Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 240, Hammond, Lake County, 29 March 1907 — Page 5

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES Friday, March 29, 1907. PAGE FIVE

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Telegraph News by Direct Vire from All 'Over Indiana. 1 FARM IS A GOLD MINE Owner Plows Up a Box WTich Contains $900 in Coin and Believes There Is More. Nashville, Incl., March 29. Wilbur Walter, near UtUe Blue, while plowin? in a field, unearthed a box which contained $900 In gold. The money had been concealed by his father many yeara ago, and Wilbur had jooked the farm over in an effort t find the hiding place, and had dag at the roots of numerous trees. The tree, however, under which the box wo 3 concealed, had been cut down, and in time the 6tump rotted and was broxvn up. In this way the treasure was uncovered. The coins are la tens and twenties. Walter thiaka there I3 still more u.oney concealed on the farm, and he will continue his search. Ills father was an economical man, and just before death he sold forty acres for ?S0 nn acre, with horses and cattle, the latter bringing $500. All this money is mpposed to be still hidden on the farm. Pretty 'Bright" Young Thief. Muncle, Ind., March 29. A boy, 16 Tears old, giving his name as Clar ence Ford, and saying he is the son of Frederick Ford, president of a car riage and automobile company at To ledo, O., Is under arrest here charged wth the theft of $1,015 from Joseph Williams, a livery man. Eight hun dred of the amount was recovered from Ford when he was arrested. The money was secured by Ford on a check which he Is charged with tak lug from the livery barn office. Time Lock on a Strike. Indianapolis, March 29. A report was circulated about the state cap itol and on the streets that there was iiO money In the reasury and that the 1 (ate had been forced to borrow to meet daily bills as they were presented at the treasury. It developed, how ever, that the time lock on the safe vault had refused to perform its duty imd the state treasurer could not get tit the cash. Ledbetter Goes Up for Life. Muncle. Ind.. March 29. Lewis Lcdbetter, who shot and killed Ortla Klrkwood in the saloon of Edward Uillespie on the night of Jan. 4, was found guilty of murder In the secon degree on the opening of court in the morning and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Ledbetter Is 43 years old, and will go to Michigan City prison. Has a Freak Ear of Corn. Shelbyvllle, Ind., March 29. Clarence II. Bruce has a freak ear of corn, which was raised on the farm of Jo seph Paul, near Maplewood. The grain iron: the upper end to the middle of each row ere red, and from the butt end to the middle are white. GOVERNMENT INTERVENES tJncle Sam Will Try to Bring About Settlement of the Western Kailway Labor Trouble. Washington, March 29. Chairman Martin A. Knapp, of the interstate commerce commission, and Charles P. JCeill, commissioner of labor, left here today for Chicago, where they wll hold a conference with representatives of conductors and trainmen and ofli cials of western railroads entering Chi cago In Tcgard to the dispute over the question of wages which threatens to result in a disastrous strike unless satisfactory adjustment Is effected. Chairman Ivnapp said that the visit of himsel' and !s'eill will be 6imply in the diftTtlon of mediation and conciliation. The request for these efforts at mediation and conciliation enme from the railroads. "It therefore becomes our duty under the law," 6aid Chairman Knapp, "to put ourselves !n communication with the parties and ndeavor to bring about a settlement Chicago, March 29. The position, o? the trainmen's unions on the. westtin reads is "All we demand; no arbitration; failing all we demand, a strike." That is briefly the ultimatum a meeting of the union leaders gave cut. Morrissey, grand master of the trainmen, said: "If the governmental facials can prevail upon the railwny officials to grant our demands everything will be amicably adjusted, but unless this is done I don't see what can prevent a strike," - Population of Big Cities. Washington, March 29. Tho census crlice figures the population of the live leading cities of the United States Iec. 31, 1900, as follows: New York. 4.113,045; Chicago, 2,049,1S5; Philadelphia, $1,441,735; St. Louis, 049,320, and Boston, 002,278. As to the Shipbuilders' Strike. Lorain,, O., March 29. It is authoritatively stated that the American Shipbuilding company will soon take the offensive in the strike now on and make this city the starting point In the fight TUB LAKH COl'MY TIMES "speaka tta piece regardless of consequence. That account for the jrrowtii of Jta etrcclatlun.

