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HAMMOND, INDIiVNA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1907.

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OFFICIALS OF

STANDARD KICK

Men at Hammond's New Car Works Ask About Street Car Service.

Delays Caused By Erie Railroad and and Inability to Get Switch Rails.

GIRL ATTACKED

STREET

Brute Knocks Down Little Girl But is Scared off by Passersby.

1. CAMERON EXPLAINS CHASED If! THE DARK

CAN THEY PASS HIM?

Kattie Connors Victim of Assault, Little Sister Victim of Robber.

In answer to a very pertinent inquiry by some of the officials and employes of the Standard Steel Car company regardingthe delay in opening traffic on the line which is being built from the

Conkey plant to the new plant of this company. President Cameron of the local street railway said that every effort was being made by the company to complete this extension as soon as possible. M. Cameron said that there had ben innumerable delays that were unavoidable but that every effort would now be made to complete the line and make the extension. He pointed to the delay that had been caused by the refusal of the Erie railroad to permit 'the crossing of their tracks and also to the difficulties that had been encountered in getting the rails from switches, etc. Mr. Cameron also intimated that he was trying to secure a better location for the terminus of his line. The entrance to the plant lie understands is to be on the Nickel Plate railroad on the north side of the factory site and it is Ids purpose if possible to run a line as near this entrance as possible. The officials and employes of the Standard Steel car company have lost faith in the local street railway company. Several months ago they asked for a franchise extension from the stub end of their line on Conkey avenue to Columbia avenue. "In getting these concessions," say the Standard officials, "a great deal of stress was laid on the importance of providing the employes Of that company with facilities for reaching Hammond." " ., ' , It was this sort of pressure that was brought to bear that impelled a reltictant council to finally grant the concessions and the franchise. Promises were made that , the service was to be installed at once and the Standard officials looked forward to a solution of their transportation difficulties.

"A good start was made," say these

officials," and then all at once the hot

torn seemed to drop out of their good

intentions. The work was allowed to drag and on one excuse or another

the construction was delayed."

"The rnils were put down on the ties but nothing was done to improve the roadbed. The excuse offered was that the Krie railroad would not permit the

crossing of their tracks but the fact

Etill remained that all the work was dropped when there was still much to

be done on' the roadbed between the

Krie tracks and the terminus of the

line at Columbia avenue, before the

cars could 'begin running.

"Finally the Krie crossing was put in

and then the work was again delayed

and the line is still far from being open

to traffic.

"The whole deal has given the men

who have been sent out from Pittsburg

to construct this plant a very poor opinion of Hammond and they are relieving these impressions in their letters to the other hundreds who expect to come here and locate."

South Chicago, June 14. (Special) A bold attempt was made early last evening to assault little fourteen-year-old Kittie Connors of 920S South Chi

cago avenue, but a short distance from

her home on Ninety-fifth street. A number of people were in the vicinity

at the time and when the shrieks of

the little girl rang out, they rescued her from the clutches of the man.

The child was returning from the

store where she had been sent to make some purchases for the gown which

she was to wear at the confirmation services at St. Patrick's church. As

she was passing a dark section, a thick

set man, evidently a foreigner, jumped

from behind a lumber pile and threw the little girl to the ground. Her

screams attracted the attention or

George Currin, a switchman on the Rock Island road and he gave chase

to the offender, who dropped the girl as soon as he saw aid approaching.

Others joined in the chase but the brute

escaped in the darkness around the

railroad tracks. The girl was over

come with frieht and was taken to

her home. She was iil today as the result of her adventures and from her rough handling she received. Yesterday was hard luck day, June 13, for the Connors family. The younger child, Beezle Connors, twelve years of age, was the victim of a robbery at Sixty-third street and Jackson boulevard yesterday afternoon but a few hours before the assault occurred. She had a $5 bill in her handkerchief, with which she was going to purchase some finery for the service today. While she was awaiting the car, a sneak thief made away with the envelope in which she had placed the money, evidently seeing it sticking put f-rom 4hB' handkerchief. As a result she was compelled to wear a little less finery at the service today, but both girls could not be deterred and were present despite their hard luck.

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FRESH SPURT PAST FEW DAIS 4

First Six Candidates Have

Made Big Strides Forward.

SUCCESS LOOMS LARGE

At End of Two Weeks Leaders Will

Be Fairly Secure in Their Positions.

Secretary Taft not only has tho inside, but there isn't much outside left. Bartholomew in Minneapolis Journal.

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Purity Brigade of W. C. T. U. Allow Children to Witness Sights.

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H. GARY PRESENTS CITY WITH SEAL

Magnificent Tiffany Product Given Steel Town Named After Him.

(Special to Lake County Time.) Gary, Ind., June 14. The local municipality today received the olfieial

CITY PEOPLE ANGERED South Chicago Business Men Severely Condemn Action of Leaders Trouble May Result.

