Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 255, Hammond, Lake County, 16 April 1907 — Page 4

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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES Tuesday, April 16, 1907.

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES

AN EVENING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY, HAMMOND, INDIANA. "Entered as second class matter June, '28, 1906, at the postotfice at Hammond, Indiana, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879." LOCAL OFFICES : HAMMOND BUILDING Telephone 111 SOUTH CHICAGO OFFICE: 914 Buffalo Ave. t - Trrnia of Subscription. Year $3.00 Half Year $!" Stogie Copies 1 Larger Paid Up Circulation than any other Newspaper in Northern Indiana CIRCULATION YESTERDAY CIRCULATION' HOOKS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOU INSPECTION AT ALL TIMES. TO SUBSCRIBERS Readers of the Times are requested to favor the management by reporting any irregularities in delivering. Communicate with the circulation department, or telephone 111. ROYAL BOX AT THAW TRIAL. It might have been q. December afternoon without nothing but snow and bleakness In sight while within, day or date mattered not, it was memorable for all it chronicled of the great finale of the trial. Whether Thaw looked tired, or frowned, or closed his eyes or smiled, the inmates of the royal enclosure disapproved. One wondered if any man's facial expression could keep pace with the fluctuating demands that crowd would have put upon it. Thaw's tsmile seemed most like an unuttered desire to atone to his family for their sufferings. When Evelyn smiled, the arbiters of men decided she was calloused. Isn't ijt just possible that wan smile was the rainbow reflection of grief and strife within? Smiles so often are the only mask our tears will wear! Jerome was denouncing and "trying" Evelyn Nesblt incidentally begging for a man's death; the family seemed quivering from thrusts which reeked with prejudice; the sour vlsaged females in the royal box strained their necks that they might feed on the savory sight of a crushed bit of frail feminnle lovliness. They were backed in all endeavors by long haired, tobacco stained genius' to whom the word "groom" is only significant as applied to horses; saturated with the conceit that their pitiful brain efforts and exaggerated comments stand In New York as the hie habet and thumbs reversals held sway in old Rome! From somewhere came the Inspired remark: "Is Evelyn striving to set the fashion in blue?" and, it should be tne rage lrom now on." Ye gods, a man's life at stake and brain force ponders over color schemes! It la to be deplored that Mrs. Thaw could not have made her simplicity and cleanliness contagious, for if cleanli ness be aklu to Godliness, then divinity Is far removed from most of the liter ary sycophants who attracted attention pandering to the vanity of their more fortunate associates, by calling aloud names which have their little corners In the daily papers. If some of these people were ever cleanly, orderly and lovable, it must have been years ago. for only a long time could effect such a change. It is probable they know a vast amount worth while but it is scarcely possible they can Judge fairly of cases which hinge upon the wiles and witcheries of women, or on the caresses and passions of men. One female who projected herself Into evidence, bristled with approval as Jerome, with bitter mind and unclever tongue, barked of Mrs. Thaw's demure attire and one-time application of rouge. A mlrrow would have shown this female a garish waist costing the price of several plain clean ones rendered more hideous by cheap, soiled yellow lace. An Imitation lace veil accentuating a batch of hair which fairly pleaded for water and a brush; and llesh which only neglect could have rendered so offensive; a woman, in fact, who may have felt womanly, but appeared a pitiful imitation of the feminine creature being so bitterly denounced, another symbolizing perputal motion and uneasy lest she pass unrecognized, was garbed in an outfit which ached with its burden of color, and my mind frivolously reverted to the Irish girl who declared she wanted, "nothing flashy and nothing dashy, but just plain scarlet." As a whole, I have never seen a more slovenly display of garishness. while around the colorless girl gathered the passionate tones which have seared her life till they bade fair to form a halo. Above all else she seemed tired just tired and a frown oft times gathered as of reluctant reminiscence and protest against unfair interpretation of her acts and words. She seemed as "a bowl of violets burning like a sacrifice on any ebony pedestal." The one surest to be shunned, longest remembered, and scornfully condemned by the negatively good women and the positively bad men. The Gadfly. LE? brotherly love begin over again after the election at Burnham. GOVERNOR Hanly is pleased to regard the police force of Hammond as a flying squadron. Sporting Extra of LAKE COUNTY TIMES on the streets five minutes after tunci Mlth final result.

