Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 277, Hammond, Lake County, 11 May 1907 — Page 1

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TUB WEATHES. Contract Sjbscribsrs 9297 Strest Sales - - - 1025 Tela!, Yesterday 10322 lOlJ Fair and warmer tonlffht Sondar fair vrltn Lnerealogc cloadloeaa and ahowert try Blht. VOL. 1, NO. 277. .NIGHT EDITION. HAMMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1907. ONE CENT PER COPY. FARMER'S LOSS: LD SCENE HE'S STILL COY. LOOK FORWARD OLO'S FROM RUST'S GA I THE PIT 10 NEW YEAR

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While Monopoly Pays Less for Commodity, Consumer Does Not.

RT STILL 7 GENTS Dealers Explain Profits Made at This Season Balanced by Winter's Losses. At the tender mercy of the Milk Trust, the residents of Hammond will be compelled this year to pay seven cents a quart and four cents a pint for the output of the cow, delivered to them, although the farmer who supplies the milk to the trust will have to stand for a reduction of from twenty to thirty cents a can through the summer months. To make the matter more binding, the grocer, the provision man and the small dealer can no longer buy milk from the trust at any price, to accommodate his trade, according to the latest mandate of the octopus which went into effect May 1. Almost the whole output of the farmers around and about Lake county is controlled by the trust, and only a few farmers are doing an independent business. Three months ago the farmer was receiving from $1.10 to $1.20 for an eight gallon can of milk and this last month he received but $1.00 for tho some amount. May brought about another reduction, so that now he receives but 00 cents. Counuiurr Pro0ts Nothing. From tho standpoint It would seem that what was the farmer's loss would be the consumer's gain, but not so, says the trust. The price of milk will remain the same it has throughout the season. Tho profit gained from the farmer will go right Into the pocket of tho .Jrtfflc trust. From what can be learned, the few farmers who kept out of the clutches of tho trust, will try to sell their output to whatever stores will buy, and to their private trade for six cents a quart. In other cities, but a short distance from Hammond, milk is sold at live cents a quart, and at a profit to tho farmer. If that can be done in other cities, where the hold of the trust is not so strong, why can't it be done in Hammond? Is what the consumer is asking himself. It seems that the profit of the middle man, includes both sides and the middle. Price I.tnt Posited. The firm of Klitzke Bros., one of the largest milk contractors in Halnmond, and a members of the Chicago Milk Union, has tho summer prices of the trust nailed up on a card over the office. Milk is "quoted at seven cents tt quart, and four cents a pint. If a customer buys a pint of milk in the morning and a pint of milk in the evening during the summer season, so as to keep his supply fresh, lie must pay eight cents for the quart each day. To the hotel, restaurant and bakery, the milk is sold at the wholesale price of six cents a quart. Mr. 10 in i I Klitzke stated yesterday to a Times reporter that it was true that the price of milk was to be kept at seven cents. Hut he said it was also true that they were paying 90 cents a can to the farmer. "But," said Mr. Kllntzke, "Wo have to pay as high as $1.25 cents a can to the farmer sometimes through the winter and we can't raise tho price to the consumer." i;iionts Hlt;li. "Besides, the expenses are high; we are paying $15 a week to our men and there is the cost of bottles and sterilizing and for our teams. We cannot get thirty-two quarts of milk out of a can either, as the best we can get is twenty-nine quarts although we pay for thirty'two. The prices we pay to a farmer, average the year round about $1.0? a can or about throe and a third cents a quart. The profit this month only evens up with a month through tho winter time." Therefore Hammond must pay tho full amount throughout' the summer, although the farmer gets less money for his can this summer. The small store keeper also loses his revenue from the few cans of milk he sells to his customers each day, for the trusts ultimation must be obeyed. CLABI THAT DIVE INMATES WILL LOCATE HERE. West Hammond Telle Claim There Are Some Disorderly Hounei In Hammond That Are Worse Than Those Just Closed Acrosi the 1.1 no. Hammond received a blow this morning when the information was given out that some of the inmates of the West Hammond dives had announced their intention of locating in a Hammond disorderly house. Is there such a thing in Hammond? Some time ago Chisf Rimbach was asked about certain questionable places in Hammond and he replied that the local police had every place In Hammond under their supervision and If any dives attempted to run here they would be ousted at once. One of the West Hammond police said this morning however, that there were some disreputable places in Hammond that were worse than those ia West Hammond.

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Prices Show Sensational Advance During Day at Chicago.

