Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 187, Hammond, Lake County, 26 January 1907 — Page 1

THE WEATHER. Fair aod warmer tonight Rod Sunday with probably mow Sunday night; minimum temperature 5 to 10. Circulation Yesterday VOL. 1, KO. 187. NIGHT EDITION. HAMMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20,. 1007. ONE CENT PER COPY, HIPPING FOR GARY ACQUIRES 1ST TRACT WITH APOLOGIES: TO MOTHER GOOSE.

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STRENU0S1TY If Anyone Believes the Legislature Has Not Been Busy, Look Here!

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SEfiATE ISJTILL AHEAD Of 609 Bills Introduced Two Are Signed by Governor and One Awaits Signature.

(Special to Lake County Times), Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 26. Two bills elgned by the governor; a third passed by the two branches of the general assembly and ready for the governor's action; a total of 609 bills Introduced, of which 325 havo been introduced in tho house and 284 in the senate; ten bills passed by the house, and fourteen passed by the senate; nineteen bills killed by the house and fifteen killed by the senate this, in brief, tells the story of the first two weeks of legislature. For many reasons the Benate is advanced faster than the house; it Is a smaller body; it is more wieldy, not only becauso of Its size, but because one party is overwhelmingly In the majority; more than one-half of the members are old hands at the business. Including the president, Lieutenant Governor Sillier, who as a very fine presiding officer. Because of these things the senate is in far better shape than the body on the east side of the statehouse. lionise In Killing Mood. Truoghout the two weeks the house has been in a killing humor. Antilobby bill, backed by the governor's message; the bill abolishing the board of pardons; the bill against capital punishment these, the chief bills killed. In adidtion to this two bills carrying small appropriations were killed one raising the salary of the geologist from $2,500 to $4,000, and one appropriating money with which to fight the San Jose scale, the latter bill being killed becauss of a fight In the state horticultural society. , Of the ten bills, passed by the house, only one, a bill relating to the. preservation of shrubs and trees Reserves any mention. The others are local. The house, with the senate is given credit for the passage of the two joint resolutions, one requiring the railroad commission to Investigate the two wrecks and one authorizing the governor to aid the Hood sufferers. Women I.ose Out. The only two bills of importance killed by the senate were the ones increasing the amount paid to the circuit judges over tho state from $2, GOO to $3,500 and the one specifically permitting women to hold state offices and bo eligible to the different state boards. Three bills of mere than local importance have been passed by this body tho one forbidding barbering on Sunday; tlo ono permitting owners or tenants to hunt on their own land without a license, and the bill abolishing the state board of pardons. To this must also bo added tho blind tiger bill that was passed so overwhelmingly this week. The ono bill ready for the governor's fiction is the bill passed by the senate yesterday afternoon, providing for the creation of a superior judgeship for St. Joseph and Elkhart counties. This was a house bill and it passed the senate by a good vote, thus putting it up to the governor. "What his action on this bill will be is not known; some pay that this will be his first veto; be has been investigating the matter, it is understood. Children Mnt l'ny Fare. The two cent fare bill was the first of the live republican platform measues that has seen the light of day. The Bland two cent fare bill was reported out of the senate committee yesterday, and the faorable report was concurred in. This bill provides for n two cent fare when tickets are purchased, and additional half cent when the fare is paid on the train. Children under five years of age are to pay one cent a mile. This bill has no specific provision to baggage being carried free, and it is expected that this will be Inserted In the bill. Public depository bill will probably be the next one reported. Six different bills have been introduced, but it is thought that by the first of next week the essential features of a good bill will be decided on by the house and senate committees. Those committees will hold a Joint session Monday night. Last night Fassett .-V. Cotton, state superintendent of public instruction. Professor J. X. Study, Fort Wayne, and President W. W. Parson of tho state normal presented the argument in the teachers' bills to the senate committee on education. This was tho last meeting of the week. HARRY LEHR SHOCKS BERLIN. Berlin, Jan. 2G. Members of the court and diplomatic circles who attended Ambassador Tower's reception were shocked by the appearance of Harry Lehr of New York, in a tweed walking suit with a cutaway coat instead of the regulation frock coat. When the Lehr's vere presented to the kaiser's court, Mr. Lehr was conspicuous us being the only man present in ordinary evening dress. He said he Intended duplicating on the continent his home reputation lor originating fres.lt cos tumes.

