Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 222, Hammond, Lake County, 8 March 1907 — Page 1

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iVOL, 1, NO. 222. NIGHT EDITION. HAMMOND, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8. 1907. ONE CENT PER COEY. E5 I'CULH TUFT DECIDES AS VIEWED IN FRANCE, iS BIG TASK MM GAUM.

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TALK ABOUT UNION DEPOT

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This is Real Estate Year and All Values Must be Readjusted.

15 DEPUTIES NEEDED North Township Now Second In the State In Regard to the Amount of Taxable Property. This year, known as "real estate year" to property owners and the assessors Is the time when the valuations will be determined for the next four years to come. In most of the townships over the Etaie mis ia not, , a matter or very Jnuch Importance, but In North town ship, which ranks second In the state In point of the total valuation and exceeds all other townships by $3,000,000 in the total assessed valuations of the property of corporations, tne iour yearly adjustment of real estate val ues is a matter of vital importance to the people. 13. E. Escher, the township assessor, and his corps of deputies and other assistants are beyond a doubt the busiest men in the state who have this kind of work to do. When thev alues were fixed four years ago Hammond was just recovering from the blow caused by the departure of the O. II. Hammond company for Its new location in Chicago, and the bottom had dropped out of the boom that It enjoyed early in its his tory. The situation at present time, however, is entirely different. The presence of the United States Steel corporation at Gary has attracted the eyes of the world to this region. Fac tories have been coming in so fast, because of the advantage of being in close proximity to the great steel supply, that it is almost impossible to keep track of any but the largest of them. . -The population, f too, -has Increased, to-a remarkable extent and this has resulted in a big demand for houses and lots which in turn has resulted in the Increase in value of all real estate. In many cases the value of property has trebled and it is this situation that is making the work of the township and county assessor doubly hard. The canvass which must be completed by May 15, has scarcely begun and doubtless will be made much more difficult because of the trouble to be encountered in convincing people that their assessments are not too high. There will be some reluctance shown in Imparting the information that the assessor must have, and many people will forget that these assessors, by fixing the tax levy ares imply arriving at a basis from which will be determined the amount that each property owner must pay for the running of the government of the state. It Is a matter of pride to the people of this township that there is now more taxable property in North township than any other in the state, excepting Center township In which Indianapolis is located, and It is estimated in four years this township will even exceed Center township in this respect. Mr. Escher is being assisted by W. E. Black, the county assessor, lien Bell, who Is working on the books, and by fifteen deputies. His office is open to the public between tho hours of 7 a. in. and 9 p. m. and any information needed will be gladly given. I WOULD DECLARE SALOONS NUISANCE AND CLOSE THEM. Cleveland Temperance People Have Been Spurred to Action by the Derision of Judge Artman and the Advice of Judge DIssette. Cleveland, Ohio. March 7. Cleveland temperance people, acting under advice of former Judge Thomas K. DIssette, are preparing to have the saloons decleared nuisances and abolished. The case hero will be the beginning of a battle that will extend throughout the United States, and It will, if successful, force national prohibition. The recent decision of Judge Samuel R. Artman of the circuit court at Lebanon, Ind., that the state has no right to grant liquor licenses, as contrary to the best Interests or health of tho people, will be used as a basis for the suits to be brought here. "There can bo no question," suid Judge DIssette today, "that Judge Artman was correct In his definition of tho purpose of government, which is that It must subserve the best Interest of the people. Whatever may be conceded to the use of liquor as a beverage, it canno.t be disputed that the general fleets of Its sale and use is inimical to the purposes of government as defined by Judge Artman. There Is no Inherent right In man. Judge Artman says, to engage In the liquor business. Law has already recognized this by compelling him to obtain a license or permission." If you wish help, a situation If 70a desire boarders, or boarding; If you desire to rent rooms or have rooms to rent) to Jbuy or sell horses, carriages, machinery, store or office fixtures, household furniture, then Insert an ad In the classified columns of TUB LAJvE COUXTY TIMES' for lea cents.