BROKERS M. BUYING "Dollar Wheat" the Slogan, and the Public Has Hold on the Market. Chicago, May 11. There was ons of the most sensational advances in the wheat market upon the exchange here today that has occurred in years. It was an old fashioned bull market almost running away from itself. From the opening gong at 9:30 this morning up to the closing hour at noon, brokers were gesticulating and yelling at the top of their voices to "buy wheat." It was the largest volume of trade that has been seen upon the exchange, in many months. Houses I "uable to Execute Orders. Brokers that only frequent the exchance at intervals were pressed into active service on the floor. Commission houses are said to be unable to execute all the orders received during the day owing to the lack of facilities and inability to employ sufficient brokers upon the exchange to execute the orders. Various causes are assigned for the extreme strength displayed In the market during the past few days. The chief one, however, is that the public have taken hold of the market and held on tenaciously, believing that the crop damage is much larger than the recent figures issued by the government estimate It. Advance of Four Cent a Bushel. Commission houses with connections in the southwest were the first to start the buying wave which culminated ire an advance of almost four cents a bushel today. These same southwestern traders have been emphatically and consistently bullish upon the market. They have argued that the green bivg and other pests have killed almost half of the crop In Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and some parts of Nebraska. In addition to these statements, they have backed their judgment by buying large amounts of wheat in the open market. All of the elements have aided the bulls in the market. Unprecedented weather throughout the southwest, which regardless of the green bug would have caused serious damage; conditions in the northwest, likewise have been unseasonable for the seeding of the new crop, and farmers in that country are expressing considerable apprehension over the lateness of the season, owing to the extreme cold weather. Europe Buying "Wheat. Foreign markets as a rule have responded generously to any advances recorded in the markets of America. The buying of wheat by Europe has rereduced the stocks in this country materially. All of these factors have produced the sensational advances in wheat values during the past ten days and today upon the exchange "dollar wheat" was the slogan. Other cereals traded in here also showed sympathetic advances. Corn and oats both received quite a large amount of attention from outside speculators. New high records were established for all of the options in corn, while oats showed fair gains over all previous quotations. The excellent cash demand for both corn and oats and a more brtek speculative demand has been the incentive for the higher range of values. FIRST HARBINGERS OF SPRING IN THE T0ELS. Quartette of Fancy Hobos Arrested; Are Wonder In Their Way and Lack None of the Embellishments of the Type Familiarised by Fuck and Judge. With the advent of the warm weather and the advance of Spring, the hibernating "Hobo." pokes his nose out of winter quarters and starts to hit the pike along the railroads. Like all railroad cities. Hammond suffers more or less from this nuisance and since the tirst day of May, the pests have been getting thicker. Four of the worst looking specimens of the tribe were apprehended yesterday in the northern section of the city, where they had just landed off the ties. A more picturesque bunch could not have been found on the inside pages of Fuck or Judges Weekly, the clothes a bundle of rags, shoes that were marvels in their way and even the tin can attachment. They were rounded up In the jail over night and this morning were railroaded outside the city limits. No sooner had they landed in Hammond than they began to forage, and extended the glad hand of touch to all who passed. With the pennies and nickels they gathered, they were buying food supplies and were all ready to hike to their can-ps in the marshes near the state line, vrnen the bulls reached them. All specimens of the kind will receive a similar dose, and Hammond may expect to have the high sign ptsted on the outskirts by the city by the ousted members of the fraternity as a warning to their brothers that tho city "Is on."

