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Gary Land Company Will Sell Directly to Prospective Builders.

MIDDLE MEN CUT OUT Lots Within the Corporate Limits of the Steel Town to Be Disposed cf at Home Office. The Gary Land company has completed all of the preliminary work connected -with the preparing of plats, arranging of prices, terms, contracts and other matters incidental to the handling of a large quantity of the real estate. The company expects to be ready to put the property on the market about September 3. At that time the four thousand lots which comprise the number in the first survey will be placed on sale They will j be sold on contract, 10 per cent of the purchase price in cash, 15 per cent in thirty days and the balance to be paid within eighteen months. The purchaser must agree to build on the property purchased and this building must be completed within eighteen months. The deferred payments to draw six per cent interest. All of the property will be sold through the main oSce of the Gary Land company at Gary. There will be no Chicago office and no agents will be employed to negotiate the sales of any of the property outsider' Inasmuch as this is but a small number of lots for the large number of people that will come here (luring the next few months there is no doubt that every lot will be taken within a short time. Hundreds of Intending purchasers come personally or write daily inquiring concerning the property and its sale to the land company, and every day brings a larger number of inquiries. Many are from people who wish to build and open up in various business lines at the earliest possible moment. This is but a meager statement of the great Interest being taken in the development of Gary by men from all over the country, and is but a slight indication of the groat rush that will take place when the sale begins. CHARLEY STEWART UP FROM HESSVILLE. Hears His Mother is Dying in St. Margaret's Hospital and Calls to See Her. Charles Stewart of Ilessville was a Hammond caller this morning and dropped in to the Times office. Mr. Stewart vigorously denied the truth of the story his mother told a Times reporter. Stewart chums he rented of Peter Meyn a brick cottage next his saloon for his mother and that she refused to live there. He further asserts that she has for years been addicted to morphine. She has a home in l'arlville. 111. Mr. Stewart says he will willingly care for her In her old age and she has no need to seek alms. The mother is cow in St. Margar et's hospital and the son has gone there to see her. 1400 FEET OF HOSE TO MAKE CONNECTIONS. The base cart of the local fire department passed through the streets this evening with a load of new hose that had been badly soiled by being dragged along the ground. To all appearances there had been a big fire somewhere but an inquiry developed the fact that the department found it necessary to lay two lines of hose 700 feet long from a hydrant on "West State street to another on the same street to provide the proper fire protection for the village. The two lines made it necessary to use a total of 1,400 feet altogether. The replacing of the water mains on State street made this unusual method of making connections necessary.

Is Killed by the 9:50 Monon Passenger Train Last Night,

BODY BW1I8LE0 South Hammond Scene cf Accident in Which Knight of the Read Loses His Life. Last night as the Monon train No. 3, which passes through Hammond at 9:50, was going through the South Hammond yards, it ran over an unknown man, throwing him to one side of the track, mangling his whole body hardly levaing a whole bone. The man, who is either a day laborer or an every day Knight of the Road, appears to be of Irish descent, about 30 years old, 5 feet, 2 inches in height, weighs about 14 0 pounds, has black hair, a sandyhoustache, and is of dark complexion. He had on a black coat, dark brown trousers, an old black slouch hat and nothing to identify him could be found as all he had in his pockets was some loose tobacco, an old dirty handkerchief and a small crust of bread. The body was removed from South Hammond to Emmerling's morgue where the body now lies for Identification, . . , . .. v ,.. It Is probable that the man, if he Is a tramp, will never be identified and will go to his grave unknown as did the last Hammond unidentified suicide victim. This afternoon the man was identified as Jesse Holmes, a brother of Frank Holmes, a Monon engineer, by H. Smith, a Monon section foreman. Smith, who was working in North Hammond, when given a description of the man left his work and came down to Emmerling's morgue and when he saw the man said that he was centain that it was Holmes. Jesse Holmes followed no trade and was always wandering ' around the country and is said to have been in every state in the union as well as several foreign countries.'' Telegrams have been sent to his brother who lives at Monon, Ind., and the truth will soon be known. TO HAVE LIGHT AND WATER. The new city of Gary is making arrangements for its supply for two necessary fluids, water and electricity. Articles of incorporation have been filed it Indianapolis for the incorporation of the Gary Light, Heat and Water company. The capital stock is 10,000. The directors of the new concern are George A. Thorpe, Thomas J. Hyman. A. F. Knotts, Kemper K. Napp and Eugene Euffmgton. NEW CONDUIT FOR STATE STEEET. There is no hope that State street will be opened to traffi-c at an early date as the Chicago Telephone company will toon dig a trench for the purpose of laying a conduit for its telephone wires. A wooden box has thus far served the purpose of a conduit, but as it is nearly rotted away it was found necessary to get something more substantial. The telephone company has arranged to purchase the old water pipe that is being removed and will re-lay this nearer the surface of the ground and use it for a conduit. The laying of the pavement will net be begun until all the pipes are in and the ground h:,s j settled enough to insure the new streets not settling.