Judge Goodnow Qualifies Suggestion As to Adoption of Deleware Law.

iOIHIi ELSE REACHES Real Culprit Is Not the One to Suffer From Heavy Fines and Jail Sentences. (Special Correspondence). The attitude of Judge Charles X. Goodenow of the South Chicago branch of the municipal court toward the subject of wife beating has been the occasion of comment on several occasions. A recent interview with Judge Goodenow on the subject, printed in a Chicago morning paper, prompted The Lake Countt Times to ask him for an extended statement of his views. In response to a question by a representative of this paper, Judge Goodnow said: "The experiences of a judge in the municipal court in such a district as South Chicago point to the necessity for a special statute covering the crime of wife beating. Such a statute should define the offense so as to separate it frpm the offense known as disorderly conduct, covered by section 1154 of the "city ordinances and under which nearly every case of wife-beating is brought. When a defendant is brought into court on such a charge, the court should be empowered by the statute to transfer the case to a tribunal of three Judges, who could set regularly or specially for the hearing of such cases, and the decision of at least two of the judges should be all that is necessary the unanimous decision should not be required. "In advocating the whipping post I am impelled by a realization of the absence of an adequate punishment for wife beating in the average case. In the South Chicago branch of the municipal- court the-Jiearing ofsucii cases is of frequent occurrence, and nearly always the evidence is such as to call for the severest penalty it is possible for the court to inflict, but the situation af the family of the defendane, after the infliction of such a penalty, would be tenfold worse than before, however bad conditions in the home might have been. With the husband and father locked up for a period of several months, the care of the family descends on the mother and the older children, and frequently they become public charges. "I believe the tribunal ought to be able to say to tho defendant is such a case, "We will mete out such a punishment to you as you will remember as long as you live, and you are sentenced to receive twenty-five lashes on your bare back, and I venture the assertion that it would only bo necessary to give a wife-beater one taste of the lash to cure him forever, and I also believe that it would not be necessary to inflict the maximum penalty in more than two or three cases before wifebeating would become a lost art in the city of Chicago." As an example of the judge's attitude toward wife beaters, this morning he fined Peter Gujik of 430 Eighty-eighth street $25 and costs for using a razor strop as a means of disciplining his wife. The testimony developed that the Guziks lived in a continual state of domestic warfare. Guziks made the admission that he struck his wife twice with the strop, and Judge Goodnow promptly said: "Using that razor strop will cost you $2 and costs." THE DAY OF TEE 'PHONE. Frederic J. Haskin, an interesting writer on economic subjects, brings out the marvelous changes which have been wrought by the telephone. He shows that most of us are dependent on the 'phone, or if not entirely dependent, almost so, and it is a fact. Think the matter over. In business the telephone has come to be an absolute necessity. Modern business could not be transacted as speedily and strenuously as it is were it not for the 'phone. In the home it is quite indispensable, especially when you have become accustomed to it. And so it goes. When you aro ill, you talk to the doctor and he prescribes over the telephone; when you go to the theatre you have your tickets laid aside by means of the 'phone; your buying, particularly for the home, is done by wire; "central" tells you the "time" when your watch or clock has stopped, and well, there is practically no end to it. The 'phone is used so much and in so many ways that its uses could hardly be enumerated. Truly, this is the day of the telephone. INVENTS PUNCTURELESS TIRE. New ork. Jan. 26. Blanche Walsh, the dramatic star, has given the world a punctureless tire, applied for a patent thereon and her invention will presently be available for all manner of wheels. In the new wheel highly tempered steel springs in the shape of circular bands an inch wide and two inches greater in diameter than the rim in which the spokes are set are placed inside a solid tire.

