Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 49, Hammond, Lake County, 14 August 1907 — Page 8
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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES Wednesday. !uz. 14. 1007.
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OOSEVELT
President Asked to Intervene in Strike at Once.
AT OYSTER BAY
Chicago Board of Trade Alarmed Over Situation and Say Business Suffers.
mainder of the estate is to be held by the trustees, Wesley Schinjmel, William A. PInkerton and Charles Winshlp, for fifteen years and then to be divided among the three sons, Guy C. McDonald, Cassius McDonald and Harold McDonald, an adopted child. Each of the first two named is to receive a third of the estate, but from Harold's portion $55,000 is to be deducted. Of this amount 150,000 is to go to Imagene McDonald, the widow of the dead man's brother, Edward S. McDonald, and $5,000 is to go to the testator's sister, Jennie McDonald Miller. During the fifteen years before the division of the estate each of the sons is to receive a monthly income of $100. The will was signed July 18, 1907. It was witnessed by Robert Calladine, 11S5 West Fifteenth street, engineer at the bridewell, and Frank L. Kriete, 1418 Lawrence avenue, one of Mr. McDonald's attorneys. It Is believed the first wife will contest the will and seek to gain what she asserts are her rights. According to statements given out by her she will insist that the divorce proceedings against her were illegal and that a decree was granted in Judge Egbert Jamieson's court without her knowledge.
Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, Oyster Hay, Long Island, X. Y. : The business of this great country, which is suffering such serilous loss to the extent of millions of dollars per day on account of the deadlock between the telegraph companies and their employes, demands an immediate settlement of the differences at issue so that a national catastrophe may be averted. In this great emergency we look to .the chief executive of this country to take a personal hand. HIRAM X. SAG KM, President, Board of Trade, City of Chicago. The above message was Hashed over the wires yesterday afternoon, thus making the first direct appeal to the nation's chief executive to aid in reFtoring peace in the world of telegraphy. All Are Keeling KrTerta. While the plea sprung from Chicago's great grain mart, it was said to represent tiie sentiment of the entire business community. Every line of trade is feeling the effects of the strike, it was declared by board of trade officials, and, though Chicago seemed to be bearing the brunt of the losses, gradually the entire middle west was being injured commercially. Hence the directors of the board, in formulating the message, emphasized the possibility of a "national catastrophe" unless the nation's head intervened. Something of a decisive nature is expected from President Roosevelt today. Commissioner of Labor Neill remained In the city, yesterday, but seemingly did little in the way of peace negotiations. His movements suggested that he was merely investigating matters and perhaps was awaiting word from hl3 chief.
Act After Ttml Day. It was at the close of an unsatisfactory day on the board that the directors met and drafted the appeal, fhe meeting lasted forty-five minutes nnd was followed by the filing of the message by President Sager. "The trouble has reached such an acute stage," said Mr. Sager, "that it Is now a subject of national concern. Of course the damage being done in Chicago Is serious enough, but it is comparatively small when the injury to all other sections of the country is considered. The aggregate losses each day must be tremendous. "Corn, oats and wheat have shrunk materially in value since the strike Ftarted, nnd unless the issues are decisively determined business as a whole will be completely demoralized. Grain continues to arrive in the city, but there is little call for it. HcfiiNf to Vste Mn'.l. "In the first place, in the unsettled condition of the market people are not keen on buying anything. Out of town clients will not communicate an order by mail to buy a certain product. Hefore the communication would reach us, the order filed and a reply mailed to the customer the market may be cheaper or that certain product may be of more value. Our client may
have wished to buy or sell a half dozen times while the mail is being used for one order. . "The leased wires we have are in tise, but they have no way to reach out of town clients. These wires merely communicate witli correspondents In other cities, while orders from clients reach us by delayed wire or telephone. During the day the telephone business for .ong dfstance calls has been in such a congested condition that even this has become difficult. "Because this strike is of national scope we have decided to request the president to take action that would result in a speedy settlement. I have r.o doubt lie is keeping in touch with the situation and I hope he will come to the assistance of the interests that lire being demoralized."