EK 10 ENJOIN PLUM'S HO Technical Violation of Contract Causes Trouble in Reynoldson Plant. MAY HEAD OFF THE STRIKE Union Wants to Have Man Discharged Who Put Thread on Pipe. The Reynoldon Plumbing company has secured an injunction against the Plumbers' and Gasfxtters' union restraining it from taking any measures to prevent the employes of the company from working in its shops. : The plumbers and the plumbing company 'have had an agreement regarding hours of work, wages and the duties of the employes of the company and it is the alleged violation of this agreement that has caused the trouble. One of the articles cf the compact provides that only the members of the union in good standing can do certain work. The other day Mr. Reynoldson found it necessary, according to the complaint, to cut some threads in some gas pipe. Geo. Vermett, who is a union man, was expected to have objected to this and because he did not the union demands that he be discharged and net allowed to work for a period of several months. This the Reynoldson company refuses to do and the union is alleged in the complaint to be trying to persuade the union n.en in the shop to strike until the company acedes to their demands. The Reynoldson company claim that they have not violated any of the provisions of the agreement, and as they have contracts to do work that involves $4,000 they have asked the courts to restrain the Plumbers union from taking any measures to induces their employes to quit work. In the meanwhile the parties to the contention may get together and settle the matter among themselves without recourse to the courts. THE WEATHER. Showers and cooler tonight and Fricay.

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V II. Taylor spent Sunday in Joliet, attending the conductors' picnic. 1,1 - . Ed. Heiner returned from Muncie, Ind., where he has been visiting. While there he was bitten by a mad dog and is now under the doctor's care. Thos. G. Taylor of Pittsburg was here yesterday on his way to Gary where he was going in the interest of a large manufacturing concern of Pittsbjirg who thinks of locating there. . Messrs. H. A. Bronbaum and E. "V. Zimmerman of Chicago, spent yesterday here. A private car carried the superintendent and other railway officials of the C. L. F. & E. railway to Gary over the Dune Park extension yesr terday. At the invitation of Mr. Maling Mr. Becker of Hammond, Alderman Shock and "Walton of the Harbor, and Attorney Van Home and E. A. Landon took dinner at the South Bay. The time was passed after dinner in discussing the municipal conditions in which the people of Lake county are now interested. ETHEL McNEILL buried. Miss Ethel McNeill, the lS-year-old girl who committed suicide in a West Hammond house of ill fame, was buried this afternoon by Undertaker lluber. Her relatives had not claimed her body and the expenses of her funeral the to be borne by the proprietor of the house in which she ended her life. Her associates took up a collection with which to purchase Sowers that were placed on her grave. ACCIDENT NARB.0WLY AVERTED. A man by the name of Kohen had a narrow escepe from death on the Hohman street crossing of the Monon j this afternoon. Mr. Kohen is a rag peddler and was driving west on Plummer avenue towards the railroad crossings there when he looked up i and saw a Monon switch engine ; bearing down upon him. The en gine was so near and was going so fast that a seconds hesitation" meant instant death. With remarkable presence of mind Kohen drew his horses back on their haunches and the engine rushed by, missing the horse only a few inches.

