Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 175, Hammond, Lake County, 11 January 1907 — Page 5

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Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana. Tndtannpolis, Jan. 11. Tbe one hundred and 'titty men who, under the name of the Sixty-tifth general assembly, decide what the laws of Indiana shall be, for the next two years at Jenst, met and organized preparatory to taking up the work. There was a full representation of every county of the state at the opening, with the exceptions of Marshall and Kosciusko, whose senator, John W. Parks, is too 111 to attend. Fully one hundred answered to roll call In the house. Republican House Majority Small. The Sixty-fifth Is expected to be both Important and interesting; important for the reforms pledged by the platforms on which men of both parties reached their seats in the body, and Interesting because of the smallness of the Republican majority in the house, which assures anything but a sleepy session. In the senate the Republicans are to the Democrats as 37 is to 13, but In the house the difference Is only that between f3 and 47, and. the 47 are about as active and wide awake as ever ocenpied the west side of the house chamber. Caucus Nominees Elected. T.oth senate and house organized, electing the officers selected at the Re publican caucuses. Representative Branch, the newly-elected speaker of tlte house, presided throughout the greater part of thesesslon. Both houses adjourned shortly before noon to meet In Joint session at 2 p. m. to hear Governor Ilanly personally read his rnesFitge. a document of some 33,000 words. Ijobby We Have Always with Us. Crowded galleries of men and women saw the opening, and politicians and amateur statesmen from miles around were about the side-lines. Noticeable, too, was the always-to-be-found lobby, of various sorts and sizes of influence. The lawmakers. In their beat Sunday clothes, had no reason to doubt that the eyes of the state were upon them. WILIi PROBE TIIAT WRECK Indiana Railway Board Has Started a New Inquiry Into the Woodville llorrr. Indianapolis, Jan. 11. Desiring to , go to the very bottom of the Baltimore and Ohio wreck at Woodville last November in which sixty persons lost their lives, and believing that through knowledge ; gained thereby the cause of so many railroad wrecks in the country may be ascertained, tbe state railroad commission has decreed that its' investigation into this disaster bs resumed, and has summoned all the officials find employes of the road who could have been in any way connected with the wreck to appear before the commission in its rooms at the state house Thursday, Jan. 31. The Woodville wreck inpuiry ia to be directed in ascertaining whether the wreck was the fault of the railroad company or the men employed by the company. Traction Passes Are Returned. Hartford City, Ind., Jan. 11. James Fulton, S. J. Farrell and Christopher Keller, half the membership of the city council, have returned the free mileage books that were sent thera by the Indiana Union Traction company. The books are valued at $10 each. The couneiluien say they believe that they could not do the city and traction company justice while holding free passes. This is the first time in tbe history of the council that free passes have been returned. I Brick Through the Window. Itusbville, Ind., Jan. 11. While Geo. Wingerter, a wealthy cigar manufacturer, and hi? family were seated In their parlor about 8 p. m., a brick was hurled through a large plate glass window, and it hounded past his wife and came ne.nr striking her. No cause has been assigned for the deed, and there ts no clew to the guilty person. Here's a Husky Horse. Kokomo, Ind.. Jan. n. The largest horse ever foaled and raised in Howard county has been sold for eastern shipment here. The animal weighs 2.3."0 pounds and was raised by Jacob Gingery, in the east part of the county. This ponderous dray animal Fold for the moderate price of $300. Got Caught in a Shaft. Ncblesville, Ind., Jan. 11. Grant Cnca. aged 40, was probably fatally injured at the city mills while trying to adjust a belt. His left hand wa caught, carrying him around the shaft three times, tearing the member off, breaking the arm above the elbow and crushing the right leg in two places. Balm for a Wounded Heart, Marion. Ind., Jan. 11. Miss Flora Cox has won jaudgment for $2,000 against William Davis for damages resulting from a breach of promise t marry.

RAILROAD HOTES. Clifford Kdgerton is a new fireman on the Chicago, Indiana & Southern road, his run being between Chicago and Danville, 111.

