Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 176, Hammond, Lake County, 12 January 1907 — Page 1

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Legislators Stick About After Adjournment Since Passes Non-Est.

GOOD PROGRESS MADE Ten Bills Introduced in House and Fifty in Senate One Committee" Works (Special to Lake County Tim en). Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 12. When the house and senate adjourned at noon yesterday to meet again at 2 o'clock next Monday, there was not the hurrying and scurrying that has obtained on similar adjournments two years ago, and before that. Most of the 150 members of the general assembly stayed at Indianapolis and spent their time around the lobbies, working on bills, or "other ways." And the reason for this enforced exile from home was the remarkable absence of passes. This year it costs money to go home. Two years ago, and many years before that the legislators had passes. For a two day's Job of it the two houses did pretty well. In the house ten bills were introduced and the plunder given out. A party fight started, too, the democrats being led by Joseph M. Cravens. It was a little light over a minor matter, but it wasn't bad for the second day and the first day of real business. Still Iletter in the Senate. In the senate, conditions are in still better shape. The senate is fully organized, the committees appointed and the plunder given out. One committee even held an informal meeting yesterday at noon. This was the committee on election that .will have to take care of the Talcott-Bingham contest. iNothlng-jleflnite wu rion at the meeting. The committee will take up this contest early next week. In the Senate, too, fifty bills were Introduced the ratio of one for each senator, though all of the members did not introduce bills, and some introduced as many as four. Chief among the bills introduced are those for a two cent fare, for primary election laws and for public depositories. An inheritance tax bill was introduced in the senate, too, though as a matter of fact, such a bill cannot originate in the senate, as it is a money raising bill. The introduction there will expedite the passage of the house bill, however, when that comes to the senate. fioodwlne's Lengthy Bill. Senator Goodwlne's bill, a document of some forty pages, Is looked upon as being the most promising candidate out of a bunch of half a dozen. Lawyers who are thoroughly familiar with the business of local fiscal officers, have put their sanction on the bill and say that it is thoroughly worked out. The fact that Senator Goodwlne Is a close personal friend of the governor leads to the belief that this is the administration bill. Of two cent fare bills, there was a legion. Some provided for straight two cent fare under any and all conditions. Some provided that a two cent fare should be paid for a ticket, but the rate of 2 cents for cash fares. Others contained provisions for distances under five nviles. Senator Roemler introduced his primary flection bill, too. This is the bill that the nier "lers of the state committee (repub. can) are said to have opposed at the meeting of the committee Wednesday evening, on the ground that it put too much power in the hands of the leaders and too little in the hands of the people themselves. .People to Elect Senator. Several entt-trust bills were introduced, among them being one by Senator Kirkman of Richmond .and Senator Hugg of Indianapolis. Senator Slack Introduced his old resolution to the effect that Indiana should co-operate with other states n obtaining n amendment to the constitution that would permit the election of Cnlted States senators by popular vote. lie lstroducod a bill looking to the exclusion of the big eastern Insurance companies unless they paid back the campaign contributions exclusion from the state of Indiana was Slack's penalty, exclusion after Jan. l, 190S. Today Governor Ilanly issued Invitations to A reception that he will give to the members of the general assembly, their wives and "others- (in case of the bachelors) next Thursday evening at his home In North Alabama street. The reception will be informal. Assisting Governor Ilanly and Mrs. Ilanly will be Lieutenant Governor Hugh Th. Mil'.er and his wife, and other of the state officers and their wives. The reception will be held from S to 11 Thursday evening. BELATED CHRISTMAS GIFT. L. J. Haefer and his sister. Mrs. Jos. Wolf, were the recipients of a belated Christmas present yesterday, and It came very much as a surprise. The present consisted of bank checks worth $1,500 which was sent them by their fther in Hancock, Mich.

Automobile Collides With Vehicle Eearing Injured Man.