WE are beginning to understand that the metropolitan police force of Hammond simply is a wing of the "milling-tary."

FRED Busse was inducted into the mayoralty of Chicago last night to stay there four years through good and ill repute. THE saloons are open in West Hammond today in spite of the fact that It is election day. Well, it's Mak's last opportunity to show that he's boss. THE esteemed Calumet of South Chicago is quite wrought up because The Lake County Times, which circulates largely in South Chicago, hasn't the "little joker" emblazoned at the top of Its editorial column. However, the labor union people understand. NOW that the high school children have pointed the way, why don't the government do something? It is now several days since the oratorical contest and things are going along in the same old way. THE Whiting hostess who is alleged to have awarded a gold tooth crown as first prize at a pedro party was probably a dentist herself or the wife of a dentist. Or, perhaps she merely had a pull with some dentist. (Wow!) PERHAPS the man seen at West Hammond gesticulating queerly and whom the police are looking for, believing him insane, is merely a student of one of the many gymnastic systems that have come to the front in the last year or two. Certainly, he may be crazy at that. WITH THE EDITORS Is Murder an Obsolete Crime? We seem to be fast approaching a time when we shall have to consider whether it is possible in this country for a man to commit murder. A few days ago two men were acquitted by a Virginia jury, though they had deliberately and knowingly killed, they having acted so it appears under the "higher law." A little later a man charged with murder, and proved to have killed, was acquitted by a Missouri Jury, the unwritten law again having been invoked. In Indianapolis, not long ago, another killer was freed, his plea having been that he was insane at the time of his action. It is said that the woman in Chicago who, a few weeks ago, killed the man with whom she was in love, will plead insanity. In Nebraska, Frank Brink, who killed his sweetheart, Avas found to be insane by a commission of experts. Thereupon the judge instructed the jury, which brought in a verdict of not guilty. The plea of insanity has been Interposed In behalf of a lifteen-year-old girl who murdered the baby which she had been hired to nurse. From Ohio we get the story of another "brain storm." One man simply killed another In the old-fashioned way, but his friends and lawyers insist that he was the victim of a brain storm, and was suffering from dementia at the time of the shooting. Finally, we have from Maryland the Interesting story of the acquittal of a woman who killed her sister "because she was always running after my husband." The theory in this case seems to have been that the slayer did not even know what she was doing. Hej-e are nine cases of killing in which the slayers were either acquitted or stand a good chance of being acquitted when brought to trial. And yet in every one of them killing was done. And, no doubt, In every one of them, th killer knew what he was about. So we think that people maywell Inquire whether murder is not an obsalete crime In the United States And yet to say that lack of self-con trol which is about all that a brain storm amounts to Is such Insanity as to be a sufficient defense, is to put a premium on violence of all kinds. It is the business of men to control them selves, the law expects and demands It of them. Men who by lawless and disgraceful courses of living have weakened their intellectual and moral natures should not be allowed to plead the weakness which they themselves have created by their own vicious habits. Nor should any more tenderness be shown to those who by Indulgence In unrestrained passion and anger have dethroned their will. To accept such pleas is to say to men and women that the law does not demand that they control them selves that there Is no legal obliga tion on them to do so. Yet at such a time as this men are preaching the doctrine of human Irresponsibility, denying that the state has any right to punish for crime, and are waging war on the social order which is the growth of ages and which must be maintained if we are to escape a re lapse Into barbarism. It Is time to think rather of the insulted law, the outraged social order, and the Imperiled peace and safety of American communities, than of the lawless, the vicious and degenerate who are at war with all good and helpful forces. In dianapolis News. Save the Fish. The deputy fish commissioners appear to have been doing some excellent work in this section of the state lately and the punishment meted out to that coterie of outlaws at Angola last week was especially gratifying to people who are regardful of law and who wish to have fish life preserved in Indiana lakes. The scores of nets that are employed in this section of the state are rapidly ruining the fishing in practically all of the adjacent lakes, despite the constant restocking of these waters by the federal and state authorities. The man who uses a net is a hog and the robber of his law-abiding neighbor. He cannot be prosecuted too drastically to satisfy the public. Fort Wayne News. Deplores Thaw Verdict. It is ; a gratifying Indication that every newspaper of any standing In the country deplores the failure of th$ Thaw jury to return a verdict of guilty. Indeed, so far as the observation of the News goes, no aper of any. kin?

