Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 54, Hammond, Lake County, 20 August 1906 — Page 1

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VOL. 1, NO. 54. NIGHT EDITION. HAMMOND, INDIANA MONDAY, AUGUST 20? 1906. ONE CENT PER COPY, ILL SI THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL 4 - a I OF JUSTICE I J NATIONAL LEAGUE. i 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 S io n R H

TOURNAMEHt BIG SUCCESS

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East Chicago Proves to Be a Splendid Host Guests Pleased.

IHiG BHKIDS . Business Houses Gaily Decorated and City Turned Over to Firemen till After Dances in Evening. The second annual tournament of the Northern Indiana volunteer fire departments was a splendid success. It was not only the occasion for the meeting of firemen from all over the Tenth Congressional district but it developed into quite a confab of politicians and the amount of "glad-hand handing" that was done made it seem as though the crowd was composed principally of candidates for sheriff. The East Chicago fire department proved itself a splendid host and everything within reason was provided for the comfort and entertainment of the visitors. The business houses were gaily decorated with flags and bunting, the sidewalks were lined with thousands of people and the groups here and there of uniformed firemen made the scene a lively one. The morning was taken up by the reception of the visiting firemen, the roll call and the parade. In the afternoon the real sport began. In the, champion hose race (dry run) on Olcott avenue, the firemen were compelled to pull the hose cart several hundred yards, unreel a certain amount at hose, couple it to a hydrant, screw on the nozzle and then take out a joint and reverse it, leaving nil of the joints perfectly tight. Crown Point, with their fast team of husky firemen, won this event in fine style, although there was talk of a contest regarding the coupling of one of the joints. The results in this contest were: East Chicago, fouled; Crown Point, 1:04; Hobart, 1:00; Lowell, 1:32; Valparaiso, 1:3 4. Then came the dry hose test in Vhich the results were: Hobart, 2S 1-4; Robertsdale, 32 1-2; East Chicago. 34 1-2; Lowell, 3" 1-4; Crown 1'oint did not run. The hook and ladder test was probably the most interesting of all of the contests. In this event about twenty men would start at a pistol shot and, after pulling a hook and ladder wagon for 100 yards, would suddenly ptjill out the ladder, hoist it in the air and then one of the members of the company would mount it to the top rung and there a pistol shot would be fired and the stop watch would take the time. Crown Point won this event with one of the prettiest runs of the day. The various teams made the run in the following time: Crown Point, 20 sec onds flat: Kobertsdale, 22 flat; Low ell, 22 1-4; Hobart and East Chi cago tied at 23 1-4. I'fMiies i nest? events mere was an exhibition run with a team and hose wagon that was very exciting. The judges of the contests were F. E. Far ley of Crown Point, James MeNay of Valparaiso and Mayor Hale of East Chicago. The timekeepers were J. S. Fiestor of Hobart and W. F. Bunnell of Monticello. In the evening the people thronged the park where refreshments were served and where the crowds gathered around booths and amusement stands. Three or four hours of dancing appropriately wound up the festivities of the dav. The Hammond, people who have been sweltering under the oppressive heat of the last few days will be glad to know that the weather man has promised cooler weather tonight and tomorrow. Occosional showers are on the program and if they are "oo casional enough" they may prove a blessing. As a result of the excessive heat there have been several prostrations and dozens of people have been incapacitated for work by the heat.

Atchison Reaches Highwatermark and Stocks More in Sympathy.

BIG TKJECOROED Western Securities Loan in the Face of the Valparaiso Catastrophe. (Specliil to Lake C ounty Times.) New York, Aug. 20. "Boiling" is about the only word that would ex press the tone of the stock market today. At the opening gong this morning, brokers began frantically to buy stocks. They did not play any favorite either. Everything on the list, both active and Inactive stocks, were traded in and in lots that seem astounding to the ordinary speculator. Atchison was one of the particularly brilliant features. From an opening around 100 this Issue began to soar until it had reached the high level of 105. This is the highest price ever reached in the history of the road for this security and, like Union Pacific, it seems almost Incredible to believe that scarcely fifteen years ago this stock was selling around $15 per share and that it was necessary to call an assessment of $10 a share, also that the entire company had to be reorganized. Today the street is talking of 125 for Atchison and 7 per cent divi dends. Can Go Higher. There is no doubt that if the company sees fit to raise the dividend and put in on a seven per cent basis they can do so. ' Their earnings have increased in the past year to such an extent that they could easily pay 7 per cent on the common stock, but it is hoped that the directors at their meeting in October will not pursue the same method as Harriman crowd did recently in regard to Union Pacific. Enthusiasm ran high in other stocks outside of Atchison. St. Paul, Misouri Pacific, Copper, Reading, New York Central, American Smelters, Colorado Fuel and Ameri can Sugar all shared in the general advance. Some of these stocks reached the highest points in the history of the exchange. - St. Paul advanced from 1SS around the opening until it reached the high level of 1!3; Smelters from 163 up to 165; Sugar from 13S to 141. Conservatives are Cautious. A few of the conservatives, especially brokers who have not been on the bull side of the market, are advising their clients to be a little cautious. They argue that the most of the favorable news has been given to the public and that the stock market has in a measure discounted it. They point to the fact that the recent disaster in South America will retard building , in San Francisco in that vicinity as a great many people will feel that to build again would be tempting fate, believing that the entire trans-mountain hemisphere is likely to have another such disaster as has occurred in Valparaiso. The market, generally, was the broadest that we have had in years and the total number cf sales were the largest with one exception, in the history of the stock exchange. All of the advance was well sustained and the market closed strong at about the highest prices of the day, barring Union and Southern Pacific, these two issues were not so prominent today and had rather a reactionary tendency, showing that some one is willing to take handsome profits. Total sales, 2,900,000. Money, four per cent. Much complaint was heard yesterday about getting ice. Patrons of th day about the difficulty in getting ice. Patrons of the Hammond ice company report having been without ice for three and four "days,