nun nr 1UUU ur SE COM! Fine Examples of this Breed of Poultry Win Hammond Man Honors. Ju. E. Beck, well known as the insurance inspector for Hammond and surrounding towns, is not generally recognized as one of the most successful poultry fanciers in the country. Keeping the birds mainly for the pleasure of it Mr. Beck does not advertise them extensively as a business man in that line would. Mr. Beck has just been awarded four high prizes at the fancy bird and pigeon show that is now on in the First Regiment armory in Chicago, his winnings being as follows for Rhode Island Rose comb reds: Cock, first and third prize. Cockerel, first prize. Hen, second prize. This gives tho Hammond man two firsts, a second and a third prize, an exceptional award, for so large an exhibition as tho one that is on in Chicago at present. Whenever there is a poultry exhibition in the country Mr. Beck is considered more or less of a lion because of the unfailing first prizes he usually takes. His specialty are the Rose comb Rhode Island Reds and his Chicago exhibitions are in that line. Of this class there are altogether seventy-one entries some of the birds coming from Louisiana and Rhode Island. At Fort Wayne two weeks ago Mr. Beck was awarded second and fourth prizes for the cockerel, second prize for the hen and second prize for the pen. Mr. Beck has also been among the winners in the recent show at Detroit. This is the second time that this same prize cock has carried off the annual honors at Chicago, having also been a winner last year. At Indianapolis last year he won second honors and also at the Indiana State fair. Mr. Beck is the state vice president of the Rhode Island Red Club. Other exhibitors from Hammond are W. C. Bailey of Grasselli, showing single comb Rhode Island Reds, and Richard Berger of Grasselli, showing Partridge Wyandots. X. Underwood also of Grasselli is showing single combed brown leghorns. Quite a number of Hammond people have been in Chicago this week to see the exhibition which began on Wednesday and which will last until next Wednesday. HORSE CHEWS TOBACCO. Newcastle, Ind., Jan. 26. Teddy, a fine looking bay horse, which draws the hose wagon of the local fire department, is a tobacco fiend. In some manner the horse got a taste of tobacco and became very fond of it. I Every iime rui? ue pariment makes a I run now the last act after the horse ! is driven back into the stable is to favor him with a chew of tobacco. Hardly is he back in the barn until his eyes take on an appealing light and ho begins to nose about the pockets of those who go near him. A chew of plug satisfies him. The animal is unusually intelligent. Hammond has a horse at the fire department station, that is equally A fond of tobacco.

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Miss Amanda HufTty Seriously Injured at Fayette Street Crossing. . Miss Amanda Huffty, seventeen-years-old, was seriously injured last night while attempting to cross the Monon tracks at Fayette street. Miss Huffty was going west and not noticing the Monon train, northbound, was struck by the engine and thrown about twenty feet to one side. Members of the train crew and bystanders ran to her and picked her up and she was taken into Walker's saloon to await the arrival of an ambulance. When the latter arrived she was taken to her rooms at SOD Walters street. Miss Huffty sustained several scalp wounds, and was injured internally. She has a brother, Frank Huffty, living at 4125 Indiana avenue, Chicago, who was called out this morning. The train that struck Miss Huffty was the 5:02 northbound passenger, and was in charge of Conductor Kent and Engineer Summers. Reports this morning are to the effect that she is no better and it is believed her injuries are more serious than was at first thought. SPEECH OF THE T0WNPUMP"Veil, Fritz, how vould you like to get a limited divorce f on your frau for about tlrty years f" said the town pump to FrltB yesterday as the latter came up town covered with grease and with a dent in his hat, showing; where the skillet had hit him. 'Oh, make it sixty, frent," answered Frit:, "that would last me, ns I nm fifty years old now." "Ya, der divorces sind a handy bigness," continued the pump. "Aber the limited divorces sind der limit. Dey glf no rest to der wicket. Ender you got to die wen der time ins oop, und den maybe sset it worse, oder on der odder band you got to shtay lifing till der time exshpires so you Till get at least a llddle sliance to get efen mlt der party of der flerst part, as der lawyer say. Enyvny I don't dink It feel nice to dink dat after tlrty years der trooble vlll shtart all ofcr ngen. If beeble who divorce demselves would only togedder shticken, dey would haf to tret used to each odder. Der most heebie sind too touchy. Vat iss der difference now If your frau trows der coal pail at you, so long it don't hit youf It Iss a poor excuse because no woman can trow tthtraight. Und Ten der hoosband don't buy some clotings for his frau she don't haf to support him any more. Much of diss divorcing Inn only done to keep In der society Kchwim.

Jamieson in Pittsburg Dispatch.

