NOTICE.
At the direction of the Jacksor
county court notice is hereby giver
that there has been filed in said court
the petition of T. J. Gregg, C. R. Hite
C. G. Henry, R. B. Hooker and N. B
Wishon, as Directors of Newport Le
vee District, representing that the
improvements contemplated by said
Newport Levee District will be oi
material benefit to the real propertj
located within the following bounda
ries, to-wit:
Beginning at the intersection of the
left bank of White River with a line
parallel to and 200 feet distapt
measured in a Northerly direction at
right angles, from the South line oi
Section 2, Township 11 North, Range
3 West, at a point on the boundary oi
the Newport Levee District, said
boundary being described and set
forth in Section 1 of Act No. 249 oi
the General Assembly of the State
of Arkansas for the year 1917.
Thence Northerly, along the left
bank of said White River, to an in
tersection with a line parallel to anci
1,000 feet distant, measured at right
angles in a Northwesterly direction,
from the center line of the North
bound main line track of the Missouri,
Pacific Railway, formerly the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway.
Thence Northeasterly, along a line
parallel to and 1,000 feet distant,
measured at right angles in a North
westerly direction, from the center
line of said Northbound main line
track of the said Missouri Pacific
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i.vcui w ay f uu
Mountain & Southern Railway, to an
intersection with a line 1,320 feet
West of the North and South Quarter
Section line of Section 2, Township
11, Nor£h, Range 3 West.
Thence North, along a line 1,320
feet West of the North and Sodth
Quarter Section line of said Section 2,
to a point on the East and West Quar
• ter Section line of said Section 2,
1,320 feet West of the Center of said
Section 2.
Thence East, along the East and
West Quarter Section line of said
Section 2 to an intersection with a
line parallel to and 500 feet distant,
measured at right angles in a West
erly direction, from the center line of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway track.
Thence Northerly, along a line par
allel to and 500 feet distant, measured
at right angles in a Westerly direc
tion, from the center line of said
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
a line parallel to and 1,100 feet North
of the East and West Quarter Section
line of Section 2, Township 11 North,
Range 3 West.
Thence Easterly, along a line paral
lel to and 1,100 feet North of the East
and West Quarter Section line of
said Section 2 to an intersection with
a line parallel to and 200 feet dis
tant, measured at right angles in a
Northwesterly direction, from the
Northwesterly right of way line of
the Missouri Pacific Railway, for
merly the St. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern Railway, at a point on the
boundary of the Newport Levee Dis
trict, said boundary being described
and set forth in Section 1 of Act No,
249 of the General Assembly of the
State of Arkansas for the year 1917,
Thence in a generally Southwester
ly direction, following the said boun
dary* of said Newport Levee District,
as described and set forth in Sectior
1 of said Act to the point of begin
ning.
And praying that the boundaries of
said Newport District be extended sc
as to include the territory lying with
in the boundaries above set forth.
All persons owning real property
located within the boundaries above
set forth are hereby notified to ap
pear in the Jackson County Court or
the 28th day of Marcn., ftf i», ana snow
cause why said petition should noi
be granted and the boundaries of said
Newport Levee District should not be
extended as prayed for therein.
Given under my hand, as Clerk ol
the Jackson County Court, and at the
direction of said Court, on this the
23rd day of February, 1918.
J. F. PARISH,
273 dl2t. County Clerk.
To advertise your goods ic to gei
the attention of the man or womar
who might otherwise never have
known it at all.
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TAKE LADS OF 20
AS SHIP OFFICERS
Many Being Accepted for Train
ing by the United States
Shipping Board.
GOES BACK TO THE OLD DAYS
Traditions of the Service Justify the
Choice of Lads for Responsible
Positions—Career of Cap
tain Silsbee.
I
Washington.—Lads less than twen
1 ty, already experienced sailors, are ap
plying these days to the United States
; shipping board for training as ollicers
in the new merchant marine. Many of
them are accepted, and not a few al
ready are serving aS juniors on the
bridges of some of the largest liners
passing through the war zone waters
of Europe.
Lads of twenty were sturdy seafar
ing men, ruling their quartei'decks
and tairiing the rough company of
| their forecastles by their own pluck
| and resourcefulness, in the days when
I our forefathers were creating a mer
j chant marine whose achievements
I form one of the finest pages of Amer
' lean history.