II. P. Dalton, general superintendent of the Chicago. Cincinnati & Louisville road, who ia making his headquarters in Hammond, transacted business in Griffith yesterday. G. T. Minish, terminal train master of the Erie road, with headquarters at Huntington, Ind., is on the sick list this week. Ed L.everton and his force of linemen are working at Crown Point today. The Indiana Harbor road's surveyors are working at Blue Island, 111. today The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has handed the cigarette fiend a sHiff blow in the form of an official circular recently issued. It announces that any employe found smoking cigarettes will be promptly discharged. They have ascertained to their satisfaction that the cigarette fiend cannot, or does not perform his duties in as satisfactory a manner as does the other fellow. James McCrea, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, was yesterday elected to a number of positions made vacant by the death of A. J. Cassatt. He was made president of the Northern Central railway, the Philadelphia Baltimore & Washington railroad, and the West Jersey & Seashore railroad. Mr. McCrea was also elected a director In the last two named roads. H. A. Wagner, brakeman on the Nickel Plate road, is off duty this week on account of the grip. The second section of No. 11 on the Erie last night carried 400 immigrants from New York to Chicago, where they will be transported to the west. W. Bond, formerly a machinist at the Western Steel Car and Foundry company at Hegewisch, has taken a job as brakeman with the Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville road at Griffith. Ind. Don't forget to read the condensed time-table on page 2 of all railroads running through Hammond. E. H. Most, traveling passenger agent for the Great Northern road, was In the city yesterday looking after business. Traveling Passenger and Freight Agent II. Corrigan of the Wisconsin Central road, was in the city last evening on business for the road. Railway fares from California points to places in Ohio, Indiana and places In western Pennsylvania and western New York will be reduced beginning Feb. 1 between 35 cents and $1," according to the specific destination of the purchaser of a Southern Pacific ticket. These reductions will apply on any main line route either by way of Ogden, or by way of El Paso, but will only affect destinations In Indiana, Ohio, Ontario and western New York and Avestern Pennsylvania, In addition to these special rates the Southern Pacific will put into effect Feb. 1 a new augmented list of terminals for round trip tickets. The private car of Judge Field, general solicitor of the Monon, will be parked in the Indianapolis yards while the legislature is in session. The Wabash road, which has been holding back its advertising contracts on account of the new rate law, has decided to make newspaper contracts similar to those in effect last year, except that the transportation will be good only in the state in which it is issued. E. H. Funk, recently appointed agent of the Erife freight department at St Paul, had been with the company ten years, holding the position of contracting agent. A. M. Thompson succeeds him in that position. W. R. Crow, recently appointed foreign freight agent of the road in New York City has assumed the duties of that position. BY RAIL THROUGH AUSTRALIA. Express Trains Carry Travelers With Speed and Comfort. The four chief towns of AustraliaAdelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbaneare now connected throughout by railway, a total distance of 1,800 miles being accomplished by express trains in 63 hours. A visitor from Victoria to New South Wales enters the latter colony at Albury, on. the southern border and 392 miles from Sydney. Albury is the changing place, where the traveler would have to leave a Victoria broad gauge train and enter a New South Wales train of the orthodox four foot eight and a half inch gauge. Pullman vestibule combined sleeping and drawing room cars and corridor first and second class cars, with lavatory accommodation and electric lighting, are provided. Stoppages for refreshments are made at convenient Intervals, and Sydney is reached shortly before the middle of the day following the afternoon departure from Melbourne. The time occupied in the journey of BS2 miles is seventeen and a half hours. In going from New South Wales to Queensland a traveler would leave the New South Wales railway system at Wallangarra, 492 miles from Sydney, and he would then pass into a narrow gauge Queensland train, arriving at Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, about 7 a. ra. on the day after leaving Sydney, the distance of 725 miles being accomplished In 2S hours. Engineering

