Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 10, Hammond, Lake County, 28 June 1906 — Page 1

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VOL. I, NO. 10. HAMMOND, INDIANA THURSDAY, JUNE 28 1906 ONE CENT PER COPY STATE SCHOOL FUNDS ARE APPORTIONED EVICTED TENNANT BRAVES PERPLEXING QUESTION. STORM TO PROTECT CHATTELS. Supt. Cotton Reports 774,662 Chil ld- Refuses Shelter of Police Station While her Miserable Belongings are Piled in the Street-Sad Plight of Lone Woman. ren of School Age in the State with A Per Capita Apportionment of $1.62.

UP GO THE FIRE RATES

BOOM FUR GOOD ROADS

Insurance Companies Apply the Squeeze to Future Industrial Risks

TO PAY FRISCO LOSSES Lake County Policy Holders Think they are Being Asked to Share Share Earthquake Burden Insurance rates in Indiana are goup. Present policy holders will not be affected by the change but the new applicants will hear of a decided raise in certain lines. E. E. Beck the local insurance inspector received a letter from E. M. Sellers secretary of the Indiana Association of Unthis morning with into notify all agents of the advance. The Indiana Association of Undergives as its reason for the adthe following. "Owing to the fact that certain classes of property have not paid the companies for the last five years, and in order to equalrates and make classes heretofore unprofitable, do their share, a peradvance has been decided upon." Other Reasons Seen There seems however to be a stronger reason in back of this deraise. The shock of the San Francisco. Earthquake is still felt in insurance companies and this adwill probably be the only means to help many of the smaller companies out of the hole. The Association has chosen for its subjects large corporations and comwhich can stand the additionpercentage. The advance that strikes Hammond hardest is the one on stocks of merchandise in brick and frame buildings. An advance of 20 per cent. has been made. The Insurance companies of Chiare making the raise under a different cover. Fire chief Campion was let out by Mayor Dunne and on this ground the companies found sufreason to advance their rates. The percentage advance for Inmay be arranged again during this year. Letter to Inspector. The letter to inspectors is as folIndianapolis, June 27, 1906 To Inspectors. Owing to the fact that certain classes of property have not paid the companies for the last five years and in order to equalize rates and make classes heretofore unprofitable do their share, a percentage advance has been decided upon as follo 1. On Iron and Metal W 30 p. c.-to hold good until such risks are rerated under schedule now in course of revision. 2. Colleges and School Buildings in protected towns and cities unless same have been rated under the May 1904 special schedule-25 p. c.-to take effect at once and hold good unsame are rerated under the schereferred to. 3. Boot and Shoe Factories, unif not rated under the January 1906 schedule-40 p. c.-to take effect at once and hold good unso rated. 4. Paper Mills to be advanced 50 p. c. 5. Churches in protected towns and cities unless rated under the School House Shedule, should be ad vanced 20 p. c. 6. Terminal Elevators and Con tents-20 p. c.-to hold good until same are rerated under schedule now in course of reviation. 7. Flouring Mills to be advanced 20 p. c. 8. Furniture, Chair, Coffin, Pia no and Billiard Table Factories, unsprlnkled, to be advanced 15 p. c 9. Summer Hotels to be advanced 5 p. c. 10. Saw Mills to be advanced 15 c. to hold good until rated under chedule now in course of revision. 11. Stocks of merchandise in rick and frame buildings to be ad-

(Special Correspondence) Indianapolis, June 28.-Fassett A. Cotton, State Superintendent of PubInstruction, has just completed the June apportionment of the school funds of the State, showing that the amount apportioned at this semi-an-settlement amounts to $1,254,This is a per capita apportionof $1.62, or one cent greater than it was at the corresponding time last year. The report shows, also, that 774,662 boys and girls between the ages of six and twenty-one are in the State. While the above sum is the amount realized for the general apportionthere is an additional sum of $53,832.98 that appears in the statefor the first time. This is the amount that was realized from the six mills levy to be devoted to those schools that are not able to mantain the mimimum six months term that is required by law. This amount was taken from the regular apportionin accordance with the law passed by the last Legislature. Of the total amount of mony reinto the common school fund, $1,304,372.57 was received from the regular eleven cent levy, the $53,98 from the six mill levy and the balance $6,849.70 from miscelsources, such as forfeitures, fines, etc.

