Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 129, Hammond, Lake County, 16 November 1906 — Page 6

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Wire from All Over Indiana Indianapolis, Nov. 16. In an opinion Just rendered Attorney General CLas. W. Miller decides that the act of 103, which attempted to make uniform the beginnings of the terms of county officers, is unconstitutional, and that all county ofSrers, including judges and prosecuting attorneys, whether their office is constitutional or legislative, will enter on their new terms at the expiration of the terms of their predecessor?, whenever that may be. In fact, this opinion, If followed, entirely abrogates the act of 1903, and leaves the situation so far as the beginning of terms Is concerned, exactly the same as it was before the enactment of that law. Effect of the Opinion. If this opinion Is followed Judge Fremont Alford, of the criminal court, will retire from his office tomorrow, and all other county ofllcers, will enter on their terms at the expiration of the terms of their predecessors, and not wait until Jan. 1, 1907, as the law of 1003 provided. This decision affects judges of circuit, superior and criminal courts, all prosecuting attorneys all county auditors, treasurers, clerks, sheriffs, recorders, assessors, coroners and surveyors. Instead of taking office Jan. 1, 1907, as the law provides, they will begin their duties the da the term of their predecessors would have expired regularly, that is, had the law of 1003 not been passed. These expirations come at different times, mostly in November. What the Law Tried to Do. The law of 1903 was passed because there was great irregularity in the ending of terms of county officers and the beginning of new terms. The purpose of this law was to bring order out of chaos by trying to tart all officers' terms on Jan. 1. In some cases this would have lengthened some terms that of Alford. for example; Judge Alford's term, regularly, would have ex pired on Nov. 17, 1900, his former commissions having borne that date. The ' law of 1903 extended his term until Jan. 1. 1907. however, in order that his successor could enter the office on the first day of the year. "Why It Seems a Failure. In effect Attorney General Miller's opinion declares that the statement In section 1 of the net. declaring that all county officers should take their office on Jan. 1 following their election, was dependant on the provision that made certain exceptions in order that officers then elected might serve out their full terms. The supreme court held the proviso to be unconstitutional, and the attorney general holds that the proviso is so closely interwoven with the statement itself as to make the whole first section of the law unconstitutional. BITEK IS BADLY BITTEN Phony Man Gets Beat by a Barber, and at His Own Game. Too. Muncie, Ind., Nov. 1G. Arthur Stout cleverly beat a swindler at the latter's own game and as a result of his feat now has a $."0 diamond that cost him only $13. A strange man pretending to be hard pressed for money offered to sell Stone a diamond for $12 and eaid he would wait until Stone took the stone to a jeweler to obtain the latter's opinion of it. A jeweler who was consulted told Stout the diamond was worth $r0 and Stout agreed to buy it. The stranger tried to substitute a "phony" diamond for It but Stout detected the trick and took both the real and the false diamonds. When caught the 'stranger confessed that he made his living by the graft and offered to buy back the diamond for $40, but Stout refused. Had Been Beating: the Company. Columbus, Ind., Nov. 16. The Indianapolis, Columbus and Southern Trac tion company hasreceived a letter from a woman at Indianapolis, signing her self "Conscience," In which she in closed r0 cents to repay the company for "deadhead" rides on the traction cars, and saying that she could not rest easy till restitution had been made. Gov. Hanly Under the Weather. Indianapolis, Nov. 10. Governor Hanly is confined to his bed in a physically exhausted condition. His physicians have instructed him to observe absolute rest if he desires to resume his duties in a reasonable length of tim?. For two nights before the election and on election night, the governor did not sleep. Stale Bankers Elect Officer. Indianapolis. Nov. 16. Jonce Monyhnri. of Orleans, was elected president: II. C. Johnson, of Seymour, vice preslvnt, and John C. Shirk, of Brookville, i re surer, of the Indiana State Bankers' association Jn session here

