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EDITION YOL. TT. NO, 36. (BOTTSES ARE i 1 limn mm LIIIILLIUII! They Chuckle As They Tell How They Put One Over Steel Trust. THINGS ARE EXPLAINED Another Story of What lead up to ' the Resignation of A. F. One of the Chicago exchanges has an Interesting story regarding the political situation at Gary, which is, in part, as follows: Wouldn't it make you mad? IF You were a Billion Dollar Trust and had picked out a nice quiet wilderness to l'uil Id a city, had bought almost all of the property, had spent $20,000,000 at the rate of $2,000. "00 a month and intended to spend $ I SO, 000, 000 more to finish all for yourself A XI) You suddenly found that forty-nine quiet Germans who hail lived on the place had elected a $12 a month mayor who wouldn't let you run the town? That, with some trimmings of an interesting nature, is exactly what has happened to the steel trust down at Gary, Ind. Then the company negan to ask for franchises. Here looms up the $12 a month mayor and hl3 fellow members of the town hoard. It happens that when the yeomanry of the community were called together last July to exercise the sovereign right to choose town officials, that there came from over the plain toward Toleston, the only forty-nine male residents of the place. They were of Teutonic ancestry, cared little for emperors, trusts and private ownership of tilings and merely voted for three men who were to hold office until Jan. 1, iyio. These three men were Thomas K. Knotts, a real estate man. who was nude mayor; John K. Sears, who offered coffee in small lots to consumers in the capacity of an itinerant merchant, find occasionally offered prayers in. the Methodist church for the soul?, of the enmmunity, and M. A. Ca Id well, an employe of the steel trust. They were elected for the very period when all of the public utility franchises were to be given out. They could not be budged until the time liad passed for the entire shaking of the plum tree. According to the story as told from tfie side of the Common Feople, these men were elected by the forty-nine 'original and genuine residents of Gary the Teutonic fathers of the metropolis of the burning sands. These father.-, according to the same story, elected the three because they promised schools for their children, certain roads and other things essential to the Iiublie welfare. According to the story of the trust, which is equally funny, they were virtually appointed by the steel trust, which had entrusted the task to A. F. Knotts, then employed at $10,000 a year to buy land for the trust. The election, said the trust, was a pure fake,,: and no real citizen named the three' defenders of the faith and guardians of the public rights. F.e that as it may, the trust did not raise this objection until it had accepted franchises for the gas, water and oicetiie light plants, and it is estopped from complaint as to the legality of the election now that it finds itself unable to i idt- the broncho government. Steering between the rocks of the two contentions, the ultimate fact is reached that Mayor Thomas 1. Knotts and his two associates control the political aspect of the town as completely as though they had been born to run the job. The steel trust is dependent upon i their will for the next two and one-half years. Viewing the fact, the weight of the statement will ho appreciated when it is said that the trust came before the three and asked for a franchise for a street railway company. The weight will be further understood when it is said that two or thre' had conceived the idea of getting a street railway company in power that would make more concessions than the trust was willing to give. "When the trust found that Its chief franchise had gone out of its hands a howl came. It said that A. F. Knotts. brother to the mayor, had been dismissed from the service of the trust and that he was getting even. Mayor Knotts himself had this to srsy yesterday when he was found in the midst of the sand metropolis of millions: "When Gary was about to become incorporated we found that there were forty mans nine citizens. principally Oerliving out west near Toleston. ney wanted senoois ior me cm luren and other things of a public nature. I They were about to become incorporated as a part of Toleston and we persuaded them, under promise of the school and other tilings they wanted, to come into Cary and become incorporated. No one else lived here at that time. "They formed the corporation and elected the three trustees. Then the trust did not want to give them their schools and other improvements. We Continued on page 5 column 4.)