ENTIGERS OF GIRLS HELD UNDER BONOS Sadie Boggs, Keeper of a South Chicago Resort Is Arrested. Sadie Boggs, of a resort at 9102 Harbor avenue, was arrested last night on a warrant sworn out by Sergeant J. J. O'Keefe of the fifteenth precinct, and booked at the station on a charge of harboring Margaret Butler, the girl who was found in company of Howard Compton by Officer McAvoy. The cases against the Boggs woman and Comp ton were continued until Monday in the South Chicago city court this rooming, bonds being fixed at $2,000 for each defendant. Margaret Butler is being heid at the station in charge of the matron, as a witness. HAMMOND GIRLS LOSE BY SMALL MARGIN TO WHITING. Basket Ball Five from the Bantist League, However, Is Outclassed by the Sheridan Athletic Club of the OH City. Both the girls of the Hammond high school and the young men composing the five which represents the Baptist league were defeated unmercifully by the Sheridan A. C. of Whiting last night and were compelled to return with the small end of the score. The girls put up a better fight than the boys and a comparison of the scores indicates the relative amount of interest taken in the game. The Whiting girls made fourteen points to the Hammond girl's ten, but Hammond led the smoky city fair ones a merry chase and at the end of the first half lead by a score of 10 to 9. The Hammond boys, however, were outclassed completely and lost by the score of 3Gto 19. They attribute their defeat to one man, his name being Teddy Glrard, formerly of the Owl team of Whiting. There were about twenty Hammond people at the game, but the attendance from Whiting was miserable and there were not more than thirty spectators from tho town present. COMSTOCK ON THE BOWERY. Raid Two Places Where Alleged Inde cent Pictures Are Found. New York, Jan. 26. Anthony Cornstock appeared in the Fssex Market police court Wednesday to prosecute four prisoners taken in raids on two Bowery places on Tuesday afternoon. The raids were made by Comstock himself, aided by two of his agents and Policemen Fay, Sheridan and Brogan of the Essex Market court squad, on warrants Ijsued by Magistrate Moss. At a cigar and stationery store at 139 Bowery the raiders found 500 pictures and post cards which were declared to be indecent, Marcus Freeman, the proprietor, was arrested. Then the party moved on to 61 Bowery, where there is a cent arcade. Here was found another stock of objectionable post cards and pictures, 7,500 in all. These were confiscated and Ellas Cory, who had. them In charge, was arrested. Magistate Sweetser held the prisoners lor trial.

Steel Corporation Buys 2,500

Acres to Annex to Industrial City. aoOO.OOOffllCE PAID Land Lies in Two Parcels Purchase Said To Be Result of Long Negotiation. Two thousand five hundred acres of i i land have been purchased by the United States Steel corporation for an nexation to Gary. The price paid for the property was $3,000,000. It is the largest purchase in connec tion with the operations of the steel corporation at that place, and Its ac quirement gives the company 8,000 acres of land upon which to build its industrial city, which, when completed, it is now believed, will represent an Investment of $75,000,000. Result of Broadening Scope. Its acquirement Is the result of the broadening scope of the company's plans. About a year ago It purchased a square tract of about 2.500 acres in the middle of the packers' tract, which, with other purchases, brought the total up to 4,000 acres, which at that time was thought sufficient to meet the company's requirements. Enlarged plans called for more land, and addltional purchases, bringing the total up to about 5,500 acres, were made The company als concluded that It wanted the 2,500 acres comprising the remainder of the packers' tract, and ne gotiations were opened with Armour & Company, Swift and Company and Morris & Company, the owners, to this end The first 1,500 acres were sold at from $700 to $750 an acre, the total amount running up to $1,800,000, but the packers awakened to a realization of what Gary was going to be. thought they saw a real good thing for themselves, and promptly marked their price3 up to $1,500 an acre. This was more than the steel company would stand for, however, and as the packers J held fast to" thefT -original figures the negotiations came to a practical standstill. Some time ago, however, the packers are said to have indicated their willingness to recede from their figures, and after considerable negotiating a compromise was reached, which Is said to have been $1,200 an acre. I.ies in Two Tracts. The property acquired is In two Ir regular shaped tracts on the east and west side, respectively, of the tract bought a year ago, and, like that, Is on both sides of the Calumet river and extends through to the lake. The west tract comprises about 1,000 acres, a large part of which it Is said will be used for railroad purposes, while that on the east side, comprising about 1,500 acres, will probably Be used for town purposes. The ground north of th river in all three tracts will be used as a site for the company's plant. The company, it is said, may bring In the Belt road, elevating it over the surface tracks, and also the Indiana Harbor railroad. The Calumet river, which runs in a tortuous course, Is to be straightened and other extensive public works undertaken, including a harbor for which congress will be ask ed for an appropriation. The packers' tract was acquired In 1891, when It was given out that, owing to the unsatisfactory attitude of the railroads, the packing firms interested would move their plants to the new lo cation. Satisfactory arrangements subsequently were made with the roads, however, and the moving never took place. Samuel W. Allerton was one of i the original purchasers, but subse quently he dropped out. Manv subseauent attempts were j made to dispose of the lana, dui no satisfactory offer was ever made for it until the Gary project developed. Good Profit is Shown. As the packers are said to have paid only $100 to $200 an acre for the property, it is apparent that they are taking : a handsome profit out of the deal. As indicatiing how land values are lumrjiner in the new town. It is said that the Schlitz Brewing company re cently paid $12,000 for a fifty foot lot in Broadway, just outside the prohi bition district. ORGANZE LOCAL BROTHERHOOD, David Peeves of Kingston, Ont., one of the organizers of the International Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, was in the city yesterday for the purpose of organizing a brotherhood In this city. The object of the brotherhood is protection for each other and co-operation In an effort to better the conditions of the maintenance of way employes. HAS BONE ENLARGEMENT. New York, Jan. 26. After suffering for four years in Bellevue hospital from one of the strangest diseases known to the medical profession, Ferdinand Schuckman, thirty-three years old died of acromegaly. The symptoms of the affliction are the enlargement of the bones, especially those of the hands, face and feet. An autopsy was performed on the body, and the case was said by the physicians to be the first on record In the hospital, if not the