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Charles Crabill of the flee was in Chicago on night. Erie yard ofbusiness last M. Crosby of the Erie office force, who has been at Huntington for the past week on account of the sickness of his mother, is again back at his work. E. M. Wilcox, general foreman of the ! r T .XV Q ar rlnartmpnt wfl in PhiAlbert Reiland of the C, I. & S. drafting department saw Ben Ilur at the Auditorium last night. C. II. Allen, Erie operator at the Fourteenth street station, who has been on the sick list, is able to be around today. F. II. Kitchen, resident engineer of the Erie road, returned last night from Chicago, where he has been on business connected with the new coal storage plant which is being built here by the Erie. Thomas Moore, conductor on the Chicago Terminal Transfer road, is off this week on account of sickness. Erie train No. 13 ran In two sections last night, the second section containing immigrants. John McGinley has quit his job as switchman on the Monon road. G. T. Minlsh, terminal trainmaster of the Erie road, transacted business in Hammond today. Homer Bennet the Erie shops. is a new employe at Several heads of the labor organizations express themselves as opposed to the plan proposed by the companies of asking the interstate commerce commission to arbitrate all future disputes between the railroads and their employes. The proposition recently was submitted to P. II. Morrissey, head of the trainmen's order, and he told a number of executive officials that it did not meet with his approval. He held that the commission was not fitted to settle questions of wages. Grand Chief Hawley f the Switchmen's union agreed with Morrissey. The railroads, however, have decided to make the re quest to the commission, believing that the labor organizations cannot refuse should the commission accept the task The General Managers' association of Chicago has called a meeting to con sider uniform rules for th handling and storage of freight. It is stated that under the ruling of the commis alon if one shipper is given more fa vors or greater advantage in the mat ter of freight storage or handling than any other it constitutes diserimlna tlon within the meaning of the law. Henry Irving Miller was elected president of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and of the Evansvllle & Terre Haute railway companies yesterday to succeed A. J. Davidson, who resigned in order to give all his time to the Frisco system, of which he is president, Mr. Miller, who was formerly the gen eral manager of the Rock Island sys tem, has been vice-president of the Eastern Illinois & Evansvllle roads since March 1, 1905. As president he will continue to make his headquarters in Chicago. He Is forty-four years old and has been a railroad man all his life. ERIE R.. R. CO. Grand lodge and grand encampment of I. O. O. F. of Indiana Nov. 20-22 Indianapolis, Ind. One fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Indiana State Grange, Columbia City, Ind., Dec. 11-14. One fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Indiana State Conference Farmers' Institute Workers, Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 5-10. One fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons, Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 19-22. One fare plus 25c for round trip. Convention of Presbyterian Brotherhood, Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 14-15. One fare plus $2.00 for round trip. Grand Pythian Jubilee Nov. 30. Buffalo, N. Y.. one fare plus 25 cents for round tripRemember, all fares reduced to 2 cents per mile over Erie railroad. Excursions east and west to all points during November. crrectivs Jiwei oexxmg. Emeralds set in jewelry of any kind are much more effective if combined with diamonds, the "white" Btone, S3 jewelers say, "throwing up" the liquid green of the emerald. QUAKER COMPARISONS. Out In the old orchard, lotting on the ground, are hundreds of little apples, dead before maturing-, and each containing: worms! Out in the graveyard are hundreds of little children torn from the family tree by disease caused by germs, microbes, bacteria, parasites, etc., the scientific names for worms! Our dear ones should not perish as the apples, for to mankind has been griven knowledge to use the medicinal gifts found In herbs, and which remove worms and like troubles, allowing chil dren to become useful men and women The Quakers early recognized that most diseases originated from germs, and to be healthy in body and mind the system and blood must be freed of them. To accomplish this end. they turned to nature for assistance, and extracted from herbs, roots, barks, berries, leaves and blossoms, the known medicinal properties, and for years Quaker Herb Extract has been recognized as a most wonderful specific for the stomach, liver and kidneys, and as the greatest of system purifiers. Quaker Herb Extract and a complete stock of the time-tried Quaker Herb Remedies can always be found in the stores of these enterprising druggists: Jos. W. Weis, E. R. Stauffer & Co.. Otto Negele. M. Kolb. . Free booklet and circular sent to asy address upon reauast.

