Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 49, Hammond, Lake County, 14 August 1906 — Page 1
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New Naturalization Laws Will Preclude Possibility of Repetition of Disgraceful Procedures by Hammond and East Chicago Politicians.
It has always been a disgrace to both the Republican and Democratic parties of Hammond and Lake county that by means of the very lax naturalization laws of the United States, leaders of both parties here have bought and sold the votes of ignorant foreigners, at election times. Some of the most prominent citizens Of Hammond, East Chicago, Indiana .Harbor and Whiting themselves, or ,-by their agents, gathered in bunches of ignorant foreigners by the wholesale, and paid them fees for naturall- , zation out of their own pockets. These men came In droves of as high as two hundred in a night just before the election last November. Always they were under a leader ' who acted as interpreter and who later told them how they musi rote. Brought in by Wholesale. In the mayoralty fight in the three cities of Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago last fall 718 of these aliens were naturalized during the six clays before November 7. Out of this number the records show that 153 were unable to sign their own names but signed by mark: Of the remainder at least one-half could not write a word of English beside their own name and five-sixths, of them were unable to-speak the English language. Some of the citizens who instigated this disgrace are members of the Lake county bar in good standing and high repute. Huddled in Lake Sheep. If members of congress could have stood with the writer the night be- . fore the last election and seen the ignorant crowd of non-English speaking or writing foreigners hud died like sheep, ready to obey the will of the boss having them in charge they would have passed the new naturalization law without dissent. Remedy in New Law. The new law goes into effect September 1. It places the power to naturalize with any court of record, but makes the duties of the clerk so stringent that there is little chance for politicians to do their manipulating this fall. The applicant must declare on his GUY CALLIHAN DISAPPEARS. Parents Advance Theory That an Aunt May Have Something to do . With the Boy's leaving. "I am gone forever," was the brief message that Guy Callihan wrote on a slip of paper and left on the table at the home of his parents in 2"9 Michigan avenue, lie disappeared yesterday and has not been seen or heard of since. On another note he wrote: "Have taken No. 4 Erie to North Dakota," but an investigation reveals the fact that No. 4 goes East Instead of West a 1p:vm nt i i : :i a. m. instead of in the evening when Callahan is supposed to have left. These diserepencies show that an effort is being made to put the parents on the wrong track in their search for their son. Mrs. C. D. Callahan says that the boy frequently went to Chicago where he visited his aunt, Mrs Wline at the home of her daughter Mrs. Corbet and that Mrs. Kline had frequently threatened to take the boy away with her. Mrs. Callahan is of the opinion that Mrs. Kline is in some way responsible for the disappearance of the boy. The police are investigating the matter. " The body of the young man who va? drowned at Lake Front park last Saturday has not yet been found, The father called at the police sta - tion this morning and informed the police that his boy's name was not Koy Hepner, llubner. but Charles F. W.