t "- t I' SALE OF A TOWN ;l BEGUN Prosperity of the Residents Makes Possible the Purchase of Pullman Homes George M. Pullman's dream of model city has at last vanished a in thin air. His vision of a Utopia for laboring men is shattered. It is a thing of the past. It was the supreme court of Illinois that punctured the bubble, and tho town of Pullman, famous the world over as an ideal manufacturing town, takes its place along: with the numerous other suburbs of Chicago and its Utopian existence comes to an end To be sure, the jed brick city remains, with its 12,000 inhabitants, but the great Pullman company does not own It from center to circumference, as it once did. One by one the tenants are buying the cottages and. dwellings in , the, town, and it will not be long before the 2,000 houses will be sold. Workmen Buy Homes. It was as long ago as 1899 that the supreme court decided that there must be a change, but an extension of time was given, as it was Impossible at that time to sell the property to any advantage. Now, in these pip- . ing days of prosperity, it is different, i Workingmen are buying homes in all j sections of the city. Concessions are granted them by the big real estate firms and corporations of all kinds. Not long since the Pullman company sent out circular letters to all of the numerous tenants informing them that they would have options on the dwellings they occupied or any others they might wish to purchase in the pretty little suburb. A concerted effort was started to sell the cottages and this effort has already born fruit. Some seventy-five of the homes have been sold and negotiations are under way for the sale of some 200 others, and the men in charge are confident that many of the citizens will take advantage of the offer and become owners of the model homes constructed some twenty odd years ago by Mr. Pullman. LIST OF CANDIDATES REDOUBLED ENTHUSIASM. Candidates for Jamestown Trip Renew Their Efforts to Win the Prise Offered by Lake County TimesAll Contestants Fully Alive. The announcement of the names of the candidates who are entered in the Lake County Times' Jamestown exposition contest created a furore among those who are in the race and the circulation manager was kept busy all last evening taking care of the votes that came in and answering questions directly or over the phone concerning the contest. All of the contestants now seem fully alive to the possibilities of the trip and they and their friends are working hard for the prize that is so well worth the winning. At first there was a tendency to hold back the votes, but most of the candidates now see the futility of such a plan and yesterday there was a scramble to get the votes in and get them counted. The idea that twelve young ladies are to be selected from as small a territory as this gives everybody a good chance to make the trip and the idea of being able to go clear to Jamestown and back on a two weeks' vacation with all the expenses of the trip paid in advance, Is quite worth while. When the twelve young ladies have returned from the exposition after this ;";"-- "I , " , . had an experience to be remembered throughout a lifetime. JOHN GRAVES RESIGNS. John Graves, formerly cashier' of the Commercial bank of this city and later deputy county treasurer at Crown Point, has resigned today to take the position of cashier of the Interstate bank of Ilegewlsch. Mr. Graves will become a resident of Hammond and will live In a new home which he is building la Carroll street.

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CALM PL Chicago Commercial Club Also Opposed Extension of Drainage District. HELP CHICAGO INSTEAD Shipping In Chicago Harbor Falls Of and the Rivalry of Indiana Port Is Feared. Closely following tho attack upon the drainage board plan for widening and deepening the Calumet and constructing a deep water way canal comes the word from Springfield that Governor Deneen, although he favors the ( development of the Chicago harbor and the improvement of sanitary conditions, is not favorable to the Calumet plan. Further than this, the Chicago Com mercial association, as an association, has made Iublic th statement that it is in no way advancing the plans or the drainage board, nor will it make any attempt to do so.; The committee of the association members which has gone to Springfield to attempt to secure the passage of legislation relating to the improvement of the Calumet district is said to have gone as individuals and not as representatives of the organization of which they are members. The forces working against the Calumet deep water way plan are bringing all their influence to bear upon the governor and legislative representatives. Lyman E. Cooley, the Evanston expert engineer, is In Springfield, where he has prepared objections calculated to be one of the greatest obstacles in the way of the drainage board plans. In these objections Mr. Cooley points to the extraordinary decrease in shipping in the Chicago harbor as against the marvelous increase in the tonnage of other lake harbor cities. He cites the remarkable facilities of the Chicago harbor. He makes a point of the needed development of the Chicago river from the harbor entrance to the canal and says that the additional 240,000 cubic feet of water asked for by the board in the Calumet plan be coursed through the main channel of the Chicago river. By statistics Mr. Cooley will attempt to show that the shipping In the Chicago harbor In the fifteen years between 1SS9 and 1904 has fallen from 8,12,535 tons to 4,446,071 tons. He ascribes this decrease to the alleged jlect of the drainage board, which, says, dropped the Chicago river project entirely and took up the Calumet plan, whereby "Chicago will be forced to pay the price of its own merchant marine ruin." The objection is now brought forward that if the Calumet plan is approved and the construction of a canal is undertaken it will effectively prevent for all time the establishment of a deep water way to the Gulf of Mexico from Chicago. In support of this argument the opponents of the scheme say that tne government will abso lutely refuse all aid unless the Chicago river is given proper attention or a spirit of this kind is shown by the drainage board. TAKES VACATION Rev. W. E. Shirey. pastor of the First I Presbyterian church, Is taking an early i ' , , . . vacation this year. Instead of going in August as usual he is following the example of a good many ministers in taking a spring vacation and will remain at home during the summer. He goes to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and will be in the vicinage of the oldest civilization of our country. The country of the Cliff Dwellers and Pueblo dwellers. The pulpit will be supplied every Sabbath during his absence and the church will go on as usual. Announcement will be made In the papers ach week.

-Donaheu in Cleveland Plain Dealer.