NOTH HG DAUNTS
O'LEARY
Doors of Poolroom Thrown
Open Despite the Dynamiters.
PLAY AGAiNJOING ON
Races Received and Large Crowd In
formed that Everything is All Right Police Not Present.
WOODS KILLED
01 HUNDREDS
with Its own rails fromt the Great
Lakes to the Gulf. The Ohio river has .
divided all other roads. It is to break this fallacious wall between the two I
districts that the Southern manage
ment is planning.
The first move in President Finley's scheme, it is said, will be to get trains of the Southern into Indianapolis. This will require the building of 225 miles
of road from Rockport.
mis distance, however, is cross-
Prcmnli War jTi iri "Pi rf SVl fills country measurement, the Southern
line covering the route in 153 miles.
Once the Southern reaches Indianapolis
it is not likely that the management
will be content and it is to be expect
ed that it will then build on toward
Chicago.
Another report has it that the South-1
lern will buy the Chicago, Indiana &
Southern of the Xew York Central sys
tem, which will give it a line from
Cairo directly to Chicago. This road
of course is now in operation and connects directly with the Mobile & Ohio.
and Troops Attack Tribesmen.
SET!
BRAVERYSHOWNSUPERB
Attack Casablanca Again and Again,
Eut French Troops Have Vantage Ground Finally Repulsed.
FIGHT IS 0
Poses Plan to Change Location of Dam.
M'COMfllCK TO FIGHT
into was
rams will
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Gambler Thought to be Worth Several Million Friends Surprised.
Chicago. Aug. 14. Friends of the 3ate Michael McDonald, once gambling king of Chicago, were surprised to find yesterday, when his will was filed for probate, that his estate, which had
been estimated as high as $2,500,000, 1
bad shrunk within the $500,000 mark. J lis real estate was scheduled at $400,000 and his personal property at $240,000, the latter being held by the First National bank as collateral for $1T3,000 worth of McDonald's notes. Dora McDonald, who is under indictjnent for the murder of Webster Guerin, was given a dower right, while the first wife, Mary Noonan McDonald, Is jiot mentioned in. tb will. The re-
Chicago, Aug. 14. Undaunted by the supposed bombs of alleged envious rivals, "Pig Jim" O'Leary, "king of the gamblers," threw open the doors of his poolroom at 4133 Halsted street as usual yesterday afternoon and invited the passing throng to come in and back
its choices.
The crowd that accepted the invita
tion was large. O'Leary was prepared for a crowd, however, and had installed
a full corps of sheet writers, cashiers
telephone operators, touts and cappers.
The "king" sat in the midst of his
lieutenants on a dais in the center of
a large room leading through a wide-
open doorway from the billiard hall
O'Leary himself "handled the bank
roll, and after each race went to a cage in the rear of the room, where
he superintended the payments of winning bets. "Big Jim '11 be open as usual,' was the word passed out early yesterday. The explosion in O'Leary's billiard hall Monday night was generally supposed to be due to the efforts of his rivals, although another explanation attributed it to a leaking gas main, but his cappers assured "the regulars" that everything would be all right. Crowded for Flrnt Race.
Fully 300 men were crowded the room before the first race
called. Cards were hung on the walls giving the entries and prices of horses at Saratoga, Empire City (Yonkers), Fort Erie and Seattle. Other cards conveyed the v information that the weather was clear and the tracks fast at the four places. The customary ragged "dope sheets" could be had for the asking. The hum of conversation in the big room was so loud that it could be plainly heard on the street. Cappers stood outside O'Leary's saloon four or five strong all afternoon. The strident
tones of the announcer, as he "called" each race from start to finish, sometimes could be heard in the barroom downstairs.