ImPHOvEMENT BUG

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RULES WEST RAHOi

Petition for $40,000 Sewer and More Paved Streets is Presented.

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South Chicago, June 14. (Special. )-

Not contented with their new $100,-

000 sewer system, cinder sldew'alks and other, minor improvements petitions were presented at the West Ilammond

board meeting last night asking the

LLoard to put in a nsfwer system on

State street and to pufc.trumicadarnized roads throughout the village where the streets are unpaved. t This petition' when presented to the board created somewhat of a sensation but after discussing the matter it wa3 referred to the board of local improvements who will make a report on it at their next regular meeting which will be held Thursday night. The approximate cost of these now improve-

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Wife of East Side Fruit

Dealer Elopes With Old Sweetheart.

The sober and sane church going, ments will be $40,000.

folks and the business men of South Chicago are up in arms over the action of the Cook county W. C. T. U. the

"Within the last month it is said that twenty-five new families have located in the village and buildings are being

Young Peoples Christian Temperance erercted as fast as material can be put Union and the Midnight Mission Work- on ne ground. ers Union in taking children and young) girls into resorts of the character tlia t 1 are to be found along the "Strand" and t)le First church and one of the leaders tho 'Harbor." The business men are of the brigade, stated to a Lake County particularly strong in their condemna- j Times reporter this morning that he tion of the act. and Squire S. Burke, one j was in favor of allowing the children of the leading real estate men says, :to t)le places and in that way be that he himself will swear out a war- warned of the pitfalls, lie stated that

SADLY S)R A SONG

Julien Tusco Loses Wife and Money

and Swears Vengeance on Betrayer. " "

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rant if it is tried again. Tho raid last evening of the dives

seal that it was rumored some time ago 'and saloons along the Strand and the was to be given to the town. The in- j Harbor was full of thrilling incidents timation was conveyed by the authori- i and furnished amusement for hundreds ties some time ago to Judge K. H. of men and women. The amusement Gary, after whom the city is nanvd. I was turned to disgust when it was that they could think of no I found that a number of children and more appropriate design for its seal j young women were in the party and than an impression of the eminent t were looking with wide open eyes on chairman's likeness. The Chicago offi- the scenes that they witnessed within cials of the corporation liked the idea j the places. "Women in short dresses, and also urged its adoption and finally j drinking and smoking cigarettes, sing-

the Judge not only consented to the use j ing ribald songs and lewd ditties at- them, and said that he blamed the of the likeness, but offered to donate j traded the attention of the young . mothers of the inmates for not althe seal. Today Judge Haynle as the j people who never before in their lives , lowing their daughters to see the places

the reports in some of the morning papers were garbled and untrue and that there were not many children leading the parade. He said that there were two small girls accompanying dressed in white. He stated that he did believe that if the inmates of those dives and the people who patronized them had been shown the pitfalls before they entered them, they would not now be doing business. He went on to say that with his wife and the Rev. iell he had talked with a number of

The center of activity in The Lake

County Times Jamestown contest is

now in Ilammond and the race here is

hot one. All of the first six candi

dates have made big increases and the

fight for positions is going on merrily

The fact that five candidates are to

be sent out from this city is the thing

that is spurring them on, for it is ap

parent that with a little work and

the help of friends any of the girls

stands a good chance of making tho

trip.

Jamestown looms up bigger than ever

as the end of the contest approaches

and in a few more short weeks the

winners will be picked and the young

women will be off on the greatest trip

of the season.

Jamestown with all'its beautiful sur

roundings and a chance to see the fair will be theirs and all of the expenses of the trip will be paid. It is a pros

pect worth striving for and the revival

of Interest that has been shown in the

past few days is proof of the fact that

the young ladies appreciate the liberal ity of the offer.

It would be tiresome to review the

progress that each or the candidates

is making, but a perusal of the list will show that there have been many large increases in the number of votes cast and in some cases the positions

ct the contestants in the race has

changed.

There are expected to be many

changes in position and a large in

crease in the votes cast during the

coming two weeks and by the end of

this period of time the leaders will be fairly secure in their, positions. The fair was never, more attractive than it is now and the Hammond contestants will take th trip just at the right time. They will be there during the summer months when th weather is the best and at a time when the fair is old enough to have a finished appearance.

PROVIDE FOR

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Commission in Charge of

Work of Erecting Hospital is Busy.

