Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 183, Hammond, Lake County, 22 January 1907 — Page 5
PAGE BsITVE Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1907.
THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES
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RAILROAD NOTES.
C S Drew, a laborer on the Wabash
road is on tho sick list this wek.
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All "Wabash morning trains were from two to three hours late today.
ak Nerve
Yesterday -was pay day on the llonon
road.
Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over j Indiana. Marlon, Ind., Ja. 22,-The first common law marriage contract ever made In Marlon was aisled by Arthur M. Peters, of Indianapolis, and Miss Lora Kepler, of this city, on Jan. 0. Teters and Mlaa Kepler have lived together as husuand wife since that date and this, they declare, la the fulfillment of their contract and makes It binding. They have announced to their friends and the public that they are husband and wife. The cause of this extraordinary marriage contract was the objections of the parents of Miss Kepler, she being 17 years old, and it being impossible for her to get a marriage license In Indiana without the written consent of her parents, b AVent to a Lawyer About It. Peters and Miss Kepler were determined to marry, but Miss Kepley would not consent to elope to some other state. Peters consulted Alfred Uenry, an attorney. The attorney suggested the common law marriage and Peters told Miss Kepler about it. The young people asked the attorney to draw up a contract that would be legal. The
attorney read all the authorities on.
common law marriages and the decis
ions of the supreme court of Ohio,
Illinois and Missouri on the subject
The contract was then drawn and signed by the contracting parties and
George W. Salmon and Eli Jones as
witnesses. Found Supreme Court Authority.
In citing supreme court reports in
Hie case Attorney Henry referred to
the 101, Indiana reports, where a com
mon law marrlagewas held valid without any form of ceremony. In the
twenty-third American state reports, in the case of the state vs. Bitrlck the supreme court of Missouri held that the common law marriage was legal
and reversed the decision of the lower
court. Just Sets Aside the Law.
In reference to marriage by contract
In this case the supreme court said:
"A valid marriage exists between the parties where a man and a woman under IS years of age, whose mother
refuses consent to her marriage, mak
Injjf it Impossible to procure a marriago license, mutually agree to marry and publicly announce themselves as husband and wife, and this is followed by cohabitation and holding themselves put publicly as husband and wife." MARllIKD TOoT'HISVIOUSLtY
E. L. Kinsey, a traveling auditor of the Wabash office, was a caller at the
local office yesterday.
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Copyright, 1900, by Frank IL Spearman
By FRANK H. SPEARMAN
J. W. Leary and his force of linemen
were worKing at w est nillraan this
morning
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Fred Eversoll, operator on the Nickel
Plate road, transacted business In Chi
cago today.
ah nonnoouna trains today were
covered with from three to five Inches
of snow.
William Ennis, foreman on the Chi
cago Junction road, is on the tick list
today.
The Wabash linemen are having
plenty of trouble this week repairing
the telegraph wires along the line,
nearly all of which were down.
G. T. Miniah, terminal trainmaster
of the Erie road, waa a caller at the local office yesterday. This is Mr. Min-
ish's first trip along the road since his
recent sickness.
M. R. Evans, fireman on the Erie
had him under their feet in a minute.
I jumped down, and Ben Buckley, the
conductor, came running up. Between
us we gave the little fellow a life. He squirmed out like a cat and backed instantly up against the tender.
"One at a time, and come on!" he
cried hotly. "If it's ten to one and on a man'B back at that, we'll do it different." With a quick, peculiar movement
of his arm he drew a pistol and, pointing it squarely at Cameron, cried, "Get back!"
I caught a flash of his eye through
the blood that streamed down his face. I wouldn't have given a switch key for the life of the man who crowded him at that minute. But Just then Lancas
ter came up, and before the crowd realized it we had Foley, protestins an
grily, back in the cab again.
"For heaven's sake, pull out of this
before there's bloodshed, Foley." I
into Chicago.
Engineer Joseph Braacht of ihe Nickel Plate has been granted several weeks' leave of absence. He will leave for Hot Springs, Ark., in an effort to benefit his health, whicn has been fail
ing for some time.