has maintained that there should have been an acquittal. Even those editors who, during the trial, allowed the cocaine fiends on their staffs to dish out morbid drivel about the "child wife" and "the protector of American girlhood." sharply criticise those jurors who failed to perform their manifest duty. It really begins to look us though the second trial might be conducted In the courts rather than in the headline and "art departments" of the bellowing newspapers. Fort Wayne News.

BETWEEN TRAINS Brainstorms Ahead. I am going to have a brainstorm, I can feel it coming on; And a mental fulmination. When the umpire yells "strike one'.' Oh, the time is drawing nearer, When explosions mental may Occur at any minute; I'll be there on opening day. I can see ten thousand egos, Exaggerated there; I can see ten thousand brainstorms Raising Sheol in the air. And ten thousand f ulminattons, In their fulminating ways Will be busy, oh, so busy, On the coming opening day. Detroit Free Press. Will Mungoven, a Fort Wayne man. has just written a song entitled, "I'll Do Anything I Can For You." That certainly is very, very good of you. Will. Men Who Pilot the British SelfGoverning Colonies Meet at London. GENERAL LOUIS BOTHA IS CITE And the Meeting Sends Its Sympathy to Joseph Chamberlain -Camp-be ll-Baimerniaii'g llemarks London, April 1G. The fourth conference between the premiers of Great Britain's self-governing colonies and the British colonial secretary was opened at the colonial office tinder the presidency of the Earl of Elgin, secre tary of state for the colonies. Reporters are not admitted to the conference, so the public will have to be content ed with strictly censored official sum1 -WIN fen I tTl,..jaBMVHfin GENERAL LOUIS BOTHA. maries of each day's proceedings until a Blue Book on the conference is issued, months after its final adjourn ment. The premiers present Included Dr. Jameson, Cape Coiony; Genera Louis Botha, the Transvaal; Alfred Deakin. Australia: Sir Joseph G. Ward New Zealand; Frederick B. Moor, Na tal, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, of Canada. Premier Welcomes the Premiers. Premier Campbell - Bannerman began the proceedings with a speech of welcome. The premier said this was not a conference between the premiers and the colonial secretary, but between them and the members of the govern ment, which -was a very different mat ter. He hoped an agreement might be reached on the points under dls cussion, but if there were differences between the premiers and the govern inent they would agree to differ in a perfectly friendly manner. Speaking for himself, his colleagues and the British public the premier regretted that Joseph Chamberlain was unable to be present and participate actively in public affairs. Laurier and Jameson Speak. Sir Wilfrid Laurier then made a brief reply. He said he recognized the difficulties besetting the premiers find that public opinion here might not run in the same groove as in the col onie. '"But "we are all agreed," he continued, "on the desirability of t!ie proper and permanent recognition of the principle that every community knows what is best for itself." Dr, Jameson made a vigorotis speech, in which he said he hoped that South Africa would be consolidated and represented at the next conference by one premier. Sympathy for Chamberlain Other premiers Laving spoke there was sent to Joseph Chamberlain a telegram of sympathy which expressed the hope also that he would be speedily restored to public life. Suicide Among Women. Women seldom kill themselves on account of unrequited love, but because of disgrace, physical suffering:, discouragement and inability to cope with men in the rush for existence.