10W SEEKING A SITE

$30,000 Already Appropriated f

Purchase of Land and Beginning of Work. , " ,

special representative of Judge Gary. : witnessed such sights. Even the saloon accompanied the instrument hither and j keepers rebeled when they saw the made preliminary arrangements for its ! children and many of them refused formal acceptance at the next regular j to allow them to enter with their hand meeting on Saturday. The seal is of i bills and tracts. They said that they the best workmanship by Tiffany, the j did not care much whether the older

great New York jeweler and is do- i people came in or not oui ine moou pdi scribed as one of the best ever made, on children. Even the inmates loudly

condemned the mothers of the children for allowing them to see the places in action. The raid started early in the evening

being far better even than the great seal of the state of Indiana. The impression is a perfect likeness in has re

lief of the judge. Three seals were

made before a satisfactory likeness was j ana hundreds of people were attracted secured. At the top of the impression j hy the advance notices of the raid. The

and in that way avoid the dangers. Mrs. Mohney who was present with her husband takes a decidedly opposite stand in the matter and believes that it was an outrage to allow the children and young women to witness the sights in the vice dens visited last evening. She said that the mothers of the children were to blame for bringing them along, and that she would never had allowed any children of hers to witness the sights. Other members of the brigade took opposite sides in the matter and trouble may ultimately result.

South Chicago, June 14. (Special.)

"My Marriucci took a steamboat and

sailed away, tearfully sang Julien Tusco, a prominent fruit dealer of the East Side of South Chicago as he awoke to find that his wife, Kosa, had sailed

away with his former friend, Fran

eesco Kusuci. Tusco is a well known

dealer on the East Side, while the rival

who won the affections of his better half is but a common section hand on the railroad, and the former cannot figure out just why she should look so far below the social position she occupied as to hook up with a common laborer. The betrayer of the once happy home was a friend or rather a mere acquaintance of the fruit dealer and he did not know that the man was an old sweetheart of his wife in the sunny land of Italy. The old love came back, although Tusco did not know he does now, and there is weeping and wailing

and gnashing of teeth and threats of vengeance such as is heard on the Isle of Sicily when he gets a hand on the man who won away his wife. The worst feature of the case in the mind of the unhappy man is the fact that he is paying all the expenses of the up to date bridal tour of the couple, as his wife relieved him of $160 while he slept peacefully. The police have been notified and will be on watch in the Italian camps for the pair.

BRIGKMEN'S STRIKE HEARS SETTLEMENT -Maynard Committee to Confer With President Webber in Chicago.

COLLECTS STATISTICS AS TO PURE BRED LIVE STOCK,

is the word "Gary" and at the bottom the year "1306." being the year in which Gary was incorporated. The board will have arranged for the formal acceptance of the gift and its recognition as the official seal at the meeting on Saturday.

Man "Who Induced Orchard to Confess. Orchard told yesterday in detail of the methods used by James McParlan, the Finkerton detective, to get him to confess how he finally "got religion," and decided to try lor forgiveness.

EAST CHICAGO MAN DEAD. Robert William Turley died at his home on Barring avenue, East Chicago Tuesday. June 11. and was buried at Oak Hill cemetery here Thursday. The services were held at the Odd Fellows hall in Hammond -and were conducted by Rev. Sharp, pastor of the Christian church. The Odd Fellows conducted the services at the grave. Mr. Turley was born in England and was in his 67th year.

WEATHEn FORECAST. Fair -with slowly rising ternprrnture tonight and Saturday; 4t possibly shovrrrs Saturday night.

parade started from the First Methodist church and wended its way to the resorts where the places were entered by the members. Gathering about the doors where men and women from the tinder world stood and watched the proceedinges the reformers sang hymns and distributed their tracts and inspected the workings of the places. The Rev. E. A. Bell and the Rev. Albert M. Mohney of the First Methodist church with their wives headed the procession and entered the resorts tiii- nleaded with the inmates.

In many cases they were respectfully j istened to but in other places they were j severely condemned for bringing along ; the children. They remained about the

places until after midnight when, they returned to their homes. The business men and other people about South Chicago were furious when

they heard that children had been allowed to enter the resorts and witnessed the sights. Many of them stated that the leaders should be prosecuted, and others stated that if it was atempted again warrants would be sworn out. The whole affair threatens to cause a lot of disturbance in church circles throughout the district.

The Rev. Albert ilohney, pastor ol j

RUNAWAY TAKEN HOME. Marcus Bedinger, the young lad from Tippecanoe, Ind., who ran away from his home there was found last night on the corner of Hohman and State streets by his brother, "W. H. Bedinger, who took him bak on the late Monon train.

Mary A. Stubbs Begins Biggest Under. taking Ever Started by Bureau of Statistic.

From what can be learned today the

brickworkers who are out on a strike at Maynard will be back at work to

morrow.

