., de
manded a rate that the Board of
Aldermen flatly refused and one
that we possibly could not pay.
They were so dictatorial and
domineering over us and would
give us no compromising propo
sitions and answered us that un
less we came to their terms we
could remain in darkness.
I obtained legal information
that , their franchise was defec
tive and the city was in a posi
tion td grant a new franchise.
I i immediately corresponded
with the electric world and in
formled them > that the city of
Newport, Arkansas, was in the
market to grant an electric
light franchise. I received a
number of answers but the one
from Mr'. Hammel, the presi*
dent of the present company,
had the best ring to me. He
proposed a Co-operative Com
pany, that he would furnish the
capital to erect the plant and
give the city 50 per cent of the
net earnings, the city to pay the
usual lighting rates. I immedi
ately answered him and said if
he would offer to light the city
free for the franchise privilege
I believed we could come to
terms. He answered me by wire
and said he would prefer that to
a Co-operative company.
I then told him that it cost
money to make and publish or
dinances and if ‘he would depos
it $1,000 in one of our banks as
an evidence of good faith we
would go to work* at once. He
answered that he would do that
but that he would have to be
protected by a guarantee of ai
least 75 per cent of thb con
sumers, that unless he Had that
protection the old ' company
would have the advantage by re
ducing rates and freeze them
out in a short time. It was ther
that I called a meeting of the
Board of Aldermen and for the
| first time made known to them
I the scheme I had on foot for the
last three months. They could
hardly realize that there were
such good prospects in store for
our little city, but agreed to
make an effort to secure the
guarantee of 75 per cent of the
consumers and met with splen
did success and secured 84 per
cent, which was immediately
expressed to Mr. Hammel and by
return mail we received the
$1,000 check, a deposit of good
faith on the part of Mr. Ham
mel and Mr. Crossland. After
considerable correspondence pro
and con, we agreed upon a fran
chise satisfactory to both par
ties, which gave the Co-opera
tive Electric Light Company a
franchise for 20 years and for
the franchise they were to fur
nish the city one 60 Watt lamp
on every street corner in the
city and in addition one 200
candle power in our town clock
tower and all the lights in the
city hall and pump station, at
the sewer building. We eniov
this privilege now without cost
ing the city one cent and have
better service than we have ev
er had. No city in Arkansas
has as good a contract as New
port’s free electric lights.
On the Sunday before the
Monday that we passed the or
dinances Mr. Page, the attorney
for the old company, and Mr.
Murphy, the president, both of
Peoria, 111., appeared on the
scene and argued with me for
the protection of their invest
ment, that granting a new
franchise would be a loss to
them of a $40,000 investment in
this city. I told them that Mr.
Hammel had fully complied
with our requirements and had
deposited $1,000 in good faith
and that the city would certain
ly carry out their part to the
letter of agreement.
I leave my case in your hands
and humbly ask for a second
term as an endorsement of my
present term,
j Truly yours,
JOHN P. PAUL.
(Adv.)
—
Federal Game Laws Opposed.
It took but two convictions,
and the publicity which follow
ed, to show the difference be
tween federal and state game
laws. It is conceded that every
section of the state is now ob
serving the federal game laws,
where they ignored state laws
in the past as freely as if there
were no laws.
District Supervisor E. V. Vis
art is constantly on the go, and
being an ardent sportsman, he
gets back into sections of the
state a less enthusiastic offi
cial would ignore. Though few
papers get back into these sec
tions, which are frequented by
hunters and trappers only, the
news gets ahead of the official,
as though the birds themselves
gave out the warning. The hunt
ers are afraid to kill migratory
game, and if they do they art
afraid to offer it for sale foi
fear the man td whom it is of
fered is the federal official tc
whom the law enforcement has
been assigned.
Night Fire At Hoxie.
Special to Independent.
Hoxie, Feb. 25.—A fire ir
the business section of this
town about 1 o’clock Wednesday
morning destroyed the Catholic
church valued at $1000, Potter’s
meat market, loss $300 and J
D. Waldron's grocery store ant
| blacksmith shop, loss aboui
I $3000. The cause of the fire ant
; insurance carried are no1
i known.
A
DESERTED TENT
PROVES MYSTERY
Camp Outfit Below City Found
By Officer But No Owner
Can Be Located.
—
A deserted tent located in a
thicket beyond the old Kelly i
mill site, west of the city near ,
the river was recently discover- j
ed by rivermen, who reported j
the same to Constable Clyde
Wood, who has made an investi-;
gation but can find nothing to j
give him a clue to the rather'
mysterious surroundings.
i
There are no tracks about the '
tent to indicate anyone has been |
there recently, nor could any |
letters or papers be found to in
dicate who had inhabited this I
temporary place. Yet there
were three large country hams,
two buckets of country lard, j
__Mi... . . .._J- l_
iv»u 4unti?, ci wagun tail
tern, gig, telescope, a pair of
No. 6 or 7 bootees, two gallons
of coal oil, cooking utensils, 75
No. 12 shells, 6 or 8 boxes of 22
cartridges and some 44 pistol
cartridges. These belongings
were turned over to J. D. Myers
for safe keeping.