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Steers a Train on the Southern Pacific to a Terrible Destruction. TWENTY-SIX SENT TO ETEENITY Tkat Number Is Certain and Likely To Ee Increased, "Wounded Will Number IOO, and Sev eral of These Are Fatally Hurt Most of the Victims Italians. Colton, Cal., March 29. A disastrous wreck on the Southern Pacific oc curred one and one-half miles east of this town shortly after 4 p. m., when the west bound train from New Orlean3 for San Francisco ran into an open twitch while going at the rate of forty miles an hour, and ten of the fourteen coaches were derailed with frightful results. Twenty-six persons are known to have been killed, and the final list will total much higher than this number. The Injured number about 100, many of whom are seriously Injured and will die. The wrecked coaches were hurled In every direction. Four of them were smashed Into splinters. Most of the Dead Are Italians. Most of the dead were Italians from New "iork and New Orleans going to San Francisco. They occupied the smoker and day coach. The dead were terribly maimed and mangled. Eighteen of them were taken to an undertaking establishment at Colton and eight additional bodies could be seen undorr.eath one of the overturned and deinol lulled cars. This car could not bo xaised until a derrick was brought from Los Angeles, sixty miles away, The injured were carried to this city In vehicles of all sort and the Colton hospital was quickly filled to its capacity. Only Two Citizens Killed. But two citizens are known to have been killed, although several of those ttiuong the Injured will undoubtedly die. George L. Sharpe, of Muncie, Ind., was instantly killed. The baggago man of the train, whose name had not teen ascertained was also killed. En gineer Clarence E. Wormington and Fireman Victor Crebb both jumped, but failed to get clear, and were caught in the wreckage. They were both terribly burned and scalded. John Golden, the train conductor, was in tije Pullman section 'of the train and escaped injury. Theatrical People Are in Luck. uut or aoout eignty I'ullmau pas sengers there were but two who suatnined serious Injury. The three Pull man coaches and the diner, which were on the rear of the train, did not leave the track. The occupants of these cars were practically unharmed. The Florence Roberts Theatrical company occupied one coach, which was hurled from the track and both ends of it crushed In by Impact against the oth ers. But two members of Miss lloberts' company out of a total of twentytwo people were injured. Miss Rob erts herself escaped entirely unhurt The escape from death of the occu pants of this car was remarkable. RESPONSIBILITY IS FIXED Switch Engine Crew Did It Some De tails of the Horror. Tho derailment of the train wa3 caused by the crew of a switch en pine leaving a switch open at th'o roint It is said that the engine passed through the switch a few minutes be fore the Overland appeared. A switch man named Morrison was in the yard After the switch engine had passed ou to another track the engineer askeJ the fireman if he had re-thrown th switch. The fireman recalled that he had neglected to do so, and the origin eer whistled frantically for Morrison lo dose it. The signal was not given In time, as Morrison did not reach the r witch before the Overland had plunged through and been derailed. The broken wreckage of the day oaches and smoker, filled with the bodies of the dead and injured, were hurled everywhere. Helpless passengers, imprisoned In the wrecked, called frantically for help. By a miracle the train was not set on fire. The Italans in the day coach and smoker met a horrible fate. Wholly without warning the impact came, and the thrae forward cars were completely telescoped and hurled to one eide. The heipless passengers were terribly torn and cut to pieces. Many were dismembered and impaled upon pieces of the wrecked cars. All of the dead are men with the exception of one Italian woman. Sharpe, who was instantly killed, was cn his way to Los Angeles to join his wife. Gregory Roberts, of the Ro" vits Theatrical company, sustained a t-evere scalp wound and was the only one of the company whose injuries were of a serious nature. One car of theatrical scenery, valued at 10.000, was completely wrecked. Many of the injured were passengers in three tourist sleepers, which were almost entirely demolished in the crash. These, with the baggage and express cars, formed an unrecognizable mass oZ wreckage. Names of the dead and wounded have cot at this writing been civ en ant.