Owing to the telegraphers' strike some difficulty was experienced in get
ting returns on the races. The cashier did not begin to pay off until nearly
4 o'clock, because no bets were paid until the first reports of the races were
confirmed. This delay caused uneasi
ness among patrons of the room, and the "touts" and "cappers" continually worked their way through the crowd
assuring everybody that there was no danger of police Interference. "Big
Jim" himself frequently told timid bet
tors, "Everything is ail right." Four Shet-Vriter Busy.
l our sheet-writers were busy at a long desk in the center of the room taking bets. A big-voiced announcer urged the crowds to hurry and get their
bets down. Wagers of $1 were taken
but many running into the hundreds
were noted by the nimble pencils of
the sheet-writers.
Merchants and their clerks In the
neighborhood of O'Leary's saloon, re
tained the belief yesterday that the ex
plosion in the bialliard-room Monday
night was not due to "the bursting of a
gas pipe," as O'Leary had maintained.
The explosion. It was said, was so loud that it could be heard for blocks and the concussion so violent that it was plainly felt in adjoining buildings.
O'Leary Informed his patrons when
the day was over that he would open today as usual. "How about the rolice?" he was asked. "Never mind. The room'll be open tomorrow."
Paris, Aug. 14. Reports received from Tangier state that a desperate at
tack was made on Casablanca yesterday
by the Moors. The tribesmen were mounted and numbered between 4,000
and 5,000. Their bravery was superb,
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who drove them back after hard fight- PllVate POWer Company Op
ing. Indeed, it was only the bravery
of the troops that saved the town from
invasion. The troops were aided by a heavy
fire from the warships. The tribes
men charged repeatedly, dashing up almost to the French guns. They were
repulsed with heavy loss of life. The tribesmen had carefully planned their
attack. They first charged in regularly
drawn fighting lines.
The French, holding the position of
vantage, drove them back, unseating Declares That Matter of Building
monr' cn m oo 'i it a vi nnra nnioi it vo i
formed their lines and came dashing back over their dead. Again they met
with a terrible fire from the French
and at the same time the cruiser Gloria
started her guns to work. AVar!iiN Shell Tribesmen.
Shells rained down on the tribes
men, blowing many of them to pieces.
Still the Moors were full of fight and.
urged on by their leaders and with an
indifference for death that was heoric,
they recognized their lines and came
on again.
Again the terrible fire from the
Calumet Auxiliary Hinges on Settlement.
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ltc and discrimination governs of its manufacture only tho f everything is used to make ooaccos That's why it is tho
one plug that is good enough for. men who arc
particular.
Not expensiveeven though it b the best
trooos and warshins dro'e them back
a,i thi tim tw- rptnt,i Thir carry off the sewage of this region,
loss was heavy, but the number of
to mislead. Whatever danger there may be now, should the mechanical
The matter of the settlement of the gates at the Lockport dam fall to
dispute between the Chicago drainage work, will be dissipated by the con-
board and the Economy Light and struction of a 300 foot channel, nine-
Power company, which is represented teen feet deep through Joliet and the
by John II. Garnsey, is of great interest dam sufficiently long to pass flood wa-
to the people of the Calumet region in ters without raising the level,
general for the reason that President "The Schmitt bill, which has surely
McCormick. has said the building of been brought to Mr. Garnsey's atten
the Calumet auxiliary, which is to tion, if he has studied the sanitary
dead could not be learned.
Sibouboker, the governor of Casa
blanca, is a prisoner on one of French warships. He has been
missed from office for having abetted
is dependent upon the satisfactory set
tlement of this dispute.
The opening guns in the legislative
j.jjg contest which will decide whether the
jj e.iiiiiaiy uiswici oi Liuiagu i kj ex
tend the drainage canal through Joliet
thediilling of Europeans. Unconfirmed anu lluvt5 1110 risiu- lo ueluf power
reports that Mazagan is being attacked at Brandon's road have been fired.
today have been received. A few days ago the tribesmen surrounding the city
made a demand for money. This was
refused and they threatened to loot and
burn the town
The warship In the roads is the only
protection Europeans in Mazagan have
district plans at all, provides that the
water power of the Illinois river shall
be controlled by the state, not by the sanitary district or by any individual
or corporation wishing to grab it from
the public.