LAWLESSNESS HAS NOT WHOLLY CEASED Although West Hammond Dives Are Closed, Echoes Linger. Although the West Hammond dives are ousted It seems as though lawless ness cannot be exterminated. Last night, a man giving his name as Ernest Waye, in company with Pearl Love, who gave her address as Ham mond, Ind., were making the rounds of the saloons, and by 11 o'clock both were paralyzed, w-alking tip the street arm In arm. siaging.r, They two"?top ped in J ront of Helntz's place and the girl, pulling a .32 revolver from her waist, began flourishing it in the air preparatory to shooting some one. Hearing the girl's curses Officers Okroy, Kosmalo and Revolskl started On a run down State street and arrested both Wraye and Mltfs Love, taking them to the police station where they were lodged for the night. -inis morning tneir trials came up before Justice Flynn, who fined them $6 and costs, amounting to $12 each. Waye, who says he is a Plnkerton detective, paid his fine but refused to pay the girl's. The girl asked that she be allowed an hour's time to call up parties in Hammond who would come over and pay her fine. Justice Flynn consented and with half an hour a Hammond man was over and paid her fine, the two walking towards Hammond. When the girl was searched the officers found a quantity of cigarette papers, tobacco anl matches. There is some speculation as to the real character of the alleged "Pink erton detective." MEYER ASKS NEW TRIAL IN JAHNKE DAMAGE CASE. Defense Xovr Claims Additional F.vl denec lias Been Discovered and that n Party of Hoys Would Swear Jahnke Flipped Cars. City Attorney L. T. Meyer of Ham mond appeared before Judge Tuthill yesterday and asked for a new trial in the case of Irwin Jahnke against the city of Hammond in which a verdict was given the plaintiff last week for damages in the sum of $10,000. The verdict was given for the reason that Jahnke's foot was crushed off at railway crossing while the loot was pinioned between a rail and a cross ing plank. Negligence of the city was shown in the fact that the city failed to keep the crossing in a safe condition. The plaintiff proved to the satisfaction of the jury that a car was shunted upon the child and the defense undertook to prove that the boy was trying to jump a moving freight train, but fell down. The new trial was asked for on the ground that the defense had discovered new and additional evidence since the trial ended, namely that it could produce the evidence of a party of boys who would swear that young Jahnke was "flipping" cars in a moving freight train at the time he was maimed. Judge Tuthill took the matter under advisement. DECISCION IN EJECTMENT SUIT FAVORS WILL MEE. IJereolo Bros. "ot Permitted to Foree Cigar Mas to Yaeate Premise "oiv Oeeupied by Him. The Bereolos Bros., who are proprietors of the Maine restaurant and who have rented the quarters now occupied by Will C. Mee for the purpose of enlarging their restaurant, began ejectment proceedings today in Judge McMahan's court to force Mee to vacate at once. Mee expects to occupy new quarters in the rear of the First National bank building as soon as the bank has moved out of its temporary quarters. He contested the right of the Bereolos Bros, to force him to leave until the new rooms are ready for him. Attorney Whinery represented the Bereolos Bros, and W. J. McAleer appeared for Will Mee, The casa was i decided In favor of Air. Mee.

Year Book of the Hammond

Woman's Club Outlines Season's Work. SUBJECTSJE MANY Indications Are That This Organi zation Will Have the Best Meetings In Its History. The year book of the Hammond Woman's club is just off the press and is soon to be distributed among the 145 members of this flourishing organization. As the year book is the best indication of the scope of this club and of the variety of subjects its members discuss, it is safe to say that the pro gram this year is one of the best that have been arranged since the club began. The cluV) begins its 1907-190S season. Sept. 21 on what is called president's day and the meeting will be in charge of Mrs. Edith Griffin. The next meeting will be called children's day when Mrs. Emma Kenworthy will be the leader. October 19 is set asldefor a business meeting. November 2 is federation day and the Jamestown exposition will also be discussed on this date. On November 16, Mrs. Mary Bostwick will be In charge of the charity day exercises. Daughters' day will be November 30, and the meeting will be under the leadership of Mrs. Edith II. Smith. Mrs. Mildred Spohn will be In charge of the music program which will be held on December 14. There will then be a holiday vacation vmnd 'then, on January there will be a business meeting with the vice president, Mrs. Mary Holm, in charge. ' One of the meetings to be looked forward to in view of. the recent remarkable interest in domestic science will be the domestic science program, which will be in charge of Mrs. Bertha Bridge who is recognized as one of the b -st authorities in the city on tho subject. February 1 there will be a lecture In charge of Mrs. Minnie Ibaeh and Mrs. Sarah Rothchilds will be the leader February 15, Avhen the program will bo on art. Gentlemen's evening, an event always looked forward to by both the ladles and their husbands, will be on February 29, and will be in charge of Mrs. Lillian Atkinson. The program on literature will be given - March 14 and the president, Mrs. Edith Griffin, will be the leader. On March 28 Mrs. Stella Wilcox will be the leader on the history program. Mrs. Jessie Hower will have charge of the program devoted to humorists on April 11 and after a business meeting, April 25, the final meeting of the season wil be a social session on May 9 in charge of Elene Johnson. It will be seen from this review of the coming year that great activities are promised by the members and if the past is any criterion to go by the 19071908 season will be the best one in the history of this splendid organization. EAMES WANTS $20,000 DAMAGES. William H. Eames, the brakeman who was severely injured in a wreck at Gibson last November, is sueing the Chicago, Indiana & Southern for $20,000 damages. Eames was serving in the: capacity of a rear brakeman on a i freight train when the caboose in which he was riding was struck by a passenger train which had overtaken them, and demolished the car. Eames was so Injured that It was found necessary to amputate his leg. Knotts & Bomberger are the attorneys for the plaintiff. George Christophel. of the W. B. Conkey company, is taking a few days' vacation. He left last night to visit friends and relatives In Holland, Mich., and expects to return next Monday.