vanced 20 p. c. This advance does not apply in 4th. and 5th. class towns which are now receiving considerThe letter adds: It should be nothat advances do not apply to risks equipped with an approved sysof sprinklers." POLICE STOP CHARIVARI. Last evening a telephone call came from Calumet Ave. and Sibley St. asking the police to disperse the crowd of roysterers that was maklife miserable for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beecher who were married yesterday. When the police arrived they decided that the efforts of the crowd to felicitate Mr. and Mrs. Beecher were too strenous and dispersed it. OTTO KNOERZER INVENTS POTATO BUG ANNIHILAT0R Enterprising Manufacturer Of Farm Machinery Now Has a New and Successful Device for Killing Bugs and Preventing Blight. Otto Knoezer works along in a quiet way; he doesn't throw much dust into the air. You would not know he was at the head of one of the most promising industries in the city unless you should happen to see him with one of his yellow inven tions in the street. But Otto is dothings every day. Besides keep ing busy filling orders for his new potato digging machine he finds time to make other useful devices every once in a while. His latest is a potato bug killer. You don't pay Otto two dollars for a couple of blocks that the impostor claims are sure death to the bugs that get between them and you don't go out into the garden with a sprinkling can and spend weary hours making life unbearable for the striped inhabitants of the potato vines. You just hitch Nell up to a ma chine that looks like a sulky with a barrel strapped to it and the air is soon filled with a poisonous mist that settles on the foliage of the po tato plant and denaturizes it, a food for bugs. Four rows are sprinkled at a time and it is said a field can be covered much more economically in one fourth of the time usually spent. Otto's machine will also sprinkle the vines with chemicals that pre vent blight and rot. Mr. and Mrs. Kingwell in com pany with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Eldridge, a bride and groom from Brockton, Mass., will take an ex tended trip to Yellowstone Park, vis iting Salt Lake City, Denver, the Garden of the Gods and other points of interest while they are sojourning in the West.

TIMES "WANT-AD" MAKES GOOD.

Pair of gold Spectacles . Recovered and Await the Arrival of Owner at This Office. A young lady living in Whiting went to the Lake Front park last Saturday evening in company with a number of other young people of that city and of Hammond. After they had been there a little time someone proposed that they play games, which they did. The young lady in question ordinarily wears glasses but when the party started to play "ring-round-a-rosie" and "blind man's bluff" she removed her spectacles and she "thinks she put them in her blouse." Soon after this the party went over to Hammond and when she looked for her glasses they were not to be found. On Monday afternoon this young lady was on the same car that took a representative of The Lake County Times to Whiting with a load of pa pers to distribute to the residents of that place when it occurred to her that "maybe an 'ad' in this paper would help me find my glasses." The carrier said he had no doubt it would help some and wrote out the advertisement on the spot. The notice appeared in the paper the next evening and yesterday a young lady of Hammond, who "doesn't want any reward" and is more afraid of having her name in the paper, brought the spectacles to this office, saying she had picked them up in Robertsdale park Sunday afternoon. When the young lady of Whiting sees this in the paper she will please come and get her property as we do not know her name or address. Hammond Man Knows Thaw. John D. Smalley, city comptroller, is taking considerable interest in the sensational Henry K. Thaw mur der case for the reason that he knew the father of the young man who is so deeply in trouble and while in the employ of the Pennsyl vania railroad in Pittsburg, Mr. Smalley very frequently saw young Thaw himself. The young murderer is described as a fast young fellow who never did a lick of work m his life. He says his great hobby was to give dinners to his friends and eating seemed to be his chief delight in life. His companions were actresses and in this way he met Miss Evelyn Nesbitt and married her. Madam Gamschae spent the after noon in Hammond.