oath two years, at least, prior to his admission his intention and shall complete the intention not less than two years nor more than five yecYs from that time. He must not hold anarchistic or Mormonish views. He must have two witnesses to swear to the truth of his declarations in the application. ; He must have resided one year in the district wherein the court to which he appeals has jurisdiction. The clerk shall give notice of his application by posting it in some public place, together with the date of the final admission and the the names of the witnesses. Section 8 is a new feature which will commend itself to Americans generally, thus: Must Speak English. "Section S. That no alien shall
I hereafter be naturalized or admitted as a'citizen of the United States who cannot speak the English language." The clerk of the court must keep a file of the applications and final actions and shall certify its acts to the bureau of immigration and naturalization at Washington. Every alien is recorded at Washington and the government will be able to keep track of its new citizens. The act provides heavy penalties for either applicant or officers of the court who resort to fraud to secure naturalization. It is made unlawful to counterfeit the application blank or to have one in one's possession without right. No naturalization papers can be made out within thirty days of a general election. Another new feature is the power given the court to give the alien a new name in its discretion. This is to provide for pronounceable names for the Poles, the Russians and the other Slav immigrants whose cognomens abound in consonants but no vowels. Law is a Wise One. The law is in the line of protectection of the ballot from those who vote without ability to know the needs of the country. The terms are not drastic, nor ardorous. It puts no new barrier upon desirable classes of immigrants, but it reserves the government of the country to those who love and know its institutions. HAMMOND BOY IN NEW BUSINESS. Orestes W. Harding of this city, has opened a cigar factory in com pany with his brother, E. Clare Hard ing, in the former home, Mexico, Mo. E. C. Harding will manage the business and O. AY. Harding will re main in Hammond, as he now holds a position with the Illinois Steel company. The Mexico Ledger has this to say about the new concern: "Mexico is going to have another cigar factory. Orestes Harding, son of P. V. Harding of this city, has ! completed all the plans for starting a shop at once. He has engaged workmen. ordered his stock, secured his government papers etc., and exrects to be making cigars by the latter i part of next week. Frank Squires and Fred Gardner, both cigar makers of several years' experience, have been engaged by Mr. Harding to make the goods." MRS. SCHL0ER BURIED. Mrs. Jacob Schloer was laid away at Greenwood cemetery this morning after services had been held at St. ! Joseph's church. Ever since last ; Saturday a stream of friends and j relatives passed in and out of the iate home in Calumet avenue, and offered their sympathy to the bereaved j family. i The casket was closed at S:30 this morning when the funeral procession i for the church started. The church i was filled with people as it has only jbeen at few funeral services.
WOULD-BE STRIKERS ABE LOCKED OUT Republic Iron and Steel Closes Down Its Plant. Today. REFUSE TO ROUST ALIVE Employes Give Ultimatum on Account of Summary Action of Manager. Mill Closed. East Chicago, Aug. 14. The re cent difference between L. W. Crane general manager of the Republic Iron & Steel company's local plant and the Amalgamated xssociation of Iron, Steel and Tin "Workers reached a climax this morning by the cessation of all work of a productive nature in the entire plant. Some time ago Mr. Crane discharg ed five or six bushelers upon their refusal to transfer from their regular furnaces to other furnaces, which were inferior on account of their location. About one-half of the furnaces have boilers attached, which supply the power of the mills by the waste heat after it passes through the furnace. During the recent hot spell some of the men employed on the furnaces with boilers attached, were unable to continue at their work on account of the excessive heat and "knocked off" for the day. Mr. Crane then sought to have the men who had remained and were able to stand the terrific heat on account of more advantageously situated furnaces, transfer over to the furnaces just abandoned by the exhausted workmen and the men refused, contending that they were no more able to stand the excessive heat than the men who had just quit. This started a controversy with Mr. Crane, who demanded the right to j "ansrer men ai wu, regaraiess oi I lue uunnj me ui?u w j ake any transfers. The men, about , . . . . i : i : . . e ; 1. . a six m numoer were summarily ais1 charged by Crane and after an inves tigation by the proper committee and officers of the local union, their reinstatement was demanded and refused and the union prepared an ultimatum demanding either the mens' reinstatement before noon today or the calling out ef the men employed in the entire productive portion of the plant. Up to 5 o'clock this morning there was no intimation on the part of the management that they would not comply with these demands, but i upon the apearance of the men at the plant this morning the- were greeted with unlighted furnaces and were told that the mill had closed. The public is anxiously awaiting the outcome and as yet no apprehensions of serious trouble is notice able. M
"STINK FACTORY" HOT IN HAMMOND
Upton Sinclair, Author of "The Jungle" Says that It Is. ONLY SMELL REACHES HEBE Big Rendering Plant is South Hammond Just Beyond IllinoisIndiana State Line. of "There was saitl to be two thou sand dollars a week hush money from the tubercular steers alone, and as much again from the hogs, which had died from cholera on the trains, and which you might see any day loaded into box cars and hauled away to a place called Globe in In diana, where they make a fancy grade or iara. Lpton Sinclair in "The Jungle." Thank you Mr. Sinclair, but we do not appreciate the compliment that you tried to pay us when you said that the Globe stink factory is in Indiana. It's in Illinois beyond the state line south pf Hammond. We will pardon you for the mistake as we do not think that vou tried to throw a bad odor into Lake county knowingly. The tct is that the Globe smells just as bad in Indiana as it does in Illinois. Ask anybody with twenty miles of the factory and you will be told where Globe is. Your olofactory sense will tell you. It is but natural that the officials of Illinois should tell you that Globe is in Indiana. Let us hope, Mr. Sinclair, that you have been more correctly informed on the other things that you write about. The residents of Hammond have been repeatedly nauseated by the sickening smell that at times comes to this city on an evening breeze. There is no escaping from it. It penetrates every nook and cranny in the city.. Still there are hundreds of people who work at Globe all day long. They are inured to everything that to the ordinary man is revolting. It is a common sight to see the workingmen there stow away their dinner while sitting on the carcass of a cow or pig or some other animal that may have been dead for many days, wiping their hands on the carcass like another person would use a napkin. Lake county is still free from anything like a stink factory and It Is to be hoped that it will remain so. THE WEATHER. Fair tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy. ' I Subscribe for the Lake County Times.