Subterfuge Resorted to by

Friends of Governor in Reading Veto. SOME MEMBERS ABSENT Motion to Reconsider Vote Is Tabled and Friends of Bill May Get it Brought Up Today. BULLETINS FROM THE CAPITOL. Indianapolis, Ind., March S. The House passed the Parks ditch bill. Secnte passed the bill Increasing by two cents the school tuition levry. Also passed bill to raise the salary and qual-Iflt-atlon of teachers. The spec ial order set for tomorrow afternoon will he the consideration of passing- the Vlncennes uni- 4 versify bill over the governor's veto. 4 (Special to Lake County Times). Indianapolis, March 8. It is felt here that another attempt will be made to pass the McCullough bill, repealing the present metropolitan police law over the governor's head. This at tempt failed yesterday by a very close vote, and the attempt may be made again at any time. The reading of the veto message yesterday morning, at the beginning of the session of the house was a sur prise, and was arranged for hurriedly When those against the McCullough bill looked over the early members of the house to gather, they saw the chance of making the veto stand. The governor's secretary was sent for hurriedly and he started in to read the veto. It "was soon seen, however, that If he read the entire message, the friends of the bill would have time enough to gather In their ; forces and Tpasrsr thB measure over the governor's veto. So he skipped from one page to an other, occupying not over three minutes In reading what purported to be tne veto, men, lveiiey, wno was friendly to the governor and opposed to the bill, moved to pass the bill over the governor's veto. lie did this then because he saw that it could not pass. A3 suspected the motion was lost. Then to clinch the matter, he moved to re consider the vote whereby the motion was lost. Had that motion to recon slder failed, as he hoped, there would have been no further chance. How ever, the friends of the bill rallied, and passed the reconsideration motion or, rather defeated the motion to table the reconsideration motion. And thus the matter stood when the session began at 9 o'clock today. The vote may be reconsidered, and it may be yet that the measure will pass. Xo Sunday Baseball. The Brolley bill legalizing Sunday baseball was one measure on which there was no dodging of votes. For the first time In four years, accord ing to Lieutenant Governor Miller, every senator voted on this bill yesterday afternoon. The bill was defeated by a vote of 15 to 35, as was forecastted in these columns several days ago. Though the measure was supported largely by the democrats, it did not get the solid democratic Bupport. The lineup was not at all on a party vote. The bill went down to defeat after two iiours of as vigorous argument on both sides as has been seen on the floor of the senate this session, before crowded galleries and a packed floor. Practically every senator had his "day in court" on the bill, and there was a deal of explaining of votes. mis aeDaie was preceuea by a wrangle between the minority and majority members of the senate, but the whole question was effectively dispos ed of by a motion of Will Wood to make the whole matter the special order for 2:30 p. m. next Monday, the day of adjournment. This was car ried. Cities and Towns Bill. Charging, too, that the republicans were smothering legislation. Senator Stotsenberg. one of the minority mem bers, offered a motion to bring out of committee the Morgan (house) bill which amends the cities and towns law to such an extent. He charged that Will Wood, the chair-man of the senate cities and towns committee was deliberately holding up the bill in order j that it might not be considered. Wood I denied the chargs, saying that he still j had public hearings to be held on the bin. Klrkman, another member of committee, reinforced Wood's remarks. And the senate, by an overwhelmlng vote, decided to call the bill out of committee an action that might have been construed as being favorable to the bill, and opposed to the present law. However, Investigation proved that this action was another bit of politics on the part of the republicans. They did not want to be put In the light of stifling legislation by smothering In committee hence called the bill out. But, nevertheless, the republican members will take an almighty fall out of the measure. when it does come out, probably some time today. There is little question but that the bill will be .tilled and thepresent cities and