The Nickel Plate railroad has with
drawn from the Cleveland Car Servioo association and It la a question whother other lines centering at that point will
follow the example, which would re
sult In disbanding that organization.
the Niokcl Plato asserts that sinco tho passage cf the Hepburn law thrj i:J
no further need of the existence of the
association.
Railroad to Sell Its Land.
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 21. All
lands of the Southern Pacific company included in the government grant to the Central Pacific railroad in this state, Nevada and Utah, with the exception of the timber property will be placed on sale not later than July 1
of this year. The railroad company s
holdings in these states amount ap
proximately to 6,000,000 acres.
Woman Married to No. 2, Before She Is Divorced from No. 1 Other Legal Complications. M uncle, Ind., Jan. 22. Judge Leffler Friday announced his decision, awarding a decree of divorce to Mrs. Delia Marsh from Casper Marsh, and enjoining her from marrying again within two years, the court not knowing that even then she was the wife of Luther C. B. Wright. This brings about a complication that may be difficult of disentanglement. The divorce trial was held several days ago, but
Judge leffler withheld his decision. Mrs. Marsh thought the decree had already been granted, and three days ago she was married to Wright. Friday afternoon she apiearel iu court for the purpose, as she thought, oof concluding whatever formalities connected with her divorce suit might be necessary. When Judge LelHer pronounced his inhibition against her remarriage she said nothing, and it was not until all the persons had left the room did the court learn of the peculiar state of affairs. Fitzgerald Pleads Guilty. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 22. Philander II. Fitzgerald, a wealthy attorney of this city, who was indicted, at the last session of the federal grand Jury on the eharg of using the mails with Intent to defraud, appeared before Judge A. B. Anderson and entered a plea of guilty, was fined $l,S0O and costs. Two Indictments had been returned by the grand jury. They set forth that the "1W4 Colony" had been established at St. George, Ga..and that Fitzgerald had the town of St. George surveyed and platted, sold a large number of lota and failed to account for 533,000.
road, who has been running only from cried, and, nodding to Buckley. Folev
Huntington to Hammond, now runs on onpnP(i the rhoker
It was a night run and a new track
to him. I tried to fire and pilot both,
but after Foley suggested once or twice that if I would tend to the coal he
would tend to the curves I let him find them, and he found them all, I
thought, before we got to Athens. He
took big chances in his running, but there was a superb confidence in his
bursts of speed which marked the fast
runner and the experienced one. At Athens we had barely two hours to rest before doubling back. I was never tired In my life till I struck the pillow that night, but before I got It warm the caller routed me out again. The eastbound flier was on time, or
nearly so, and when I got into the cab for the run back. Foley was just coupling on. "Did you get a nap?" I asked as we pulled out. "No; we slipped an eccentric coming up, and I've been under the engine ever since. Say, she's a bird, isn't she? She's all right. I couldn't run her coming up, but I've touched up her valve motion a bit, and I'll get action on her as soon as it's daylight" "Don't mind getting action on my account, Foley; I'm shy on life Insurance." He laughed. "You're safe with me. I never killed man, woman or child in my life. When I do, I quit the cab. Give her plenty of diamonds, If you please," he added, letting her out full. He gave me the ride of my life, but I hated to show scare, he was so coolly audacious himself. We had but one stot) for water and after that all
down grade. We bowled alng as easy as ninepins, but the pace was a hair raiser. After we passed Arickaree we never touched a thing but the high joints. The long, heavy train behind us flew round the bluffs once in awhile like the tail of a very capricious kite, yet somehow, and that's an engineer's magic, she always lit on the steel. Day broke ahead, and between breaths I caught the glory of a sunrise on the plains from a locomotive cab window. When the smoke of tho McCloud shops stained the horizon, remembering the ugly threats of the strikers, I left my seat to speak to Foley. "I think you'd better swing off when you slow up for the yards and cut across to the roundhouse!" I cried, getting close to his ear, for we were
on terrific speed. lie looked at me in
qulringly