POLICE IN Mil PURSUIT Early Morning Example of Reckless Motoring May Cost Life City Official. Special to Lake County Times). Chicago, Jan. 12. John G. Myers may die as result of a collision between the patrol wagon in which he was being carried to the county hospital, and an automobile in Jackson boulevard, at an early hour this morning. Police in a patrol wagon pursued a speeding automobile In a sensational chase in West Jackson boulevard shortly after 5 a. m. today. The horses, however, proved no match for the machineand after a dash of half a mile during which the policemen vainly shouted to Ihe chauffeur to stop, the rursut was abandoned and the man in the auto escaped. The chase followed a collision between the patrol and the automobile at Market street and Jackson boulevard. In the crash the rear part of the patrol wagon was partly demolished. A patient, suffering from a fracture of the right leg was being taken to the county hospital by the police at the time of the accident. The wagon was approaching the bridge. In the darkness Policeman Gable saw the headlights of the automobile coming toward the wagon at great speed. The next moment there was a "honk, honk," then a ripping sound as the patrol wagon balanced on two wheels almost toppling over. The policemen and the patient were thrown to the floor in a heap, but Driver Mangan managed to retain his seat. The driver of tho machine stopped for a moment, evidently with the intention of surrendering himself. The ,chauffeur changed his mind, however, and as the Tvagon drove toward him he turned on the lever and dashed away. Driver Mangan whipped up his horses and followed in pursuit, while the policemen In the wagon threatened' the chauffeur. The threats were not heeded and as block after block sped by the automobile soon became a speck to the pursuers.. The patrol wagon reached the hospital some time later and there it was necessary to make repairs before the return trip could be taken. The patient, John T. Myers, 277 Loomis street, suffered a severe shock as the result of the collision. Myers is a city sidewalk inspector. Ho sustained a fracture of the leg by slipping on the sidewalk and falling down a stairway at Monroe and Clark streets. VISIONS OF A "HIDDEN HAND" DISTURB MICHIGAN CITY. Scents Prospect of Being "Left Out" on Hammond's C ontinuous C&tirt Proposition Say Clause Affecting Penitentiary Town "Will Be Forgotten. The movement now on for a continuous session of tho superior court in Ilamond has envolved itself thus far to the satisfaction of everybody with the exception of the members of the Michigan City bar. Michigan City and its newspapers see a "hidden hand" somewhere in the agreement that was reached between representatives of Lake and Porter counties bar bar association. LaPorte has also been chiming in to give Hammond Its continuous session and now Michigan City sees only the selfish interest that each city has in the move. The agreement among the lawyers from the three counties, with the exception of those from Michigan City, is that Hammond gets its desired court and that in return a circuit be established between Valparaiso and Michigan City. But the latter fears that when the measure comes up in the legislature, part of the bill that would insure Michigan City with some kind of court will be forgotten and it, therefore, would bo left in the cold. While Michigan City is not blaming Hammond co much for wanting a continuous session of the superior court. It accuses Valparaiso and LaPorte of aiding this city in order that Michigan City lost its court and, that consequently its legal business would have to be transacted either in LaPorte or Valparaiso. GIBSON EMPLOYE INJURED. W. G. Foster, an employe of the Chicago, Indiana and Southern road at the Gibson yards was seriously injured Friday . morning. Foster was standing under one of the large coal chutes at the yards when a piece of coal, weighing over two hundred pounds, that was going down the chute fell out. striking him on the head, cutting an ugly scalp wound over five inches long. He was taken on a freight train to Hammond where an ambulance was summoned and he was taken to St. Margaret's hospital. As soon as he had regained consciousness the doctor who was called took six stitches in the scalp. It is thought by the hospital authorities that he will soon be able to go back to work unless complications arise.