"Well, son, what are you going to do SHOT AIMED AT MAN HITS A MANDOL George .McKowan .Thinks Somebody Attempted to Murder Him PISTOL SHOT PIERCES WALL Alleged Victim of Deadly Plan Speaks Mysteriously of Bitter Enemy Did somebody try to assassinate George McKowan or, was somebody fooling with a pistol? McKowan is a painter and lives at 842 Summer St. Shortly after 10 o'clock Tuesday night a 38 caliber bullet crashed through the clapboards, laths, plast er and wall paper into the living room of the McKowan domicile. The hole it made, was close to the side of a window which assumably was the target of the man behind the gun. The missile was badly spent after tearing through the wall, but it had enough force left to tear the strings off a mandolin that was reclining with artistic carelessness against the opposite wall. The Man or the Mandolin? The police who have taken up the case are puzzled over the question as to whether the supposed assassin had designs on the man or the mandolin. Mr. McKowan's son-in-law who was sitting near the window saw a flash and then peering into the darksaw a man running away. The trail was lost in the noise and smoke of the 10:15 Nickel Plate train which was thundering by at the time. There was no sleep for the Mchousehold that night. Mr. McKowan when seen this morning expressed the belief that the shot was fired with intent to murder him. He admitted having an enemy whose bitterness towards him might prompt him to attempt assassination but he refused to mention the name or what the cause of the enmity was. The police are said to be in possesof the name of the suspect but they are equally reticent. THE WEATHER Continued warm and generally fair weather tonight and Friday expossibly local thunder storms.

NOW?"

-Triggs in New York Press. TUMBLES INTO BON FIRE LIFE IS IN JEOPARDY. Bernice Chapman Daughter of Engineer, While Playing in Vacant Lot Meets with Mishap which May Prove Fatal. Bernice Chapman the ten year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence F. Chapman of 262 Sohl street is in a dying condition at her home from burns she received yesterday afterwhile playing with a bonfire. The little girl it is said was playwith a number of other children around a bon fire which they had built in an empty lot near the corof Sohl and Sibley streets. The children had been taking turns in jumping over the fire and little Bernice did not hesitate when it came her turn. She ran and stumbled falling into the fire. Her clothes ignited immeimmediately and were fanto a blaze in a minute. The little sufferer screamed for help which however reached her too late to save her from disastrous results. Neighbors who had heard the screams of the burned girl and her playmates carried her to her home. Dr. Luke Kelly was summoned to administer medical aid which however may be useless as she was too badly burned Her back and limbs were literally baked to a crisp. Her father who is a railroad en gineer was absent from the home at the time of the accident and the mother was busied with her house hold work. The father did not learn of his daughter's mishap until he reached home in the evening. The children who were playing with Bernice at the fire were dumwhen they saw their playcondition and at the time were unable to tell a coherent story. But today they have made repeated inabout her condition. The accident took place about four o'clock and is the first one of any sesince the school vacation began. Big North End Charivari. About two hundred well wishing friends of Miss Mary Newman, who is now Mrs. Robert Evans, gathered about the North Hohman street home of the bride and sought to show their delight at the happy conof the affair by a rendiof the "rusty canna." The bride and groom acknowledged the compliment gracefully and then disinto the house. Raymond Brennan has returned from Minnesota where he had been looking after his farm interests.

The condition of Mrs. Norris, who was ejected by the police from a tumble down cottage on State street, became even more pitiable as the hours of the night passed by. About 9 o'clock E. L. Shortridge, who lives next door to the unfortuwoman, called up the police and asked if something could not be done to prevent her suffering during the night. At the time it was raining heavily and the poor old woman was in a sorry plight. She still insisted upon remaining in the street surrounded by the few of her worldly possessions that remained. In response to the call for assistChief Rimbach went personto see what could be done. A tarpaulin was secured form Golden Bros, and spread over the furniture. The chief then tried to persuade the woman to go to the po-