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NEW YORK LETTER. New York A pill 1 r,.- Th" eiorit mar-MkIm-i' tlifni )-t-r-I.HOi.,1 tijinli higher et opened ay's final h trlf1 I HIS lUotatlimn from I,nii0'n, tnrn fflissuilng crop ti. from Him sutithweMt arid consld' rtlhlc nriiL-tv imon tli ti.irt f short who fotiinl tlir tiiiirket bare f stock wli. n they mtid nil effort to "over. Phe perennial ;uid ptrp'luiil talk of nil Increase in h. dividend of th.Steel common nhures from 4 per cent hud Knirwliat cuing ) n llueiic,. upon the Security. Ah to the au'nited States per cent to of a stretijftl price of this thentidty of the rumor or from what ! 's source it emanated this time R was to trace. This Hume report Impossible has been put In circulation so many different times that It Is only given a moment's consideration. A rather weak and uncomfortable short interest was disclosed In the ('aViadlan Pacific shares. Houses with London connections sent large buying orders around the noon hour which started the shorts to scrambling to buy back their contracts. It has become exceedingly popular to sell Canadian Pacific lately. "Decreases in the net earnings and other techincal factors have Imbued the bears with the idea that these shares were very high In comparison with the majority of the standard rails. It is noticeable, however, whenever the professional ele ment get short a fair sized line of this stock they are given a twist which forces them to cover at a loss. In the last half hour of the session a substantial rally was brought about by the short covering. St. Paul, Union Pacific, Smelters, Reading', Southern Pacific, Copper, Atchison, Pennsylvania and New York Central all showed gains varying from one to three points er than last nights closing prices highThe was tone of the market generally strong but erratic. NEW YORK STOCK MARKET

Descp. Open. High Low Close Atchison ... 92 93 92 Vi 93 Am. Sugar 122 123' 122 123'4 Am. Car ... 36 36s 36 36a4 Amal. Cop . 91 V2 93 91 93 Am. Smelt 127 1304 125 130 Am. Locom 61 62 61 62 Anaconda .. 60 61 60 61 Am. Tob pfd 91 92 91 &i 92 Am. Wool .. 29 30 29 30 H. & O 97 99 97 99 Riscuit 77 78 77 77 Rrook. R. T. 57 60 57 60 C. & G. W.. 13 13 13 13 Ches. & O... 40 11 40 41 C. F. & I... 34 35 34 35 Col. South .. 26 26 26 26 Corn Pdts 19 19 19 19 Cotton Oil 30 30 30 30 Canad Pac 174 178 173 177 Coast Line 101 101 101 101 Cent. Leath 2fs 28 28 28 Denver com 29 29 2S 29 Distillers .. 69 9 69 69 Krle com ... 23 ' 23 22 23 Erie 1st ... 52 53 52 52 Erie 2nd ... 37 37 36 37 Interboro .. 25 25 25 25 K. C. S. pfd 59 60 59 60 L. & Nash 116 116 116 116 Great Nor 131 134 130 134 Gt. Nor Ore 56 56 56 56 North Pac 127 180 126 130 M K & T cm 35 36 35 36 Do pfd ... 66 66 66 66 Mis. Pac ... 73 74 73 74 Nat. Lead .. 60 60 59 60 N. Y. Cent 116T4 118 116 11S Nor. & W... 75 76 75 76 Peoples Gas 91 92 91 92 Pennsyl. ...123 124 122 124 Press Steel 35 35 35 35 Reading ...104 106 104 106 R. I. & S 28 29 28 29 Do pfd ... S3 85 83 85 R. Isl. com 21 2114 20 21 Do pfd ... 4S 49 47 49 South Pac 80 82 79 82 So. Rv. com 21 21 20 21 St. Paul ...132 134 131 134 Texas Pac 27 27 27 27 Union Pac 133 136 132 136 U. S. Steel 36 37 35 37 Do pfd ... 99 100 99 100 Va. Chemic 28 28 28 28 Wabash 14 14 14 14 Do pfd ... 25 25 24 25 West Union S2 83 82 S3