FOUR EDITIONS DAILY. James C. Maloney Invents Device to Protect Lunch Counter Men. MACHINE KEEPS TAB Grafters Whose Game is to Get Two Meals For Price of One, Undone. (Special o Lake County Times. " South Chicago, July 30. Aside from Vicing the father of the world's youngest contortionist, Helen Maloney, more fame is in store for James C. Maloney, manager of the South Chicago branch of the National Register company, as inventor of a check indicator. Having completed his patent and received his papers from "Washington, Mr. Maloney is about to form a company to receive unlimited financial backing in order to put his little machine, on the market. The inventor returned last Saturday night from New York where he was in consultation with a number of financiers who are enthusiastic about the check indicator and as a result the formation of the company is only a matter of a few days. The little device, Maloney's U. & I. Check Indicator, is a register on a small scale the chief object of which is to protect business houses such as restaurants, barber shops and similar places where oustomars are given checks to present to the cashier, from defrauding the house by presenting a check with smaller figures, than the one issued to them by the house. To the casual observer the time and expense in producing such a device seems barely warrantable, but men who are in the restaurant business for example on a large scale where thousands of people are being fed in one hour complain of losing many dollars each day on account of unscrupulous customers. One Hefore Kadi Customer. The device is fastened to the edge of the counter in a restaurant directly opposite the stool on which the customer sits. After the customer has given his order the waiter puts the check which has a stub, in the indicator, the purchase price Vndng printed both on the check proper and on the stub. When the check is in the indicator it gives a permanent indication even after the check proper is taken out the stub remaining in the indicator behind a little piqjre of glass where it is visable to both the customer and the waiter. Another check can at no time Vie inserted in the indicator until the waiter releases the stub which drops into a little drawer to which the proprietor carries the key. The device is infallible. It is admitted that restaurants are daily beaten out of large sums by customers who order twice during a meal, and who in the waiters' hurry, procure two checks instead of one. With two small checks in his possession the customer is enabled to offer the cashier the smaller of the two checks and thus escape paying the full amount due. F.y returning later in the day with one of the two checks in his possession the customer is enabled to order a. highprioed meal, presenting the small check which lie has retained from the previous meal to the cashier. lSestniirnnts IMau With Maloney. Iast winter Mr. Maloney took up the question of defrauding the lunch rooms with F. II. Coyne, ex-postmaster of Chicago, who operates a large wholesale bakery and lunch room. The latter has 1 o stools where lie serves as many as 1-100 people in one hour and the ex-postmaster says Iris great loss consists in his- customers getting two checks with each meal. Mr, Coyne intends to put an indicator Vie fore each customer as soon as Mr. Maloney can put them on the market. Oscar F. Britton, manager and buyer of Kohls:iats 15 restaurants makes the same complaint as does Mr. Coyne and is ' equally glad to see Mr. Maloney proj duce his indicator. Mr. Maloney claims ! great possibilities for his device, sayj b.ig that it can lie so arranged as to be used in the department stores by the clerks. Its installation in a business place 'is only a matter of nominal cost. Mr. Maloney is a resident of Chicago living rat 1 1 S t X. Clark street, but spends most of his time in South Chicago at 922T Commercial avenue, the branch office of the National Cash Register company. WILL HEREAFTER TRANSPORT PEACHES. City of Traverse I.nters I'pon Vew and unl Legitimate Career I5eteen Here nnd Michigan Fruit I.aud. e City of Traverse hoisted anchor morning as the property of the this Graham & .Morton Hue and got unaer i way for St. Joe, Mich., to be loaded with Michigan fruit. The deal was of ficially closed yesterday, although 1 1 had been prepared for a number of days. The City of Traverse left the dock at South Chicago at 3 o'clock this morning, and residents here think they have seen the last of the gigantic gambling freak. Owing to the absence of City Judge "W. W. McMahon today. Attorney Joseph Conroy is presiding in the city court.

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Uncle SOAKS ROBBER WIfflPOP BOTTLE Hold-Up Man Who Accosts Frank Smogar Gets His. (Special to Lakp County Times.) "Whiting, Ind., July 30. Whiting was invaded by a real live hold-up man this morning at about 1:30 a. m., when Frank" Smogar was crrflefed to" li6ldvup bis hands. Instead of complying with the fellow's demands Smogar kept his head and reaching for a pop bottle which he saw lying in the road he let fly at the robber's head and it is believed by Smogar that the would be hold-up got the full benefit of the blow. At any rate Smogar was permitted to go the rest of his way unmolested and still has the valuables that his assailant hoped to possess. This is the second time recently that hold-up men have picked out "Whiting as the scene of their operations and only a short time ago Joe Wellett was attacked and robbed. The police realize that the place where Indiana boulevard crosses the Chicago Junction tracks is a likely place for the operations of these fellows and hereafter they are going to keep careful watch of all persons seen in this vicinity. NO TROUBLE OVER 10JP FARES U. B. Hunt Says Atty. Gen. Gave Unofficial Opinion As To Interurban. Indianapolis, Ind., July 30. Union B. Hunt, chairman of the railroad commission, in a statement today denies that there is any friction between the members of the commission and the office of the attorney general concerning the applh xtion of the two cent fare law to the in nirbans. In his statements. Mr. Hunt recites the circumstances leading up to the opinion of the attorney general, telling how that opinion was given in j response to a request from the comi mission. Continuing he then says that j officially the commission has never j ruled on the question at all. hence j could not have had any attitude that ' the attorney general was wrong. While this is true that the eommis- ; sion has never made any formal ruli ing. there is no question that the I members of the commission after the j opinion was published, in personal j conversations, took exception to it. j and expressed personal belief that the ; law did not apply to the interurbans ' as well as to the steam roads. The members were careful not to make i any statement as that officially, how- ! ever. j Yet the commission is going to prosecute the Fort Wayne and Wai bash Valley Traction company for the alleged violation of the law. If the commission accepted the attorney general's ruling, such prosecution would not come, as the opinion eliminated interurbans from the operations of the law. Hence the very fact of prosecution shows that the commission differs from the attorney general on the proposition. The commission thinks that the law does apply to the interurbans as well as to the steam roads, and will make a case against one of the interurbans to see whether its contention is correct.

