Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1912 — Interesting Items Taken From Crown Point Star. [ARTICLE]

Interesting Items Taken From Crown Point Star.

Governor Marshall is making a great fuss about the new race track which is to start at Porter, in the north end of Porter county, on October 12th, and threatens to “pinch” the whole outfit if any gambling is allowed, which seems quite strange, inasmuch as one of the Chicago gambling outfits is running full blast In Lake county every afternoon, betting on the races, and fitted out with gambling devices. The place is located on the South Bend electric line between Gary and East Chicago, on the banks of the Calumet, near the Cudahy cleanser plant, and the electric line transports the sports out from Chicago each afternoon. The pool room is a barn structure with a high board fence around it, which is guarded by sentinels or look-outs, and to get into the place, it is said that one must come with good recommendations and be known to the sentinels. The little building looks Innocent to the uninitiated. It is patronized mostly by Chicago sports, who are watched so closely m that city that it is hard to operate, and the clique have moved •to Lake county’s dunes. The nine homing pigeons belonging to Messrs. Wissman and Crawturned loose at Indianapolis Sunday morning at 6:45, made a poor showing on account of rain and wind which was bad south of here. One bird, considered a slow flyer by Mr. Wissman, landed here at 3:15 that afternoon, and up to Tuesday morning no more had come, but they are all expected to get home in time. This same lot came from Logansport the week before in about two hours, and if they get back they will be liberated at Cincinnati next Sunday. John Brown looked over their Kankakee ranch last week and believes they have a thousand acres of corn safe from fros-t that will run from fifty to sixty bushels per acre, and he considers that a conservative estimate. Their large acreage of Hungarian, which promised Well at first, was nearly smothered by weeds later on, and that he doesn’t bank on for any more than the seed sown. They are now finishing two 200-ton silos, which they intend filling, but believe they started about ten days too late to get the best results from the corn.