MB MEN N THE 51 LE Gary Board Meets. Chooses Attorney, Marshall and Engineer. CHAMBERS GETS MARSHALSHIP L. Bomberger Gets City Attorneyship, and A. P. Melton Is Appointed City Engineer. Gary, Ind., Aug. 20. The meeting of the board of trustees which was held on Saturday afternoon was the most important held thus far. They completed the appointing of various officers, fixed the salaries of some and did a great deal of routine work. L. L. Bomberger of Knotts & Bomberger, the well known law firm of Hammond, was engaged as attorney for the town. The board outlined a large part of what they would expect of him, first being the securing of our portion of the taxes for the running of our municipality. The board then appointed Frank C. Chambers marshall, fixed his bond, and directed that he begin his duties at once. He will have authority to appoint one deputy in each ward in case necessity demands; will wear a regulation uniform and the usual accoutrements. Mr. Chambers Is well known in police circles, having done special police work at the Republic iron and steel for several years and also having done plain clothes work in Hammond. A. P. Melton, the engineer who has done a large portion of the work incidental to laying out our city, was appointed engineer for the town, and will be expected to see to it that our j city is developed along some regular plan and not according to the j whim of every man who desires to ! make an addition. i The initial reading for the open-1 ing of Broadway was then had. It will be completed in about a month. After discussing the school question, the fixing of fire limits and the making of a tax ievy, the board directed the clerk to secure the supplies for the marshall and authorize the purchase of minute and ordinance books. The records of our city will be kept in the most modern method, viz. ia loose leaf books. This was found upon investigation to be the most convenient, and with the safe guards used, is equally as safe as the old methods employed. Nate Brown of Lowell has taken a position with the F. S. Betz company of Hammond.

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-! '& M 5j? 5ft 4 f FABLE OF THE PEANUT. Once upon a time one Giuseppi Calazzo had a Peanut Stand on a prominent corner in a Small Town hard by a Large City. There was only one other Peanut Stand in the Town. The same Abode on an Obscure Street Lttle given to traffic. Be it known that the name of the obscure merchant who conducted this was Tomaso Tomascato. He was patronized by Giuseppi Calazzo who went out of his way to assure him that he was All Right but that he Would not Do. Tomaso Tomascato was grateful for this Token of Consideration from his affluent Neighbor and he accepted it as his Lot to sell three sacks per day and rejoice in the Great Prosperity of his afflluent Kinsman. He basked in the sunshine of Giuseppi Calazzo and while he himself dined on a banana and pot of Dago Bed he was happy in the thought that Giuseppi was regaling himself with the real spaghetti Italiano and Pomerino Secarimbo. For was not Giuseppi dignifying the Peanut Business? Eftsoons, along comes a Merchant from Palermo who jolts himself into the belief that the Peanut Business in the Small Town hard by the Large City is not awake to its possibilities. He approaches Tomaso Tomascato with a proposition to move on the Appian way and Cut Loose. Tomascato consents. Afterwhiles Tomascato establishes a new standard of Peanut and does a Land Office business. And what does Giuseppi Calazzo do ? Instead of Improving the quality of his own Goods and trying to sell them, he spends his time decrying the goods of his rival. By and by he wakes up.. He finds that Tomaso Tomascato has stimulated an appetite for Peaunts in his Community and that the Consumption is so great that he, Calazzo himself, is making money out of the overflow far beyond that which he did make when he had a Monopoly. Moral If you can't be the bell cow, fall in behind. THE WEATHER. Occasional showers and cooler to-

night and Tuesday.

-Rogers in New York Herald.