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towns law left' substantially as it Is today. Practically the last word has been said on this subject for this session. " ' ' ,' . ... ""XHtWTtftt Hfll la Ead"f Shape. " When the legislature convened this morning for all practical purposes the last morning of the last day for real sessions, two important measures were still hung up between the two branches. One is the anti-trust bill, and the second is the bill increasing the salaries of the county treasurers. The county treasurers' salary bill was In much better shape than the anti-trust bilL It had been made the subject of a joint conference committee action, and the joint committee had agreed upon a bill. This bill was to ! be made the subject of consideration of both branches as soon as they convened this morning. The anti-trust bill Is In bad shape. Passed in the senate In a good shape, it was amended substantially in the house In such a way that the burden was put upon the state to show that any combination was unlawful. As It was in the senate, the burden was on any combination charged under the bill to show that it was not an unlawful combination. ; The senate had refused to concur In this house amendment and a conference committee threshed out the matter, with the result that the committee recommended that the house recede from its amendment. The senate accepted the report of the Joint committee. But, at the last moment, yesterday the house refused to recede from this amendment. This question will have to be settled up today, probably in order that the bill may become a law. Mary Stnbbs Gets a Plum. The house showed unexpected liberality in the matter of some of the salaries provided for In the appropriation bill, when the bill came up for Dassasre yesterday. Blatchley, the state geologist, was given $3,000 a year, an increase of $500; Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, was given a deserved advance of $600 from $2,400 to $3,000. This, In the face of the refusal of the house some weeks ago to raise his salary to that amount, as provided In the public health bill. But more remarkable was the raise in the salary of Mary A. Stubbs, the girl state statistician, from $2,000 to $3,000, the biggest salary Increase in the budget. For years the salary has been $2,000 or iess. Miss Stubbs asked the legislative committee for an Increase of $1,000; and for additional office force. They recommended a $500 increase, and additional office force. And then. In the face of the general stand against increases In salaries that was manifested on the floor of the house, she secured the additional $500 that the legislative committee refused to recommend for her. It was Just a tribute to her ability as a politician. She was very shrewd about her work for an Increase. She was around the floor of both branches a great deal, but never mentioning her salary matter. She was ready to help out everybody and anybody and the re sult was that when her time of need came, everybody and anybody helped her win out. The senate will probably make no substantial changes in the bill that passed the house. Usually the house Is the economic body and the 6enate Will i-' i -f U C. U I J w . - - '.figures of the house.

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CZftn Mill SAYS "GO TO"

Vest Hammond Pest Still Smiles Defiance in Faces of Board. COME ACROSS? HOI YET Will Hang on to Sewer Contract and Bonds Until He Gets Good and Ready. At a meeting of the West Hammond village board last flight, Peter Mak, the village president, threw down the gauntlet to the board members and defied them to begin ousting or mandamus proceedings against him because he refuses to give over Con tractor Healey's contract and bonds in to the hands of the village clerk. Mak has been In possession of the documents for the past three weeks and after repeated requests that he deliver them into the proper hands, a special meeting was held last night to make the request formal. All the board members were present and also a big crowd of taxpayers. John Yarck made the formal demand explaining that he for one wanted to see the contents of the contract by which Healey is to give West Ham mond a new sewer system. As was expected, Mak refused. Smiling at the board members as thought they were helpless he said: "What Are You Going to Do?" "Those papers are at home In my private safe and there they shall re main as long as I am president of this village." In answer to the catcalls that came from the audience in the rear of the hall he bowed mockingly and said: "Thank you very much for your opinion in the matter." Trustee John Rohwedder followed Yarck In his demand for the papers and explained in what position the taxpayers were being put in case the work should be carried on without anybody knowing the stipulations in the contracts and that there would be no redress for the taxpayers later on. For an answer the president said that if the meeting had been called in- order to prevail upon him to return the contract and bonds they might as well adjourn. Trustee Yarck than made a motion to begin mandamus proceedings at S o clock this morning if the paper were still missing. This motion was

my regard." yellrw friend."