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DAVID mi (To Be Continued). 'You said it isn't as bad for me as t seems," I Interrupted. "Oh, yes. You're to be on the tick et The old man's going to send you to the legislature lower house, cf course." I did not cheer up. An assembly man got only a thousand a year. "The pay ain't much," confessed Buck, "but there ain't nothing to do except vote according to order. Then there's a great deal to be picked up on the side the old man understands that others have got to live besides him. Salaries in politics don't cut no figure nowadays, anyhow. It's the chance the place gives for pickups." At first I flatly refused, but Buck pointed out that I was foolish to throw away the benefits sure to come through the "old man's" liking for me. "He'll take care of you," he assured me. "He's got you booked for a quick rise." My poverty wa3 so pressing that I had not the courage to refuse the year and a half of ferocious struggle and the longing to marry Betty Crosby had combined to break my spirit. I believe It is Johnson who says tho worst feature of genteel poverty is its power to make one ridiculous. I don't think so. No; its worst feature Is Its power to make one afraid. That night I told my mother of my impending "honors." We were in the dark on our little front porch. She was silent, and presently I thought I heard her suppress a sigh . "You don't like it, mother?" said I. "No, Harvey, but I see no light ahead In our direction, and I guess one should always steer toward what light there is." She stood behind my chair, put her hands on my shoulders, and rested her chin lightly on the top of my head. "Besides, I can trust you. Whatever direction you take, you're sure to win in the end." I was glad It was dark. An hour after I went to bed I heard some, one stirring in the house it seemed to me there was a voice, too. I rose and went Into the hall, and so, softly to my mother's room. Her door was ajar. She was near the window, kneeling there, praying for me. I had not been long in the legislature before I saw that my position was even more contemptible than I anticipated. So contemptible, indeed, was it that, had I not been away from home and among those as basely situated as myself, It would have been intolerable a convict infinitely prefers the penitentiary to the chain gang. Then, too, there was consolation in the fact that the people, my fellow citizens, In their stupidity and Ignorance about political conditions, did not realize what public office had come to mean. At home they believed what the machine-controlled newspapers said of me that I was a "manly, Independent young man." that 1 was "making a vigorous stand for what was honest in public affairs," that I was the "honorable and distinguished son of an honorable and distinguished father." How often I read those and similar eulogies of young men just starting in public life! And is it not really amazing that the people believe, that they never say to themselves: "But if he were actually what he so loudly professes to be, how could he have got public office from a boss and a machine?" I soon gave up trying to fool myself into imagining I was the servant of the people by introducing or speaking for petty little popular measures. I saw clearly that graft was the backbone, the whole skeleton of legislative business, and that its fleshly cover of pretended public Bervice could be seen only by the blind. I saw, also, that no one in the machine of either party had any real power. The state boss of our party, United States Senator Dunkirk, was a creature and servant of corporations. Silliman, the state boss of the opposition party, was the same, but got les3 for his services because his party was hopelessly in the minority, and its machine could be useful only as a sort of supplement and scapegoat. Writh the men at the top, Dunkirk and Silliman, mere lackeys, I saw my own future plainly enough. I saw myself crawling on year after year crawling one of two roads. Either I should become a political scullion, a wretched party hack, despising myself and despised by those who used me, or I should develop into a lackey's lackey, or a plain lackey, the lieutenant cf a bos3 or a boss, so-called a derisive name, roally, when the only kind of bossship open was head political procurer to one or more rich corporations or groups of corporations. I felt I should probably become a scullion, as I thought I had no taste or instinct for business, and as I was developing some talent for "mixing," and for dispensing "hot air" from the stump.