GREAT FIGHT IS BEGUN

Uncis Sam Locks Horns with tha Standard Oil ComDanv for a Finish Contest. SUIT IS PILED AT ST. LOUIS Life and Death Struggle with the Rockefeller Octopus. TEUSTS DISSOLUTION IS ASKED Criminal Prosecution Reserved New York Central Found Guilty of Giving the Sugar Trust Rebates. St. Louis. Nov. 1G. The United States government has made the initial move to dissolve the Standard Oil socalled monopoly by filing in the United State district court in St. Louis a petition in equity against the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and its seventy constituent corporations and seven defendants, including John D. Rockefeller and William Rockefeller, asking that the combination be declared unlawful, and in the future enJoined from entering into any contract or combination in restraint of trade. Criminal Prosecution Reserved. The suit is brought under the Sherman anti-trust act, which the Stand ard and its constituent companies and the seven individual defendants are charged with violating. In a formal statement by Attorney General Moody he says that criminal prosecution is re served for future consideration. The document was filed with the clerk of the United States circuit court by the government's local representative, Unit ed States District Attorney D. P. Dyer, and Special Counsel Kellogg. Petition Contains 100.000 Words, After the filing of the petition Judges V'. II. Sanborn and Elmer B. Adams. of the United States circuit court of appeals, upon petition issued an order granting the federal officers authority to Immediately serve notice of the suit upon those defendants who are not residents of the judicial district in which the suit has been filed. The government's petition in the suit contains 101 pages of printed matter, or about 100,000 words, and an additional IS-t pages of exhibits, consisting of by-laws and minutes of Standard Oil meetings and organizations and a map showing th retail prices of oil In every state and territory of the Union. President Redeems IJis Promise.; The investigation into methods pursued by the Standard Oil company began early in 1005, and the results were laid before congress last May by President Roosevelt, who accompanied the report by a special message denouncing the apparent methods pursued. The president asserted at the time that suits would be instituted in the United States courts to abolish the combination, and the filing of this suit marks the initial step. The defendants are entitled to one month in which to enter their appearance, and sixty days In which to file answer to the allegatoins in the petition. They also have the option of filing a demurrer to the bill. NEW YORK CENTRAL CONVICTED Declared Guilty of Giving Rebates to the Sugar Trust. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad company has been convicted in the United States circuit court of granting a rebate of $26,000 to the American Sugar Refining company, and the trial of the latter company for having accepted that sum as rebates began today in the same court. The jury was out about two hours, and Immediately upon the announcement of its verdict of "guilty" counsel for the defendant company moved to set aside the verdict, which Judgo Holt promptly denied. When court met Joseph II. Choate, counsel for the defendant company, moved to dismiss- the indictment, and upon its denial by Judge Holt entered upon a long argument for the defense. He maintained that contracts made by the defendant under the old interstate commerce law, granting lower rates than the regular schedule, and carried out subsequent to the passage of the Flkins act, did not constitute a violation of that act; that the practice of rebating, or granting lower rates, was not looked upon as a criminal offense at that time. Choate maintained that there is no authority for "continuing a criminal law as retroactive. The law is void as an expost facto enactment." In denying the motion Judge nolt fftid he thought the Elkins act sufficiently binding upon the accused, and that there was sufficient evidence to send the case to the jury. The words shall be" in the law. Judge Holt held, did not relate to future transportation al.me. but todiscriminations that might be or had been attempted to bring about shipments at less than the tariff or published schedule. Judge Holtfixed Nov. 20 as the date for argument on a motion to arrest judgment. Not Trying the Case in the Papers. New York. Nov. 16. Elliott, general counsel of the Standard, Oil com pany, was asked what statement he cared to make in respect of the snit brought by the attorney general in St. Louis. He replied: "I have nothing to say. I cannot try the case in the newspapers. Now that it is in the court I should regard it as highly unprofessional for me to discuss it upon the street." -