La Silhouette (Paris). SALOOfJ MAN GOES " AFTER POLICEMEEi Officers Collins and Burns Said to Have Maltreated Steve Chorek. Trouble is ahead for Officers Collins and Burns of the sixteenth precinct station if the program framed up by Attorney Thomas J. Peden, is carried out. Mr. Peden was in the municipal court today as attorney for Steve Chorek, a saloonkeeper at One Hundred and Ninth street and Iloxie avenue, who was arrested by the officers named last Wednesday on a charge of disorderly conduct. The case was continued un til March 16 against the protest of Mr. Peden, who was present with the de fendant and a mob of witnesses, as well as a court reporter, ready for trial The continuance was granted on the request of the police, 6n the statement that Officer Collins, the principal wit ness, was suffering from a sprained ankle. Attorney Peden stated to the court that warrants for the arrest of Officers Collins and Burns would be taken out on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, and that charges against them would be filed with the police board. He stated that Chorek was assaulted by the policemen In his place of business after he had v demanded pay for cigars ordered by them, and that a revolver was used to intimidate him while Officer Collins beat him over the head with a club till his shirt was covered with blood. Mr. Peden also declared that warrants for larceny would be asked for on the allegation that Chorek's revolver was taken from behind his bar. Dr. Barat of 9158 Commercial ave nue, who has a large practice among Slav residents of South Chicago, at tended Chorek at the time of the al leged assault. Reletting that the McCullough hill could be stampeded over the governors veto, four local unions sent telegrams to Representative S. C. Dwyer In the legislature last night, telling him that they Indorse the measure for homerule. The telegrams were sent by the presidents of the union representing the cigarmakers, butchers, plasterers and lathers. The unions who sent the telegrams last night, were not Inclined to despair although the governor had vetoed the bill and that the house was not inclined to pass it over the governor's veto. seconded by Trustee John Rohwedder and all the members voted for it. For an answer Mak denounced the city attorney who should bring the mandamus proceedings, calling him a liar, a grafter and other names not fit to print. At 8 o'clock this morning he told the Village Clerk Martin Flnneran to go ahead and bring the man damus proceedings.

Action Due to the Attitude

of Brig. Gen. A. S. Mackenzie. ILL IW HARBORS Project Can Be Begun Now Only With the Sanction of Congress Trustees to Appeal. Washington, D. C, March 7. The health of Chicago and the whole Cal umet region is to be sacrificed to the navigation interests of the great lakes. In a few days Secretary Taft will an nounce his denial of the application of the sanitary district of Chicago to divert the waters of the Calumet river for the well being of the people of this territory. The advance decision of Secretary Taft will be made necessary by the at titude adopted by Brig. Gen. A. S. Mackenzie, chief of army engineers. Immediately after the hearing granted by Secretary Taft to President McCormick and other officials of the drainage district and representatives of lake navigation interests. Brig. Gen. Mack enzie was directed to consider the ap plication of the drainage district and report thereon to the secretary of war. He called attention to the fact that the secretary had made a ruling de claring the Niagara Falls preservation act of 1906 did not apply to the application of the drainage district, but that the Calumet project came within the purview of section 10 of the river and harbor act of March 3, 1899. The effect of this law, he said, was to require the submission of every project of this kind to the chief engineers and the secretary of war for their consideration and to impose lipon them the duty of determing - whether such project will or will not obstruct navi gation, at lniurtlifi jnaylgasbl jcspacltyA of public highways. "The project involves the obstruc tion and diversion of water from Lake Michigan, and while it Is Impracticable to stato with exactness the efflect of this diversion, It is impossible to es cape the conclusion' that It will cause the lowering of lake levels to a considerable extent, and this will fairly and directly tend to dlmish the navig able capacity not only of the lakes themselves, but of their connecting waters and of the various lake harbors which have been deepened and Im proved by the United States for the accommodation of the vast and growing commerce contiguous to those watars. In view of the foregoing, no executive officer can authorize the execution of the proposed work, and the action of the department on the apllcatlon should be limited to advising the applicant that the project is one that requires the sanction of congress. "Any project that tends In a measure to annul or reverse the orders of con gress, as expressed in the various river and harbor acts, appropriating funds for the Improving of harbors and chan nels connecting with the great lakes, should meet with the disfavor of the department, unless it has been sanc tioned by that body. In my Judgment, such a project Is the one under con sideration, and for this reason I am unwilling to recommend favorable action." The news of Secretary Taft's decision was received with regret by the sanitary trustees, but it was not entirely unexpected. The controversy will be carried into the courts. A meeting of the trustees will be held next Wednesday and it Is probable no action will be taken locally until then. Gov. Deneen and the state legislature also may be asked to Intervene. NOTICE TO OUTSIDE READERS. Reader of THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES ontalde of the Calumet region desiring Information pertaining to Industrial building, real estate values and other affairs In this territory which are not regularly covered In the news columns, are requested to communicate with the management. All proper questions will be answered promptly and from the best knowledge obtainable.