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Striking Press Feeders Say

They Will Win by Peaceful Methods. RECORD ONE SLUGGING Claim Striker Was Attacked by Sugerintendent; and That Special Police Watch Property 'We Intend to carry on this strike In a peaceful manner and all we ask is a square: deal." said IV L. Itelt. sec retary of the Hammond Printing; Tress Feeders Protective association, this noon In regard to the condition of affairs between the management of the W. B. Conkey company and the strik ing press feeders. Despite the press feeders' peace-seek ing attitude in regard to the walkout which took place last Wednesday noon. tne relations between the management of the big printing concern and the forty men who aro out on a strike are at an acute stage and the pickets on the one hand are offset, it Is said, by an armed guard on the other. The attitude of the Comtey people is one f entire Ignorance of the claims of the press lecders. and they say that all business relations with them have been sevured. Press Feeder Unite. The press feeders, however, have banded together more closely and are bound to win in a body. They have secured headquarters In 404 East State street and have elected officers. The officers are as follows: H. W. Newlia.i prefrrent; Gus Gluth, vice president; P. L. Relt, secretary and treusurer, and John Thels, busi ness agent. A. report of an attempted personal attack was made to the press feeders by Fred Matephol, who Bays that while doing picket work along Harrison park yterday evening he was met by Thomas Lundy, superintendent of tho Conkey plant and attacked by him. This was-done because Masephol tried to persuade one of the press feeding. girls while on her way home, to ref rain froca feeding, tho. presses. . Mase- - phol says tnat b.J was not Injured In Lundy' s attempted attack only tar the reason that he defended himself. Bundy denies any having struck Masephol or even as much as made an attempt to do so. Claim Unduly Docked. This being Saturday and th regular pay day or the night press feeders they were at the plant In a body this noon to receive their pay and In order to prevent any disturbance they asked Chief Iiimbach for police protection, which was given them. The night men were paid off without any trouble and the day men expect to receive their money next Tuesday, the regular pay day for them. Two of the press feeders claim to have been docked for spoiled work which they did weeks ago. The man agement on the other hand declares that the work was done since the last pay day. Although the Conkey management denies It, it Is known that It has secured the services of a number of Chicago men who are guarding the plant and the grounds from any possible attempt of Injury by the strikers. Thos. Lundy, the superintendent of the plant, says that all of the places of the striking press feeders have been fille(1 by gjri8 aruJ that tney intend to carry on the work with them as they have no further trouble. JUDGE LENDS A JURY. Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 25. Judga Cox, of the superior court, and Judge Piety, of the circuit court, this week did what perhaps never was done before in Indiana. The former lent a jury to tne atter. While the circuit court jury was out trying to reach a verdict. Judge Cox, finding that his jury couici not be used that day, sent tne twelve men into the circuit cour for tbe jay THE GREAT TREK. Thousands of Americans Desert Theiir Own Country for Canada. In 1900 about 20,000 Americans went over Into Canada. Two years later the army had reached 50,000 in number. Last year more than that many went across the line within three months of spring. According to Outing, at least 75,000 will leave the United States this year to go into Northwest Canada, not to mention more than 100,000 more from Europe. One able objector out in Iowa complains that this "wild land craze" is taking away from this Commonwealth thousands of men and causing the local banks much hardship. He thinks that folks presently will realize that Iowa land is better than wild land, and so will come back home, even as lost sheep return. The truth is that the population of Iowa Is 30,000 less than It was two years ago, most of this loss occasioned by this great trek. That Is not because Iowa lands are no longer good, but because they are no longer cheap. The Anglo-Saxon is always land hungry. Show him where he can get good land for one-tenth what it costs at home, and he will trek, flas or noJ

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