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CAUGHT HiLliiU IE OBART DEPOT Jos. Rochechair, Claiming to Be from Gary, Taken Prisoner. PAL MAKES HIS ESCAPE Ralph Ruckman and J. E. Mellon in Ft. Wayne Depot Make Capture With Aid of Officials. Joseph Rochechair, a foreigner, was captured by a posse early this morning in Hobart, where he made an attempt to rob the Fort Wayne de pot. He had an assistant who escaped and was last seen going through Wheeler headed for Valparaiso, where the authorities have been notified. Operator Ralph. Ruckman and J. E. Mellon, night clerk, noticed two sus picious characters hanging around the depot last night at 8 o'clock. About 3 o'clock this morning Ruck man saw one of the men standing at the lookout window and pointing a revolver at him, Ruckman jumped back immediately and ran into the other room where Mellon was at work. The latter put out the light and, having no gun the two employes awaited developments. The burglars then entered the waiting room and tried the door that leads to the office. In the meantime the operator and his clerk went out through the back way and ran out through the the night watchman Charles Traeger and Fred Rose, the city marshall The little party hurried back to the depot where they found Rochechair standing guard in front of the depot while his partner was ransack ing the depot. The four men closed in on the outside man, doing so un der cover. The burglar fired a number of shots, which, however, went wild of their mark. He finally gave up and the men took him as a pris oner. His partner in the building escaped and ran down the railroad track. Rochechair was taken to the town jail and there denied the assertion that he made on the night be fore, that his partner was his son The prisoner is an old man while his partner is a young fellow. The old man claimed to have been employed at Gary. The prisoner denied having been implicated in the Crown Point burglaries at Crown Point on the night before. Although the young fellow was heard hammering in the station everything was found intact by the employes.
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Batteries. Leever, Gibson; Lindaman, Needham.
AMERICAN 1 2 3 4 mm m m Cleveland. . . Washington.
Batteries. Joss, Eels, Bemis; Falkenberg. Wakefield.
Today marks the grand shift of the baseball teams east and west. The victorious Chicago Nationals are on their way home from the east, while the White Sox of the American League are speeding east to take up their.last campaign away from home. On this trip will depend the location of the American League pennant. The Lake County Times which watched them so closely during their record-breaking spurt on the home grounds will continue to follow them through the eastern series. The Spuds will open at home tomorrow.