CONTINUOUS COURT FOR

A telegram received

this afternoon, says that Governor Hanly has signed the

Senate Bill No. 479, increasing the term of the Superior court of Lake county from twenty to forty weeks. This in other words is the continuous court which Hammondit es have worked so faithfully to obtain. There will be a 3 months vacation, the court the rest of the year being continuous. The race for the Judgeship will now be on in

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Erie Asks City to Release Claims on Conkey Ave. Crossing.

FIRE DEPTjIILAIlGEO Board of Public Works in Regular Session Accepts the Subdivision Plat. James T. Sherwln Supt. of tho Er!a railroad on the Chicago Huntington division appeared before the local board of public works this morning with a proposition for a union depot for the Erie, Mckel riateandMorid"ff railroad companies. His main object however, in appear lng before the board seemed to be to get the good will of the city and induce it to release all rights on the Erie's new right of way over Conkey avenue, for which Judge H. B. Tuthill granted it a restraining order against the city, the case to be tried in the Lake Superior court March 12. The board of public works did not take much stock in the proposition, much as It would welcome a union depot for the three roads, and decided to let the law take its course first before It makes another move. In a joint session between the board members of the public safety committee the .firemen's trouble which were noted in a petition to the council last Tuesday evening, were thrashed out. Firemen's Course Hash. While the members of the board of ! public safety championed the firemen's cause the members of the board of public works objected to the rash course that the firemen have taken in appealing to the council before they had heard an answer to an appeal that was made to the board some time ago. In corresponding with the fire de partments , over the state the beard learned that the Haraond firemen are hflniT Tlrtl-I aft wall orrrl tx.JtBrJn .nmn instances than are the' others over ' the'.". state,- and -that VhilVtho-. others -had better arrangements for days off duty there were good prospects that within a very short time the conditions In Hammond would be bettered. Both 7 the board and committee agreed that the firemen In Hammond are entitled to better quarters than they have and thought it advisable to fix up the present council chambers for firemen's Quarters and move the council room to the first floor on the south side of the building. It was also agreed to add two or more firemen to the present force in order to "break them In" for the new stations. The plat for Morris' subdivision near the Standard Steel Car works was submitted and accepted this morning. STILL PUSHING THE TEN HOUR DREAM. Laporte Seen Signs of Activity In the Chicago, New York Electric Road. Announcement made today that the first five miles of the Goshen, Chicago Branch of the Chicago, New York Electric line would be In operation by April 10. Orders are placed for a 60 ton steel roller two steam locomotives standard gauge switching type also first passenger coach will Install at once 250 K. W. direct connected Generator for operating city car. Site purchased for erection of mammoth power house to generate power for first hundred miles, men being hired for construction as rapidly as they can be secured, no question purpose of company to put 1,000 men at work. SEEK SITE FOR STEEL PLANT. Superior, Wis.. March 7. A commit tee of six officials of the United States Steel corporation and kindred companies arrived in a private car over the Northwestern railway today. It wras stated by the committee that the trip is for the purpose of getting data for a report on a proposed , erection of a steel plant at the he-d of the lakes and to recommend a site. ' The party are:T. W. Robinson, of the Illinois Steel company, John Itemis, M. A. Neeland, and W. B. Dickson of the United States Steel corporation, and S. A. Benner and ' E. E. Slick of the Carnegie Steel company. from the State Capitol late

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