Nathaniel Silsbee of Salem, who af
terwards became United States sena
tor from Massachusetts in company
with Daniel Webster, took command
i-T- -- /vf 1 nQ
I burden, laden with a costly cargo of
| merchandise and bound out from Mas
| sachusetts bay to the Cape of Good
i Hope and India, in 1792, when not
! nineteen years old.
The first American flag had entered
the harbors of Bombay and Calcutta
only four years before, on the ship At
lantic.
“Beginning in 1817, with a capital
consisting of a Testament, a ‘Bow
ditc^i,’ quadrant, chest of sea clothes
and a mother’s blessing, Nathaniel
Silsbee, then only fourteen years old,
left the paternal mansion in Salem full
of hope and good resolution to em
bark on his first voyage, which was to
Baltimore as captain's clerk; at twen
tw-eight he had made his fortune and
retired from the sea; at thirty-six was
the head of the largest American
house in China.
The resourcefulness of Nathaniel
Silsbee was never better illustrated
than by his first voyage in command
of his first ship, the Benjamin,
So id at Big Profit.
On the passage from the Cape of
Good Hope'to the Isle of France (Mau
ritius), Captain Silsbee fell in with a
French frigate that gave him news of
the beginning of the war between
France and England. On this news
reaching the Isle of France, prices
rose by leaps and bounds. The cargo
of the Benjamin was quickly sold at
a profit that dazzled her commander.
As fast as he could, he turned the
paper currency he received into Span
ish dollars. Then for six months an
embargo was laid on all foreign ves
sels in port. During this time the
Spanish dollars Increased to three
times the value of paper money, and
yet, for lack of an outlet, the products
of the island did not advance in price.
Nathaniel Silsbee abandoned his
plan of keeping on to Calcultta. He
sold his Spanish dollars, loaded coffee
and spices, and started for home.
Proceeding no farther than the Cape
of Good Hope, he scented another
chance to fatten his owner’s pocket
book.
“The Cape of Good Hope was held
by the Dutch," he said in later years,
“and it so happened that I was the
only master of a foreign vessel then
in port of whom a bond had not been
required to proceed to a French port.
Two other Salem ships were in port;
I put on board them such portion of
my cargo as I knew would considera
bly more than pay the whole cost of
my ship and cargo, sold the residue,
and invested the proceeds In a full
pnrtrn nf winp and other articles which
I kne.w to be in great demand in those
islands.v
Captain Silsbee sold his cargo for
three times its cost at the Isle of
France, and again loaded for home.
Warned by Governor.
He was nearly ready to sail when he
got word that' another embargo was
likely. Hastily putting to sea, he was
obliged to anchor next day at the Isle
of Bourbon for provisions. A mysti
fying experience that he met here he
related thus:
“Just as I was about stepping from
the wharf into my boat, the French
governor.of the island ordered me to
his presence. I obeyed with strong ap
prehensions that some' restraint was
to be put upon me. On meeting the
governor, he asked me: ‘How long do
you contemplate staying in Bourbon?’
My answer was, ‘Not more than a day
or two.’ ‘Can't you leave here to
night?’ he asked. I replied, ‘If you
wish it.’ Then he added, ‘As you had
the politeness to call on me this morn
ing, and as I should be sorry to see
you injured, hearken to my advice
and leave here tonight if possible.’
“He cautioned me to secrecy, and I
was on board as soon as possible after
leaving him.
“There was a war-brig at anchor in
the harbor, a little to windward of
my own vessel; toward midnight I had
the anchor hove up without noise, and
let the*ship adrift without making any
gall until we had lost sight of the war
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brig, when we made all sail directly
from the land.
“At daylight the war-brig was sent
In pursuit of us, under a press of sail,
"but fortunately could not overtake us,
and toward night gave up the chase.”
I The Benjamin arrived home after a
j voyage of ten months. Nathaniel Sils
; bee had earned for his emjfioyer, Eli
as Hasket Derby, a net profit of more
than 100 per cent on the cost of the
ship and cargo.
By 1815 Nathaniel Silsbee had risen
to such prominence that he was named
by the United States government as
one of the commissioners to organize
: the Boston branch of the “Bank of the
; United States.”
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1 DID NOT KNOW OF WAR |
J BETWEEN U. S. AND FRITZ $
3 _ 3
3 San Francisco.—The recruit
X ing officer over at Colfax, near 3
3 here, notified army headquarters ;o
X that he had found a man of mili- X
3 tary age who professed not to 3
^ know that the United States and X
3 Germany are at war. He said he 3
X had heard that Germany was X
3 fighting France and England and 3
X “hoped she would win,” as he X
3 was a German. He admitted 3
^ that he had registered for the 3
3 draft, but claimed he did not &
^ know the purpose of it.