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scheme Planned by Bankars to Fil1 Long Felt Want, txpansior. CURRENCY IS SOT SPSY ENOUGH Inactive When It Should Re Doing Things, They Say. Substance of the Scheme That Is To Be Presented to the Lawmakers at the Next Session of Congress. Washington. Nov. 1C The plan of currency reform agreed upon by the committees of the American Bankers' association and the New- York Cham ber of Commerce, upon which they have been at work for four days, has been made public. The committee of the bankers' association was made up of representative financial men from all over the Uniteil Stamps with Provi dent A. B. Henhurn. of tho Chase Na tional bank, of New York, as chairman; while tho committee from the Chamber of Commerce was composed of Frank A. Yanderlip, of the National City bank, of New York, and Chas. A. Couant, of the Morton Trust company. Conclusions Were Unanimous. The conclusions reached were unanimous and will be submitted in the form of a report to the members of tho American Bankers' association. Before adjourning finally a commmittee was appointed consisting of Hepburn, James B. Forgan(of Chicago) and John L. Hamilton (of Hoopeston, 111.), to whom was intrusted the drafting of a bill for presentation to congress, which will embody the ideas expressed in the statement made public. This committee will confer with Chairman Fowler, of the house currency committee, and Comptroller Rldgely and other treasury' officials in the preparation of tho measure. Summary of the Proponed Plan. The plan agreed upon by the two committees contemplates the issue un der government supervision of credit bank notes by national banks equal to 40 per cent, of their bond-secured cir culation, subject to a tax of 2.5 per cent, per annum; an automatic increase of credit notes under certain conditions; a further issue of credit notes equal to 12.5 per cent, of a bank's capital at a tax of 5 per cent. per annum; the establishment of a guarantee fund for the redemption of credit notes of failed banks; provision for active daily redemption of credit notes; repealing the existing law limit ing the retirement of bond-secured notes to $3,000,000 per month; and the deposit of all public moneys above rea sonable working balances in national banks without collateral security, on which the banks are to pay 2 per cent. ADDITIONAL EXPLANATION Reasons Why Currency Reform Is Considered Necessary. James R. Branch, secretary of the American Bankers' association, and secretary of its currency committee, who has attended all the meetings of the bankers., made an explanatory statement after the gathering adjourned, giving the opinion in popular language of the members of the bankers' committee of the operations of the proposed bill. This statement in part sets out the following: The provision limiting the issue of credit notes to 40 per cent, of the bond-secured circulation, and not exceeding 25 per cent, of the capital 6tock, is for the purpose of preventing any tendency by banks to sell government bonds now held to secure circulation, in order to avail themselves of the new circulation. Such action is taken because it is desired that the measure proposed, if enacted, shall not tend to depress the mrrket for government bonds. No part of the assets of banks is to be spe cially pledged to secure tho credit notes, but they are to be protected by the same legal reserve now required against deposits in reserve cities 25 per cent, and in country banks 15 per cent. The members of the committee think that the claim of the credit notes of a failed bank upon its assets should not be given a lieu superior to that of the depositors, but that the guaranty fund, with the addition cf a pro rata claim on the assets with the depositors, would afford adequate protection. The members believe that the tax on the note issues will create a guaranty fund many times larger than necessary to meet the notes of failed banks. In the report addressed to the members of the American Bankers' asso ciation, which Is signed by the fifteen members who have been daily attending the meetings, the statement is made that there Is unanimity of opinion that changes In the existing bank ncte system are imperatively required, and that the present volume of bank notes is wholly unresponsive to the demands of commerce. It does not, the report says, expand with the need for currency in the crop-moving period causing stringency; nor contract when the uses for currency are less extensive causing redundancy. Banks are under the necessity of parting with their reserve money to supply the demand for currency at certain seasons, although that demand would be quite as well satisfied if ! hanks could supply their credit note's ! instead of depleting their reserve and causing a contraction injurious to busi j

LAKE-TO-GULE WATERWAY