Some of our multimil SPEECH OF THE TQWNPUMP4 "Hans vy shews a man tobacco ?" asked the pump this afternoon as a passing; stranger hit off the corner of a 20-cent plug of Ileitzerpeiplg. - Maybe It i for., der, same 'reason dat Peter Mak Iss yet president fou West Hammond," answered Hans. "Right you ere, Hans, dare Is no reason at all. I hat made some statistics up wlch ere howefer uncomplete alreattty but iso rar"so goot.. "Shewers of tobacco ere divided in dree big classes, flerst dose w nt shew sometimes, second dose wat don't shew only sometimes und class number dree, dose wat don't shew at all. 'Xow each one of dese classes hass a destinction, for instnnce, der flerst class dem wat shew sometime alvays sponges dare tobacco. Xo Hans, dey don't haf to go to a tailor shop to sponge. I see you arent over here long yet. "Der second class of course buys der tobacco or else der flerst class could not sponge. Some men of der second class vill do diss. Once in a wile dey vlll sit down by you about fifteen feet fon a cuspidor und den talk, rust talk. ler conversation begins. You say somedlng und den der odder one says someding too, only he makes a period behind his sentence about two feet on diss side of der cnspldor. Maybe den he vill ask you if soft coal would make a nice bed und follow it mlt a question mark two feet east of der cuspidor. Hen wen you tell him dat der 1:08 Xlckel Plate vas on time he vill make a exclamation mark on der vail und say he don't belief it. Class number dree wat don't shew at all don't count In diss statistics. Yes, Hans, yu vill haf to learn much Anglish yet till you can speak it like I can. Hut dare iss one inconsistancy In der Anglish und dat iss, wen you shew it we call It tobacco und wen we smoke It, you call it a rag. I dink a correeter vay would be if It vas smoke tobacco und shew der rag. ( Special to Lake County Times). LaPorte, Ind., Jan. 12. The Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railroad company, which is to penetrate Hammond with its interurban road, today put in this county a monster shovel, by means of which it is expected that great headway will be made, that a new resort is to be opened at Saugeny lake, which will depend upon the electric road for its transportation facilities. The people in the vlcinity of Saugeny feel that a resort there is well advised and are pleased with the prospect of having one located at that point. If yon have anything to advertise, use the classified column of THE LAKE COUNTY TiJIES 3 lines 10 Mats.

ionaires cJaim to be saddled with the real Old Man of the Sea. i Bartholomew in Minneapolis Journal.

BUREAUCRATIC NONSENSE"

That Is What M'Qormick Calls Report of Waterway Commission. DECISION J ADVANCE "Experts" Admit When They Come to Chicago That They've Made Up Their Minds. "The worst instance of bureaucratic nonsense this country has even seen." This is the characterization which R. R. McCormick, president of the drainage board, applied yesterday to the report of the international waterways commission, in which the investigating engineers recommended that not more than 10,000 cubic feet of Lake Michigan water a second be allowed for the Chicago drainage canal. "No, I'm not afraid of being quoted too strongly," said Mr. McCormick. "The whole thing is ridiculous. This commission was appointed a couple or years ago to Investigate the condition of Niagara falls, and this is all they were appointed for. Now here they come butting into Chicago affairs, where they have no business, and, what is worse, making recommendations in regard to a situation that they know nothing about. Decision Made In Advance. "We had a dickens of a time getting the commission to come to Chicago at all, or even to give us a hearing. When they did consent they told us before hand that they would listen, but that they didn't think we could change their minds. "We've been fifty years working out a plan, for our own salvation put several municipal fortunes and two generations of work into it and now this commission Is making recommendations to congress without even visiting the Calumet district. They've never been there at all. "As for taking the report seriously, if such a thing is possible, here are some figures that may be to the point. If we take 14,000 cubic feet of water from Lake Michigan every second that will be just one twenty-sixth of the smallest flow that ever passes from Lake Michigan to Lake Huron. That's as near as Chicago is coming to destroying Niagara! Will Ignore It Anyway. "As a matter of fact, though the report won't amount to anything. It has no legal standing and in our work we shall simply ignore it. It is exasperating, though:" President McCormick. Chief Engineer Isham Randolph and Attorney Lindley will start for Washington this afternoon to ask the secretary of war for a formal permit to reverse the Calumet river, this action being, of course, a direct ignoring of th commission's report.