This morning a committee of the men

left Maynard for Chicago where tney will call upon President E. F. "Webber,1 who has offices in the Oxford building and if possible they will try to reach some kind of an agreement. It is at the request of President Webber that the committee went to the city. When asked this morning what the situation was Superintendent La Fond of the works said every thing was now shut down and no men were working around the plant. Superintendent La Bond was unable to say for a certainty whether or not the men would be granted their new scale which is 58 cents per thousand for handling brick but said he thought they would. This morning one of the strikers was in Ilammond and while here said the

men were going to stick out for their

gain a victory today at Chicago they j eventually would. :

(Special to Lake County Time.) Indianapolis, June 14. Everybody la

for the hospital for the treatment ot incipient tuberculosis. The sum of

$30,000 has been appropriated for tha purchase of land, and the erection of

the first few buildings, and th com

mission that has the purchase of tha

land in charge has gotten down to

work, by subdividing the state into flva

districts, one for each of tho commis

sioners. Each will visit the sites pro

posed within his district, elimio&ta

those that are palpably unfit and re

port those that are to be considered to the remaining members of tho board.

And the commissioners said at th

meeting that they wanted every on

with land to sell to get in touch with that member who has Jn charge tha particular section in which tho land lies. The division decided upon is as follows: W. S. Holman. Aurora The first, third and fourth congressional dlatricts, except Brown county. B. 1 Bennett, Greensburg The fdxth and the eighth congressional districts, except Adams, Wells and Blackford counties. J. N. Babcock, Topeka The eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth congressional districts. Isaac Strouse, Uockville The second and the fifth congressional districts, with Morgan and Owen counties out. Dr. Henry Moore The seventh, ninth and tenth districts, and Morgan, Brown,

Owen, Wells and B'ackford counties

in addition. He will have Adams coun

ty, also.

First, as to requirements, tho commission want publicity given to a statement of ideal conditions Submitted to it by Dr. J. X. Hurty, secretary

of the state board of health. The com

mission will probably follow these' recommendations as closely as possible: "I have at last found the opportunity," says Dr. llurty's letter, "to formulate, in regular order, my ideas as to an ideal location for a consumptive hospital. "1. It should include not less than 500 acres of land. "2. A portion of this land should not be less than 600 feet above sea level. "3. A certain part of it should be timbered. "4. The land should afford a suitable site for building, sloping south, southeast or southwest; and be well sheltered from prevailing winter winds. It should also afford a pleasing landscape. "5. The soil should be dry, pure, easily drained and at least 100 acres should have good agricultural qualities. "6. An abundant supply of water should be easily accessible pure wa

ter. "7. The site should not be more than three miles from a railroad station and not less than one mile from any city or village. "8. It should afford good railroad facilities and be easily accessible from any part of the state. This much for Dr. Hurty. And now how about the forty odd sites that wanted the epileptic village? Are they eligible to this hospital under the abova specifications?

Joseph Conroy is again special city Judge, taking the place of W. Y. McMahon, who is spending " a few days with friends at Rochester, Ind.

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Indianapolis, Ind., June 14. A Clydesdale draft or a French coach J harness horse; a shorthorn beef or a i

Dutch-belted dairy cow; a Shropshire;

medium wool or a

ALLEN PIRIE VISITS HAMMOND.

Stops Over En Itoute from Sooth Bend j In Nevr Racing Auto. '

Rambouillett fine' Allen Pirie. son of the Chicago mil- j ",'

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Tamworth bacon, as for a hog; and a chicken of almost any variety one of

a hundred different kinds; do you have any of the above, or any pure bred live

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A WANT AD IN The Times Why? Because Results have made the Times the want ad medium of the entire Calumet Region. All want and barter and Exchange ads are classified try one.'

Pirie,

Tincher, president of the Tincher Mo

tor Car company of South Bend, stop- i I

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stock of any sort? Not ordinarv hogsor!1-'"1- wa5" to i.nicago. r i horses, or sheep, or cattle, or chickens.! Mr. Pirie yesterday purchased the WS,i'.ii but the pure bred, for the ordinary are I Tincher racer from the Tincher com-'.. not wanted. But pure bred these are i Pny and Tincher is quoted as saying; , ' ? in demand, and any information con- ! that they were only two hours ccm-,;-

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Miss Stubbs is entering now upon the biggest undertaking that this department has ever started the collection

jof statistics on pure bred stock, and j today she completed her blanks call- ; ing for Information. They are so ' scientifically that the uninitiated who

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standpoint or sheep from a mutton and ' wool standpoint, or chickens from a fry .standpoint, does not know what is meant by the bewildering outlay.

Alter s-pt-ii'.n fe . v.. ' ..".- i k .'

Hammond the two men started on for .' 'Chicago and when they hit the north j re

side the racer was more than plowing . r

the ground. Mr. Tincher expects to be back

i through Ilammond next week, taking (another machine through to Rock Is

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Sport Ins Extra ot LAKE COUNTY TIJICS oat the atreeta flv minutes after fuaei with final results.

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Mayor E. E. Schmitz cf Jan Francisco Who was found guilty of "srafUos" fey a Jury yesterday.

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