Sam: "Careful, miss, where you dip Oh, "What a Fabrication! Oh What a Wrongness! Ach Du Lieberl PERHAPS IMS 1 EEL Late Advices From Aroma Say Man Who Suggested That Last is Jealous or Crazy. Whee-ew! Story teller, story teller, story teller! Advices from Aroma are to the effect that Rufus Nichols of this city, who is sojourning at the Aroma stock farm on the banks of the Kankakee river and situated in what is known by the euphoneous name of Mesawhequa reservation, caught a colossal sea serpent yesterday. The natives about the locality stand for it, declaring that they saw it with their own eyes, and if United States war ships can navigate the Kankakee river, why not sea serpents? Rufus, who works for the Hammond Elevator company when he is not on a vacation, was fishing for pickerel. Fortunately he was not alone when the monster nibbled, for he would surely have been dragged into the raging billows of the Kankakee and devoured by his catch. As it was it took four farm hands to prevent the critter from dragging Rufus into the deep, and it was only by exerting themselves to the utmost that they managed to land the monster. Rufus suffered internal injuries by being grabbed about the waist too hard by the farm hands and his condition was aggravated by partaking later of the llesh, fried in cornmeal, of his catch. Hopes are entertained, however, for his recovery. Hnds Lots of Trimmings. The monster was a fancy one with plenty of trimmings. He had scallops C'scollups" the natives about the locality call them) all along his spine and he writhed as he was hauled into the bank in such a manner that he resembled a mammoth corkscrew rampant. He weighed in round number 4.000 pounds. To be exact, however, ami as proof that no attempt is being made to put anything over that is not the truth, the monster tipped the scales at 4.015 pounds, twelve ounces. He was a city block long and as thick as a log. A Hammond Elevator Co. representative who does not wish his name to be used, declares the story as it has been circulated in Hammond to have been grossly exaggerated. He was present when the critter was landed and ate a ! small portion of him, and declares the I monster to have been no sea serpent, I but an eel of tremendous proportions; I that is to say IT feet 2 inches in length and about four inches in thickness. He admits it is the biggest eel ever caught in the Kankakee river. Later advices from Aroma are to the effect that the man who is trying to belittle the story is jealous or is talking through his hat. HEATHER-Fair "Wednesday; slight changes. tonight and temperature

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your pen.1 Columbus Dispatch. COMMERCIAL GLU S TALKE Business Men Intend To Establish New Organisation Here. A canvass will be started next week among the Hammond business men for - the""" purpose ' of ' Seeing "Ti6w" they stand towards lending their aid . in establishing a Commercial club in the city. Two of Hammond's prosperous business men have talked the matter over among their intimate friends and the majority are willing to give the project all the support in their power. Other cities with less population and wealth than Hammond support elaborate Commercial clubs and they are considered a great benefit to a city. When a party from Chicago comes to Hammond the business men complain that there is no place where they can go and enjoy a smoke and at the same time talk business, with a Commercial club this difficulty would bo eliminated. In speaking to one of the business men this afternoon he said that it would only be a matter of time until Hammond's Commercial club would be a reality. In the meantime the men who are starting the proposed club are consulting with other business men regarding it. A meeting will likely be called the latter part of next week to bring the affair to some kind of a head. PLAY "IflJUUS;" URN MATE'S THUMB Young Hopefuls of Doty Street Apply Match To Robert Popp. Poor little Robert Carter Popp, grandson and namesake of the late Justice R. W. Carter, is suffering from a badly burned thumb today as the result of a game of "Indian" in which he engaged this morning in company ivith Walter Shine, and William Carr. Robert is four years old. Walter is aged five, and is the son of Bailiff Shine, and the little Carr boy is six, the son of Jim Carr of end man fame and prominent in all social doings of the local lodge of Elks. Walter and Willie thought it would be good fun to play a game of Indian. But it was no sport to play Indian unless they had a white man in the party and did as did the Indians they had heard of. Fine idea. Baby Bopp could be the white tenderfoot, They had heard that some Indians who were very, very bad, burned white men at the stake and inflicted all manner of tortu-e on them. If some folks were all burned up they figured it wouldn't be so very bad if they burned Baby Popp just a little weenty bit. If he was game he would stand for it and if he wasn't he had no business playing with them. The little Popp boy was taken into the confidence of the bloodthirsty young Indians. "We'll burn you just a little bit," they told him, "and it wont hurt you a bit. At least only the least little bit." Baby Popp was agreeable. He entered into the spirit of the game with a gusto that no Indian had ever seen a white man do before. The "crool Injuns" procured a match and lighted it. One of them then held