SEW YORK COTTOX MARKET. Month May . July . Aug. . Oct. . Dec. . Open . 964 . 970 . 975 .1002 .1011 High 974 978 980 1005 1012 Low 962 965 968 994 1004 Close 974-75 976-77 979-80 1004-05 1021-23 GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKET

Month Open High Low Close Wheat. May ..7S 78 77 78 Julv ..81- 81 80 80ax Sept ..82 82 82 82 Dec. ..S4-84 84 83 S4-84 Corn. May ..47 47 46 47a July ..47 47 46 47a Sept ..48- 48 47 47 b Dec. ..47 46 46 46 b Oats, May ..44 44 43 43a Julv ..40 40 40 40a Sept .-35 35 35 35b Pork. Mav ..1605b 1607 1 587 1587 July ..1610b 1615 1590 1592 Lard. Mav ..S67b 867 860-62 862 July ..880 SS0-S2 875 875 Sept ..S92b 892 8S5-S7 SS7 It lbs. Mav ..852 852-55 S45 845-47 Julv ..870 870-72 865 865 Sept ..SS0 880 872-75 872-75

CHICAGO LETTER. Chicago, April 16. WHEAT The pit was again flooded with crop dam age reports from sections of Kansas Oklahoma and Missouri. Despite all the damages reported by the green bug and other pests, prices In the grain pit did not respond as readily to this class of news as heretofore. There were numerous bull arguments floating through the air which were given abundance of thought but did not stimulate any new buying of wheat. Among them was the report issued by Crop Expert Snow which estimated the Oklahoma crop at 26 per cent against 76 per cent by the government on the first of April. It Is believed in some well ures July cent informed circles that Snow s hgare a little too low. May and wheat had a range of about a a bushel, but at no time during session was there any exceptional the strength displayed. Profit taking by the fortunate ones who bought wheat early last week on the bug stories and "dyed-in-the-wool" bears were the chief sellers. The market lost about h cent a bushel for all of the active