ALMOST BURIED Br SLIDING

Laborer. Undermines .Mass of Heavy Material Both Legs Fractured. 1 (Special to Lake County Times.) South Chicago, Jan. 11. Early this morning an accident that narrowly i - failed in resulting fatally to Its victims, occurred at the plant of the Iroquois Iron company, 95th street and the river. Andrew Paul, a buggy-man employed there and residing at 9733 Avenue N, was digging at a pile of ore, when a great mass of it became loosened and began to slide. The entire side of the pile slid down and caught Paul, almost burying him. He was dug out by fellow workmen and an examination by a physician showed that both the man's thighs were fractured in a number of places. He was taken to the South Chicago hospital in a police ambulance. International Adopts Good Plan. The International Harvester company are adopting an excellent scheme which will result in greatly lessening the sufferings of men injured in their employ. A class consisting of one man from each department has been organized with the purpose of studying first aid to the Injured, applications of bandages, temporary splints, dressing, etc. The class will meet once a week under the leadership of the company's attending physician who will instruct the men in this practical knowledge. If the plan is followed up, it will mean that men who are hurt at the plant, can be attended to at once by men who know just what to do, In stead of being compelled to suffer while awaiting the arrival of a physician. REMONSTRANCE PROOF. Senator T. T. Moore's Bill Puts Burden on Saloonkeeper Other Bills. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 12. One of the bills introduced in the senate yes terday by Senator T. T. Moore of Put nam county, is the same bill that he introduced two years ago, defining and changing the practice and proof in re monstrances against the granting of li quor licenses. The bill, in effect, places the burden in cases of remonstrance on those who are resisting the remon strance. At present the burden of proving the genuineness of signatures, etc., rests on the remonstrators This would be changed, according to Senator Moore. A second bill that the Putnam coun ty senator introduced provides that the county commissioners shall have dls cretionary power in limiting the weight of loads that can be hauled on country roads when they are soft, or when the "freeze" Is coming out. - A third bill provides that the legislature decide to place a statue of Gen Lew Wallace in Statuary hall, Wash ington. D. C. Wallace was a gallant soldier and a brilliant man of letters,' said Senator Moore, ana ne was an Indianian, -born and bred. The state should place his bust In the vacant niche in Statuary hall." Read THE LAKE COCXTT TIMES v latest news of Caluntet dltri- '

GIRLS JOSEBS Trip to Hobart Results in Victory 48-32, and Defeat 10 to 0.

AS V E F! V BAD Part of Girls Game Was Played Under Boys Rules Teams Spent Tight In Hobart. Five youngr men and five young wo men journeyed to Hobart yesterday to battle on the basket ball lloor with five other young men and rive other young women, who represent Hobart. Ihe masculine representative of the Hammond high school returned with a scalp literally jerked out by the roots, but the aggregation of athletic feminity has another story to tell. Athletically, they are scalpless. The outcome of the game in figures is. Hammond high school girls, 6; Ho bart high schools giris, 10. Hammond high school boys, 48; Hobart high school boys, 32.In rfcard to both of the Hammond teams, there are extenuating circum stances that account for the failure of the girls to win and boys to run up a bigger score and this was the cause of considerable wrangling during both games. Instead of playing on a regulation floor with the baskets located accord ing to regulations, the floor was only about two-thirds as long as it should have been and the baskets were placed I only a foot and a half below the ceil ing. Every basket ball player knows what a handicap it is to play on a strange floor, even when it Is of regulation size and the baskets are correctly plaSed. . and to be? compelled to play ntider '-the'" conditIonsas'' they were" In Hobart, was a big handicap. The Hammond girls learned the game according to the girl's rules and when the second half came were , not able to overcome the handicap of the first half. However, they believe that when the Hobart girls play, them a re turn game In Hammond they will be able to even things up. Ed Bowers refereed the first half of the girl's game and John Schnell of Hobart officiated in the second half. Bowers refereed the whole of the boy's game. The trip was marred by the acci dent that happened to Elston Elliot two minutes before the end of the game. His ankle was turned and badly sprained, and he had to be assisted to the train this morning. The two teams and several rooters, chaperoned by Principal W. A.. Hill, remained in Hobart all night on ac count of their inability to get a train back to Hammond and did not return until early this morning. The lineup of the Hammond teams was as follows: Girls Pos. Boys Miss Carter F Hunter Miss Meikle F Ebert Miss De Weese C Vedder Miss Bauer ,.G Elliot Miss Hoffman G Parsons Substitute Miss Thum. FICTI0N MADE FACT. Frank G. Carpenter, that charming teller of life in foreign lands, whose histories, written in a personal story style, have been so generally enjoyed by the old as well as the young, has gone to Africa for a trip through what is no longer the "Dark Continent." Nearly every portion of that myster ious land has been thoroughly explored its rivers and mountains. Its lakes and its forests traced and mapped. It is now ready for such men as Carpenter to tell more fully of the life and habits of its people, its resources and what the outside nations are doing to develop the portions to . which they lay claim by the divine right of grab. Even the Sahara desert is changing under the touch of modern science and the enterprise of civilized man. Ar teslan wells have supplied water to greatly extend the oases, and plantations of date plams add to the food supply. Camel mounted people protect the caravan routes, and now railroads are being built which will make many narts as accessible as is much of the country bordering the Mediterranean. change or is of more interest than this, the Great Desert. A generation back the possibility of Its ever becoming habitable would have been thought a wilder imagining than the tales of Jules Verne, which science to a large extend has dwarfed In realities, or of Bellamy, whose dreams have been sur passed by the development of social science. It is only when age looks back to youth that there is a full realization of the wonderful advancement in the material world and in ideals. It is then that optimism reigns supreme and the pessimist halts In his croakings to ad mlt that even though the process may seem slow, yet the smelting of the world into a unity of nations is no longer a dream of a diseased Imagina tion. Duluth Tribune.