klone ..Clark By FRANK II. SPEARMAN Ccpyrisht, 1900, by Fraok H. COXTIXCED. low gave a cry and pointed to the Eouth gable. Away up under the eave3 at the third story window we saw a face. It was Fitzpatrick. Everybody had forgotten Fitzpatrick and his nurse. Behind, as the flames lighted the opening, we could see the nurse struggling to get him to the window. It was plain that the engineer was in no condition to help himself. The two men were in deadly peril. A great cry went up. The crowd swarmed like ants around to the south end. A dozen men called for ladders, but there were no ladders. They called for volunteers to go in after the two men, but the stairs were long since a furnace. There were men in plenty to take any kind of chance, however sLght, but no chance offered. The nurse ran to and from the window, seeking a loophole for escape. Fitzpatrick dragged himself higher on the casement to get out of the smoke which rolled over him In choking bursts and looked dowrn on the crowd. They begged him to Jump held out their arms frantically. The two men, again side by side, waved a hand. It looked like a farewell. There was no calling from them, no appeal. The nurse would not desert his charge, and we saw it all. Suddenly there was a cry below keener than the confused shouting of the crowd, and one running forward parted the men at the front and, clearing the fence, jumped into the yard under the burning gable. Before people recognized him a lariat was swinging over his head. It was Slclone Clark. The rope left his arm ... .V:TJ Hand over hand Slclone Clark crept up. like a slungshot and flew straight at Fitzpatrick. Not seeing or confused, he missed it. and the rope, with a groan from the crowd, settld bacl The agile cowboy caught It again into a loop and shot It upward, that tima fairly over Frtzpatrick's head. "Make fast!" roared Slclone. Fitz patrick shouted back, and the two men above drew taut. Hand over hand Siclone Clark crept up, like a monkey, bracing his feet , against the smoking elnnhoards. edinz away from the romifinir windows, swinging on the Pincle strand of horsehair and fol lowed by a hundred prayers unsaid. Men who didn't know what tears were tried to cry out to keep the choking from their throats. It seemed an age before he covered the last five feet and the men above caught frantically at his hands. Drawing himself over the casement, he was lost with them a moment. Then from behind a burst of smoke they saw him rigging a maverick saddle on Fitzpatrick, saw Fitzpatrick lifted bv Clark and the nurse over the sill, lowered like a wooden tie, whirl ing and swinging, down Into twenty arms below. Before the trainmen had cot the engineer loose the nurse, fol lowing, slid like a cat down the incline, but not an instant too soon. A tongue of Same lit tbe gable from below and licked the horsehair up into a curling, f H-rzlinsr thread, and Siclone stood alone in the upper easerneat. It seemed for the moment he stood there the crowd would go mad. The shock and the shouting seemed to con fuse him. It may have been the hot air took his breath. They yelled to him to jump, but he swayed uncertain ly. Once, an instant after that, he was seen to look down; then he drew back from the casement. I never gaw him again. The flames wrapped the building in a yellow fury. By daylight the bi barracks were a smoldering pile of ruins. So little water was thrown that it was nearly nightfall before we could get into the wreck. The tragedy had blotted OBt the feud between the strikers and the new men. Side by feide they worked, as side by side Siclone and Fitzpatrick had stood in the morn Ing. striving to uncover the mystery of the missing man. Next day twice as many men were In the ruins. Fitzpatrick while we were searching

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"We didn't tell him the truth." Indeed, we didn't know it, nor do we yet know it. Every brace, every beam, every brick, was taken from the charred pile.

every foot of cinders, every handful of ! ashe3 sifted, but of a human being tbe searchers found never a trace, not a bone, not a key, not a knife, not a button which could be identified as his. Like the smoke which swallowed him up, he had disappeared completely and forever. Is he aJive? I cannot tell. But this I know: Years afterward Sidney Blair, head of our engineering department, was j running a line, looking then, as we are i looking vet. for a coast outlet. I He took only a flying camp with him, traveling in the lightest kind of order, camping often with the cattlemen he ran across. One night away down ia the Panhandle they fell in with an outfit driving a bunch of steers up the Yellow Grass trail. Blair noted that the fore mas was a character a man of few words, but of great muscular strength, and, moreover, frightfully scarred. He was silent and inclined to be morose at first, but after he learned Blair was from MctToud he unbent a bit and after a time began asking questions which indicated a surprising familiarity with the northern country and with our road. In particular, this man asked what hnd become of Bucks and, when told what a big railroad man he had grown, asserted, with a sudden bitterness and without in any way leading up to it, that with Bucks on tne U est inu mere never wouia have been a strike. Sitting at their campflre while their crews mmgieu, uiair noiiccu m tne flicker of the blaze how seamed the throat and breast Of the cattleman were. Even his sinewy forearms were drawn out of shape. He asked, too, whether Blair recollected the night the barracks burned, bat Blair at that time was east of the river and so explained, though he reSated to the cowboy Inci dents of the fire which he had heard, among others the story of Fitzpatrick and Siclone Clark. "And Fitzpatrick is alive, and Sl clone is dead," said Blair in conclusion. But the cowboy disputed him. "You mean Clark is alive and Fitz patrick is dead," said he. No," contended Sidney, "Fitzpat rick is running an engine up there now. I saw him within, three months." But the cowboy was loath to convic tion. Next morning their trails forked. The foreman seemed disinclined to part from the surveyors, and while the bunch was starting he rode long way with Blair, talking in a random way. Then, suddenly wheeling, he waved a goodby with his heavy Stetson and, galloping hard, was soon lost to the north in the ruts of the Yellow Grass. When Blair came in he told Neighbor and me about it. Blair had never seen Siclone Clark and so was no judge as to his Identity, but Neighbor believes yet that Blair camped that night way down in the Fanhandle with no other than the cowboy engineer. Once again, that only two years ago, something came back to us. Holmes Kay, one of our staff of sur geons, the man, In fact, who took care of Fitzpatrick, enlisted in Illinois and went with the First to Cuba. They got in front of Santiago just after the hard fighting of July 1, and Holmes was detailed for hospital work amorg Roosevelt s men, who had suffered se verely the day before. One of the wounded, a sergeant, had sustained a gunshot wound in the jaw and in the confusion had received scant attention. Kay took hold of him. He was a cowboy, like most of the rough riders, and after his jaw was dressed Kay made some remark about the hot fire they had been through before the blockhouse. 'I'd beea through a hotter before I ever saw Cuba," answered the rough rider as well as he could through hi3 bandages. The remark directed Kay's attention to the condition of his breast and neck, which were a mass of scars. 'Where are you from?" asked Holmes. 'Everywhere." 'Where did you get burned that way?" "Out on the plains." "How?" But the poor fellow went off into a delirium and to the surgeon's amaze ment began repeating train orders Kay was paralyzed at the way he talked our lingo and a cowboy. Whea he left the wounded man for the night he resolved to question him more closely the next day, but the next day orders came to rejoin his regiment a the trenches. The surrender shifted things about, and Kay, though he made repeated inquiry, never saw the man again. Neighbor when he heard the story was only confirmed in his belief that the rough rider was Slclone Clark. I give you the tale3 as they came to tne and for what you may make of them. I myself believe that if Siclone Clark is etill alive he will one day yet come back to whera he was best known and, in spite of his faults, best liked. They talk of him out there as they do of old man Sankey. I say I believe if he lives he will one day come back. The day he does will be a great day in McCloud. On that day Fitzpatrick will have to take down the little tablet which he placed in the brick facade of the hotel which now stands on the site of the old barracks, for as that tablet now stands it is sacred to the memory of Siclone Clark. Generous Hrartfd. Philanthropist Do yon ever give pool people a rids in your automobile? Motorist Quite often. I carry tLero to the hospital every time I run over UiemI New Tork Press,