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CIRCULATION OF THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES Contract Circulation 9,297 Street Sales 1,025 Total .10,322 CIRCULATION OF THE HAMMOND DAILY NEWS Contract Circulation - 670 Street Sales 0 Total 670 The advertising rates of the Lake County Times are but one to one and one half times larger than The News The circulation of The Lake County Times is over ten times as large as The News.

Since Jocko Briggs' Disappearance He Keeps Bondees Under His Thumb.

ALSO Tie JEWELS Bondsman for West Hammond Habitues ; Holds Girls as Hostages Redlight District Quiet. August Arnold, who is out $500 through the departure of Jocko Briggs whose bonds b had signed to that amount, is determined not to be caught napping again. The enterprising bondsman undertook the responsibility of the appearance of the West H.unmond dtvekcepers and the inmates of the resorts which were raided Thursday night, signing bonds all round for $23 each. Their trials are to conic up before Justice Flynn Monday morning and in order that the girls may not forget to be oa hand to participate in their trials, and Incidentally to insure himself against the loss such forgetfulness might entail, Arnold is lodging the entire outfit at his home and he and bis wife aro keeping a keen eye upon their movements. Arnold, however, has frozen onto mora than the girls. Incidentally he has their "jewels" tho entire "bunch of junk" being as Arnold estimates it, worth $300, Like a Father. Arnold's position tw.ith reference to the girls Is in a treasure paternal though as may be. cetn by the foregoing, he does not ailovy, sentiment to entltlxMpjiijJL JUa,Uuinis- Judgment -&Vhen the dives were raided the girla at once appealed to him fop protection. What was a gallant gentleman to do? Nothing to it. Having corralled - the entire bunch he and Mrs. Arnold are having their own troubles keeping peace between tho Indies, wTho b ing from rival es tablishments are proue to. argue upon j the merits of the places to which they owe allegiance. Following the raid the utmost quiet reigned throughout the redlight district in West Hammond last night. Not one of the dlvekeepers had the nerve to continue open after 7 o'clock although before that hour they were selling soft drinks to such as would put up tho price. l'lnln Out hen Men on Hand. None of the habitues of the disorderly houses were seen around the dlvea. The word had gone around that several plain clothes men were on hand to see that there was nothing doing. In the event of an attempt on the part of the dlvekeepers to evade the law, the alarm was to be sounded and another raid Instituted. Jacob Czazewlcz, the village president, who also is chief of police, said last night: "We have the dlvekeepers on the run now and we will keep at It until every house of ill fame, both public and private, Is put out of the village." The plain clothes men stood guard all last night watching for anything out of the way among the dives, but this morning the officers said there was no trouble of any kind last night and they do not expect any, although they will keep close tab on the dives. The trials of the inmates and tha proprietors, who were arrested, will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock before Justice Flynn. Information was given out this morning to the effect that the dlvekeepers wiil have the services of two attorneys and expect to make a hard fight. Miss Zona Wood, who i3 attending school in Michigan, visited friends In Hammond yesterday before going to her home in Delphi, Ind., where she will be present at the commencement exercises. Miss Zona is the daughter of Itev. and Mrs. Aaron Wood, formerly pastor of the Methodist church of Hammond.