LIGHTNING FREAK MARKS GARY EN Nephew of Judge McMahon Knocked Unconscious in Storm. OUT OF GLEAB SKY Outline of Tree Is Etched by the Electric Shock on Arms and Whole Body is Burned. Gary, Aug. 20. We suffered the first accident yesterday morning from an electrical storm. During the heaviest part of the thunder shower, the lightning struck a tree just west of Broadway where Frank Wilder ahs his camp. The lightning passed down the tree and one fork shot into the tent standing to the west of the tree, struck Patrick McMahan, who was sitting down on the edge of the cot in a corner of the tent and ren dered him unconscious, ine young man is a nephew of Judge McMahan of Hammond. Another fork followed the tent rope of the tent standing just to the east of the tree, tore a large hole in the side of the tent and struck Ralph Hichard3 of Hebron, who was in the tent. He also was ! rendered unconscious. A third fork icshnf- off to the wa srnn standine bv the tent and stunned one of the horses and killed the second. It is presumed that the one that was killed was standing with some portion of the body against the wagon. The neighbors soon came rushing in through the rain. One called Dr. Jones and the others hauled the boys out into the rain and began to work over them. They were soon revived although badly stunned. McMahan was quite badly burned on the side and on the arms. The burns cn each arm took the shape of an etching of a tree; one cn each arm. Every de tail of the tree's outline was etched in the burned skin just as carefully as though done by a skilled artist. Richards was quite badly burned about the head and eyes. They were given every attention and by evening were able to walk around although they will not be able to do much for several days. The excavation on the South Hohman street sewer caved in Saturday night between Condit and Doty streets. It was some time before the sand could be shoveled out and the pumps started. The Monon excursion train from Indianapolis passed through Hammond yesterday for Chicago. Fourteen coaches were literally packed.

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TODAY'S RACING RESULTS. Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 20. First race, seven turiongs Anneta iauy, first; Silver Wedding, second; Azelina, third. Second race Steeplechase, about 2 miles Pirate, first; Weatherrord, second; Pure Pepper, third. Third race Five and one-half fur longs Clara Huron, first; Hyperbole, second; Baringo, third. Fourth race, mile and one-eighth Entree, first; Yorkshire Lad, second; Sailor Boy, third. Port Erie Track Slow. First race, seven furlongs Billy SIX SKELETONS FOUND IN SAND AT GARY. Entire Family May Have Been Wiped Out in Early Days on the Desolate Dunes. (Speclnl to Lake County T!nic.) Gary, Ind., August 20. In the converting of this former wilderness into an ideal city there is much to interest both the outsider and those who live here. Last Saturday while Frank Wilder's men were grading south of Fifth avenue near Adams street on a little knoll, they made a grewsome find. One of the men felt the slip which he was using, strike something hard in filling and, as the slip passed out, it left partly uncovered, several human bones. They ceased taking from there with the slips and went to digging carefully and found buried about two feet under the surface, the skeletons of three people, one considerably smaller than the other two. Three other skeletons were round just a short distance from there, although buried much deeper. Dr. F. M. Jones went over and brought the bones down to a place back of the postoffice. He stated that the three skeletons first found were those of a man, woman and child. They had probably been buried there anywhere from thirty to fifty years. Whether they are the remains of people who had been foully dealth with, or if they had been swept away by some of the malignant fevers, will remain a part of Lake county's unwritten history. The coroner was notified and will probably take care of the matter soon. Superintendent McDaniels returnea baturaay nigni irom winona ana reports a fine time and a vacation well spent.

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E3 ED Q G3 E3 O EJ-EH3 m m m h m -ed Hitter. daman, Needham. LEAGUE. 5 6 0 EJJ 7 8 9 10 11 R H ia n-cn S3 13 E! 13 13 D-EE3 Bensing, first; Annie Berry, second; Mirambo, third. Second race, five furlongs Fire Alarm first; Edwin II., j second; Charlie Ward, third. Third race, one mile Gilplr .r4 Lemon Girl, second; Secret, third. ' Fourth race, five and one-half furlongs Poster Girl first; Melting, second; Moovine, third. " Latonia, Track Fast. First race, five furlongs Ericson, first; Bon Vivant, second; Montalban, third. Second race, mile and eighth Pillar, first; Light Opera, second; Plautus, third. WEST HAMMOND SUICIDE STILL UNIDENTIFIED. Village Police Are Working at the case in a Half-Hearted Way in Spite of the Fact that Many Think the Unknown Man Was Murdered. The unknown man vho was supposed to have committed suicide In West Hammond Saturday still lies In a local undertaking establishment awaiting burial. An air of mystery surrounds the affair and there are a half dozen stories going the rounds regarding the shooting. Those who have been connected with the case since the body was discovered are far from ready to accept the theory that the man is a suicide. One story is that a certain womaa was commenting on the case when her little girl interrupted her with a remark about the affair. The wo man is said to have become very much excited over the slip the child made, or was about to make, and clapped her hand over its mouth, cautioning it at the Fame time to say nothing about the affair. The dead man i3 rather an intelligent looking fellow, whose hands show that he has not done very much, manual labor. His clothes are new, his shoes are still good and have just been half soled, and it is unusual that a man who has apparenty enjoyed some of the luxuries of life should have been found without a single means of identification. It is certain that if this mysterious case could be cleared up there would be a story of great Interest In It somewhere. The authorities in West Hammond seem to think that it does not make much difference because j one man came to a violent end ia their muck-covered village. It is the expected that happened there.

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