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7TfFcesr. tc. mere -rsrr I turned these things over and over In my mind with an energy that sprang from shame, from the knowledge of what my mother would think If she knew the truth about her son, and from a realization that I was no nearer marrying Betty Crosby than before. At last I wrought myself Into a sullen fury beneath a calm surface. The lessons in self-restraint and self-hiding I learned in that first of my two years as assemblyman have been invaluable. When I entered upon my second and last winter I was outwardly as serene as as a volcano on the verge of eruption. CHAPTER III. Sayler "Draws the Line." In February the railways traversing our state sent to the capitol a bill that had been drawn by our ablest lawyers and reviewed by the craftiest of the great corporation lawyers of New York city. Its purpose, most shrewdly and Biyly concealed was to exempt the railways from practically all taxation. It was so subtly worded that this would be disclosed only when the companies should be brought to court for refusing to pay their usual share of the taxes. Such measures are usually "straddled" through the legislature that is, neither party takes the responsibility, but the boss of each machine assigns to vote for them all the men whose seats are secure beyond any ordinary assault of public indignation. In this case, of the 91 members of the lower house, 32 were assigned by Dunkirk and 17 by Sllliman to make up a majority with three to spare. My boss, Domlnlck, got wind that Dunkirk and Silllman were cutting an extra melon of uncommon size. He descended upon the capitol and served notice on Dunkirk that the 11 Domlnick men assigned to vote for the bill would vote against it unless he got $7,000 apiece for them $77,000. Dunkirk needed every one of Dominick's men to make up his portion of the majority; he yielded after trying In vain to reduce the price. All Dominick would say to him on that point so I heard afterward, was: j "Every day you put me off I go up a thousand dollars a head." I We who were to be voted so profitably for Dunkirk, Silllman, Dominick. and the railroads, learned what was going on Silliman went on a "tear" and talked too much. Nine of us, not including myself, got together and sent Cassidy, member from the Second Jackson county district to Dominick to plead for a share. I happened to be with him in the Capital City Hotel bar when Cassidy came up, and hemming and hawing, explained how ! he and his fellow insurgents felt Dominick's veins seemed cord3 straining to bind down a demon strug gling to escape. "It's back to the bench you go, Pat Cassidy back to the bench where I found you," he snarled, with a volley of profanity and sewage. "I don't know nothing about this here bill except that it's for the good of the party. Go back to that gang of damned wharf rats, and tell 'em, if I hear another squeak, I'll put 'em where I got 'em." Cassidy shrank away with a furtive glance of envy and hate at me, whom Dominick treated with peculiar consideration I think it was because I was the only man of education of any pretensions to "family" in official position in his machine. He used to like to class himself and me together as "we gentlemen," in contrast to "them muckers," meaning my colleagues. Next day, just before the voting began, Dominick seated himself at the front of the governor's gallery the only person In It I see him now as he looked that day black and heavyjawed and scowling, leaning forward and both forearms on tke railing, and his big, flat chin resting on his upturned, stubby thumbs. He was there to see that each of us, his creatures, dependent absolutely upon him for our political lives, should vote as he had sold us in block. There was no chance to shirk or even to squirm. As the roll-call proceeded, one after another, seven of us, obeyed that will frowning from the gallery jumped through" the hoop of fire under the quiverhig lash. I was the eighth on the roll. Sayler!" How my name echoed through that horrible silence! I could not answer. Gradually every face turned toward me I could see them, could feel them, and, to make bad enough worse, I yielded to an Im perious fascination, the fascination of that incarnation of brute-power power of muscle and power of will I turned my eyes upon the amazed furious eyes of my master. It seemed to me that his Hps must give passage to the oaths and filth swelling be neath his chest, and seething behind his eyes. "Sayler!" repeated the clerk in a voice that exploded within me. "No!" I shouted not in answer to the clerk, but in denial of that in-

solent master-to-dog command from the beast in the gallery. The look in his eyes changed to relief and contemptuous approval. There was a murmur of derision from my fellow members. Then I remembered that a negative was, at that stage of the bill, a vote for it I had dont just the reverse of what I in