through his open window and darted like a cat along the running board to the front. Not a hundred feet separated us from the crossing. I could sea the baby's curls blowing in the wind. The horse suddenly leaped from across the track to the side of it. That left the buggy quartering with the rails, but not twelve inches clear. The way the wheels were cramped a single step ahead would throw tho hind wheels Into the train; a step backward would
shove the front wheels Into it. It was appalling. Foley, clinging with one hand to a
headlight bracket, dropped down on the steam chest and swung far out As the cowcatcher shot past Foley's long arm dipped into the buggy like the sweep of a connecting rod and caught the boy by the breeches. The impetus of our speed threw the child high in the
air, but Foley's grip was on the little overalls, and as the youngster bounded back he caught it close. I saw the horse give a leap. It sent the hind wheels Into the corner of the baggage car. There was a crash like the report of a hundred rifles, and the buggy flew in the air. The big horse was thrown fifty feet, but Foley, with a great light in his eyes and the baby boy in his arm, crawled, laughing, into the cab. Thinking he would take the engine again, I tried to take the baby. Take it? Well, I think not! "Ill, there, buster," shouted the little engineer wildly, "that's a corking pair of breeches on you, son! I caught the kid right by the seat of the pants," he
Kallroads an over the country are already making preparations for colonist travel during the coming spring,
and a heavier business is looked for
than in any previous year. A new feature that will be offered will be the
prepaid business under this rate. This
means people on the coast may send
for relatives or friends by paying the
rare at the local office to the agent.
who will telegraph it to headquarters.
1"he colonist seasons opens May 1.
The Burlington has ordered ninety
locomotives, seventy-five for freight and fifteen for passenger service. The
passenger engines will weight 376,000 pounds each and the tenders will carry
8,000 gallons of water and thirteen tons of coal. They are especially designed to haul the fast mall and the heaviest passenger trains. The freight engines will weigh about four tons Jess each than tho passenger engines, but will
have the same amount of coal and
water capacity.
Had a Harrowing Expevienc-. Liberty Mills, Ind., Jan. 22. Alfred and Pearl McNear, brothers living near here, had a narrow escape from death in the Eel river. They spent twenty hours on a small bit of driftwood in the middel of the river. Their boat capsized while they were duck huntlug and the swift current threw them onto this driftwood. The hands and feet of both men were frozen and they were nearly dead. They had started out in warm weather. t He Moves au Investigation. Indianapolis, Jan. 22. Representative Joyce has introduced a joint resolution in the legislature authorizing the railroad commission to investigate the two recent Big Four wrecks at Fowler and Sandford. Fin Bunch of Hog. Milton, Ind., Jan. 22. Linville Wallace, south cf town, purchased six . head of bogs from David Lee, of this place, that were 8 months old and waIe aa a vcraja weight of 300 pounds.
The Ptcria & Pekin Terminal rai'
way will be sold at foreclosure on Feb.
0r owing to the fact that payment is in default on $977,000 of bonds. This company operates twenty-five miles ot
railway between Peoria and Pekin, 111.
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through a strike yourself you know what it means, don't you? But if you've got a baby" he gripped the boy tighter to his shoulder. T have, partner; three of 'em." "Then you know what this means," said Andy, huskily putting out his hand to Foley. He gripped the little man's fist hard, and, turning, walked away through the crowd. Somehow it put a damper on the boys. Bat Nicholson was about the only man left who looked as if he wanted to eat somebody, and Foley, slinging his blouse over his shoulder, walked up to Bat and tapped him on the shoulder. "Stranger," said he gently, "could you oblige me with a chew of tobacco?" Bat glared at him an instant, but Foley's nerve won. Flushing a bit, Bat stuck his hand into his pocket, took it out, felt hurriedly In the other pocket and, with some confusion, acknowledged he was short. Felix Kennedy intervened with a slab, and the three men fell at onco to talking about tho accident. A long time afterward some of the striking engineers were taken back, but none of those who had been guilty
of actual violence. This barred Andy Cameron, who, though not worse than many others, had been less prudent and, while we all felt sorry for him after the other boys had gono to work, Lancaster repeatedly and positively refused to reinstate him.