Humor end Philosophy By DUNCAN M. SMITH

4FERT PARAGRAPHS. ! I ? I i 4i ! 4 ! 4? ! f ; J ! The wrinkles ia the brows of millionaires are sometimes dollar signs and sometimes pepsin signals. Working for the good of your neighbor is all right if you feel that you are getting the big end of the deal. It is dollars to sore arms that the ' i doctors believe in vaccination Bad judgment is apt to be pretty hard on good reputation. When you can't no anything else, exercise your patience and put your temper on ice. Unexpected company ia usually as welcome as measles ia house cleaning time. Slanders and backbiters are like white wings they never grow weary. Good manners are no certificate of character, but they are corroborative evidence. When a man Is of our own opinion it is pretty good evidence to us that he is above the average. The philosophy of the struggle for existence is all sufficient as long as you have no kick coming. Getting busy with their neighbors' affairs is the way some people have of being Industrious. Dreaming About It. A vision fair floats on the air One vision? Nay; there's twenty Of what I'll do when I get rich. And, say, it will be plenty. Glad rags? Well, yes, I rather gruess There will be eaucy faiment When things are so I will not have To worry o'er the payment. The horse I drive will be alive And know that he is going. For when he hits the road, a clip Some dust streaks will be showings Maud S. will say: "Me to a dray. ' That nag beats all my paces!" As everything upon the road That goes on legs he chases. My wife will dress In nothing less Than silk3 and costly laces Imported from the east and west And several other places; My children will be dressed to kill Regardless of the dollars; My fine Imported dogs will shina In diamond studded collars. Oh, my, ah, me, that It should bo Accompanied by such hitches! I cannot do a single thing Until I gret those riches. Still is it wrong to run alon? The line of least resistance? I fear the closest I will get Will be In dreaming distance. While Life Lasted. The maiden lady's steps were turned Adown the shady slope. She never had been kissed, but she Wa3 living still la hope. Watering the Oyster. , No doubt many readers who are un familiar with the habits and ways of oysters were surprised and pained to read that some Chicago dealers had been arrested for watering their oysters. No doubt they pictured the humane dealer leading the thirsty bivalve to the water tank and inviting it to drink heartily. Perhaps they wondered if the authorities expected them to treat the shellfish to champagne. Such opinions, however, could only be held by people who were laboring under a misapprehension. The foxy dealers were only pouring a few extra gallons of water into the barrel, so that it would measure out more quarts when the purchaser came with a little tin pail and his money for a Sunday feed. The customers do not want that. It is too much like buying church etews with no religion thrown in. No Occasion. "A man should try to cheer up at least once a week." "But we only have pay day at our place once a month." Too Slow The rich can ride in chaises. But they're doing it much lesa. Because the latest caze is For them to gro like blazes In the asolirie express. Missed His Guess. "Are you courting an heiress T "I thought I was. but it appears I was Only courting a throw down." He Knew. 'Tm looking for the man of the

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