Delegates Representing Twenty-Two States in Council at SU Louis Officers Are Chosen. St. Louis, Nov. l'J. By tho election of E. S. Conway, of Chicago, as the permanent el-airman, and W. F. Saunders, of St. I.ouis. secretary, the first steps toward the permanent organization of the Lakes-to-the-Gnlf Deey Waterways association were taken at. th? first day's session of the" waterways convention at the Odeon. The convention will last two days, and the report of the credentials committee showed an attendance of more tban-1,-000 delegates, representing the twentytwo states bordering the Mississippi river and its tributaries. Addresses were msde by ex-Governor David II. Francis, of Missouri; Representative Henry T. R.niney, of Illinois, and Thomas C. Wilkinson, president of the Upper Mississippi River Improvement association. Raincy sail that this; country had been divided into ppheros of influence by seven great railroad groups, which do not infringe upon each other's territory. "We cannot regulate freight rates by legislation," he continued. "The only way of improving railroad rates is by cpenirg our great natural waterways to commerce by making the channels navigiblo by boats capable of carrying thousands of tons of cargo." FEDERATION AND THE FARMER3 Limited Affiliation Is Agreed to. Each to Demand Union - Produced Goods When Buying. Minneapolis, Nov. 16. Embodying a membership f over a million, claiming to represent more than one-seventh of the entire population of the country, the American Society of Equity, the recently formed national farmers' union, has become affiliated In a limited degree with the American Federation of Labor, now in convention here. A committee of the Federation appointed to confer with the representatives of the Society of Equity- reported to the convention that the only practical action at this time in furthering the interests of either is the co-operation of both. The committee recommended that all members of the Federation demand the products of the farm, garden and orchard that bear the union label of the farmers' organization, since the farmers have made assurances that they will in return purchase nothing but union-made goods. A resolution to this effect was offered and adopted by the Federation convention. DIABOLICAL JULIUS TIES3 Pours Muriatic Acid Down His Wife's Throat While She Lies Asleep. Chicago, Nov. 1G. Julius Tiess, now serving a sentence in the house of correction, will be charged with murder, according to Deputy Coroner Davis, who has just concluded an inquest into the death of the wife of Tiess. Several months ago Mrs. Tiess caused the arrest of her husband on a charge of pouring muriatic acid down her throat while she lay asleep. Tiess was sent to the house of correction, and Mrs. Tiess lingered for a long time in a hospital at the point of death. She recovered sufficiently to leave the place, but died yesterday, and according to the deputy coroner her death is the direct result of the acid burns. Dynamite Kills Eight Men. Douglas, A. T., Nov. 10. Two citizens and six Mexicans were killed by a premature explosion at a lime quarry nine miles east of Douglas. The dead citizens are Sam Steele and Victor Shell, both of Mesa, A. T. Samuels, brother-in-law of Shell, was badly crushed and is not expected to recover. Several boxes of giant powder were being loaded into drill holes when the explosion occurred. Caught by a Fire in a Shaft. Darlington, Wis., Nov. 1G. Winfred Davis was suffocated and Daniel McDermott probably fatally burned in a mine fire about four miles west of here. A small house built over the shaft which the men were sinking to protect the machinery caught fire, the flames being drawn to tho bottom of the shaft. Coal Famine in Kentucky. Lexington, Nov. 16. A severe coal famine exists throughout Kentucky, according to report received her. The famine is especially severe throughout central Kentucky. Dealers in Lexington. Lawrenreburg, Paris, Georgetown, Harrodsburg. Danville and other towns are out of coal, and some not accepting orders. Four Killed bT a Boiler-Burst. Fort Smith, Ark., Nov. 10. Four men were killed and a score injured, several fatally, by the explosion of a boiler of a cotton gin at Caulsville. Ark., on the Arkansas Central raliroad. The dead are John Gilbert. Owner of the gin; Geo. Marshall, Charles White, and William B. Bell. Confesses $70,000 Shortage. Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 16. After sev eral weeks of detective surveillance J F. Hutchinson, seccnd vice president of the Delta Cotton company, has ad mitted to the members of the firm, the police authorities, and friends that he is approximately $70,000 short in his accounts. Money to Rebuild Valparaiso. Santiago. Chile, Nov. 10. The ebam ber of deputies has passed a bill providing for the reconstruction of Valparaiso and authorizing a lean of $o,000,000 to be devoted to the work of repairing the destruction caused by the taruiquake of August last

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