ice station for the night but the de mented unfortunate obstinately re fused and so she was allowed to have her way. She gathered together the few dirty, torn quilts and blankets, the only bedding she possessed, and after pulling them together in an open space under the canvas, she made this her bed for the night. The matter will be brought to the attention of the township trusRichard Schaff today and shelter will either be found for the old woman, or she will be sent to the poor house. EXCURSION TO LAPORTE Hammond Base Ball Association to Assist in Celebration of Indepen dence Day at that City. The Hammond Base Ball Associa tion is to assist in the Fourth of July celebration at LaPorte and, in con sequence, is to run an excursion to that place on the Fourth. The train will leave the Nickle Plate station in Hammond at 7:06 a. m. The fare for the round trip will be $1.25 and the tickets will be good on any train going to LaPorte on July 4th. and good on any train returning on that day or the day following, July 5th. The celebration at LaPorte is to be an old-time affair, some of the features of which are to be a mer chant's parade, a baloon ascension, horse and foot races and all kinds of amusements, including a ball game between the Hammond team and the crack LaPorte nine, which recently gave the Gunther's of Chicago a 1 to 3 rub. These attractions, togetwith Pine Lake and its beautiful resorts, are well worth the trip and no one wishing to have a glorious Fourth should miss it. Special arrangements have been made with Lake Shore for extra coaches on their trains, that all may be comfortably accomodated. Ticwill be on sale at Milligan's cigar store and the Wells-Fargo Exoffice on and after June 30th. All are invited and a good time is guaranteed. 6-28-4t SUSPICIOUS OF YOUR FOOD TELL IT TO DR. KOHR Local Members of State Board of Health Urged to Do their Duty in their Own Territory. Hammond may prepare itself for inspection. Members of the board of health of the various cities are in Indianapolis for two days to receive instructions on inspection from Dr J. N. Hurty secretary of the state board of health. Dr. T. W. Kohr of Robertsdale who is a member for the Hammond of state board of health went to In dianapolis this morning to attend the school. It is understood that the State health authorities are taking a very active interest in the meat situation and are doing a great deal of work along a quiet line. The contention is, however, that each officer can his duty, locally, there would be no state trouble. This is the message that Dr. Hurty is going to impress the physicians with. Walter Sohl spent the day in the city.

Petitions Filed for Gravel

Improvements Estimated at $275,000 CLEAR WAY FOR Lake County to Have Finest System of Drive Ways in Northern Indiana (Special Correspondence) Crown Point, Indiana, June 28. James M. Bradford, "father of gravel roads" in Lake county, is seeing the realization" of the plans he had in view for the county when he first put in a few miles in Hobart township which have been added to until we now have over two hun dred miles of finely graveled roads and more is at hand. There are now seventeen petitions for gravel roads under consideraby the board of commissioners and these will be taken up at the next meening of the board which will be held on Monday, July 2nd. .The following is a summary of the petitions with an approximate esti- JAMES M. BRADFORD "Father of Gravel Roads" who Built first roads in Hobart Township mate of the cost and the number of miles of road to be constructed: Hobart township,-petitioned for by A. J. Swanson and others, 10 1/2 miles, probable cost, $55,000. North, Calumet, Ross and St. Johns townships: 1. Peter J. Beiriger and others, petitioners township line road, 1 miles, probable cost, $7,500. 2. A. Triplett, et al., petitioners, township raod line, 2 3/4 miles, probcost, $12,000. Winfield township 1. Dave Stewart, et al., petitioners, 6 1/4 miles, probable cost, $25,2. William Beach, et al., peti2 1/2 miles, probable cost, $8,600. Hanover township 1. Fred Mandernach, et al. peti9 1/2 miles, probable cost, $34,500. Ross township 1. Fred Kreuter, et al., petitioners mile, cost, $3,000. 2. Frank Halfman, et al., peti1809 feet, no estimate. 3/4 mile, cost, $3,000. 3. M. Hurlburt, et al., petition2 miles, cost, $10,300. 4. Alfred Phillips, et al., peti1 1/4 miles, cost, $7,000. Cedar Creek township 1. Neil Brown, et al., petitioners, 2 1/2 miles, probable cost, $15,000. 2. Henry Worley, et al., petiNo. 1, 2 miles, probable cost, $8,000. 3. Henry Worley, et al., peti

tioners, No. 2, 1/2 mile, cost, $2,000. Cedar Creek and West Creek townGrant Hayden, et al., petitioners, 3 1/2 miles, no estimate. (Continued on page 2.)