tended. The roll-ca?l went on, and I i sat debating with myself. Prudence, j Inclination, the natural timidity of ! youth, the utter futility of opposition, fear, above all else, fear these joined in bidding me let my vote stand a3 cast On the other side stood my notion of self-respect I felt I must then and there and for ever decide whether I was a thing or a man. Yet, again and again I had voted for measures just as corrupt had voted for them with no protest beyond a cyni cal shrug and a wry look. Every man, even the laxest, if he is to continue to "count as one," must have a point where he draws the line beyond which he will not go. The liar must have things he will not lie about the thief things he will not steal, the compromiser things he will not compromise, the practical man of the pulpit la politics, in business, in the professor's chair, or editorial tribune, thing3 he will not sacrifice, whatever th cost. That Is "practical honor." I had reached my line of practical honor, my line between possible compromise and certain demoralization. And I realized it. When the roll-call ended I rose, and, in a voice that I knew wa3 firm and clear, said: "Mr. Speaker, I voted in the negative by mistake. I wish my vote to be recorded in the affirmative. I am against the bill." Amid a fearful silence I took my seat. With a suddenness that made me leap, a wild and crazy assembly man, noted as the crank of that ses sion, emitted a fantastic yell of enthusiastic approval. Again then? was that silence; then the tension of the assembly, floor and crowded galleries, burst forth in a storm of hysterical laughter. I wish I could boast how brave 1 felt as I reversed my vote, how in different to that tempest of mockery, and how strong as I went forth to meet my master and hear my deathwarrant But I can't, in honesty I'm only a human being, not a hero, and these are my confessions, not my professions. So I must relate that though the voice that requested th change of vote was calm and cour ageous, the man behind it was agi tated ,and sick with dread. There may be those who have the absolute cour age some men boast if not directly then by implication in despising him who has It not For myself, I musl say that I never made a venture and my life has been a succession of ventures, often with my whole stake upon the table I never made a ventun that I did not have a sickening sensa tion at the heart My courage, if il can be called by bo sounding a name has been In daring to make the thro when every atom of me was shriek -ing: "You'll lose! You'll be ruined!" I did not see Dominick until aftei supper. I had nerved myself for 1 scene indeed, I had been hoping hi would insult me. When one lacki the courage boldly to advance along the perilous course his intellienct counsels, he Is lucky if he can and will goad some one into kicking him along it past tho point where retreat is possible. Such methods of advance are not dignified, but then, is life dignified? To my surprise and alarm. Dominick refused to kick me into manhood. He had been paid, and the $77,000, in bill3 of large denomination, were warming his heart from the inner pocket of his waistcoat So he came up to me scowling, but friendly. "Why didn't you tell me you wanted to be let off, Harvey?" he said, reproachfully. "I'd 'a' dono it Now, damn you, you've put me In a place where I've got to give you the whip." To flush at this expression from Dominick was a hypocritical refinement of sensitiveness. To draw my self up haughtily, to turn on my heel and walk away that was the silliness of a boy. Still, I am glad I did both these absurd things. When I told my mother how I had ruined myself in politics Ehe began to cry and tears were not her habit Then she got my father's picture and kissed It and talked to it about me, just as if he were there with us; and for a time I felt that I was of heroic stature. But a3 the days passed, with no laurels in the form of . cases and fees, and as clients left me through fear of Dominick's power, I shriveled back to human size and descended from my pedestal. From the ground-level I began again to look about the matter-of-fact world. I saw I "..as naking only a first small payment on the heavy price for the right to be free to break with any man or any enterprise that menaced my self-ownership. That right I felt I must keep, whatever its cost Some men can, or think they can, lend their self-ownership and take it back at convenience; I knew I was not of them and let none of them Judge me. Especially let none judge me who only deludes himself that he own3 himself, who ha3 sold himself all his life long for salaries and positions or for wealth, or for the empty reputa tion of power he wield3 only on an other's sufferance. A glance about me was enough to disclose tho chief reason why so many men had surrendered the inner citadel of self-respect In the crucial hour, when they had had to choose between subservience and a hard battle with adversiiy, forth from their hearts had issued a traitor weakness, the feeling of responsibility to wife (To Be Continued!

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