Two blue oars found in the
tent and the fact that a blue
painted boat fitted for gasoline
engine, but with the engine
gone was tied at the river bank
nearby, leads the officer to be
lieve that the campers also were
the owners of this boat hull, up
on which were painted in white
letters “Sam Nelson XX, 8 Cot
ter X.”
_ t
Mrs. Ella Young Flagg Coming.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 25.—The of
ficials of the Arkansas Teach
ers’ Association have received
from Mrs. Ella Flagg Young,
the celebrated woman superin
tendent of the Chicago public
schools, an acceptance of an in
vitation to deliver an address
at the annual meeting of the
Association in April. She will
probably speak on April 17.
Her subject has not been an
nounced. This will be one of
the notable events of the meet
ing.
“Sip' Bottling Corporation
Getting Heady for Business.
J. Wise Brown, managing <li- !
rector of the “Sip” Bottling i
Corporation of Memphis, is in j
our city making arrangements
for opening the company's plant
here.
The company have leased the
large concrete farmers union:
warehouse, and all machinery i
and fixtures are being installed '
by Ed L. Storms of Memphis, j
who will be the general superin
tendent of the plant.
This plant expects to manu-j
facture everything in the soda i
fountain line, including soft
drinks of all kinds, syrups for j
fountains and drug stores, and
will also have ice cream cones j
and straws, so there will be ab
solutely no reason for sendingj
away from home for these arti
cles when you can get them i
light at your own door. Later i
on an ice cream factory will be |
installed. Newport will be the i
center of a large shipping ter- ^
ritory which will be from Little
Rock to Poplar Bluff.
Mr. Brown says he believes in !
buying everything for his fac
tory from Newport that he can
possibly do, and has bought the
finest team of mules in Jackson
county from R. J. Huguley, a
large delivery wagon is to be
made by J. L. Younger and he
has bought out the Bottling
works of J. 0. Powell.
Newport is glad to have this
new business open up in the city,
which will be ready next week.
i
—
Will Speak Tonight.
I
Hon. Tom W. Campbell, candi
date for congress, and the five
attorneys who seek the nomina-j
tion for prosecuting attorney in
this circuit: Earl Casey, Ira J.
Matheny and Thornberry Gray
of Independence County, Hugh
Williamson of Stone county and i
John S. Gibson of Lawrence
county are spending the day
in this city on their cam
paign tour of the county and
will address the people of this
city at 7:30 o’clock tonight at
the court house.
They should be greeted by a
large audience and we speak for (
them a large house and respect-!
ful hearing._ '
Keel Secures
Instructed Verdict
In Second C ase Involving Treat
ment of Convicts On ('ounty
Farm.
In the second case in which
John II. Keel was defendant as
a result of the grand jury’s in
vestigation of the county con
vict farm, the court instructed a
verdict of acquittal because the
evidence showed 1 hat the convict
named Nichols, who was refused
medical attention for a wound,
had served his time and was real
ly not a convict at the time.
According to the state's testi
mony. defendant’s guard refused
fat meat and hot water asked by
Nichols for a hand wound, or to
give him any medicine for the
same. The state’s prosecuting
witness swore that he was com
pelled to keep up his end at a
saw when his hand was badly in
flamed as the result of a wound
from accidentally coming in con
tact with a tooth of the saw. No
testimony for the defense was
heard. As the penalty in such
a case is a fine for not less than
that part of the fine and costs
not yet worked out and the con
vict in this case had worked out
his fine, the court instructed a
verdict of acquittal.
No sooner was this case con
cluded than a third trial of the
defendant was entered upon. In
this action, the state alleges
proper clothing and shoes were
refused a convict. Phillips, Hill
house & Boyce are counsel for
the defendant and Prosecuting
Attorney Erwin is looking after
the state’s case.
VERDICT FOR RAILROAD.
In the suit of George Allen Rie
against the Frisco for damages,
the jury found a verdict for the
railroad company.
Carload of Bananas.
J. B. Heard has a carload of
nice ripe bananas on the track*
opposite Wolff-Goldman’s. Ear
ly buyers get the best, so come
early. Prices are just right.
Ham and Egg*.
Calhoun Clay aay*: “Dar am a non
oreakable relationship betwixt <* cu!
lud race an’ turkey, the reaaon bein'
dat de cullud race Is descended from
Ham. while turkey cornea from egga.**
Our Spring Hats
Now Make Their Bow.
We’re showing all the correct blocks
and styles from the most noted hatters.
We’ve hats in right proportions to jibe
with every cast of countenance.
$3.00. $3.50. $4.00 and $5.00
1 P
Stiff Hats in extreme or conservative shapes.
Soft Hats-There are so many styles we can’t begin
to tell you about them.
Come in, try on as many different styles as you like and choose
your particular hat.
' Berger’S
"STAR CLOTHING MWJSE* ■