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futures, closing within a shade of the lowest prices of the day. CORN Weak all day. One of the largest individual holders of May corn was the principal seller of that option. The market did not meet with the usual influential support, and as a consequence prices eased off. The market lost about a half a cent upon the day's final transactions. A disappointing cash demand reported from the east owing to recent arrivals of a large lino of corn which had been delayed ou account of the tar shortage. Sales to the seaboard about lOo.OOO. OATS Ruled lower. Profit taking by the longs was the feature of the union. Considerable buying of May by elevator concern to fill short contracts was noted. Oats in the sample market declined about one-half cent for the day. IMIOIJl fi: MAHKKTS. Chicago, April 16. Although reports are coming in dully from the south that the vegetable crop has been badly damaged by low temperatures and frost, the strawberry crop has not as yet suffered an adverse effects if the condition of the crop can be judged from the arrivals on the local market today. Over 9 cars of berries were received and the quality, although only mediocre, was a little better than of late. Cold weather hampered business somewhat and prices had to be shaded. Pieplant, asparagus, green onions and green peas were scarce and prices firmer. Putter and eggs were active and prices strongly held. Poultry was in large supply, 3 cars being received, with the demand only fair and prices inclined to weaken. Hutter Receipts, 3,637 tubs. Extra creamery, jobbing, 29 c; price to retail dealers, 31c; prints, 32c; firsts, 27 y2Sc; seconds, 22tf24e; dairies. Cooleys, 27c; firsts, 25c; renovated, 24i 25; packing stock. lk20c. Eggs Receipts, 27,167 cases. Miscellaneous lots as received from the country, cases returned, 16c; cases included 16 e; firsts, packed in new Avhitewood cases, grading 70 per cent fresh, 16e; prime firsts, packed in whitewood cases, grading 85 per cent fresh, 17 c; extra high grade stock, grading 90 per cent fresh, especially packed for city trade, 19c. Potatoes Receipts, 60 cars. Wisconsin. Minnesota, white stock .choice, 39(a43c; choice to fancy, Michigan, 40 (a 43c; mixed, red and white, 37(ff 3Sc; red, fair to good, 3637e; common, small, red and white. 35fr36c; sweet potatoes. Illinois. $1.50a2.50 per brl; No. 2, $1.005tl.50 per brl; new potatoes, $3.00 fa io. 00 per brl. Veal Quotations for calves in good order were as follows: 50 to 85 lbs. 5(ji6e; 80 to 85 lbs, 100 lbs, fancy. 89e; C (it! 15o 7c; 85 to to 175 lbs, good meaty. 5 i 5 c. Dressed Reef No. 1 ribs, 12c; No. 1 loins, 18c; No. 1 round. Sc; No. 1 chuck, 6e; No. 1 plate, 4c. Live Poultry Turkeys, per lb. 12c; chickens, fowls, 15c; springs, 15c; roosters, 8c; geese, $5.00 & 7.50; ducks, 1 4 c. Fruits Apples, $1.50 (it 4.00 per brl; bananas, jumbo, per bunch, $1.40 pi. 5o straight, $1.10( 1.25; lemons, Cal., $3.75 Li 4.75; oranges, Cal., $3.00 4.00. Green Vegetables Beets, 40c per sack; cabage, $1.00(ii3.00 per brl; carrots, 5oi'75c per sack; celery, $1.00(3 5.00 per crate; green onions, 75e(c$.150 per box; lettuce, head. $1.008.00 per brl; leaf, 40c per case; onions, 90cP $1.20 per bu; pieplant, $1.25ful.35 per box; parsnips, 40 (si 75c per sack; radishes, home grown, 20 75c per 100 bunches; spinach, 20 (ft -50c per box; turnips, 40 75c per sack. JOHN DICKINSON & GO. STOCKS, BONDS, GRAIN, PROVISIONS. 171 La Sails St, Chicago. New York Office, 42 Baoadway. Members Chicago Board of Trade. New York Consolidated Stock Exchange. Direct Private Telephone Harrison 6611 Wires East Automatic 4058, Harrison 6612 C. H. WANZER STOCK AND BOND BROKER. Stocks Carried on 3 to 5 Point Margin. Nominal Rates of Interest. 333 Rookery Bldg., Chicago. m -pcniE Mrcei. 3405. GRAIN MARKETS. Chicago, April 16. Car lots today: Wheat 46 cars; corn 424 cars; oats 410 cars; hogs, 12,000 head. Total Clearances. Wheat and flour equal 342,000 els; corn 303,000 bushels; oats, bushels. bush5,000 KMImnte for Tomorrow. Wheat 24 cars; corn 250 cars; 185 cars; hogs 27,000 head. oats Primary movement. Receipts. 598,000 . . . .650,000 268,000 , . . .537,000 594.000 292.000 Ship. 258,000 233,000 218,000 613,000 955.000 912,000 Wheat, today Last week . . Last year ... Corn, today . Last week .. Last year . . . Southwestern Receipts and Shipments. Receipts. . .268,000 . .121,000 .. 20,000 .. 51.000 Ship. Minneapolis, today Last year St. Louis, today . . . Last vear 75,000 67,000 25,000 87.000 40,000 27,000 Kansas City, today 70,000 Last year 34,000 Xorthwfut Today Duluth S56 Minneapolis -a Chicago " Cars. Last Week 329 296 40 Last Year 87 126 S LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Union Stock Yards, April 16. receipts 12.000; market strong; over 2.900. Light $6.50 to i.2; $6.50 to 6.70; heavy $6.50 to 6.6 1; Hog left mixed ; rough steady, steady. Sheep 7.0 0 0 10.000 1,800 $6.30 to 6.40. , Cattle receipts 3,000; market Sheep receipts 15,000; market Hogs . 8,500 . 15.0"0 . $.000 Cattle 7,00 0 11.000 30 3 Omaha .... Kansas City St. Louis . . Union Stock Yards. April 16. Hogs