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Treasurer of Toleston Sues County Auditor For Return Of Fee. SHE K WITHHELD C. A. Johnson Claimed to Have Acted Arbitrarily in Collection of Bill. City Treasurer Papke of Toleston and Charles A. Johnson, auditor of Lake county are now- engaged in an interesting wrangle over $1J5 which the latter claims the city of Tolefcton :ould have paid him for special ser vices rendered as auditor. Papke. It said, had agreed to pay Johnson for the extra expense and trouble incurred in making out extra ass. ssment books for the city, when it was incorporated as such, separate from the township. Consequently upon completing the work the auditor sent in a bill for f 1 25 to the city treasurer and Papke refused to stand for it a he considered it an over-cluu fee. It happened, however, that the city had deposited in the county treasury some time ago the sum of $2, 152.98 which had been ollected by a special levy made by the town trustees for general municipal purposes for the year 1907. A few weeks later when the city had occasoon to spend this amount of money, they attempted to draw it from the county treasury, but soon discovered that the auditor had them by the neck as they could not obtain the money except through his order. "Withhold Ilia Fee. As Johnson considered his bill just as important as those which the city was about to pay, he withheld the $125 and turned over the balance. And now the city through its attorney, L. T. Meyers, has entered a petition In uie superior court tor a writ of mandamus to compel Johnson to turn over the $125. The petition alleges that on July 15, Auditor Johnson was asked for a warrant for the lull amount and that- tlds -wa refused by-the latter unlawfully. It further states that $2,027.3S was turned over to the city, thereby deducting without right or authority the J125. When questioned concerning the matter. Trustee Kunert of Toleston declared that he did not know why the city had refused to make the payment, as they had agreed to pay Johnson an extra amount for the services in making up the new books. The only reason that he knew of. was that Treasurer Tapke considered the charge unfair. Mr. Kunert further stated that the new city of Gary which was incorporated at the same time as Toleston had been willing to pay Auditor Johnson tne sum of ?1; for like services and he could not understand the action of the Toleston official for refusing Johnson's bill which was but $10 less. County Treasurer P.ailey stated this morning that he thought the bill was very reasonable as it was necessary to hire several extra clerks to do the work, and even at that it put the department so far behind that it was a great trouble and expense to regain their normal working condition. Baby Popp's tiny fist while the other applied the flame. Baby Popp yelled bloody murder with the first scorch, and he continued yelling it while his poor little thumb was slowly being roasted, the little Indians hanging on for dear life while their victim squirmed and howled. The parents of all parties to the game live in Doty street and there was a mother's meeting out in the middle of the street in less time than it takes to tell it. When Mrs. Popp rescued her small son, the end of his thumb wa3 burned black. Mrs. Shine was called up this afternoon with an inquiry as to how the injured baby was doing, but she had not ascertained. E0LD PUBLIC HEARING OF TAX COMMISSIONERS. Results of Labor of Ciiven Out by I'nd Board "Will I!e of the WeekValuations Raised. Indianapolis, Ind., July CO. The last public hearingsbefore the state board of tax commissioners were given today. Starting at 8:30 this morning, and grinding throughout most of the day, thirty-one appeals were heard. i These appeals off hands this afternoon and the board wa3 ready for the final two or three days work in executive session. By the last of the week the board will give out the result of the different appeals at this, the third session, and also announce the findings on the real estate and personal property valuations of the several counties. Already these valuations have been decided for several counties, but the board will not give any of them out, preferring to make public all of the county valuations at one time. The board has decided upon the method of fixing the assessments. On the basis of the assessments made by the county boards, the s'ate board will order a raise of a certain per cent, or a lowering. It will be on property in different counties as a class, and not on any individual assessments.