ON STENSLAND'S TRAIL. Chicago, Aug. 14. It is declared by Captain O'Brien, the new chief of detectives, that he has positive in formation that Paul 0. Stensland, the absconding president of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank, tried several days ago to rent a room in which to hide, at Burton Place and North Clark street. The information was given by Charles Bradfield, 100 Randolph street, who claims that Stensland is a member of the same lodge as him self. Bradfield gives the information that: Stensland ha ,l;aven.;, cleanly and is almost unrecognizable to those who had known him personally when he wore his beard. HUBNER'S BODY FOUND. Remains of Victim of Drowning Comes to Surface. The body of Charles F. W. Hubner of 324 Waltham street, who was drowned in full view of his friends last Saturday, was found at noon today near the west pier which juts out into the lake from the park grounds. Ever since the drowning there has been an almost uninterrupted search for the body but without result. This morning an effort was made to enlist the services of the South Chicago life savers in the search but they were unable to leave their posts and so that idea Had to be given up. It was then proposed that Joe Kaspar, who has been doing the city diving, make a thorough search in the vicinity of the pier. The diving suit was being prepared for the purpose when Louis Kasper called out that he had found the body. The theory all along has been that the current being from east to west towards the pier would carry the body in that direction, and Louis Kasper, acting upon this suggestion got a long pole and probed around the pier in the hope of finding the body. He started out at the end of the pier and worked in. WThen he had gone over the work thoroughly he was about to give up when the body, which had evidently been loosened through the efforts of the young man, rose to the surface. Will Bacon who happened to be In a launch near by deposited his two lady passengers on the pier and recovered the body. The father of the drowned boy arrived just as he was being taken out of the water. The body was brought to Hammond in an ambulance. Eddie Olson, who has been employed by the Chicago Telephone company is charged by II. S. Ashbaucher of 241 Michigan avenue with having appropriated a whole outfit of his haberdashery. Olson boarded at Fred Lash's hotel for three weeks and then left and came to a room and boarded at Ashbaucher's. A short time after his arrival he disappeared and took with him a coat, a pair of pants, a pair of oxford shoes, three shirts, a necktie and a 32 calibre revolver. It is believed that 01so is now in Madison, Wis.
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10 o ii r n BSE! E3E3 E3Q Q-E2 LEAGUE. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R II m m m m m o-eh SPITS IN CONDUCTOR'S FACE. Another street car rumpus took place over on the (north side when .. Win. Kennedy spit 4 in Conductor J. Hunter's face. A quarrel followed and Kennedy punched the conduc tor s face. Kennedy is held for the want of $50 bonds. . RACE RIOT IN TEXAS. " 1 Austin, Tex., Aug. 14.Word has been received here by Adjutant-Gen eral Hulen from the mayor and citizens of Erownsville, Tex., stating that the negro troops recently sent there from Nebraska have gone on a rampage, killing one man and injuring several otters and are now. shooting - tfr.d attezipiiif to hold up the entire town. General Enien I--asked to send the state rangers and white regulars there to protect life and property. FATALITY AND ACCIDENT NEAR THE GIBSON YARDS. James E. Hugh Killed Instantly and Ed Dwyer is Painfully Injured Inquest Held Today. James Edward Hugh a former Chicago mail carrier, was found dead on the Michigan Central tracks east of, the city limits this forenoon. He was veidently struck by a train as was seen by the bruised condition in which he was when found. The remains were taken to the morgue where an inquest was held this afternoon. William Seehan, a detective in the Gibson yards, was probably the last man that seen Hugh alive. Both, so Seehan told the story this morning, met on the tracks, Hugh going east while he came went to the city. He said that Hugh had three bottles of beer in his pocket which they drank before parting. Ed Dewer, employed In the yards. at Gibson, narrowly escaped fatal Injuries while crossing the Michigan tracks this morning. He heard a freight train coming from the east and as the train was running fast Dwyer became confused and stepped in front of the train instead of on the other track. Before he could realize his mistaka the engine struck him and tossed him to one side of the track. The train was stopped and the injured man was brought to thi3 city where he was carried to the hospital In an ambulance. Dewyer sustained a bad fracture of the right arm and his head was badly bruised. ARRESTED FOR ABANDONMENT. This morning Chief RImbach received a letter from superintendent of police in Detroit, giving the description of Charley Poddan, who was wanted for abandoning hi3 wife nd family. Supt. John J. Downey said that the man was employed at a spring factory somewhere in Hammond. Captain Bunde went over to the Simplex and found a man who answered to the description, work ing in the spring department and promptly arrested him. An abandonment Is a felony la Michigan and It may go rather hard with Poddan. The man has promised to go back to , Michigan without estradition.