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closed r.c lower. Light $6.55 to mixed $6.50 to 6.72; heavy $6.35 to rough $6.85 to 6.45. Cattle steady; sheep strong. 6.75 6.72 LIVERP 0 0LMARKETS. Liverpool, April 15. Wheat closed one-half lower; corn one-eighth to one quarter lower. Liverpool. April 16. Wheat opened iiiree-eigntns lower; corn, one-eighth mgner. WEATHER FORECAST. Illinois and Indiana Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight ttiiu ireezing temperature. .Missouri l.enerallv fair tonieht and tomorrow; colder tonight with freezing temperature; rising temperature tomorrow. Lower Michigan Snow Hurries tonight and colder; fair tomorrow except snow hurries west. Wisconsin Fair tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight with temperature below freezing; warmer west and central tomorrow. Minnesota Fair tonight and tomorrow; rising temperature tomorrow. Iowa Fair tonight and tomorrow; freezing tonight, colder east; rising temperature tomorrow. Dakotas I-air tonight and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature. Nebraska Fair tonight and tomorrow; rising temperature tomorrow. Kansas Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight with freez ing temperature; rising temperature tomorrow. Montana Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, warmer east and south to night. HEARD ON THE BOURSE It was only natural and not surprising that the market opened weak this morning after the closing on Saturday and the London quotations which arrived before the opening, which made London quite a seller during the first half hour. After the first half hour the shorts commenced to cover and that naturally brought about an ad vance of approximately two points, but the buying power was not sustained, and when realization took place the market declined again. Market did not show much tendency either way, as it is very professional and full of manipulation. A representative of the firm of W. L. Stow & Company, whose suspension was announced on the stock exchange, says that no assignment has been made and the one is likely because it Is believed that the firm will be able to resume business within a short time. Room traders are bearish and are nn ton of the market and working for lower prices. The short interest has increased considerably. Think the market will turn on any favorable news. II. W. & Co. President Taft. Roosevelt comes out for Erie net-ds $25,000,000 in condition. new money to put it T. C. & I. has sold its possible rail production for the current year. London expects Rank of England will have difficulty In sustaining discount rate at 4 per cent. Calumet and Ilecla people consider copper is in a very strong position. Republic steel will spent $1,500,000 on two new blast furnaces. Eighty-three roads for February show an average net decrease of 4.48 Ter cent and for eight months increase 4.9 per cent. Twenty-five railroads for first week In ADril show average gross increase of 13.3 per cent. Dun's review says erratic weather makes good trade reports irregular. RrAdstreet's says trade and manu facturing conditions are In high de o-rees! favorable despite lull in de mand. Ranks gained on movement $3,716,800. week's currency Copper, spot, 94 pounds from opening; futures, 94 Dec 7s 6d; market easy. 300; futures, 800. 5s: Dec, os pounds 10s Sales spot, Washington The United States supreme court today rendered a decision upholding the constitutionality of the law of New York fixing a succession involves the estate of la a. . . - t-. TWnno. daughter of W. B. Astor. Town Topics We do not pretend to say that there are no stocks that will not again seek the low levels then .hMtip- hut bv confining operations to such standard issues as Union Pacific Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific New York Central, Northwestern, D & II., R. G., L. & N. and Atlantic Coast there will be small danger of having to carry commitments very long be fore opportunity will be given to take profits. Steel corporation meeting to day, at which in all llklihood the ore land lease will be ratified should furnish a bullish Influence for the steel and Hill stocks. The St. Paul retrenchment talk is given too much attention and good news from the crop regions is due to dissipat present apprehension regarding winter what. The market is dull with a marked tendency to go lower. The Moor is very bearish and are putting out short lines. There is no news. I look lower prices. Gri9wold. for J. W. Davis, Watson, Holllns & Co.. J. J. Manning bought Great Northern preferred: H. I. Judson and Chauncey & Co. sold; Morrison Bros, bought stocks freelv around the room this morning, taking about 50,000 shares In alL