Several times, though, I saw Foley and Cameron in confab, and one day up came Foley to the superintendent's ofilce, leading little Andy, in his overalls, by the hand. They went into Lancaster's office together, and the door was shut for a long time. When they came out little Andy had a piece of paper in his hand. "Hang on to it son," cautioned Foley, "but you can show It to Mr. Reed if you want to." The youngster handed me the paper. It was an order directing Andrew
Cameron to report to the master me
chanic for service in the morning.
I happened over at the roundhouse
one day nearly a year later, when
Foley was showing Cameron a new engine Just in from the east. The
two men were become great cronies;
that day they fell to talking over the strike.
"There was never but one thing I
really laid up against this man," said
Cameron to me.
"What's that?" asked Foley. "Why the way you shoved that pis
tol Into my face tho first night you
took out No. 1."
"I never shoved any pistol into your
face." So saying, he stuck his hand
Into hjs pocket with the identical mo
tion he used the night of the strike,
and leveled at Andy, just as he had
done then a plug of tobacco. "That's
all I ever pulled on you, son. I never
carried a pistol in my life."
Cameron looked at him, then he
turned to me, with a tired expression.
"I've seen a good many men, with
a good many kinds of nerve, but I'll be splintered if ever I saw any one man with all kinds of nerve till I
struck Foley."
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BY THE WAY, WHAT ARE YOUR EYES WORTH TO YOU? Yet you go right on, using the old out-of-date methods of lighting vour rooms straining your own and your children eyes, under the dim rays of tho inconvenient, dirty and dangerous oil lamp. THINK IT OVER, and let us give you a price on piping or wiring your house for up-to date Gas or Electric Lights. South Shore Gas & Electric Co. 147 So. Hohman St. Phone 10 IT MAKES THO HOUSE A HOME."
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The Baltimore & Ohio Railway com
pany's statement of earnings and ex
penses for December were gross $600,
rfzv.uvi, an increase or $zty,4Si; ex
penses, 5400.S97, 090, an Increase of ?444,692; net earnings $200,822,911, a
decrease of $75,211,
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pot," I added. T can stop her all right." He didn't take his eyes off the track. Til take the train to the platform," said he. "Isn't that a crossing cut ahead?" he
The Pennsylvania railroad has de- added suddenlv as we swung round a
ciaea 10 mass an exhaustive test of
Will Try Steel Ties.
steel ties. It will put down 3,000 of them between Pittsburg and Altojna, and near Fomeroy. Pa., where there is as heavy traffic as of any part of the
system, ir uiese steel ties stand the
hill west of town.
"Yes, and a bad one." He reached for the whistle and gave
the long warning screams, l set tne bell ringer and stooped to open the fur-
thousands or them annually, but if! they fall to meet the requirements the company will not make any further experiments with steel ties, but will
plant thousands of trees, with the Idea of using wooden ties exclusively in the
future.
test the company Mill use hundreds of nace door to cool the fire, when chug!
I flew up against the water gauges like a coupling pin. The monster engine reared right up on her head. Scrambling to my feet, I saw the new man clutching the air lever with both hands, and every wheel on the train was screeching. I jumped to his side and looked over his shoulder. On the crossing just ahead a big white horse, dragging a buggy, plunged and reared frantically. Standing on the buggy seat a baby boy clung, bewildered, to the lazyback not another soul ia sight. All at once the horse swerved sharply back. The buggy lurched half over. The lines seemed to be caught around one wheeL The little fellow clung on, but the crazy horse, Instead of running, began a hornpipe right between the deadly rails. I looked at Foley in despair. From the monstrous quivering leaps of the
great engine I knew the drivers were in the clutch of the mighty air brake.