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RELIEF ST LUST, E ON THE II Mercury is Falling in Lake Towns to North of Hammond. AFTER TWENTY-TWO HOT DAYS People Here Stood up Bravely Under Trying Ordeal of Heat and Mosquitoes. Possibly before this paper is printed this long promised and long deferred cool wave will have shaken its skirts over Lake county and brought welcome relief to the sweltering thousands who have suffered bravely through twenty-two days of unintermitting torridity. The hopeful sign at the present writing is a dispatch from Milwaukee which says that the temperature has dropped 25 degrees at that point within a few hours. Milwaukee in common with all other points along the Lake Michigan coast from St. Joe to Green Bay has suffered intensely from the stifling, humid atmosphere. The prox imity of the lake from which relief has daily been expected to come in the fiom of the loudly advertised breeze has only seemed to intensify the heat. The lake lying calm and placid at the feet of the sweltering cities has only served to throw back the rays of the scorching sun and make life along the shore less endurable than in towns in the interior of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Hammond has stood up bravely under the ordeal even while facing and adidtional discomfort of a stingy supply of ice. Comparatively few heat prostrations have been reported to the health authorities. Those have come from the congested factory districts which lie in and about the town. As far as reported there have been no fatalities traceable directly to the heat. The mosquitoes bred in marshes have been a source of great discomfort to the people. The people have faced the trying ordeal with a cheerful disposition and are prepared to welcome the relief with becoming thankfulness.

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TELEPHONE GIELS WIN.STEIKB.-

Chicago, Aug. 23. Three hundred ''hello girls" with ' the Chicago

Telephone company won a strike early several hours. The company had

ter the building from the rear, necessitating the passage of several saloons in the alley back of the buildiing. Several of the girls had com

plained of being insulted by loafers m the rear and the matter had been tendent, who had said that the matter within a day or two. The downtown

sion by the loss of telephone connections in the busiest part of the city.

Ten of the striking girls visited Acting Mayor McGann at the citj hall and asked the city to intervene in the controversy with the telephone company. Mr. McGann telephoned to President Wheeler of the company and arranged a meeting with the girls. Shortly after 1 o'clock a police officer warned some fifty girls to move on who were around the front entrance of the building. "We will ton the front door," cried Margaret Murray, a dark eyed member of the hello band, and forthwith there was a rush. Before anybody could interfere with them the first detatchment had reached the office on the second flooi and gone to work. It is understood the company has capitulated and the girls will use the front entrances as before. The strike effected Hammond for an hour. Conection with the central exchange was cut off. ACCOUNTANT WINS DERBY, (Special Lake Count Timri.) Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 23. Accountant, carrying 123 pounds won the Saratoga Derby at one mile four and one-half furlongs. GaUavant was second and McKittredge, third. It was the thinnest Derby in years. The victory wai conceded to Accountant who seems to be the best three-year-old out this year over a distance of ground.

TODAY'S RACING RESULTS. Saratoga, N. Y.f Aug. 23. slow. -Track First race, seven furlongs Belle Strome, first; Jocund, second. Second race, Steeplechase Pirate, first; Allegiance, second; C. B. Campbell, third. Third race, five furlongs Nancy, first; Fish Hawk, second; Quagga, third. Fourth. race, Saratoga derby mile and five-sixteenths Accountant, first; GaUavant, second; McKittridge, third. Fifth race, one mile Zienap, first; Kiamesha, second; Bivouac, third. Latonia, Aug. 23. First race, seven furlongs Royal Legend, first; Sorrel Top, second; Optional, third. Second race, seven furlongs Arga, first; All Ablaze, second; Tatanus, third. Third race, six furlongs Oak Grove, first; Dr. Burch, second; Six Shooter, third.

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M E3 13 MM CO Q EUa Leever, Gibron. O O 11 E3-OD 13 S3 El 0 Q i!3 G-GH LEAGUE. 5 6 7 S 9 10 11 R II m m m m m n Falkenberg, Warner. m m es n ra 2 '. m m m m m m this afternoon after being out for issued orders that employes should en hanging around the saloon entrances brought to the notice of the superin would be looked into and arranged interests were thrown into confu The many friends of Conductor P. Peterson, in the employ of tho South Chicago City R. R. Co., will be pleased to learn that "Pete" has beea tendered the nomination for congress from the second congressional district of Illinois by the Progressiva Alliance who will put a full ticket in the field this fall. Mr. Peterson has been identified with the South, Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly in their light for recognition for the past seven years and is an officer of that body now. Diacri mlii tine;. A thoughtful bosti"?.s gave a children's party and decided it would be healthier to serve only mineral waters. One little girl tasted of bi?r carbonic and laid the glass down. "What's the matter, dear? Doft'tyoa like charged water?" "No, ma'am. Please may I hava some water that you've paid for?" Life. Fortune. Fortune is like the market, where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall, and again it some-, times like a sibyl's oJTer, which at first: offereth tie commodity at full, then: consumeth part and part and still holi,tn up the price. Bacon, j