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KAISER DENOUNCED IN WILL
Aged New Yorker Leaves Large Be
quests to Various French War
Charities.
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New York.—Vehement denunciation
of the kaiser as a barbarian who crim
inally caused the war is contained in
the will of Jean Baptiste Bourdis, gen
erally known as John Bourdis, filed for
probate in the surrogate’s court.
Generous bequests are made to
French war charities. Bourdis was
seventy-six years old when he died on
December 23. He retired last year
from the silk firm of J. Bourdis & Co.
The largest bequest is 500,000 francs,
for the relief of helplessly crippled
French soldiers, “victims of the crimi
nal war imposed by one man, the bar
barous German Emperor William II
for the satisfaction of his own ambi
tions.”
Thirty thousand francs each are left
to four hospitals in Lyons, France. The
city of Lyons gets 100,000 francs, the
income of which is to be used for the
purchase of paintings for the pupils
of the Ecole des Beaux Ari;s at Lyons,
where Bourdis was a pupil.
MARRIAGE OF MINORS LEGAL
Colorado Judge Decides They Cannot
Be Annulled Under the State
Law.
Denver, Colo.—Marriages of boys
and girls not of legal age are legal
in Colorado and cannot be annulled.
This was the decision of Judge J.
A. Denii^m in the district court in de
nying the petition of Mrs. May Gard
ner for an annulment of the marriage
of her daughter to Don Bigelow.
Mrs. Gardner told the court that
Mrs. Bigelow was not eighteen years
old when she became a wife and
that Bigelow was less than twenty at
the time he obtained a license to
wed. Judge Denison held that there
is no law in Colorado making the
marriage of minors illegal, but that
the official who performs such cere
monies is subject to fine and im
prisonment.
BLOTTING OUT THE KAISER
i
The kaiser’s baleful face has been
obliterated from one more spot and in
his place is Joati of Arc. Three young
ladies of' the Junior League, Misses
Jeannette Pruyn, Evelyn G. Payne and
Candace Howard started out to inter
est New York in the War Savings
stamps campaign. Their first stop was
at a prominent New York hotel, where
they espied a likely spot for their post
ers in a place where hung a cartoon ol
the kaiser. Down came the kaiser’s
picture and in its place went a spirited
reproduction of Joan of Arc, which
Miss Evelyn Payne is displaying in
this photo, urging the yomen of Amer
ica to buy War Savings stamps.
Oldest Dog Discovered.
Zanesville, O.—The oldest dog in
Muskingum county has been discov
ered by the county auditor, who is
Eued a license to William Casey for
a white poodle aged twenty-four
years.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCE
MENTS.
The Independent is authoriz
ed to announce * the following
persons as candidates for public
office, subject to the action of
the Democratic party:
For County Superintendent—
J. M. Balch.
Garland E. Land.
A. J. Garner.
Z. D. Barber
H. L. Thomas
For County Treasurer—
W. D. McLain.
Charles K. Coe.
For Congress —
YVm. A. Hodges
W. D. Davenport.
W. A. Oldfield *
For County Judge:
John A. Melville.
R. F. Tyer.
W. M. Tims
W. A. Mink.
For Chancellor (Eighth District)—
Lyman F. Reeder.
For Sheriff and Collector
Terry Guin.
J. M. Ivy.
For Representative:
R. T. Simmons
For Representative—
Fred R. Suits.
For County Clerk:
J. F. Parish.
Grover C. Nance.
For Assessor—
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WARNING ORDER.
In the Chancery Court of Jackson
County, Ark.
No. 3262.
Mildred Grant, Plaintiff
vs.
Abraham Grant, Defendant.
The defendant, Abraham Grant, is
hereby warned to appear in this
court within thirty days and answer
the complaint of the Plaintiff, Mil
dred Grant.
Witness my hand and the seal of
6aid Court this 25th day of February,
1918.
R. W. Bandy, Clerk.
By J. B. Parrott, D. C.
J. H. Johnston is hereby appointed
attorney for the non-resident de
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FOR SALE.
I have for sale the Boone county
white, extra quality, and Tennessee
Giant Red Cob. The Tennessee Giant
corn is especially adapted to rich
bottom land and the Boone county
will thrive on either uplands or low
lands. Either variety, $3.50 per
bushel. Now is the time to book your
order.
S. M. Bains,
48w4t Newport, Ark.
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