An Easy Merk. The following is told as having occurred in the lobby of the Palmer House, Chicago: A guest came in from the street, took off his overcoat, folded it carefully and placed It over the back of a chair and then sat on It, producing a newspaper and soon becoming absorbed in its contents. Before long a stranger tapped him on the shoulder and politely asked If he would pleasa get up and let him have the overcoat he was sitting on. The guest obligingly arose and handed his own coat to the stranger and then seating himself
again continues
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Suddenly it dawned upon him that he but the resistless momentum of the
isu uiauH a, xooi or nimseir. He be
came excited, and rushing over to the desk told the clerk the circumstances
of the robbery.
The clerk listened patiently and then quietly said: "I'll tell you what
to do. You go back and 6it where you last ounce of air on the burning wheels, were and wait; then when the rascal leaped from his box with a face transcomes and asks for your shoes you figured. can nab him." Short Stories. "Take her!" he cried, and, never .jfrlng Jil3-cre frcnjte -crt, fc.hat
Foley dropped down on the steam chest
and swung far out.
called over to me, laughing hysterical
ly. "Heavens, little man, I wouldn't
've struck you for all the gold in Alas
ka. I've got a chunk of a boy in Read
ing as much like him as a twin brother.
"What were you doing all alone in that buggy? Whose kid do you suppose it
is? What's your name, son?"
At his question I looked at the child again, and I started. I had certainly seen him before, and, had I not, his
In that way you won't run j father's features were too well stamp
ed on the childish face for me to be
mistaken.
"Foley," I cried, all amaze, "that's
Cameron's boy little Andy!"
He tossed the baby the higher; he
looked the happier; he shouted the
louder.
"The deuce it Is! Well, son, I'm mighty glad of it" And I certainly
was glad mighty sclad. as Folev ex
pressed It when we pulled up at the depot, and I saw Andy Cameron, with a wicked look, pushing to the front through the threatening crowd. With an ugly growl, he made for Foley. "I've got business with you you" "I've got a little with you, son," retorted Foley, stepping leisurely down from the cab. "I struck a buggy back here at the first cut, and I hear It was yours." Cameron's eyes began to bulge. "I guess the outfit's damaged some, all but the boy. Here, kid," he added, turning for me to hand him the child, "here's your dad." The instant the youngster caught sight of his parent he set up a yell. Foley, laughing, passed him Into his
astonished father's arms before the latter could say a word. Just then a boy, running and squeezing through the crowd, cried to Cameron that his horse had run away from the house with the baby in the buggy and that Mrs. Cameron was having a fit, Cameron stood like one daft, and the boy, catching sight of the baby that Instant, panted and stared in an idiotic state. "Andy," said I, getting down and laying a hand on his shoulder, "if these fellow3 want to kill this man let them do it alone you'd better keep out Only this minute he has saved your boy's life." The sweat 6tood out on the big engineer's forehead like dew. I told the story. Cameron tried to speak, but he tried again and again before he could find his voice. "il.te'jia stammeredtyou'vebeea
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train was none the less sweeping us down at deadly speed on the baby. Between the two tremendous forces the locomotive shivered like a gigantic beast I shrang back in horror, but the little man at the throttle, throwing the
Indian Medicine Base.
The medicine bags of Navajoes, Zu-
nla and Apaches, all kindred tribes,
contain a curious powder known as
corn pollen or hoddentin. This powder, which is the pollen of a rush and
also of maize, appears to be used as a medicine, being eaten by the sick
and put on the head or other parts to
ease pain, but principally as a sacred
offering to the sun and moon and as a
sanctifler of everything. A pinch of it is thrown toward the sun and then to
ward the four winds for help In war
or the chase, is put on the trail of a
snake to prevent harm from it placed
on the tongue of the tired hunter as a
restorative, hung In bags round the necks of Infants as a preservative and sprinkled on the dead. In fact every
action of these Indians is sanctified
by this powder, so that as Captain
Bourke writes In the ninth volume of
"The Report of the Bureau of Eth
nology" (Smithsonian), "plenty of
noaaenna nas come xo mean that a
particular performance or place Is sa
cred."
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Perhaps I do not know what a good speaker Is. But I read a speech of Ms
that he delivered in Glasgow a year or two ago, and it appeared to me the greatest jargon of nonsense that ever
got into-sny poor cearui-e's head."
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