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Frank Kaston Disappears With $3,000 of Schlitz Company's Money. WIFE IS HEART BROS T it Friends of Man Had Utmost Confidence in Hira ; Cannot Account for Act. As a result of the disappearance of Frank Kastou the agent .of the Sehlits Brewing company, and the fact that the funds belonging to the company, amounting to betwe n two and three thousand dollars, have b en drawn ut of the bank. Sheriff Carter has been notified and an effort will be made, to locate the missing man. The alleged embezzlement of tha funds of the brewing company has caused a ripple of excitement in East Chicago for Kaston was always regarded as a i! no fellow and was supposed to lie p.rfectly honest. Kaston was supposed to have settled with the Brewing company yesterday. He was not short and there was plenty of money in the bank with wljch to pay the bills. Kaston also had pome money which he had collected during the day and instead of depositing it and then drawing i check for the amount he drew out the whole sum supposed to be f;oniewb.ere near $3,000 and was not seen afterwards. ( (Miijinnj' thrown Suspicion. When t l.e usual settlement was not made with the company the latter got into communication with the bank where Kaston kept his deposits and were surprised to learn that Kaston had drawn out all of the money to the credit of the company and had disappeared. The police of East Chicago and the sheriff of the county were notified and a search for the missing man was begun at once. Up to a late hour today his whereabouts have not been determined and it, Is bel.eved that l".s lia3 left the country entirely. , '' Mrs. "Kaston ; :a.l!ijL""ii p ' on tlvi.., phone this morning and taVhedTwltTi a. Lakk Col-ntt Times reporter about tho matter. ' ' . "He seemed so happy and light hearted, taid Mrs. Kaston. "he was always so honest that to j-teal is the laft thing In the world I would expect of him." Wife Iu Deep Grief.. Mrs. Kaston was broken hearted over the affair and can not understand why her husband who has always be-en earning a good salary should become a common thief. In fact the friends of Kaston who have known him for a long time are at a loss to explain bis actions. The only solution of the problem seems to be that the idea must have entered hia load, that two or three thousand dc liars could be his if be wanted to take it and that the temptation overbalanced his good judgment. SHELBURNE DISCOURSES OH THE SUBJECT OF SIIT. Only Three Days Left For Itevlvtil . ltcmarkablr Series of Meetiu; Soon to End. The sermon subject at the Chritflan revival tonight is "Wearing Rngs." Mr. Shelburne often takes commonplace subjects ami uses them skillfully to bring out the gospel truth strikingly. Last night the sermon subject was "A Study in Sin." homo quotations and hayings were as follows: "Sin is a malady. A malady is any deep-seated disorder either physical, mental or moral. Sin covers thij entire ground. e it. V.i racing them all. (Standard Dictionary.) "In the best of men rests the seed of the vilest sins, waiting their opportunity to come fortli and grow." f "Sin uses temporary joy to conceal its forthcoming miser-." "Whoever thinks slightlingly of sin knows not the powers or danger that ho tampers with." "Find the abode of misery and back of It stands the man of sin." "The gospel is God's cure and the only cure for sin." "Nature has no promise for society, least of p 11 ar.y remedy for sin." Last night Miss Lush tang a folo. Tonight Mr. Pugh will play a cornet solo. Only three more nights of the revival. Friday night the lecture and farewell service. NEGRO GIVEN 23 SIGN. A negro was roped in this mornlnjy by the police on the complaint of several Ilomewood housewives. In on instance at the home of Mrs. Blackman of 42 Carroll street the negro is charged with walking in the front door of the house without previously making known his intentions. The police were then notified and the fellow was trought to Jail where he was finally released and warned to get out of town as fast as the good walking would allow. The man explained that he was looking for work but he failed to say why he found it necessary to walk in the front door3 without asking permission. Misses Lew and Emma Shett of Virden. 111., who are attending the Valparaiso university, were in Hammond today visiting friends.

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