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Funeral Arrangements in Charge of St. Joseph's Society.

POLICE HEAD CORTEGE Officers Turn Out In a Body to Honor Their Dead Comrade In Full Uniform. The funeral of Peter Geib was he!4 this morning at 9 o'clock from - St. Joseph's church. After Father IL M. Plaster had conducted the service, th funeral procession headed by the ea, tire policy force and the St. Joseph' society which had charge of ths ar rangements, left the church for Greenwood cemetery where the interment took place. The death of Peter Gelb is mourned by friends all over the city. He was one of the pioneers of the county hav ing been gorn in Turkey Creek fiftyseven years ago. When a young man he came to Ham mond and waa employed on the kill ing floor of the (J. H. Hammond company's packing plant. Iater he run what was known as the West Stat Street Hotel for a peroid of nine years. He was then given a place on tha Hammond police force and has held this position for the eight years preceding his death. Mr. Geib is the first of the police officers to die in the service. This morning requiem mass was cel ebrated and later tho funeral services were held in St. Joseph's church. The pall bearers were: Peter Austgen, Sebastlan Trinen, Ilchry P. Shafer, Au gust Homan, John Kunz and Nicholas Elnsele. ' , Mr. Geib was a member of the tJoseph's society and also a member of the Tribe of Ben Ilur. He is survived by his widow and two adopted children : Ethel Klelnfeldter Geib and Mary Geib.'He also leaves a sister, Margaret Hoffman, and three brothers, Mat. Nick and Frank Geib. ' " " -ice , POPE CALLS IT ANARCHY. Says French Church Law Is Attempt to de-ChrlMlanlae France. Rome, Jan. 12. Pope Pius.ln a re markable encyslical letter to the en tire Catholic church, brands the French church law as anarchy and an attempt to de-Chrlstianlze France. While the Pontiff declares that ths church does not desire a religious war involving violent persecutions, never theless the French Catholics are exhorted to stand firm and maintain their union with the Hold See. The encyclical is remarkable also for. its denial that the church ever had conspired to overthrow the republic. The Pope says France has despoiled the church and left it too poor to car for its priests. VEGEANCE ON YOUNG CHTLD; OUTGROWTH OF LAVIN CASE. Detectives of Englewood Station In vestigating Plot to Poison Sergeant I'rendersnst's Baby OSleer Figured Prominently in Noted Trial. (Special to Lake County Times). Chicago, Jan. 12. Detectives of th Englewood avenue station, today are investigating a plot to poison the two-year-old child of Sergeant Thomas Prendergast of Chief Collins' office. Prendergast, who figured prominently in the Lavin trial, refused to discuss the details of the matter when questioned, but admitted that three weeks ago a neighbor called his attention to a piece of buttered bread lying on the porch of his home, 5925 La Salle street. Sergeant Prendergast said the bread was fed to a dog, which died soon af terward. He thought the bread mayhave been placed on the porch and that his child, Thomas, could have picked It up and eaten it. "I told Captain Madden in Engle wood of the case and he detailed men on it," admitted Sergeant Prendergast. "I would not say for certain that an. attempt was made to poison my child, and I do not care to discuss the cass further." BIG RENT OFFERED? It Is reported that a Chicago firm which has been establishing 5 and Id cent stores in several cities in th vicinity of Chicago recently offered $450 a month rent for the building now occupied by the Commercial bank, but this report is not credited by local real estate men, who say there are other locations almost as good that may be had at so much ower a rental that It would be foolish to pay that sum. INDIANA HAB0R HAS BLAZE. Fire broke out at 1 o'clock this morning in the home of Thos. Bllsky In 139th and Cedar streets in Indiana Harbor. The two story frame building1 was burnt to the ground, causing a damage of $2,600. Of this loss $500 is covered by insurance. The cause of the fire Is unknown.