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closed quiet but fairly firm with irregular changes and a somewhat nom inal quotation for everything but most active issues. Consols were shmu harder and there was strong rally in both Russian bonds and Rio Tlnto. rejecting an impovtment in Paris. Upon the whole the feeling in Paris was better and pessimistic rumors current here on Friday did not receive any particular attention. Money continues tat. u Dread, Foreign houses had few orders to even up but nothing consequence. D. J. & Co. a of IV REALIZE LONG CHERISHED DREAM Whiting is Nearer Solution of Park Problem Than Ever Before. Whiting Is nearer the solution of its park problem than ever before as a result ot a meeting last night of the mayor and sevtral members of the Whiting council with an attorney of tho Lake Shore road. As a result of the interview It is now known that the Lake Shore railroad is willing to permit the city of Whiting to purchase the ten acres of land which has been tied up In the ,ourts for so long at the price for which it was orglnally condemned. In addition they offer to build a viaduct over the railroad tracks which l ; i , . . . , . . . ... . . in- ieiveen iik' cuy ami the lake, providing the city will close up one or two streets which are now ilniu'i.nnn grade crossings. Looks Like tioort Proposition. This has always been considered an exceedingly good proposition to the business men of Whiting, who See that the park would be even more accessible if it were to be reached by means of a viaduct than It would if women and children were compelled to pick their way over the dangerous labyrinth of tracks that lie between the lake and the park. On the other hand, there have been a few people who live in the vicinity of the streets which are to be closed who object to a viaduct that will entall a reduction in the value of their property. An effort is to be made at the next meeting of the council to line up the members for a lake front park with a viaduct entrance, regardless of the wishes of the few who have opposed the Idea. It is said that the council members would like to have the Lake Shore railroad pay for the ubutments to the viaduct as well as the viaduct Itself, and If they are willing to do this there is little doubt that Whiting will actually have a park on the lake front before the summer Is over. COMPLETED THROUGH HAMMOND Survey of Right of Way for Air Line Mow Finished io Western Terminal. (Special io Lake County Times.) LaPorte, April 16. The survey of tho right of way for the Goshen, South Bend & Chicago railroad has been com pleted through Hammond to its western terminal and within ten days the route will be approved and the road put under way in Lake county. This statement was made this morning by General Superintendent Blake A.' Mapledoram and is authoratlve. PEPPERDINE GETS CONTRACT. The contract for the cement walks that are to be built In front of the lots in the South Homewood addition, ... j TtTMtl was let tms morning io w imam -epperdine. Work on this improvement will begin at once and will add much to the desirability of this property. The contract not only includes the walks, but the curbs as wen, ana tnia ex pense will not be necessary when the streets are paved. UNCLAIMED LETTERS. The following letters remain uncalled for in the Hammond postomce i . week ending April 18, 1907: Frank Baezrus. L. K. Brown. Mrs. Sheldon Bascom. Miss Gwendlyn Cole. Frank Cawgill. Mike Deghy. Dave Fox. Epileptic Farm. J. F. Gardner, 2. G. G. Greene. J. P. Golden. Peter Hagele. Mrs. H. M. Jack. A. D. Kentner. G. Kanowskl. Lodge No. 67, S. W. of N. A. Mrs. Margaret Lewia C. F. Myers. Adrian McLaughlin. Jas. Moylan. John J. Miller. I. S. Phillips. Wm. H. Pol!ard. Klrby Reed. E. Sherman. Joseph Shields, Com. George M. Thomas. Mrs. E. T. Werdemann. WM. H. GOSTLIN, P. M. They're 05. Is a cinch for the poet! Birds sing, Vines cling. Bees wing. Everything. Is a cinch for the poet! Lambs play, ?prln; Spring Hens lay, Nags neigh. Cinch, hey? And how well he doth know it: la a cinch for the poet! Sure! Spring Fresh sap On tap! Soft snap! Giddap! Go it, old Pegasus, go itl THE LAKH COUNTY TI3IES "speaks tts piece1 regardless of consequences. Tbat accsuits for the icrowtu of , Its circulation.