"The sanitary district offered to fur
nish the city of Joliet electrical power at a cost which would have been $3S a street light a year. The price paid
The summer armistice by which peace
was maintained between the drainage the Economy Light and Power com
board and the Economy Light and pany is $75 a year. Our bid was not
Pnwpr romnanv of .Tolipt. a. orivate accented. The Economy Light and
corporation, was broken by a broad- Power company is one of the four alside from John II. Garnsey, a Joliet lied companies which have an abso-
lawyer. In a letter which he has writ- lute monopoly on power production in
The commander notified the natives ten to the members of the legislature northern Illinois, and they are only that he would bombard their camo in Mr. Garnsey attacks the sanitary dis- to be competed with if the sanitary
case of an outbreak.
0CEDAR
SPRAY
trict's bill which will be considered at district is allowed to develop enough
The report says that warships and an adjourned session in October.
troops have been sent to defend the
town. Much apprehension is felt in re
gard to the safety of Europeans.
In answer to Mr. Garnsey's letter, R.
R. McCormick, president of the drainage board, yesterday issued a statement which will also be sent to the
power to make a real competition with
them and regulate rates."
HEW INDUSTRY FOE, OKLAHOMA
AmIc fnr Mor Trnnn.
The situation in Rabat and Mogador members of the legislature and other
interested oouies
is still critical. General Drude, in com
mand of Casablanca, has asked for 13
000 more troops. His present force is
Garnsey's Side of It.
The statements of Mr. Garnsey, who
inadequate for offensive work, and he declares his action is not in the inter'
wishes to drive the tribesmen out of ests of the Illinois Steel company, for
the country. whlh hf is an attornev. or the Econ
Minister of 1- oreign Affairs M. Pichon Cmv Light and Power company, but
in an interview said the government as a private citizen, are substantially
will send no more troops Into Morocco, as follows-
i- ranee not intending to embark upon The electrical power at Joliet is gen-
Kaising and Shelling Peanuts to Ho
Added to the Resources of the New State. Enid, Oklahoma, Aug. 14. At a
meeting of the Enid chamber of com
merce a contract was made with John
C. Scott, representing associated in
vestors engaged in the peanut industry at Faducah, Ky., for the establishment
a work of conquest.
The Matin publishes a dispatch from but leased to the Economy company,
Saffl. a seaport on the western coast of and if this dam ls removed, as propos
ed, and a new one built two miles be
low, at Lake Joliet, neither the city
nor the state will be able to exercise any control over the power. The 33,000 to 40,000 horse power which the sani-
erated at a dam owned by the state, in this city of a warehouse and shell-
Morocco, saying that the town ls sur
rounded by natives and that the European residents are preparing to defend
themselves.
According to dispatches from London
Ing plant, to be used as headquarters for handling the Oklahoma peanut crop. The warehouse will have lf0,-
000 feet of floor space. Scott and his
associates have purchased 6,000 acres In Woodward county, which they will
the foreign office has no news of the L district expects to generate at the plant with peanuts the coming season.
alleged release of Caid Sir Harry MacLean. He was reported to have been set free by the Kmass tribe, into whose
hands he had been given by Raisuli.
A London news agency dispatch from Tangier says that MacLean is on his way to Fez, in charge of the Kmass
tribe, to whom he was delivered by
Raisuli last Saturday.
Another report is that the tribes
men have handed over MacLean to Caid
Mahalla, the general in command of the Moorish imperial troops that are
encamped near Alcazar.
NORTH MID SOUTH
SPLI
lower dam, Mr. Garnsey says, wijl be ltaismg peanuts in UKiauoraa lias
used in Chicago or for the benefit of been carried on in a small way and at
the sanitary district, and the people of a large profit where the product could
Joliet will suffer thereby. be sold, but until the present time the
Moreover, Mr. Garnsey opposes the acreage has been small, owing to the
proposition, because it does not provide ahsence of any close market.
a deep waterway tnrougn jonet, yet
n-ilT lia a mpnnrp to the CitV should
the dam break. He does not want Jiusoana ueis Alimony.
the state canal commission abolished, Milwaukee, Aug. 14. Mrs. Christina
which, he aserts, is the intention of Beltman, 82 years old, defendant in a
the drainage board. divorce suit on a charge that she com-
MrCormiek Makes Reply. pelled her husband to sleep in a wood-
Tt wouldn't become me to impugn shed, although he was four years older
the motives of Mr. Garnsey, said than herself, was ordered by Judge
President McCormick in his answering TJalsev to nav for him SG5 attorney's
statement, "but it is interesting to note fces '10 suit money and $5 a week
alimony during the proceedings. Sh
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Great Southern Railroad to Invade Indiana and the North.
Thaw's Second Trial. New York, Aug. 14. The second trial of Harry K. Thaw, charged with the murder of Stanford White. Is not likely to take place until the January term of court. This information was developed at a conference between Martin W. Littleton, counsel for Thaw, and District Attorney Jerome.
was restrained from disposing of $4, 000 j which she obtained from the sale of ! property on the west side, j
i Secretary Hoot at New York. New York, Aug. 14. Secretary of; State Elihu P.oot, Assistant Secretary i
If the plans of the Southern railway system are carried out it is probable that the Calumet region will have another railroad and that will be a north and south trunk line, the only one between Chicago and the Gulf with the exception of the Illinois Central. Recent moves Indicate that the great Southern railway system will invade the north. The Southern is the big road of the south, cobwebbing the entire territory south of the Ohio river.
The only lines the company has north i by Mr. Garnsey before making his
that when he was In Springfield last MaVch he was confessedly there to look after the interests of the Illinois Steel corporation. He now appears tt
nave abandoned this role and is act
ing as a private citizen. This is, of course, his privilege, so his letter
should be considered on its merits
"The sanitarv district has demon
strated in court the absolute necessity of State Bacon and a number of of extending the channel of the drain- prominent New York city bankers held age canal and may do this without a conference In a New York banking
legislation. The Economy Light and nollse it is understood that Itoot ob-
Power company purchased for less than tained from tbe bankers tbeir views
J100.000 the marsn iana at ir.e pro
posed terminus of the canal extension and has fixed a price of $3,000,000 on
it to the sanitary district. It is the
sanitary district, with the water of the drainage canal, which will make this property valuable, and we do not think the district should be held up for the
benefits it creates.
-Xo promise to furnish 40.000 horse
power at Summit, as is charged, has ever been made by the sanitary district, and this fact could have been learned
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of that stream are from Louisville and Cairo to East St. Louis and part of the Mobile & Ohio, which is under the wing of the Southern. To Ignore Ohio River. Since President ' Finley took hold of the Southern he has advocated to the directors an elaborate invasion of the north. His idea is that a road to reach tre best result in earnings must now, like the Illinois Central, run north and south. The Illinois Central ls the only road
statement, but he apparently prefer
red the misinformation to facts. His implication of greater taxes for the Illinois valley is absurd, while his assertion that a channel for a deep water way through Joliet is not provided for Is a misstatement. Senate bill 544, which Mr. Garnsey refers to, provides absolutely for a channel 19.7 feet in depth. Xo Danger of Flood.
The danger of a deluge which Mr
"Bill" Nye's Brother Dead. " New York. Aug. 14. -Fred Nye, brother of the late "Bill" Nye and assistant editor of the Sunday World, is dead of injuries received by being struck by a trolley car. Nye had written many humorous poems and the book of a comic opera, "The King and the Broker." which was produced in the west. lie was formerly on the staff of the Chicago Herald.
Garnsey discusses Is another attempt Injured.
Woman GiTen a Bad Fall. Alexandria, Ind., Aug. 14. Durin
the progress of a church festival in the
public streets Mrs. J. S. Shannon was knocked down by small boys at play colliding with her. She was seriously
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